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I'm using a similar setup with soularr, and I just need to import my playlists from Spotify, but I'd rather not use a fork of lidarr.

Hi, Actually it's not a fork it's the docker image for the plugin branch.

Sorry I set this up quite a long while ago and didn't remember correctly.

And it seems to have been merged so the plugin branch is not needed anymore, see: https://github.com/Lidarr/Lidarr/pull/1829

So the official image would work.

edit:

I just migrated and I can confirm it works.

I used lscr.io/linuxserver/lidarr:nightly, note that the `latest` tag won't work as it's using the `master` branch which doesn't have plugin support yet, so either use the `nightly` tag or the `develop` tag.

See: https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-lidarr/#version-ta...


I've also canceled my Spotify sub three weeks ago and migrated to Navidrome. I'm still not quite satisfied with the available clients, I'm using Feishin. Fastpotift looks like a nice candidate to extend to support Navidrome.

> wayland is not cross platform nor stable.

I've been using Wayland for two and a half years and it's been more stable than X11 that I've been using prior for years.


And I could say the opposite. Anecdata, it isn’t really helpful.

Fact is still that wayland does some things better, and a bunch og other things worse.


Matter of fact, the vast majority has moved on to Wayland years ago, both KDE and Gnome have reported their usage stats and neither sees a point in keeping X11 afloat. I too have been using Wayland (KDE) for years, it addressed some decades-long struggles around multi monitor and DPI layouts. I use input methods for CJK that work better and more consistently than before. As far as I'm concerned, this ship has sailed, for the better.

No, X11 got stable once they abandoned it!

Better money spent than on Omarchy.

KDE Plasma is as good as it gets if you'd like to transition from MacOS:

https://pointieststick.com/2025/10/04/a-mac-like-experience-...


I run KDE on a secondary machine and it's the best it's ever been, but for me it's best for single-purpose machines where desktop differences basically don't matter. It's about on par with one of the better Windows releases (XP or 7 maybe) in terms of how frustrating I'd find it to do work under.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/three-sacred-cows-that-must-die-so...

> Behind this climate hysteria is an even deeper delusion, though: that degrowth will deliver us all from the sins of modernity. That energy use in and of itself is suspect. That salvation will be delivered through abstinence. It's all nonsense.

Maybe slightly off-topic, but here a prominent figure in SV who now also got into Linux is mocking those concerned about climate change.


> most engineers at Encore develop on a Mac

They are solving the wrong problem.


No, they're realists.

Plus show me an off the shelf solution to MDM that exists in the Linux space? (Not too mention an easy to buy consumer devices which supports suspend/resume correctly in 2026, not even Windows can do that any more)

Apple is crap and evil about many things, but at least here they know their paying audience...


One case where Apple can be very useful is if you're traveling a lot for work.

Wherever you are you can probably find a local store that sells and services Macbooks. So if your machine is damaged during a trip you can get it fixed, or buy a replacement on the spot, and at least get through the work you are there to do.

For small-ish companies that can be a very useful feature.


Why wouldn't you do that with any other platform?

Buy any laptop, stick Linux on it, get working.

Buy a cheap shitty Chromebook, ssh to your dev platform, give it to some school child who doesn't have a laptop when you get your real one back.

You don't need to be locked into Apple's ecosystem for that.


> Buy any laptop, stick Linux on it, get working.

Except it's still a slightly different challenge each time to "get it working", each different PC. A Mac is a Mac is a Mac, more or less.

I have a nice Framework laptop on my desk running Kubuntu alongside my Macs. Every now and then I check in, make sure I could switch to it if I needed to, test all my important tasks, plug it in so the stupid mainboard battery does not go flat.

And then I go back to my Mac, because I prefer it and even Tahoe isn't painful enough to switch. KDE is fine and I'll use it if circumstances dictate I have to.

