Hacker News: dman

New comment by dman in "KDE onboarding is good now"

dman — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 09:08:40 +0000

What distro, what distro version and what hardware (ie gpu, ram etc)?

New comment by dman in "Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)"

dman — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:55:54 +0000

I get where youre coming from but I think the job of a company pushing a platform is to make it "boring". ie it should work out of the box on debian/fedora/arch/ubuntu. The platform vendor (Qualcomm) is the only one with enough sway to push the different laptop manufacturers do the right thing. This is the reason why both Intel / Windows push compliance suites which have a long list of requirmements before anyone can put the Windows / Intel logo on their device. If Qualcomm is going to let Acer / Lenovo decide if things work out of the box on linux then its never going to happen.

New comment by dman in "Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)"

dman — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 04:37:59 +0000

Hardware has already been out for a year. Outside a custom spin by the ubuntu folks, even last years notebooks arent well supported out of the box on linux. I have a Yoga Slim 7x and I tried the Ubuntu spin out at some point - it required me to first extract the firmware from the Windows partition because Qualcomm had not upstreamed it into linux-firmware. Hard to take Qualcomm seriously when the situation is like this.

New comment by dman in "Launch HN: BrowserBook (YC F24) – IDE for deterministic browser automation"

dman — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:04:23 +0000

thank you!

New comment by dman in "Launch HN: BrowserBook (YC F24) – IDE for deterministic browser automation"

dman — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:07:18 +0000

What UI framework are you using to build the app?

New comment by dman in "AMD GPU Debugger"

dman — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:49:44 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by dman in "AMD GPU Debugger"

dman — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:06:14 +0000

Do you know which one rocm uses?

New comment by dman in "Jolla Phone Pre-Order"

dman — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:35:11 +0000

This is the last response I have from them in my inbox (Sep 24, 2015, 8:56 AM). Never heard back from them after this inspite of repeated subsequent queries

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Hi,

thank you for your message.

We are sending the invites out to contributors in groups according to the chronological order of contributions. Please also note that we are slowly ramping up the deliveries, starting with a smaller group to ensure that everything works as it should, but anticipate future groups to be bigger in size. This means that we are currently unable to estimate your exact order number in the queue.

To read all the latest on the Tablet campaign, please stay tuned to the Jolla Blog. For some commonly asked questions and answers, please see our Jolla Tablet Campaign FAQs.

Thank you again for your contribution!

Sincerely, Jolla Customer Care

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New comment by dman in "Jolla Phone Pre-Order"

dman — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:01:47 +0000

It wasnt offered to everyone. They did the whole thing by trickling out information based on batches based on when you ordered. And for the record I wasnt shipped a tablet, given a refund or offered a voucher and based on comments at the time I wasnt the only one. It was a total writeoff.

New comment by dman in "Jolla Phone Pre-Order"

dman — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:51:38 +0000

They have a history of not shipping. They took my money for a tablet pre-order but never shipped anything. Didnt offer refunds either.

New comment by dman in "Jolla Phone Pre-Order"

dman — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:47:59 +0000

Fool me once shame on you.

Fool me twice shame on me.

Jolla never shipped me a tablet or offered me a refund back when they were making tablets. I would strongly urge people not to pre-order from the company since they have a track record of not shipping and being extremely irresponsible in their communications when they dont ship.

New comment by dman in "SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes"

dman — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 11:56:43 +0000

I never got a refund or a tablet. They were very unprofessional through the entire situation.

New comment by dman in "When O3 is 2x slower than O2"

dman — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 11:30:51 +0000

Laughs in lisp

New comment by dman in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

dman — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:36:16 +0000

Since this was a public facing mistake, will there be a post mortem including details about the blast radius, how many customers were affected and what steps are being put in place to ensure this never happens to a customer again?

New comment by dman in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

dman — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:36:00 +0000

New comment by dman in "Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network"

dman — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:10:43 +0000

thats a red flag imho

New comment by dman in "Helix Editor 25.07"

dman — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:00:19 +0000

Its not very clear to me which of these Helix hasnt hit. To me it looks like Helix is very close to what you are looking for.

New comment by dman in "How easy is it for a developer to "sandbox" a program?"

dman — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:08:45 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by dman in "How easy is it for a developer to "sandbox" a program?"

dman — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:24:24 +0000

Any pointers to operating systems that do this out of the box?

New comment by dman in "Getting Forked by Microsoft"

dman — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 18:35:42 +0000

Wait what? I didnt realize this was the case and I say this as a huge alpine fan. Will look into whether there is an option to setup a recurring donation and will do so if its the case.