People here in Tokyo follow at obscenely tight distance on the freeways and motorways. Drives me crazy. Don't have the data, but having driven here for over 20 years, I’d venture that short following distances must be one of the main causes of accidents on these types of roads. People are otherwise generally cautious and attentive drivers. When I’ve expressed frustration about it to locals in the past, the response is often “but if you leave more space, people will cut in!” To which I respond, “okay, and?!” I feel like a single big media campaign to improve following distances could result in a big improvement. So frustrating.

I’m in Japan too. Could you name the model you ended up going with? My heating bill in the winter is insane.

The model is not yet decided, we're in the finalizing stage with the building company. What we have been focusing on is a well insulated house, unlike the old one which has no insulation at all.. if we tried to heat that it would not only be extremely expensive, it's impossible to even heat the small bathroom with an electric heater. So instead you kind of get used to it. Took me a year to stop feeling like I was freezing, at 4C in the bathroom on February mornings. We have been using a gas heater (plug in the floor) in certain places on the ground floor, but we limited that as well. So, with an insulated, small house, we believe we will be able to keep the costs down, using heat pumps and heat exchangers, plus solar and battery (using the car battery).

Thanks for your reply! We’re about to finally replace our windows with double-layer glass. Hoping this makes a big difference.

Don’t want to engage on that here, there are plenty of other threads on the issues. If you disagree with the premise, feel free to move along.

I can definitely see this working for some people and have tried it in the past. Orbstack - which I’m running for Docker anyway - makes it trivial. However, without wanting to get off-topic, I’ve carefully considered my needs and I know what they are, and I think there are quite a lot of people in my situation. Enough to warrant asking for peoples’ thoughts.

Thanks for this suggestion! Good enough for Mitchell is good enough for me. I tried this yesterday and it’s working great - GPU acceleration enabled out of the box. I’ve got some reservations about NixOS from previous attempts to use it on bare metal - and from reading others’ experiences with the project and concerns about its governance on hn - but I can definitely see that running it in a VM is an altogether different undertaking. Already started customising my configuration.nix and it’s going great. Top contender at this time. Thanks!

That’s super helpful, thanks! I’ll look into that - both UTM config and stock Debian.

It seems that it depends on the distro though - I couldn’t get it working on any of the distros I mentioned above, although admittedly this stuff is not my strong suit; rather than spend lots of time figuring out the ins and outs of each distro I was kind of hoping that commenters would help surface the best options for this setup generally, from which it would then make sense to dig more deeply. Or alternatively, get a steer on which distros to avoid.

One of the commenters below helpfully mentioned NixOS - it’s been great - GPU acceleration working out of the box. Good contender at the moment.

Ffs. Alright, what’s the best way for me to run Silverblue on Mac hardware these days with a full GPU-accelerated desktop experience? Is UTM any good? Any alternatives? I used to run Win 10 in Parallels on MacOS and it was excellent - that’s the level of virtualisation polish I’m going for.

After 25+ years, I see the direction of travel - I’m done with this bullshit. Yesterday my MacBook started ringing loudly in the middle of the cafe where I was working when a call came in. I switched off Handoff years ago, but a recent update has obviously silently re-enabled it.

I cannot have Apple just arbitrarily switching shit up for their own benefit on the machines I use to get my work done. And they are now unquestionably succumbing to increasingly baldfaced enshittification.

Do we need an “Ask HN” for developers stuck on / preferring Mac hardware, unwilling / unable to run Asahi on bare metal, but wanting a GPU-accelerated Linux desktop experience?

I think the issue ends up being the Linux desktop experience makes one need to fix their own shit after a long day of fixing other people's shit.

That's one thing about MacOS, I can leave the driving to someone else. Increasingly, that driving is to places I dislike, but I'm still not driving.

What happens to people who paid for it as part of the sticker price? Are they grandfathered permanently?

It sounds as though they are from the wording, but who knows what a future update may bring?

Ad supported self-driving mode for the grandfathered in customers, of course.

Doesn't matter, they'll be buying new cars before they get full self driving.

Buying consists of paying and receiving a good or service.

Clearly they'll be doing half of buying, and not the other half.

This is a great app! Thanks, I bought it. I'm backing up to a network share over SMB. Just wanted to let you know that the error message in the event that the share becomes unmounted during a backup is a bit obscure: it just says "pdb.sqlite" doesn't exist. Stopping and restarting the backup fixes it. Might be helpful to provide some clearer error handling / messaging and guidance for disappearing network shares?

Thanks or the detailed feedback.

You’re right about that error message. What’s happening is that when the SMB share gets unmounted, the app can no longer access its SQLite database (pba.sqlite), and the resulting error isn’t very user-friendly. I agree it would be much clearer to explicitly detect a missing or unmounted network share and provide guidance.

I’ve added this to my list of things to improve. Thanks again for taking the time to report it — feedback like this is super helpful.

My pleasure - much appreciated and thanks for being so responsive.

I’ll just add in here a sneaky humble request for graceful automatic pausing and restarting as network shares (or other volumes?) (dis-)appear - although I imagine that one’s a bit trickier to implement.

All the best! Very satisfied user. Great replacement for the script + cron job I was using before.

Hello, fellow ZSA Voyager plus dual-weild aficionado! It’s great, isn’t it? I saw [this](https://evantravers.com/articles/2023/04/06/magsafe-tenting-...) here recently and promptly bought some mini-tripods and MagSafe adapters. Access to arbitrary tenting angles has been a big plus. I also have a 3D printed deck for it that sits over my MacBook keyboard and is quite nice. Don’t want to lose access to my Miryoku layout when on the move! Especially home row chording.

I also went down the switches rabbit hole and ended up with lighter weight switches under my pinkies, which I find quite pleasant.

I also dual-wield a Magic Trackpad (outside left) and Logitech Lift (which I have found to be vastly better for my wrist than a normal mouse, since it requires much less unnatural rotation).

I’m also looking forward to the ZSA trackpad attachment for the Voyager. Interested to see whether it’s an improvement on the excellent Magic Trackpad. As an avid Magic Trackpad user, what do you think of the trackball?

All in all, though, this kind of setup feels like something of final destination, don’t you think? No more desire to tinker and can see myself using it this way for decades - just replacing switches if / when they fail. I even have some spare keycaps which I bought from Tai-Hao (who manufacture the original keycaps, I believe). I bought the blanks from ZSA then sort of regretted it. They look so darn cool but made the transition to Miryoku harder than it needed to be.

Goodness gracious look how much I’ve written about my keyboard. My wife would find this very amusing.

I love the the Voyager when I want to really focus or if I'm going to code for a long time (limits my arm movements and I'm more intentional). When I'm doom scrolling or being creative, I end up using the mouse (I'm looking at the Lift too) or the trackpad more.

Yes, it's my end game but I was pretty tempted by the go60 because of the wireless nature. https://www.moergo.com/pages/go60