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Did, past tense. I'm no longer using it.

Whenever you load my blog, it randomly sends back a name from my configuration's clackset: https://github.com/Xe/site/blob/ff8627975e5f6718fff33051d11a.... I hate that the list is so long but over time it will only grow longer.

Damn. I was not aware that Kevin Mitnick has passed away.

Thank you for putting Matt trout there.

About half the reason I used windows so much is for vtubing software. It barely works on windows, getting it working on Linux used to be a process fraught with agony and torment.

I had to set up a machine owner key in my motherboard's UEFI to get my 4080 working, but it's fine enough. I haven't had any issues with nvidia drivers since.

I would go on full macOS, but I can't afford a Mac Studio at the right specs for what I need right now.

Those 3324 guests are all AI scrapers sadly.

Fwiw, replacing that is in my TODO list, but my TODO list is long.

Entirely reasonable if you ask me!

Have been for a while, had Windows for games, but now Fedora runs them well enough I don't have to care.

I thought you used NixOS? Is it just your gaming system that's Fedora? Do you still use Nix?

For what it's worth: I no longer suggest the use of NixOS for any purpose. I only have one NixOS system in my house because it's my NAS and I am a coward.

What do you use and/or suggest?

Not the guy you're replying to but Home manager:

https://rasmuskirk.com/articles/2024-07-24_dont-use-nixos/


There's one sentence in there I wanted to call out:

> Everything had to be done the “Nix Way”

Funny thing, what eventually drew me into using NixOS was a comment on some random forum (long since lost the reference) from what appeared to be an experienced NixOS veteran that said pretty much the opposite: that NixOS is as pure or impure as you want it to be. Want purely declarative everything? Do everything with Nix expressions, be it classic derivations or flakes. Want stateful package management? Install stuff to your profile. Or even install devbox and run homebrew in it. I've come to see the benefits in doing things "the Nix Way", but it's pragmatic enough that you're not entirely locked in. You just can't make any assumptions about what PATH looks like.

So while the rest of my system is defined as a flake, the one thing I haven't fully embraced on NixOS is home-manager, and I've only just started adopting that in a piecewise fashion. Meanwhile I'm defining a flake per project on my mac to replace all the other version-manager thingies I'd been using, but I still find nix-darwin a step too far.


A lot of scripts and binaries don't work properly if not installed through Nix. This can really affect your workflow if you depend on random niche software not packaged by Nix.

When I started my first job I couldn't build their TypeScript project because it depended on GRPC on NPM. That NPM package is literally just a binary...

This isn't really the fault of NixOS, but it's wildly impractical as long as the world is stuck where it is. I've recently considered going back into NixOS and spinning up Podman Ubuntu containers for stateful dev environments (with my home-manager programs included, of course). It's sort of the reverse approach, instead of Nix being a second-class citizen on Ubuntu, I want Ubuntu to be a second-class Citizen on Nix.


Yah I suppose I should have said "you just can't make any assumptions about the filesystem layout" instead. You can always assume shells have a symlink in /bin, and there's another for /usr/bin/env, and that's about it. Programs that assume the system follows the FHS tend to break on other distributions too, but certainly will on Nix. That's where we end up using containers and VMs, or whatever smoke and mirrors act NixOS does for Steam.

I'd rather read something in "bad English" than laundered through generative artificial intelligence tools.

Highly doubt this. Have you read a translated book? Are you looking for literal translations or a translation from someone who's an expert in both languages and makes subjective adjustments based on their experience?

No, I agree with the other commenter. I'd rather read broken English than the fake tone AI injects on everything (and the suspicion of fabrications, too).

In my new domain, photography, the most common "advice" for beginners is to learn the exposure triangle, shoot manual and get everything done in camera. This kind of advice comes from beginners, quite close to take a fall from the Dunning-Kruger scale. I'm working towards a distinction from one of the most respected photography organizations in the world and nobody involved with it that gave me guidance ever asked how I took the images.

Maybe or, most likely this is the same for writing: there are people that think correct grammar and punctuation and no help on achieving this, means writing.


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