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Atemu

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Interested in Linux, FOSS, data storage systems, unfucking our society and a bit of gaming.

I help maintain Nixpkgs.

github.com/Atemu
reddit.com/u/Atemu12 (Probably won’t be active much anymore.)

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Now that’s meta.

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You could take the revision number. nixos-unstable has 567011 commits currently.

I'm so frustrated rn.

I have been distro hopping for about 2 weeks now, there’s always something that doesn’t work. I thought I would stick with Debian and now I haven’t been able to make my printer work in it, I think I tried in another distro and it just worked out of the box, but there’s always something that’s broken in every distro....

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As an example, users of Debian are reporting tons of KDE Plasma bugs that was already fixed, but because they are running an ancient version, they still have the bugs.

The idea is that those bug fixes would be backported as patches; old feature version + new security/bug fixes.

In practice, that’s really expensive to do, so often times bug fixes simply aren’t backported and I don’t even want to know the story of security fixes though I’d hope they do better there.

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Debian has an effective Rolling distribution through testing than can get ahead of Arch.

I wouldn’t call a distro “branch” where maintainers say “don’t use this, it’s not officially supported and may even be insecure” an “effective” distribution. I’d consider it a test bed.

Debian tends to align its release with LTS Kernel and Mesa releases so there have been times the latest stable is running newer versions than Ubuntu

  • Ubuntu LTS.

Ubuntu’s regular channel releases every 6 months, similar to Fedora or NixOS. That in itself is already a “stable” distro, just not long-time stable (LTS).
So Debian can for a short span of time after release be about as fresh as stable distros which is …kinda obvious? I would not consider a month or so every 2 years to be significant to even mention though, especially if you consider that Debian users aren’t the kind to jump onto a new release early on.

For some the priority to run software that won’t have major bugs, that is what Debian, Ubuntu LTS and RHEL offer.

That’s not the point of those distros at all. The point is to have the same features aswell as bugs for longer periods of time. This is because some functionality the user wants could depend on such bugs/unintended behaviour to be present.

The fact that huge regressions have to be weeded out more carefully before release in LTS is obvious if you know that it’d be expected for those “bugs” to remain present throughout the release’s support window.

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Problem is that the average person cannot discern between an actual expert and a charlatan.

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It’s unkown whether he improved his temper or whether he just built a very good mail filter for himself though.

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I meant that as a reply to the second paragraph which generalised anarchism; including the non-Linux world.
I also disagree that this isn’t an issue in the broader Linux community however. See for example the loud minority with an irrational hate against quite obviously good software projects like systemd who got those ideas from charlatans or “experts”.

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Cookie banners are not really about cookies.

What they’re actually asking for is consent to process your data for profit in unethical ways. That usually involves cookies but could theoretically be done entirely without. They’re just a technological standard.

You might aswell say: “We use https. [consent] [settings]”

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I’ll let you in on a little secret: Fstab gets converted to mount units anyways.

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Not really. It was publicly available information. It’s, by definition, not private.

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I was worried about possibly needing to change license.

I’d rather ask the contributors to consent to licensing their code under the new license. You don’t need the copyright in the hand of one entity to change license, it’s enough if all copyright holders agree.

The situation is made seemingly complicated by the possible need to use copylefted images

WDYM by “images”?

As in art assets? I’m not sure those would even be infectious. I think it’s possible to even use non-free assets in a GPL’d application. It may be better to treat them as such to keep the licensing simple though.

Even then, it’s usually possible to “upgrade” permissively licensed code (such as Apache 2.0) to a copyleft license as long as the original license’s conditions are still met which usually involves denoting which parts of the code is also available under the permissive license.

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This is a lot to take in; it’s basically an overview of all the interesting features of Nix. When starting out, you don’t need this kind of in-depth knowledge. I personally gathered most of what was covered here in over 6-12months of using it and I did just fine.

It might still not be for you but don’t take this as the reference point.

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While that is true, it’s also r13y on another level: Reproducible evaluation. That mostly stems from pure eval and locking.

In the “before times”, you’d get your Nix expressions from some mutable location in the Nix path, so running i.e. a nixos-rebuild on your configuration could produce two different eval results when ran at two different times, depending on whether anything about your channel configuration changed in the mean time. This cannot happen with flakes as all inputs are explicitly given and locked.

You could achieve the same using niv etc. before but that had its own issues.

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I haven’t used channels in years, but doesn’t that just refer to the running system, not using Nix to build projects?

I have no idea what you’re trying to say here.

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There’s the WIP NixOS-based SnowflakeOS that aims to make NixOS approachable for mere mortals but that’s still declarative configuration and of course still NixOS under the hood.

There’s a bunch of immutable distros out there that use OStree or some other imperatively managed snapshotting mechanism such as Fedora Silverblue or VanillaOS.

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How do you compose Guix projects?

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Yes, a slight speed decrease is expected even with good proxy services at common residential speeds. Given that yours is far above the average, a greater decrease can be expected. It shouldn’t be this much though.

If this is installed on a common “router” SOHO gateway appliance, it’s likely that its hardware is simply not able to keep up with the tunnelling workload (encryption, package handling). For troubleshooting, try the same proxy server on a more powerful machine while disabling the proxy on the gateway. If it’s faster, that’s likely your issue.

Also try a different proxy server. That particular one might simply not have enough capacity to serve you more than that.

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Depends. There was that one F2P COD clone which used TCP and IIRC it did fine?

Is there such a thing as split-screen grep?

I want to run a command and see all of its output on the left hand side, while simultaneously searching/grepping for particular lines on the right hand side. In other words, I want a temporary vertically split screen in my CLI, ideally with scrollback on each side of the split, but where I expect the left hand side to be...

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That’s not at all grep-like. Grep is a line filter, not a character sequence highlighter.

I'm looking for a privacy respecting vacuum robot

I’m looking for a vacuum robot preferably under 500€ and with a cleaning station. My main concern is that most robot vacuum providers seem to need to be connected to the internet. Are there any providers that either don’t need that, where I can block the internet connection or any other way not getting a spy in my home?...

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That mitigates a rather minimal leak while ignoring the gaping black data hole.

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Why go through all of that complexity when you could just sudo apt install docker?

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I’d highly recommend setting up a swap partition instead.

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If you need to set up a special dedicated subvolume, might aswell set up a partition instead; it’s just simpler.

With a swapfile you also can’t do multi-device setups which is a limitation I personally couldn’t live with.

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And, most importantly, money bags to subsidise the hell out of it. Let’s not kid ourselves here, the damn low price is one of the main reasons why people buy the SD rather than the ~2x more expensive alternatives.

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And, even more importantly, search.nixos.org/options to figure out which options to set. Always search for options first. “Installing” something by just adding the package to systemPackages etc. is usually the correct thing to do for end-user applications but not for “system things” such as services.

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