I think critics misunderstand the extent to which Mac-using devs are "locked into Apple's ecosystem". Unless you're writing iOS apps, you aren't. You perhaps even exist in a more heterogeneous world (Mac and Linux, Mac and Windows, all three) than a Linux-using web dev does.

Essentially everything I run is not at all "locked in". I would miss the ease of keychain, handoff and Apple Notes (which I like despite its flaws). And then I'd deal with it. I'd probably carry on using an iPhone (I am very ambivalent about the iPad)

FWIW my "Apple ecosystem" is why I have been able to teach myself open weights/open source AI at a pragmatic level, because my secondhand off-the-shelf kit does an acceptable job of it without me yet having to specify a PC I don't have enough use for as a non-gamer. A lot of people have solved a lot of general problems that I don't have to tinker with too early.

This isn't a fanboy thing (I would consider myself a qualified critic). Both KDE and GNOME have some nice things. It's just a question of energies.

IIRC it was Adrian Cockcroft who said he used Sun at work, and a Mac at home, because performance tuning was his day job and he didn't want to do it at home; I think this resonates.

It has been my own choice for 28 years, largely: Mac plus linux.


> Except it's still a slightly different challenge each time to "get it working", each different PC

Maybe thirty years ago. Not today.

Just go and pick up a second-hand Thinkpad for pennies. Everything will work on it.


Right but a secondhand thinkpad is not a laptop you find in the travel context of the thread.

(I dispute the main point, too — I spent flipping hours trying and failing to get trackpad speed right on a Surface Go in GNOME/Wayland. Ended up having to abandon that combination.)


> Surface Go

Avoid.

Lenovo only, T or P series. At least in the samples I've had, all the drivers have been in-kernel upon release of the hardware.


On the contrary it (faster Surface Go 2) was one of the most practical little machines I’ve ever used, and was really impressive in Windows 11.

I am totally happy to lay the blame for the poor trackpad performance in Gnome/Wayland on the software, because the hardware was super. Absent that problem I would have used it for almost anything and I loved taking it on trains and to coffee shops; Apple has no equivalent machine at all.

But you’re making the point for me. Success in Linux involves either tinkering or constrained hardware choices, even now. That’s fine but I think the Linux world pretends the situation is better.


> But you’re making the point for me. Success in Linux involves either tinkering or constrained hardware choices, even now. That’s fine but I think the Linux world pretends the situation is better.

Have you heard of this new Windows thing that everyone's going on about? Almost nothing supports it out of the box and it's just all tinkering - and that's for something you have to pay a lot of money for.

You're equally hardware-constrained with Apple too. Can you find me an Apple laptop with four "proper" USB ports, a Displayport socket, and swappable battery?


> You're equally hardware-constrained with Apple too. Can you find me an Apple laptop with four "proper" USB ports, a Displayport socket, and swappable battery?

This is now a circular argument.

As I said, a Mac is a Mac is a Mac. Nobody is arguing it is otherwise.

That's the whole point of the thread I was replying to.


> As I said, a Mac is a Mac is a Mac. Nobody is arguing it is otherwise.

Okay, and a Mac is no use. You're locked into a software ecosystem that no-one uses and you have exceptionally limited hardware.


"Success in MacOS” also has constrained hardware choices :)

> That’s fine but I think the Linux world pretends the situation is better.

The only thing comparable is Microsoft. Nothing else comes close to trying to support the variety of hardware and software from different places.


Of course it does! I'm exactly suggesting that those constrained hardware choices have value in the context discussed (agreeing with an earlier poster) and that in fact, if you're out on the road or you're under pressure and something fails, the Mac does have that advantage: you'll easily find one and there is no setup time to speak of.

Buying on the spot - sure. Anything that requires repair has to be usually booked in advance with some waiting time. Relatively short, usually days, but still not really possible to go into the store and get your laptop fixed right away in most cases.

If you have a business relationship with Apple, it's same-day service.

You don't even have to be a large corp for that, my org was 60 people with like 20 Macbooks and we had it.

