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Plutus, Haskell, Nix, Purescript, Swift/Kotlin. laser-focused on FP: formality, purity, and totality; repulsed by pragmatic, unsafe, “move fast and break things” approaches

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Looks like they have no idea how to get their software working using Nix. The following blurb is absurd to most GUIX or Nix users:

NOTE: In most cases, end users should never compile fwupd from scratch; it’s a complicated project with dozens of dependencies (and as many configuration options) and there’s just too many things that can go wrong.

Users should just have fwupd installed and updated by their distro, managed and tested by the package maintainer. The distribution will have also done some testing with how fwupd interacts with other software on your system, for instance using GNOME Software.

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I’m not pointing to a problem per se. I’m just saying that this dev dismissed the act of building this from scratch as impossible when it is not actually impossible. Honestly, I’m just trying to spread the word about Nix and GUIX because they make things that were previously considered impossible (like this) possible.

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Interestingly enough, someone actually did release two nix derivations for this software!

search.nixos.org/packages?channel=23.05&show=…

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Good mods don’t ban people for swearing.

demesisx,
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Agreed!

demesisx,
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Agreed. I mean, there’s nuance at play here.

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This is why: youtu.be/OZ28knLt5Rs?si=SddCmwZnETY3n_1R

Edit: I see I’m not the first person to post this video.

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What are these new things you write about? The studios haven’t greenlighted a “new thing” in 20 years.

Distro for experienced Linux user

Hi, I’m looking for a distro for my laptop. My first distro was Pop!_OS, then I switched to Fedora, then Arch for a year and 2 months ago I switched to Fedora Silverblue, because I wanted to try immutable distro that relies on containers and flatpaks to be usefull. Silverblue is great but not so much for me, its not flexible...

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Since I’m the NixOS guy, I recommend GUIX. 😉

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If NixOS isn’t ready for mainstream work, GUIX is at least doubley so. It is SUPER white beard while IMO, even an idiot (👋🏼) can grasp NixOS.

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From what I hear, it’s a much newer and less popular project, so I expect it to be even more difficult than nix was for me.

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If you want, here’s my config. Feel free to fork it.

github.com/harryprayiv/nix-config (you’ll have the most luck with the “plutus_vm” machine config output in my flake at first since the main output in my config is somewhat obscured by encryption).

I also have a Nix-Darwin config that I haven’t consolidated into my main one:

github.com/harryprayiv/nix-darwin-config

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No problem. Real thanks goes to gvolpe who I forked my config from.

demesisx,
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This is how we used to do it before we had NixOS with impermanence mode. nixos.wiki/wiki/Impermanence

demesisx,
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Xmonad!!! (And in 25 years, Waymonad!)

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Additional pro-tip: you can just launch mpv from the terminal using the YouTube url and it will open a new player.

How to organize images with custom tags?

Hello! I have a bunch of photos all mixed together, and I’d like to sort them out in order to better find the ones I’m searching for without loosing half an hour. I was thinking of adding custom tags to each image (manually), like “my dog”, “trip to Paris”, “my friend X” etc. I’d like this tag system to be...

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I recommend embedding something like a checksum in the filenames to prevent duplicates.

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