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marcel_heckoon I ditched Docker for Podman

It's mostly the subgid subuid mapping of ids between guest and host which is non trivial to understand in rootless envs. Add selinux in the mix....

marcel_heckoon I ditched Docker for Podman

I have done the same. It's not too bad - just don't rely on LLMs to design your quadlets or systemd unit files. Read the docs for the exact podman version you use and it's pretty okay.

marcel_heckoon We're bringing Pebble back

As per blog post:

"PebbleOS took dozens of engineers working over 4 years to build..."

marcel_heckoon A Chopin waltz unearthed after nearly 200 years

On the very first screen via the archive link https://archive.is/tjk6Q

The original is not paywalled for me!?

marcel_heckoon A Chopin Waltz Unearthed After Nearly 200 Years

On the very first screen via link. 80 seconds of music.

marcel_heckoon Fake CV lands top 'engineer' in jail for 15 years

In that case he is not acting as a chief engineer,rather as a procurement or purchaser. Chief engineer is not a role where you can simply pass on engineering responsibility to third party.

marcel_heckoon Paper cuttings made by 17th-century schoolgirls discovered beneath floorboards

Its explicitly said in the article that its a misspelling.

marcel_heckoon I stopped buying new laptops (2020)

"ThinkPad® X260 will go as long as you do with over 21 hours of continuous battery life". Thats a quote from Lenovo website from 2018. I can confirm this was in practice the case with extended battery pack.

marcel_heckoon AirGradient Open Source Air Quality Monitor for CO2 and PM2.5 Measurements

Well we do a version with multiple uplink technology option and a full SDK[1]. The market is actually quite segmented depending on the final use case. This is IMO mostly because of the price of these devices. The CO2 probe itself is costly especially if metrologically calibrated so if you want one for every room in the school / office / home its not insignificant investment.

I'll include a link to our datasheet [1] as to actually answer the question hoping Im not breaking HN rules.

[1] https://docs.moirelabs.com/scoria-datasheet/

marcel_heckoon For some with ADHD, the low rumble of brown noise quiets the brain

Interesting. Illegal where? Mind elaborating on this?

marcel_heckoon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2021)

Fix your links to projects on your GH web: https://mvolfik.github.io/