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> 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 ;)

mikae1on How does IKEA come up with names for its products?

That's (sadly) a Swedish name, yes.

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

Because the photographer builds trust, over years, by not manipulating their images using AI. All trust is erased if anyone spots the manipulation.

mikae1on 70% of AI revenue comes from OpenAI and Anthropic [video]

> most decently sized companies want to and eventually will be running their own LLM workloads

And probably some decently sized states too. Not only commercial actors are up to the job.

mikae1on Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index

And at that cost they're still not profitable. It's going to be a bumpy road ahead...

mikae1on Darktable

> but recently am moving off of it because they made one MASSIVE blunder with the new shitty color grading and white balancing tool

If you're talking about color calibration and color balance rgb you can disable them and use darktable exactly as before.

mikae1on Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly

Can you analyze the data your watch and body generates locally using FOSS without uploading it all to surveillance capitalists? That'd be the true alternative.

mikae1on Using a Gaming PC's RTX 5070 from a separate Linux workstation

Same.

mikae1on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA

Not talking about me or HN users in general. These companies likely need regular peeps to begin using their services in order to become profitable. Not sure these are the ones who will buy from OpenRouter.

mikae1on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA

True. However, I believe most non-programmers don't need access to the fanciest model, but just want to use a good LLM without constant nagging about usage limits. Then 19 vs. 20 is true?

mikae1on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA

For regular chat users it's $19 while Claude is $20...

mikae1on Firefox 153.0 Beta

The first web browser was also an editor (albeit not for PDFs). Accessible editing was a part of was Berners-Lee's vision for the web.

> The first web browser - or browser-editor rather - was called WorldWideWeb as, after all, when it was written in 1990 it was the only way to see the web.[1]

[1] https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html