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New comment by dbeley in "Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor"

dbeley — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:21:15 +0000

Another vote on niri being just great software. While itss idea (scrolling tiling windows manager) is novel, the software in itself is very polished with a very mature API that doesn't change at every version (looking at you hyprland).

New comment by dbeley in "Have Taken Up Farming"

dbeley — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:34:10 +0000

Not sure about mid-life, he is still in his early twenties. He was a gifted programmer with very popular open source projects early on.

New comment by dbeley in "Have Taken Up Farming"

dbeley — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:33:00 +0000

Thanks Dylan for all your work over the years. It has been very influential from Neofetch, Wal/Pywal, KISS Linux, to your own Bible, the Pure Bash one!

Wishing you all the best for the future, may the Greek weather keep you happy!

New comment by dbeley in "LineageOS 23"

dbeley — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 01:05:41 +0000

I use LineageOS on all my devices (it's actually my main criteria when buying a phone) to mainly install apps from F-Droid without relying on the Google Play Store.

It has the same familiar look and feel on all devices and by experience is way snappier than the original ROM.

New comment by dbeley in "Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC"

dbeley — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 23:40:14 +0000

> Maru is built on the latest Android Oreo.

Yeah this is abandonware, idk why it's being posted and upvoted now.

Something similar to real mobile/desktop convergence is still technically possible today with Phosh on PostMarketOS (or Mobian, Mobile NixOS or Arch ARM) and a compatible device with USB-C video out (like the PinePhone).

New comment by dbeley in "7 watts idle – building a low powered server/NAS on Intel 12th/13th gen"

dbeley — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 22:57:19 +0000

Interesting I assume it's with all drives off, how many Watts with some disk usage?

New comment by dbeley in "7 watts idle – building a low powered server/NAS on Intel 12th/13th gen"

dbeley — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 22:52:08 +0000

The hardware is basically the same as self-hosted NAS, the motherboard could even be of a lower quality. The software though is closed source and most consumer NAS only get support for 4-5 years which is outrageous.

New comment by dbeley in "Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?"

dbeley — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:20:22 +0000

- https://github.com/dbeley/fdroid-insights: just a simple website to help me find popular and well-maintained F-Droid apps

- https://github.com/dbeley/lastfm_cg: a scriptable lastfm collage generator (it has been active on my Mastodon account https://mamot.fr/@dbeley for years now)

And on the same model as F-Droid Insights but with different data sources:

- https://github.com/dbeley/firefox-addons-table: to discover Firefox addons available on NUR repository

- https://github.com/dbeley/lpa-table: to discover Linux apps tracked on LinuxPhoneApps.org

New comment by dbeley in "F-Droid: Android FOSS app store"

dbeley — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 08:47:21 +0000

I created a small website to display F-Droid apps with their repository information (from github, gitlab, etc), it's not perfect but it can give more insights on a project popularity.

It's available here: https://dbeley.github.io/fdroid-insights/

New comment by dbeley in "About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off"

dbeley — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 07:59:48 +0000

On top of Qobuz (which is great) there is also Ototoy (mostly for japanese indie music).

New comment by dbeley in "GPTBot – OpenAI’s Web Crawler"

dbeley — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 13:16:20 +0000

ChatGPT is not "someone", it's a black box that will ingest everything at his disposal and can't tell you where he gets the information from.

The moral thing to do would be to use opt-in training data.

New comment by dbeley in "Three signs that Wayland is becoming the favored way to get a GUI on Linux"

dbeley — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 12:51:17 +0000

> systemd

"It removes fragmentation, could be deadly for the ecosystem"

> wayland

"It adds fragmentation, could be deadly for the ecosystem"

Both are now the standard on the most of the biggest linux distributions, so maybe it's not that big of a deal?

New comment by dbeley in "Three signs that Wayland is becoming the favored way to get a GUI on Linux"

dbeley — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 12:07:37 +0000

Not a success? It's now the default on most biggest Linux distros like Ubuntu and Fedora.

The tiling WM ecosystem in particular is thriving on Wayland with sway and hyprland, and I personally haven't had any issues with screen recording with OBS (I use hyprland).

Most of the stuff said in the list you linked is "said-X11-only software is not compatible with Wayland" but nothing is said about alternatives : for example instead of redshift I use gammastep.

Show HN: F-Droid Insights – Explore F-Droid apps with external data

dbeley — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 18:37:21 +0000

Article URL: https://dbeley.github.io/fdroid-insights/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36657478

Points: 3

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New comment by dbeley in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

dbeley — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 19:05:10 +0000

https://dbeley.ovh/en

New comment by dbeley in "Wayland on NixOS: Confusion, Conquest, Triumph"

dbeley — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 20:32:32 +0000

You can specify as many profiles as you want, you have a property called firefox.profiles that can be an array and you would declare as many settings you would want in it. They still need to be names though (either through a variable like an username or a name you would set yourself).

New comment by dbeley in "AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare"

dbeley — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 20:27:01 +0000

Yeah AMD has the edge on efficiency it's odd it's kind of an "underrated" feature nowadays.

Using less power (thus less W to dissipate that will end up heating your room) for the same computing power? Who wouldn't want that?

New comment by dbeley in "AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare"

dbeley — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 20:23:01 +0000

No they're not

New comment by dbeley in "AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare"

dbeley — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 20:21:08 +0000

Just as difficult? AMD GPUs are plug-and-play on linux (if you have latest gen you should run a recent enough kernel but that's basically it), whereas Nvidia GPUs need their proprietary drivers which adds much more complexity for beginner users.

New comment by dbeley in "Wayland on NixOS: Confusion, Conquest, Triumph"

dbeley — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 18:37:53 +0000

NixOS is overriding the profile name by using your username so the name is not auto-generated anymore (NixOS hates that) so it knows the user profile will always be at ~/.mozilla/firefox/USERNAME. It automatically creates a ~ /.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini with a custom profile.