Mit Nix wäre das nicht passiert!
I know, that was a rhetorical question.
Did Walmart block mobile payment, and is now selling it as an advantage???
I used to use an old consumer Yoga, and now a new ThinkPad. Some say it’s the wrong way around, I say I want more than 2 cores and 8GiB of RAM. (Un-)Fortunately, I got hooked on the Nix and Tiling-WM drugs quite soon, and so there wasn’t a lot of distrohopping.
Not Linux, and of course the perfect OS.
You should try it, to get a taste of what is possible, then learn what to do, and maybe even stay. But it’s not for beginners, the terminal-phobic, or people that rarely use their PC.
It doesn’t need fiddling, but it invites you to do so. And the default setup is hardly a best practice: swap on a partition, no FDE, no zram… missing FDE in particular will require you to reinstall, and you better have found out how to do proper backups including metadata.
Technoblade never dies! Tom Scott came back, so I was right staying.
How does Mastodon‘s „Open URL“ work then? It works with the URLs I get from Lemmy, so it does support some other software…
How do I do that with the SSD cache? Everyone just talks about it, but I can’t find any documentation…
I have them at home and as such don‘t need to spend money on them.
Follow up question: Do I need a separate CPU cooler, or is the boxed Wraith enough? And how loud is it? I can’t really find info on that.
The NAS drives are here because they are from an old NAS which only uses a cheap dual-core Intel, has 2G of RAM, and boots from eMMC. So anything would be an upgrade…
I don‘t know if this is the right place to ask, but is this an OK build for a first start in selfhosting? Is there anything obvious I could improve? I‘d mainly run Nextcloud, Immich, some Docker containers and smaller web applications and cronjobs.
Nix is absolutely not just for CI, the idea is to use it locally as well, so the CI runs in the same environment.
Note that any user listed in nix.settings.trusted-users can place arbitrary directories into the Nix store, and can choose the store key.
I‘d have to rewatch the video, but he used Pop!_OS (with COSMIC) at first, and iirc he switched midway because it was so broken. Elijah used Bazzite, and Luke used CachyOS.
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nixos-unstablechannel actually does ensure a minimum set of required packages work: Those that would prevent you from booting. The compiling-from-source is because Hydra (the binary cache) only starts building once a package appears innixpkgs-unstable, and if it immediately proceeds intonixos-unstable, or one of its dependencies is different there, that build won’t be finished yet.release-and versionednixos-don’t have that problem, as they have a merge freeze, and are mostly fast-forwarded along unstable.What would be good is a mechanism for Hydra to tell you “I tried to build this derivation, and it failed.” For this, Nix first needs to store build failure, and since store paths are input-addressed by default, you can also skip builds that will certainly still fail.