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traches

@ traches @sh.itjust.works

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  • Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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  • I have a desktop, laptop, and a few VMs and servery things. Dotfile manager (yadm, which is a git wrapper) to sync personal settings, everything else I just do manually. The system-level configs are either different enough that standardizing them isn’t very helpful, or no more complicated than installing packages and activating services.

  • Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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  • I like the idea of nixos, but I feel like it makes a bunch of daily sacrifices in order to optimize a task I do once every few years? I hardly ever get a new computer, but I install/uninstall/update/tweak packages on my system all the time. With a dotfile manager and snapshots, I get most of the benefit without any of the drawbacks.

  • Alright fine I admit it, I want to learn Linux

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  • The desktop environment is all the stuff like the taskbar, the settings menus, the application launcher, the login screen, that kind of thing. It’s the system level user interface.

    You choose which one by which distro you download. Linux mint uses cinnamon, Ubuntu and fedora use gnome. There are “flavors” of Ubuntu and fedora that use KDE. That’s why I suggested ventoy: you can download a few different ones and boot into them without making a new thumb drive.

    If you don’t feel like bothering with any of that, just use Linux mint. It’s good.

  • Alright fine I admit it, I want to learn Linux

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    • before you switch, sort out your apps. Look at what you use on windows, see if it runs on Linux. If not, find a replacement that does and test it out.
    • Most Linux distros can boot into a desktop from a thumb drive. You can play and test without touching your windows installation.
    • in that vein, ventoy is neat. You can make a bootable drive and drop ISOs in a folder to boot from. No messing with etcher or whatever it’s called
    • desktop environment matters as much as the distro. Check out gnome, KDE, and cinnamon.

  • Desktop PTSD

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  • It’s true, I’m completely broken. I can’t even use a stacking window manager on Linux, I’m instantly pissed off

  • You're asked to vote for the food and drink that best fits the region you live in... What would you vote for?

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  • Obviously pierogi and vodka

  • What's something you immediately judge a person for when you see them wearing or have?

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  • they work in private spaces too

  • What are your favorite games that you never see mentioned anywhere?

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  • Nine parchments! Take Diablo, strip out the loot system and plot, add friendly fire and some colors, and you have 9p. It’s not a perfect game but it’s super fun to play with a few friends

  • That's a work of art

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  • Yeah I tried that but my wife loves the wooden spatulas and cutting boards too much

  • That's a work of art

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  • Sure, but not everything goes in the dishwasher

  • That's a work of art

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  • The waiting time is not the issue

  • That's a work of art

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  • You think my ADHD ass is ever unloading a drying rack? The dishes would just live there and I’d always be cramming new ones into it.

    If only we had some technology that could dry a dish immediately and didn’t take up tons of space or grow mold… like some kind of flexible, absorbent material that sucks up the water? We should have NASA work on it

  • That's a work of art

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  • Try non scented detergent?

  • You're old, but are you excited-to-buy-a-new-rug old?

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  • I’m “everything is too loud” old

  • Is Trump the antichrist? — and other hard questions Christians should be asking

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  • So if we banned religion and then bragged about how all the greatest people of our time are atheists, you’d be ok with that so long as a few people keep their faith anyway?

  • Is Trump the antichrist? — and other hard questions Christians should be asking

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  • Blasphemy was a crime in England during Newton’s time. He was literally forbidden from asking questions.

  • Is Trump the antichrist? — and other hard questions Christians should be asking

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  • it’s not pretending

  • My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes

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  • Yeah, when someone is interested in switching I always advise them to sort out their apps first. Many Linux applications also run on windows, the reverse is rarely true.

  • 03 June 1988

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  • Ahh, good old authoritarian boomer parenting.

    Edit because downvotes: I was being sarcastic, Calvin’s mom in this comic is demonstrating bad parenting. Don’t do this to your kids.