Remember to always keep at least one kernel or your system won’t boot.

So basically a variant of the Hippie Speedball

I would not trust any company/website to properly encrypt any important messages in the first place so I don’t care whether they add a backdoor (and I’ve never had a Twitter account anyway).

…but it sounds like a really shitty development/release process to me. Why would you disable something while whatever is to come in its place is not ready yet?

Why not do the development first and then migrate when it’s actually ready lol

But to be fair, Nix is not the only answer to that. There are lots of tools for just dotfiles but you can also build something using e.g. ansible to manage everything.

All my computers have their config in a git repo. That includes users, packages, services, dotfiles, /etc configs and so on. I used ansible before writing my own tool. I can install Arch from scratch and only need to partition, run one script and then apply my config on first boot using my tool to have my system restored. I know it’s not as declarative and absolute/reproducible as Nix, but it works and it’s way less painful than my last attempt at giving NixOS a go.

What I don’t understand: He writes about 21 years of experience and having made 150k/year. Where is all that money? How can you make 150k and work for two decades and not have any savings/investments to stay afloat even if that means moving to a more remote and cheaper area?

The code of the packages is the documentation. So the newcomers better start learning Nix language and reading the paper about how Nix works under the hood before they get started! /s

But seriously, I used NixOs for about 2 years almost 10 years ago and while it was/is fascinating when you have everything setup, getting there and maintaining everything across so many packages that each have their own way of configuring them took hundreds of hours. I’m back on Arch using a custom tool I wrote to fully manage my configs, packages, dotfiles etc.

The way I remember it is that there is no consistency across Nix packages and it all feels like a giant puzzle for people who enjoy spending time configuring more than actually using the computer. And I say that as someone who actually enjoyed getting into that when I had unlimited time.

And saves both energy and water.

That reminded me of this: https://youtu.be/Ni1RPc5OU2c

Why would you even have git repositories in OneDrive in the first place? Or are those local-only repos without an actual server to push to?

Does it come with a battery that’s not rechargeable and only lasts for exactly one playthrough of the game after which you throw the whole thing in the trash?

We have regulations here in Germany (EU wide even if I am not mistaken). The solar inverters used are required to shut off within I think 200ms of the 50hz grid power going down. The inverters sold here can’t output anything without grid power being detected on the AC output.

Why is everyone in this thread making assumptions and spreading fear instead of actually looking up how it works?

Yeah, especially the ones made by pharma companies that doctors hand out.

So they did get you at 3.99 -> 3!

Nvidia does more than just GPUs.

Nvidia makes both SoCs like the Tegra series and server CPUs (Grace; ARM based to be used with their ML/AI cards with much higher bandwidths than regular CPUs).

Nvidia also just announced that they are working on a consumer desktop CPU.

I can speak from experience having used both wired (Index) and wireless (Pico 4 with ALVR) VR on Linux and the performance and stability is horrible. Always has been sadly. I can play some VR games on Linux but overall it’s not worth it in the current state.

If you rely on it that much maybe its time to download it all and keep it.

Just like Windows 10 was announced to be the last Windows version and it was supposed to be a rolling release product.

And then they needed to artificially restrict what hardware Windows runs on to please the OEMs and their computer sales so we got Windows 11, cutting off a lot of recent and still more than capable enough hardware ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Have a look at Wayfire. It’s a Wayland compositor that implements a lot of the compiz effects/plugins. I recently found that but haven’t tried it myself as I don’t really care about wobbly windows and cubes as much as I did 15+ years ago when I first tried compiz as a teenager :D