| ▲ | PeterStuer 2 hours ago |
| Setting up your own is not that hard and if you bought some compute before the Altman squeeze, very cheap. |
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| ▲ | dbmikus 2 hours ago | parent [-] |
| Def! My personal belief is that the future of an "app" is a combo: 1. micro VM
2. agent on the VM
3. software bundled into the VM
So, it should be stupid simple to run these local sandboxed apps/agents. Right now, not too hard for technical users (esp. with things like https://smolmachines.com/ and https://microsandbox.dev/), but not as easy as clicking an app icon or typing `/path/to/binary` in the CLI |
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| ▲ | chrisweekly 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I was going to add a comment praising smolmachines' smolvms. Simple, fast (sub-200ms cold start), OCI-compat, and has trivial packing to standalone 0-dep executables. No need for Docker Desktop / colima / orbstack. For those who prioritize security, kernel isolation is a meaningful benefit. | |
| ▲ | spockz an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Microsandbox claims to start faster than docker, and it is isolated from the host, and to work with OCI. Why would I still want to use docker? The only reason I can imagine is that I actually want to be able to dynamically share resources between containers instead of dividing up VMs a priori. Ah, the significant compute overhead: https://josecastillolema.github.io/podman-wasm-libkrun/. Much more cpu and ram usage at worse performance. |
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