NostraDavid

NixOS isn’t great for non-programmers, I bet, but for programmers it’s amazing.

Wait until DHH finds NixOS, where we can configure everything via single configuration. Even multiple machines.

I love Debian for what it taught me, but I’m not sure if I’ll ever use anything else.

I like Bread on Penguins - very informative now that Luke Smith has turned away from Linux and towards Communist Philosophist or whatever he now turned into.

I think it was Denmark and/or a province (?) of Germany

don’t come at me, pendants.

Did you do that on purpoise? :3

I don’t need reproducibility to the extent that NixOS provides

Alright, that’s fair. As a programmer, I’ve been having a blast using it - being able to quickly setup my laptops almost the same as my desktop is such a breath of fresh air, then being able to copy over most of my config to a WSL setup to employ nix to get there 90% of the way on a Debian or Ubuntu WSL system is just so nice.

But if you don’t need its features, or aren’t a programmer, I can very much imagine you’d rather stick to a more stateful system.

at what’s gotta be greater than normal max screen brightness.

I love misplacing my finger and getting flash-banged by my phone! 😮‍💨

Don’t know if all androids have it, but if I swipe down near the bottom, it’ll pull down the top for “one-handed mode”.

I was able to trigger it multiple times until I figured out how I actually did it 😅

T9 (the old number keyboard) was the best layout: compact yet VERY usable. And with physical keyboards you could text someone blindly.

I just installed Traditional T9 to replace whatever that MS keyboard was (the swipe feature was nice, but I’m not sure it can beat T9).

You’ve been checked kid.

OK, Boomer.

What’s a flatpak? Is that like a worse NixOS package? I prefer NixOS, BTW.

Having all your configuration hidden in ~/.config/, so you can have ~ all to yourself is nice, IMO. Just having a handful of folders (including hidden ones) makes things a little more readable.

What’s a flatpak? Is that like a worse NixOS package?

Uh, just yesterday. Installed NixOS (with KDE) because I learned Debian at work, but am really missing the ability to track what I’ve installed via configuration. I like the idea of dotfiles in a repo, but want a bit more control like that for my OS.

Context: I’m a data engineer that writes Python. Python has pyproject.toml files (toml ~= ini files) where you can specify which libraries you want to use, defining which version you minimally, maximally, or just specifically want. And I wished that setup existed for Debian as well, but it doesn’t. So after searching I found that NixOS is pretty much the closest thing. Windows 10 is EOL soon enough, so might as well switch beforehand and not wait until the last second.

(Seriously what would you even have multiple computers do.)

Setup k3s (pronounces “kubes”) on each computer as a node. Run scalable software - a website, database, some LDAP setup for users, maybe.

Check out /c/[email protected] for inspiration :D

Would a commercial with Jesus on the cross saying he is thirsty and having a Roman Soldier pass him an ice cold Coca Cola be better?

I tried it using Sora, but “This content can’t be shown for now. We’re still developing how we evaluate which content conflicts with our policies. Think we got it wrong? Let us know.”

This was the prompt:

Give me a Coca Cola commercial where Jesus has been nailed to a cross, and says “I’m thirsty”, after which a Roman Soldier passes him an ice cold Coca Cola.

I tried replacing “Jesus” with a man, but no dice :(

Christmas celebrations

Christmas is more of a cultural celebration than a Christian one, and thus not political.

I’m atheist, but I still celebrate Christmas, because it’s a good excuse to gather friends and family, and have some fun together.

Pride is a political movement - or did they not fight for the rights of LGBT people? Flags are inherently political. Flying a flag signals allegiance and identity, which are political at their core.

This makes pride month political.

Being Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Transgender isn’t political in and of itself, but movements are.

I now have a stack of Thinkpads laying around. Right next to my two RPis 😂

big yellow skips

A trash container? I’m neither Bri’ish, or 'Murican, so I have no idea 😂