Hacker News: vially

New comment by vially in "UK to permanently ban future generations from buying cigarettes"

vially — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:09:59 +0000

The number does not have to be zero for this to still have a net positive effect on society.

New comment by vially in "Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans"

vially — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:57:49 +0000

It was recently discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855565

New comment by vially in "Cursor 3"

vially — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:55:16 +0000

I prefer to avoid AppImages if I can but I gave it a try anyway and it still fails with exactly the same error. What made you think it's just a packaging issue?

New comment by vially in "Cursor 3"

vially — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:38:43 +0000

Thought I'd give it a try and installed the latest version. Application crashes at startup on Linux (Wayland) with: "The window terminated unexpectedly (reason: 'crashed', code: '139')". Probably yet another instance of developers mostly testing and doing quality assurance on macOS/Windows.

Around the World, Many People Are Leaving Their Childhood Religions

vially — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 16:59:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/03/26/around-the-world-many-people-are-leaving-their-childhood-religions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43516879

Points: 45

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New comment by vially in "More annoying macOS 15 Sequoia prompts: Bluetooth"

vially — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 14:24:20 +0000

> a privacy conscious company such as Apple

[citation needed]

New comment by vially in "Pixel Watch 3"

vially — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 22:17:49 +0000

For anyone considering buying the Pixel Watch 3, please keep in mind that Pixel Watch 2 has some long-standing issues where the GPS completely cuts out during runs or walks.

Some users believe it to be a hardware issue but it's still unacknowledged by Google and the forum thread where people have been discussing it has just been locked recently. Just mentioning it for awareness and visibility.

- https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Android-App/Google-Pixel-Wat...

- https://support.google.com/googlepixelwatch/thread/242833127...

New comment by vially in "Writing GUI applications on the Raspberry Pi without a desktop environment (2019)"

vially — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 13:13:20 +0000

I haven't personally used it, but I have seen cage [0] being recommended a few times for similar use-cases.

[0] - https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage

New comment by vially in "Home Lab Beginners guide"

vially — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 20:11:43 +0000

I was also looking for a successor to the PC Engines APUs and came across https://teklager.se/en/ that lists some possible alternatives that you might find interesting.

Personally I was looking to build a router so I ended up buying a fanless N100 based mini PC from Aliexpress (e.g.: search term is "N100 firewall appliance") and have been very satisfied with it so far (Proxmox homelab with OPNsense running as a VM).

New comment by vially in "Podman Desktop 1.6 released: Even more Kubernetes and Containers features"

vially — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 16:37:09 +0000

I've been using VSCode with devcontainers and podman for a couple of months now and everything seems to work fine for me. Is there a particular issue you're hitting?

New comment by vially in "Learn Wayland by writing a GUI from scratch"

vially — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 11:15:22 +0000

I've toyed around with Smithay Client Toolkit [1] for Rust and I think it offers just the right abstraction for writing simple Wayland clients.

[1] - https://github.com/Smithay/client-toolkit

CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association

vially — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 08:42:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/ciq-oracle-and-suse-create-open-enterprise-linux-association-for-a-collaborative-and-open-future-2023-08-10/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37098266

Points: 2

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New comment by vially in "Rethinking Window Management"

vially — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 20:01:44 +0000

sway does all those things very well: https://swaywm.org/

Flux v2 has been released

vially — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 19:37:41 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/fluxcd/status/1676667325829861377

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36605957

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by vially in "Safari releases are development hell"

vially — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 18:15:23 +0000

Do you mean third-party apps on iOS? All web-based iOS apps are powered by Webkit/Safari so it makes sense that they all share the same bugs.

New comment by vially in "Write a Wayland Compositor [video]"

vially — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 10:54:32 +0000

For what it's worth, most (all?) the comparisons in that phoronix article [1] compare the performance of apps running under XWayland (in a Wayland session) versus an Xorg session. That's because most steam games use SDL 2 which still uses XWayland by default (the default has been changed in SDL 3 though [2]).

So using the data from that article to conclude that "[Xorg] still generally outperforms Wayland" seems wrong. A comparison between native Wayland apps vs Xorg apps would have been a lot more relevant though.

[1] - https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-510-wayland [2] - https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/6362

New comment by vially in "Flutter 3"

vially — Thu, 12 May 2022 15:42:07 +0000

I feel like I'm having a deja-vu. I remember having a similar discussion in the past and it turns out it happened exactly one year ago when Flutter 2 was released: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=26336657

Every framework has bugs and feature requests that are fighting for resources. And the ones affecting you _always_ seem more important than the ones that don't.

That being said, the fact that memory leaks in widely used components (e.g.: `` [1]) go mostly unnoticed both by Ionic developers and by the community [2] just doesn't give me confidence in Ionic being a framework used to build quality apps.

  [1] - https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-framework/issues/19242#issuecomment-556182556
  [2] - the issue linked above has 5 upvotes in 3 years and no one even bothered to report a separate issue for the memory leak in ``, which seems even more serious and the developers have been made aware of it

New comment by vially in "Flutter 3"

vially — Wed, 11 May 2022 23:38:33 +0000

For what it's worth I'm an Ionic developer and I find the grand-parent's description pretty accurate. I do like Capacitor though, but I think that's mostly because I've had to deal with Cordova before.

New comment by vially in "Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen3 Review – with Linux"

vially — Mon, 02 May 2022 16:00:46 +0000

According to the official documentation [1], the 13" M1 MacBook Pro also has this limitation:

  > If you're using a Mac with the M1 chip:
  > 
  > On iMac, Mac mini, MacBook Air, and 13-inch MacBook Pro, you can connect one external display using either of the Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports.

[1] - https://support.apple.com/en-afri/HT202351

New sponsors-only repositories, custom amounts, and more

vially — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 22:39:33 +0000

Article URL: https://github.blog/2022-02-02-new-sponsors-only-repositories-custom-amounts-and-more/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30200052

Points: 34

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