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New comment by d3Xt3r in "Play GTA Vice City in the Browser"

d3Xt3r — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 08:51:38 +0000

New comment by d3Xt3r in "Responsive Windows for Workgroups 3.11"

d3Xt3r — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 04:27:51 +0000

Cool, now turn this into an Android launcher and it might become something actually useful. :)

New comment by d3Xt3r in "How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+"

d3Xt3r — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 01:09:45 +0000

SailfishOS is another popular mobile Linux distro you should be aware of - it's been around for a long, long time - in fact its heritage can be traced all the way back to Nokia's Maemo OS (circa 2005), which became famous in the community with the Nokia 900.

And then in 2010, Maemo merged with Intel's Moblin to become MeeGo (featured on the Nokia N9). The MeegGo engineers who were let go (due to Nokia x Microsoft) then created Mer, and eventually started a new company called Jolla, who created SailfishOS based on Mer.

It's been 13 years already since SailfishOS was out, and if you include the Maemo heritage, it makes it the oldest surviving mobile Linux distribution.

New comment by d3Xt3r in "How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+"

d3Xt3r — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:56:39 +0000

> Does your Linux distribution immediately upgrade to the latest kernel when Linus releases a new one?

Yes, it does (CachyOS).

New comment by d3Xt3r in "Benzi – A harness reading LESS source code to write better quality code"

d3Xt3r — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:55:13 +0000

Looks interesting. I don't use VSCode so can't test it yet, any plans for a CLI/headless version?

New comment by d3Xt3r in "Building a Desktop UI in Rust and GPUI"

d3Xt3r — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 06:36:18 +0000

Has GPUI finally solved all the accessibility concerns? Last I checked there were several roadblocks to implementing it.

If GPUI isn't fully accessible, I'm not interested in it (and neither should you, because accessibility is something that concerns everyone).

New comment by d3Xt3r in "Noxe – P2P chat over Tor with no central server"

d3Xt3r — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:48:35 +0000

> secure messenger

> Built for absolute privacy

> Windows only

This has to be a joke right?

New comment by d3Xt3r in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

d3Xt3r — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:32:56 +0000

The Sea Peoples were only a part of the reason, the other reasons included climate change, volcanic eruptions, disease etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse

New comment by d3Xt3r in "I Don't Have a Smartphone"

d3Xt3r — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:34:13 +0000

What you say works for me, but unfortunately it doesn't work for a lot of folks in countries which are hyper-dependent on certain apps like WhatsApp (Brasil, India etc). These places use WhatsApp for literally everything - like I heard about professers sharing lecture notes and assignments over WhatsApp, govt agencies accepting documents and applications only via WhatsApp, customer support for many companies is also done only via WhatsApp (with no option to call or email), many payments are done via WhatsApp, restaurants have reservations and booking confirmations done via WhatsApp and so on.

For these folks, WhatsApp isn't just some messaging/calling app, it's an entire platform. I consider myself lucky I don't live in one of those places, but I can imagine it would be really hard to live a modern life in such places without WhatsApp. And it's also scary and concerning how a single foreign megacorporation like Meta has a stranglehold over everyday lives in so many nations.

New comment by d3Xt3r in "Remote work offers flexibility–but at what cost to young workers' learning?"

d3Xt3r — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:55:34 +0000

There are several costs, the biggest being the experience that is passed down from veterans. Like "best practices" for instance - especially niche, domain-specific knowledge, is not always written down, and thus, not learned by AI. Where I work, we have this 60 yr old literal neckbeard sysadmin in our team, and every now and then he drops an arcane tidbit, like why something behaves the way it does, because it was originally designed to meet some requirements in the early era of computing... or some such. Even though I've been at this for 15+ years, I still learn something new from him. And the other seniors in my team. And this is all leant organically, not necessarily because I has a specific question or goal in mind. AI can't replace that.

Same with IRL human interactions, which not only has a mental health benefit, it also brings you closer to the person, which in turn comes with many benefits - maybe you can ask a big favour of them, or maybe they might introduce you to some new band or music that you never heard of, or some gig that's coming up etc. AI can't replace such benefits that comes with IRL social connections.

