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dai, 1 year ago to linuxmemes in What do you guys do when you want to run unmaintained programs?

Yep, that’s the gist. Nix build is reasonably good at spitting out what’s missing ( if your packaging a random git ) and nix-init gives you a great starting point, but generally will need some tweaking to get the package running / installing.

dai, 1 year ago (edited 4 months ago) to linuxmemes in What do you guys do when you want to run unmaintained programs?

ive got limited experience however i think ive got tegaki-python to build under nixos:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8cbe153e-21c1-4a31-b123-6a89c357f08e.png

pastebin.com/yCKUBrgG

name to default.nix then run (from the same dir)

nix-build -E ‘let pkgs = import { }; in pkgs.callPackage ./default.nix {}’ --show-trace

lots more to build but i looks possible to have up and running in nix with some small tweaks from the initial nix-init .nix

a sparceCheckout would trim some fat however minimal on a per-package basis too

looks like its running into perm issues, bit over my head :D

dai, 1 year ago to opensource in Raspberry Pi is now manufacturing 70,000 Pi 5s per week, will surge to 90,000 in February

Picked up a laptop with a busted screen $30 cheaper than the RPI 5. 1135G7, 8gb upgradable ram, m.2 storage, wifi, bluetooth and a battery.

Raspberry pis’ were great early on, but their appeal has quickly diminished in my eyes considering used hardware options that are available now.

Size would be the one redeeming quality of a raspberry pi for me, my headless laptop is thin but takes up substantially more space.

dai, 1 year ago to linuxmemes in I don't...

I love me some hyprland, it’s minimal enough to run on my 4gb ram foldable laptop with the same animations I have on my main laptop & desktop.

Wayland x Nvidia aside (on my laptop) it’s the perfect minimal environment for me.

dai, 1 year ago to selfhosted in what if your cloud=provider gets hacked ?

But man, I’ll be able to amend all those TODO items that have been accumulating of the last 12 months and fix all those issues while rebuilding my raid.

I mean that’s only if my GITs aren’t hijacked during the ransomware attack.

And I mean, I’ll probably just push the same config to my server and let it on its merry way again.

dai, 1 year ago to linux in What are your opinions of Guix?

I’ve found that the unstable branch of nixos has almost all the packages that I want / need at the bleeding edge. For more obscure packages I build from source.

Interested to hear what packages you were chasing that are outdated / not present.

dai, 1 year ago to linuxmemes in Accurate?

Yeah I use nix 😅

I think the idea of a (relatively) simple or as complex “roll your own flavour” OS makes lots of sense to someone like me. For most people the effort might not be worth the payout.

dai, 1 year ago to linuxmemes in Accurate?

Nix is like 20 years old, wasn’t popular and still isn’t 😅

dai, 1 year ago to memes in Everyone's upset a Youtube blocking adblockers, meanwhile this exists

Oh man, that’s when they activate the ad blocker blocker blocker.

dai, 1 year ago to memes in Whatever, I'll use it and abuse it.

My nexus one had an OLED display iirc, thing had huge volumes of burnin after 12 months.

I’ve not seen burnin on any of my subsequent devices, my S10+ is still going strong since 2019. Shame about the Samsung soc.

dai, 1 year ago to linux in on arch btw.

You running anything from nix-hardware on your system? I know my laptop has a flake there that installs a few applications & fixes small things like hardware buttons for the ga401: github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/…/default.nix

I’m running unstable on both machines, with nix-hardware for my laptop only.

dai, 1 year ago to linux in on arch btw.

Just don’t run X applications 😅

I’ve seen no issues on my setup, might just be luck of the draw? What hyprland build are you running? What issues are you seeing?

dai, 1 year ago to linux in on arch btw.

Works fine on my laptop (1650 hybrid) and desktop (3070 no iGPU)

Under NixOS on both machines, no xwayland.

<span style="color:#323232;">  programs.hyprland = {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    enable = true;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    enableNvidiaPatches = true;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  };
</span>

Is the basics to get it up and running under NixOS + HomeManager