[-] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Why does the graph use 5 shades of gray for some categories?

[-] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 11 points 1 month ago

Why the rise in meeting people at work in the 1980s? Was this when there was an increase in office jobs?

[-] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 9 points 1 month ago

I recently built a site with hugo. Its very easy. You pick a theme, then write some markdown files. And when you need flexibility, you have it for later. I also think it's the most popular right now, which lends to a lot of themes to pick from and a lot of cpmmunity support.

[-] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 11 points 2 months ago

Im a simpleton who has only played through dark souls once. What happens whe you go to Ash Lake early?

[-] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 10 points 3 months ago

Cashing checks and zelle are the big ones

[-] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 11 points 3 months ago

Niri looks really cool. I've used tiling WM before but scrolling is a unique take, perhaps more productive for some folks?

Nushell is a good one. I do data science for a living and it'd be nice to have the shell handle some small data transformations instead of writing a script in python. But all the syntax and behavior is very different than bash, so I've been afraid to start because of the learning curve.

[-] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 9 points 4 months ago

If you use docker, it doesnt matter the distro. And to use docker, you dont really need to understand how/why it works. As long as you can take an example compose file and spin it up (docker compose up) it'll be less complicated in the long run than managing plex on the host machine (or most software for that matter, which is why containerization is so popular.)

[-] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 9 points 4 months ago

From my short time with proxmox, I had to dive into the command line to do configuration at the host level that couldnt be done with the UI. I think nixos will help replacd those ad hoc configurations with nix options. In the many articles I read about gpu passthru, and also doing harddrive passthru, I had to work in the host debian environment.

I dumped proxmox because I couldnt get gpu passthrough to work, and havent looked back. Nixos modules and docker have served me better than VMs for my usecase.

[-] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 11 points 8 months ago

Open source to some extend, but their whole thing about these emojis is that they are 3d and animated. But the repo only contains png renders if the 3d models. So you arent able to modify or animate the 3d models directly.

Imo they released enough to call it "open source" and get good PR from it without actually giving the raw source files to the community (their competitors). I was not pleased with this when they announced it 2 years ago. Its still the same.

[-] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 12 points 1 year ago

On the tangent of quantum factorization, I feel like a reality of modern encryption at risk is still very slim. At least if the wiki article is anything to go by. I think we are sooner to have backdoors in encryption algorithms than we are quantum messing everything up.

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Every now and then I see a program that doesn't have a default.nix or flake.nix in the source, doesn't have an entry in nixpkgs, and otherwise can't find a derivation for. So I write them myself.

What's the best way to share these? Should I contribute to nixpkgs? (does this count if I'm making flakes?) Do I maintain a single repo for each program? Or do I create a repo with a collection of flakes? Something else?

[-] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 8 points 1 year ago

I build my 5x5 but didnt add some of the vertical slats in. Its a little warped since we took out too many but having a 2-wide whole fits our wide games.

[-] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 11 points 1 year ago

I always reference the vendors list from keyboard builder's digest.

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Hi all, I've been getting into nix lately (I've been posting here frequently) and wanted to know what projects everyone is working on. Are you trying to integrate nix into an existing project? Contribute to nixpkgs? Experiment with your configs?

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Short video from Vimjoyer on how to setup a firefox install using home manager and flakes. In particular, the focus of this video was how to use an external flake as a source for firefox extensions, since they aren't available in nixpkgs.

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I came across this article when wondering how to integrate the "building" aspect of nix (that is, not just a devshell) with static websites or other projects that involve some output that is not an executable.

This article also talks about adding inputs from GitHub that aren't necessarily flakes. I've used this myself to pull some example configurations for certain programs that I haven't felt like tinkering with myself yet.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by rutrum@lm.paradisus.day to c/nixos@infosec.pub

I'm been wanting to move over my main desktop for almost a year now. But from 3+ years of tinkering, installing applications, and configurations Ive been super hesitant. The jump from Ubuntu to NixOS would be a big one. I have a laptop running nixos thats given me some exposure to the nix language, but when it comes to my main rig, I still have the worry of "what if something I need wont be available?" and "what if I forget something?"

Well I finally tried home manager and wow, its the absolute perfect way to slowly transition to nixos. I'm slowly going through my package managers (cargo, npm, pip, apt, snap) and checking for applications that I can just drop into my home.nix. And every now and then I see an app I cant install (say, vtracer from cargo, very cool app). Well, I just make a mark and eventually I'll build my own derivation around it.

Home manager has been easing my worries as I make the transition. For those of you also unsure, I recommend integrating with home manager. You can do such small jumps at a time, no need to go full blown nix all at once.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by rutrum@lm.paradisus.day to c/nixos@infosec.pub
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What apps do you recommend for people? Which apps did you start integrating into your day to day once you discovered they were there? Which apps solved a problem you faced?

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What do you as a fail safe when there isnt a flake or nix package for what you need, and you don't have the time or ability to create it?

Here's my particular example. I need the beta version of OpenSCAD, which is only delivered as a flatpak in the beta flatpak channel, which I have tried but have been unsuccessful in doing. I havent even attempted building from source. Only the stable version is in nixpkgs. In this case, what would you do?

And in general, what do you do? Install things using a different package manager, like pip, npm, cargo, etc and manage at the user level? Do you run a VM? Docker? Let me know what your backup plan is on NixOS.

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I've bought Pine64 products before (pinephone and recently the pinetime) but I've heard Zach Freedman (void star labs) mention this before and rave about it. I wanted to hear from the ergo community what they thought about it before I bought one to start my keyboard building journey.

In addition, if I should buy one, what tips do you recommend be purchased? It looks like I can buy long/short versions of fine/gross tips. What's best for keyboard building? Here's a link to their pinecil products.

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My understanding is like this. For multi-user computers, you'd manage packages with home manager. If you're developing a project or need some kind of specific built tool or dependency, define in it in a flake.nix or shell.nix or build.nix in the project folder. And for single user computers, or maybe admin accounts install at NixOS configuration.

Whats the intent for each location? The current question Im asking myself is "why install home manager when Im on a single user instance and can just update configuration.nix?"

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