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> This handles use cases Distrobox can't

Which?

mikae1on Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++

True, not the earliest gen. But it's a 2001 console (not 2004) despite this being a 2004 title.

mikae1on Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test

> although being Android based it's not really an option for me. It'd be like trading a Porsche 911 for a Pontiac Aztec.

I use GrapheneOS for my own phone and have always been forced into iPhones at work.

iOS, after 12 years of use, is still so terrible that I can't just get over it.

I open my MacBook and will do whatever needs to be done from there.

I should probably get an iPhone for private use too though. It would surely stop me from being on my phone more than I'd like to.

mikae1on Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++

I'm so emotionally torn about all the awesome decompilation work done.

Too bad all the cool decompilation is happening for games on early 3D centric consoles. I say this a Quake fanatic. Low res textures combined with that blurry bilinear style filtering is a look that's not easy to love. It's just a generational thing I guess.

mikae1on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

Say you want to add an artist or change some information. Regeneration will end up with another poster altogether, right?

mikae1on macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review

There's little margins and whitespace and this bothered me like hell before making the switch. It's funny, now I kind of like it. A lot is happening too. The latest Plasma had a very high degree of polish IMO.

It's far more consistent than Windows 11, but you have to pick Qt/KDE software, not GTK/GNOME for that to be true. I always choose the more KDE native option.

mikae1on macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review

When was the last time you felt excitement for a macOS release?

Me? Snow Leopard.

When I transitioned to Linux I rediscovered OS excitement. I'm on KDE Plasma now and every update has exciting features that serves my interests.

mikae1on Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

> How it's any better? Small companies can be bought by big companies.

This. I've come to view a startup as a company without a business model, doing everything to get acquired by a mega corp that will finally squeeze the juice out of the userbase

(The lack of a viable business model applies to some mega corps too)

mikae1on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

Yawn, when was the last time you felt excitement for a macOS release?

Me? Snow Leopard.

mikae1on Homebrew 7.0.0

> How does Homebrew auto-update on Linux? Do you have a daemon, cron job, or similar? Or a plugin for GNOME Software, Discover, or similar? (I’ve used Homebrew on Mac and Linux, but not with auto-updates.)

I don't know, and I don't want to have know, how it works. :) It just does. You can force updates by running "ujust update". It updates Homebrew, Flatpaks, the system image and all Distroboxes in one go. You can also turn auto updates off.

> Does Aurora sometimes reboot multiple times when doing updates?

I doesn't reboot at all. I never notice updates, they happen in the background. System image upgrades are applied that time I turn off my computer and turn it on again. No extra reboots then. It's just a boot like any other.

mikae1on Homebrew 7.0.0

> Are you saying that Silverblue-based distros are noticeably more stable than Fedora?

TBH, I can only say it's far more stable than openSUSE, Ubuntu and Manjaro which are the non-atomic distros I've used for a long time.

Aurora has never broken and I've never had any major problems that I can recall in over two years. I never initiate updates of the system, my Flatpaks or Homebrew. That happens in the background and whenever i restart (without me noticing).

It's Linux for those who have work to do and don't want to be a sysadmin for their desktop.

mikae1on The case against JPEG XL

Just demosaiced JPEG XL? That's not raw.

Lossless JPEG XL is in the DNG spec since three years (v1.7). So, you can convert your proprietary camera raw files to smaller ISO standard compliant JPEG XL compressed DNG raw files (mosaiced, not linearized).

mikae1on The case against JPEG XL

> PNG, the lossless format is great for diagrams and stuff with sharp edges.

But also, like GIF, it's pointless when lossless WebP exists and is supported everywhere. It's more efficient. Lossy WebP does not make as much sense though since jpegli entered the game.

OP has made https://halide.cx/iris/ which could make lossy WebP make sense, but it's not open source or generally available.

> The new formats are interesting webp, avif, JXL and so on.

WebP was introduced 15 years ago. New relative to JPEG perhaps, but certainly not new.

mikae1on Homebrew 7.0.0

> I don't understand the distinction you use here.