New comment by d3Xt3r in "The Ur Project - Notes on building a new Linux distribution"

d3Xt3r — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:05:08 +0000

I was initially excited to see the name Clear Linux crop up again, but given that there's zero mentions of optimizations (AutoFDO, ThinLTO, MARCH etc), it looks like this isn't going to be a Clear Linux replacement. I guess I'll be sticking with CachyOS for the foreseeable future.

New comment by d3Xt3r in "Matrox: Graphics for Professionals"

d3Xt3r — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:11:54 +0000

That was an interesting read. Unfortunately I never has the pleasure of owning a Matrox. I got really close to buying a Millennium G200 back in the late 90s, but decided to go for the RIVA TNT instead. Was in the nVidia camp (with brief stints in Intel and ATi) until I swithed to ATi/AMD for good around 15 years ago.

New comment by d3Xt3r in "LibreOffice 28.8"

d3Xt3r — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 08:27:01 +0000

Not every professional user requires the "advanced accounting functions" of Excel. In fact, I'd wager that such features are used only by a small minority of professional users, so LibreOffice should be suitable for most professionals as well.

Regardless, LibreOffice also has full Python support, so really, technically there's nothing that it can't do that Excel can, if you can make use of Python.

New comment by d3Xt3r in "Show HN: I missed the moving blocks, so I built a real Linux disk defragmenter"

d3Xt3r — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 04:56:41 +0000

This cool, but can we get an option to emulate HDD noises please? I really miss the whirrs, clicks and creaks. And the little LED that indicated disk activity... but that'd be a separate project.

New comment by d3Xt3r in "Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux"

d3Xt3r — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 01:49:07 +0000

Any possibility of handling phone calls too? Like making and receiving calls. Also, any plans of making Tether itself mobile-UI/UX friendly?

My plan is to get a Linux phone (or convert an Android phone to Linux) and use it as a daily driver, but keep an old iPhone around for regular calls and texts, and for compatibility with some apps like banking apps. Tether seems like it could be useful to bridge that gap, so all I'd need to do is just keep the iPhone in my vicinity and never actually have to operate it, unless it's for using some proprietary app/service.

New comment by d3Xt3r in "Get your Windows license refund"

d3Xt3r — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:03:58 +0000

Fair point, but we still need people (like Linux enthusiasts) in Australia to buy these phones and complain to the manufacturer to add support for any missing features needed for 000, and work with the carriers to whitelist the devices. If no one buys these devices in the first place and no one complains about it, Linux phone makers would have little incentive to resolve the issue.

Maybe the Aussie Linux users could get together and work together with Linux Australia[1] to act as an intermediary and work something out.

[1] https://linux.org.au/

New comment by d3Xt3r in "Show HN: MicroVM daemon, deploy any Docker image"

d3Xt3r — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:20:51 +0000

Unfortunately even your solution isn't immune to vulnerabilities, as kvm can be leveraged to gain access to the host by means of exploits like Januscape (CVE-2026-53359) or Zapscape (CVE-2026-64561).

A more secure option would be to avoid kvm completely and just run the container under an isolated kernel space using mklinux. The other advantage of mklinux is performance, there's no virtualisation tax to pay. See: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ao34RJ7aZ2BLd67S@pop-os.localdo...

New comment by d3Xt3r in "Show HN: Sesame - a local-first, open-source password manager"

d3Xt3r — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:57:55 +0000

It's also half-coded in Javscript, with a grand total of 881 unique dependencies (271 npm + 614 Rust; derived from 38 directly declared dependencies). What could possibly go wrong?!

New comment by d3Xt3r in "Get your Windows license refund"

d3Xt3r — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:22:31 +0000

Thankfully, Linux phones are becoming more and more viable as a daily-driver. We just need more folks to start using them.

New comment by d3Xt3r in "Quest for eternal dock on Wayland – lambdock (C and GTK4 and Lisp Guile Scheme)"

d3Xt3r — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:14:21 +0000

> GTK4

I guess my eternal quest continues...