FWIW if you live in a major metro area, Dell also does this, it's not terribly uncommon for business class machines.


With the memory shortage, many places you can’t buy most models on the spot. Wait times are almost two months for some machines right now.

https://tidbits.com/2026/08/10/mac-delivery-times-stretch-to...


The wait can be pretty short, I once got the charging port on my iPhone replaced same day at an Apple Store in Vegas

> MDM Linux

Jumpcloud, I've used it across Windows / Mac / Linux end user desktops and laptop fleets.

https://jumpcloud.com/lp/cross-os-device-management-fava-bea...


I was skeptical at first but we have deployed it and mostly has been solid. They also add new features quite regularly.

FleetDM comes to mind

Lots of Lenavo laptops do just fine, but Apple hardware is still supreme for what it is worth.

Hacker News is so utterly detached from reality at times, and comments like these really drive that home.

Hacker News is?

I worked on an internal tooling team at the beginning of the Apple Silicon transition; we spent months fixing ARM runtime issues that none of our customers encountered. That company probably spent millions of dollars fixing bugs that would never appear in production.


Thought I was tripping, someone made the same point today in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49381236

Notice dang's comment below. I dislike such comments, especially when they have no details whatsoever, just a swipe.

Most tech people are utterly detached from reality so that definitely tracks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_March exactly the same thing as what they tried to pull off in Ceuta last week, and with the support of the US. Since the occupation began, Morocco settled hundreds of thousands of its own people. Not surprising that another settler colonial state, Israel, is Morocco's ally.


All the North African states are settler colonies. The Arab states expelled their Jews , who predated Arabs and Islam across North Africa


Do you have any references for that claim? I wasn't aware that the Berbers, who've been there since the Stone Age, were predated by the Jewish people.


they are not. you can read things like The Shining Ones which is phd dissertation about how Amazigh settled into Nile delta etc. and along it to gradually form Egypt.

Amazigh were the nomads who lived in North Africa in tribal settings, so they didnt have clear borders or nation like we have it now.

Once egypt grew to big and arrogant it is also the Amazigh who cut their trade routes to deeper Africa, which caused the decline and fall of that great empire.

disclaimer: my spouse is trained by master Amazigh storyteller to be one of first female storytellers. they have fascinating stories. A lot of history and tradition encoded in old contexts. (stories about animals and nature mostly)


Amazigh are the people of North Africa. Arabs, Jews, Phoenecians, French, etc. etc. all visitors/colonisers.

Amazigh has only been officially recognised since 2001 and their language since 2011 because of these other peoples and our genious science who does not recognise oral stories since it is not written -_- (they had to develop an alphabet to get recognised formally, imagine that :')... 6000+ years old. One of the oldest civilizations in existence, predate ancient Egypt. (early dynasties were Amazigh moving to sedentary life etc.)

Since jews seem to have spring from ancient Egypt you could say somewhere they have Amazigh roots :D but i suppose they will think differently about it.


the states did not expell the jews. israel scared them out of their countries after ww2 to use them as colonizers in palestine.


> who predated Arabs and Islam across North Africa

Everybody starts telling history starting from when they were in charge.


During the past winters Russia was deliberately bombing energy infra in Ukraine with civilians left freezing in their apartments. I know that two wrongs don't make a right, but why should we expect Ukraine to fight cleanly against an invading force 5 times its size and resources, which has been obliterating its cities, occupied 20% of its land and committed every war crime imaginable?


This is no longer on the front page of HN despite 200+ points and having been posted 1 hour ago.


There’s a flame war detector, this has certainly triggered it and pushed the thread down the rankings.


I don't see any evidence of a flame war in this discussion, in fact there is an overwhelming consensus in the comments on the side of the author.


You really believe that?


I saw it on the front page.


This is where I first saw it too, but 10 minutes later it was no longer there.


They move uncomfortable subjects off the front page pretty quickly these days.

Can’t have the sheep getting too rowdy.


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