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vially

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    Comment #47902509

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

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    Comment #47857263

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

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    Comment #47621248

    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?

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    Comment #47618416

    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: '1…

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    Comment #41687621

    > a privacy conscious company such as Apple [citation needed]

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    Comment #41240418

    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 u…

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    Comment #40890259

    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

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    Comment #39645772

    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 …

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    Comment #38710519

    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?

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    Comment #37879629

    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/cli…

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    Comment #36884064

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

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    Comment #35428748

    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.

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    Comment #34195305

    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. …

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    Comment #31355778

    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.yco…

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    Comment #31347417

    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…

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    Comment #31236893

    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-i…

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    Comment #29378143

    Not op, but for me the lack of native Wayland support is a deal breaker. And running it through XWayland has various issues (focus is broken, issues with HighDPI screens, etc). If …

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    Comment #28322522

    > Good luck getting multiple different sized monitors to work well out of the box (e.g. laptop + external) on Linux, sometimes even with tinkering you are left with subpar scaling …

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    Comment #28041475

    > If I try to connect headphones they'll invariably stop working before long. Are you using PulseAudio or PipeWire? I've recently switched to PipeWire and all my bluetooth related …