Distinction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49683258

I use "dnf" to upgrade my system and "flatpak update" and "brew upgrade" to upgrade the apps I've installed.

An app like VirtualBox does not install using Flatpak or Homebrew, so I would use dnf for that. It's usually an app or two that doesn't work via Flatpak/Homebrew/AppImage that I need to install using dnf.

mikae1on The Kuycon P20 – 28" 4500x3000px 3:2 monitor

> No it is mostly a convenience gimmick. Support for external hardware calibration is important though.

Until you decide to use Linux and all the distros you're interested in force you to use Wayland (which is a color management trainwreck).

Also, I find that for actual work the calibration actually gets done if the display does it by itself during night at set intervals. Perhaps I'm just lazy.

mikae1on Homebrew 7.0.0

> Where do you draw the line between system packages and user facing apps?

If it works in Homebrew, I almost always pick Homebrew. :) I have a pretty good feeling for what works since for the past few years I've mostly used an atomic distro (Aurora, based on Universal Blue, based on Fedora). It just comes naturally for me on Fedora too.

I've found that this way you can get many of the stability pros of using an atomic distro even on a non-atomic one.

mikae1on Homebrew 7.0.0

Thank you for Linux Homebrew! It works so damn well.

For me the distro package manager is for system packages, Homebrew and Flatpak for the user facing apps.

mikae1on Homebrew 7.0.0

Actually, Homebrew 7 is supported on your Mac, you just have to install Linux to use it. :)

If you want to continue using the same MacBook that will be only path forward when Apple decides to EOL it (if it hasn't already happened).

I'm a long time Homebrew on Linux user, it works really well. I always prefer it over the distro supplied package manager for user facing CLI apps.

mikae1on The Kuycon P20 – 28" 4500x3000px 3:2 monitor

> There’s a reason Apple displays are still the gold standard.

Apple is not the gold standard, Eizo's ColorEdge monitors are. Built-in hardware calibration is non-negotiable for color critical work. Monitors drift over time.

mikae1on New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first

Thanks.:)

mikae1on How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+

Ouch, that sucks.

mikae1on How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+

> Aim to keep it 7-10 years

Security updates will end 01 Sep 2028.

https://endoflife.date/fairphone

mikae1on How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+

> Of course there is no warranty

You always have the right to a minimum 2-year guarantee from the moment you received the goods. However, national rules in your country may give you extra protection.[1]

[1] https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/gua...

mikae1on New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first

Is there are a reason why you mention die, not dice, so many times in your post? Do you actually mean die? Honest question since it's repeated.

mikae1on Audacity 4.0

So, they've realized podcasters and vloggers are a large part of their target audience. Then I believe they have to implement some models for speech restoration.

These days most people just Adobe Podcast Enhance and forget and, from what I've seen there isn't an open source GUI based tool for automated voice processing out there.

Must add that it's so awesome to have an open source Qt based audio editor on KDE Plasma that does not look like shit!

mikae1on Show HN: Vanilla OS 3 Reunion – Immutable and Reproducible Operating System

> Vanilla OS is built on Debian sid

Tuxedo settled for Testing. Reason for Sid?

> Additionally, with Vib (Vanilla Image Builder), anyone can customize their own system image, or even create their own distro with minimal effort.

This sounds very intriguing! Been using Aurora (Universal Blue) for years, but there's always a package or two you need to layer. Updates have crapped out more than once because of these packages. Been thinking that an easier way of creating custom images is the solution.

uBlue images are not effortless to create and maintain. Just installed plain Fedora two days ago for this reason.

Vanilla being GNOME by default has kept me from trying it. Plasma is so darn good these days.

mikae1on Show HN: Vanilla OS 3 Reunion – Immutable and Reproducible Operating System

Bogging down? I've been on almost 100% Flapaks for years and have never noticed any adverse effects.

mikae1on As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing

My point was that the risk of erasing all the trust built keeps a wise photographer from missteps.

mikae1on The August 17 outage

That's how it's sold, but have you heard about any major tech company that sends their worker home when they've achieved what they used to achieve pre-AI?

EDIT: Instead of simply down-voting, you're welcome to name examples that proves me wrong ;)