They missed out on calling it macrodots

It would be cool if it also showed the speed and the current speed

With the first model costing 2K USD for a mediocre device (4GB RAM, 128GB storage) it’s not surprising that they’re not that popular. Their 700 USD model only has 3GB of RAM.

I assume not, but we didn’t discuss that

It’s further than you think. I spoke to someone today about and he told me it produced a basic SaaS app for him. He said that it looked surprisingly okay and the basic functionalities actually worked too. He did note that it kept using deprecated code, consistently made a few basic mistakes despite being told how to avoid it, and failed to produce nontrivial functionalies.

He did say that it used very common libraries and we hypothesized that it functioned well because a lot of relevant code could be found on GitHub and that it might function significantly worse when encountering less popular frameworks.

Still it’s quite impressive, although not surprising considering it was a matter of time before people would start to feed the feedback of an IDE back into it.

I never understood why they added that

There seems to be less activity on the Android repo. I still have like 13 unreviewed PR’s open from last year.

I would like to use BTRFS for deduplication, CoW, and snapshots.

No, I’m aware of BTRFS’s RAID 5/6 issues, this would use mdadm’s RAID with BTRFS on the bcache block device.

But why? It’s job is to install software, why make it worse by supporting less package formats?

What is the intended use case?

Keep in mind that in practice this didn’t work that well, it wasn’t very efficient at displaying modern interfaces over the network. Showing a simple text editor over LAN worked fine, but using Firefox from another place was quite spotty.

It works well when you want to install software that is not compatible with your distro, but it is not a great security measure since it integrates with your host system instead of acting as a sandbox.

Isolation and sandboxing are not the main aims of the project, on the contrary it aims to tightly integrate the container with the host. The container will have complete access to your home, pen drive, and so on, so do not expect it to be highly sandboxed like a plain docker/podman container or a Flatpak.

This is just incorrect

…or containers, e.g. Docker/Podman

Distrobox is a script that manages Docker/Podman containers

What you are installing can cause damage so IMHO it’s more about keeping things manageable while having your actually important data…

Programs are installed the container, not on the host system. When you break the container the host system is fine unless using rootful (or Docker) containers.

…while having your actually important data (not programs, downloaded content, etc but rather things you did yourself, e.g. written documents, sketches, configuration files, prototypes, photos, etc) safe…

Using Distrobox does NOT keep your own files safe, it actually mounts your home directory and external USB drives inside the containers by default fully exposing your documents to whatever you install inside.

From the documentation:

Isolation and sandboxing are not the main aims of the project, on the contrary it aims to tightly integrate the container with the host. The container will have complete access to your home, pen drive, and so on, so do not expect it to be highly sandboxed like a plain docker/podman container or a Flatpak.

Equinix seems to be shutting down their bare metal service in it’s entirety. All projects using it will be affected.

A system daemon to allow session software to update firmware

(In case I’m not the only one who hasn’t heard of it)

Paid apps are in the works right?

You could turn it into a Home Assistant control panel if it has touch screen support

Thanks, I’ll try it again

EDIT: It works well

Do you also know if any of them support multi language spell checking?