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Do you regularly run X11/Wayland on your servers?

I was under the impression, and my anecdata seems to support, that Wayland already had the majority.

Where are you seeing such high figures for X?



No, generally much longer.

Apple products go vintage after they've stopped selling something for 5 years. Obsolete after 7 years.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102772


For a good example, check out Pieter Levels’ vibe coding gaming competition from April. There were some really impressive entries. Karpathy was one of the judges.

https://x.com/levelsio


Trivia: Teachers tend to find out about products from presentations. Someone does a presentation at a conference or wherever and shows a product, then that product spreads like wildfire.

Focus on hitting up teachers and presenters who give presentations to teachers. Look up regional and national conferences, examine the speakers list, and reach out to them if you think they'd be interested.


Some good questions to ask in this case:

- How long will this last?

- What's in it for Oracle?

Oracle is not known for its benevolence or free services. Quite the opposite.


> What's in it for Oracle?

Customer acquisition, like all companies with a free tier. It lets people experiment with their products and see if it meets their needs. Maybe those experiments grow up to be real products and continue running where they are. Maybe that user becomes an advocate for that product to their employer.


Right now there is no date when this free offer will disappear. For 3 yr I m using it.

Also keep in mind there's a lot more talent available to work with AWS, GCP, and Azure.

I've been liking https://minifeed.net/

It’s called “anti-glare coating” for eyeglasses in the US. Works very well, at least for my eyes. I’m sure you could find non-prescription variants. The downside is the coating seems to last 3-5 years or so.

1. I thought "Sapphire is a next‑generation, Rust‑powered package manager inspired by Homebrew" covered it pretty well.

2. It's a personal project.

3. It's explicitly declared as alpha software.


“ Sapphire is a next‑generation, Rust‑powered package manager inspired by Homebrew”

Doesn’t tell me how it differs. What makes this next generation? Just the programming language?

If it’s just a for fun personal project that no one else is supposed to use, I’m not sure why it’s on HN.


The author didn't submit it to HN, so criticizing it being on HN seems unfair to me.

It's a cool piece of alpha-quality software. It may or may not be meant to be used, that's beside the point. As I see it HN isn't a platform for software recommendations, it's for discussing interesting geeky things. Which this definitely is, even if it was completely unusable today.


Doesn’t tell me how it differs

Not everything on HN has to come with a dissection and explanatory note - that's kind of the point of curiosity.

If it’s just a for fun personal project that no one else is supposed to use, I’m not sure why it’s on HN.

Those are totally fine on HN too.


Except the title (previously) said homebrew replacement. So when it doesn’t say why/what, and there’s no context, people are going to be confused.

Sometimes titles are slightly wrong. It's just not that big of a deal, most of the time. It's a messageboard in large part about the pleasure of finding things out rather than the grump of not everything being exactly as you expect.

Yeah, the HN title was editorialized as a Homebrew "replacement," which may be ticking people off.

#1 is a "what", not a "why"

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