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NixOS, you need to learn a programming language just to administer your system

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NixOS

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NixOS is not based on any other distro because it has its own package manager which is better than all the other distros’

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The whole system is built using it, so every time your system will be the same when building from the same configuration. Even if you such to another computer, you will download locked versions of all packages and get the exact same system

In Ubuntu installing and removing a package doesn’t even guarantee it’s cleaned up

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EOS is a cryptocurrency, OCS is the office of community service

You’re welcome

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Can you set up a Google voice number for this purpose?

Google voice also requires a number, but I was able to buy one of those shady sim cards to make a Google voice number. The shady sim card stopped working when I used it with a VPN, but I already signed up for some stuff with it that blocks Google voice like ChatGPT

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That’s including showing the ads. The data itself isn’t worth that much unless people are viewing them.

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Then I don’t believe it, Google makes about 200B in advertising revenue a year, serving about a quarter of the internet ads.

Advertising online is not even a trillion dollar market, how can just the data be bigger? Maybe if you count it being sold resold ten times

iopq,

It’s not like that on NixOS

There’s no adding repos, you just put mullvad-vpn in your system packages list

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Everyone thinks it’s great, but they actually run NixOS in the meanwhile

iopq,

It’s actually easier this way because you keep everything in one place.

I edited some file on Ubuntu to merge my audio channels into one because one of my speakers broke. Do you think I know what change I made to what file now? When I update, do you think I can merge my changes with the new file and make everything work? Of course not, I am several years into forgetting what I did

But configuration.nix is one file, I usually get a deprecation notice for some stuff and just change a line here and there from time to time. All of my changes are in there and they are in git. When I switched to flakes I also added flake.nix in there, but it’s still just two files in one folder I play around with. Not only that, but the maintainers already gave me the options I need for my services. I don’t have to follow some guide online to set something up, I just enable it and it works immediately.

For example, enabling iwd is:


<span style="color:#323232;">networking.wireless.iwd.enable = true;
</span>

I just did that and it worked. I commented it out and it went back to whatever the default package is. Is this as easy to toggle back and forth in other distros?

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It’s insecure, which lets governments like China poison it. They straight up block encrypted DNS

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DoH is blocked in China, they cut any TLS connection to a known DNS server (1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, 9.9.9.9, etc.)

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I’ve switched to Wayland on my Nvidia GPU and I’m taking the FPS hit. OBS crashes when I run a wine game on x11

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Two monitors with different refresh rates is very common. Think laptop connected to a bigger monitor.

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Reddit communities are name squatting things like /r/libertarian

But then they censor other libertarians for disagreeing. How libertarian of them

Is Ubuntu deserving the hate? (lemmy.ml)

Long story short, I have a desktop with Fedora, lovely, fast, sleek and surprisingly reliable for a near rolling distro (it failed me only once back around Fedora 34 or something where it nuked Grub). Tried to install on a 2012 i7 MacBook Air… what a slog!!! Surprisingly Ubuntu runs very smooth on it. I have been bothering all...

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Flatpak is good because I don’t need to check whether the program is available for my distro.

Before: click Linux icon. They offer a .deb and maybe .rpm

Now: click Linux icon, they tell you how to get it on flathub

And it’s probably available on my distro too, but why bother? Didn’t even search it

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Then you don’t use it, THAT is the beauty of Linux

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I suggest an Ubuntu fork workout snaps, they are a headache to remove now

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I’m not putting my data up some random server run by some dev

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That’s my public posts, not my private data.

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You used something called disk destroyer, and you just found out why

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I’ve come to the conclusion that even gnome has too many features for me. It would be fine if they were all perfect, but it’s software, so…

Off the top of my head:

  • Language doesn’t switch fast enough when I use ibus to type Chinese. The fact that I need to concern myself with my input method because choosing Chinese actually only types in Latin characters by default is lol
  • Can’t use the file manager to mess with files or folders owned by root. Text editor similarly sucks, I actually sudo gedit because it just works. It is a Gnome issue because vscodium just asks me to put in my password to save the file.
  • When I alt tab or super key out of a wine game, going back into it will have the alt key pressed down (not sure which key combination, but it’s an issue)

Query about your linux daily drivers?

So i have my main system, i have been running NixOS on for over a year. It has been a pleasure to daily drive. And ive recently been playing with gentoo and funtoo. And althought alot of information, which is somewhat overwhelming but is slowly growing on me and making me appreatate linux as a whole. So i was wondring what other...

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I got a Framework 16 ordered with no GPU. It’s pricy, but it is the only laptop that has an upgradable GPU. I’m looking forward to a 7900S mobile GPU upgrade wherever that drops.

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