I use xmonad and won’t switch until there’s a viable alternative (probably never).

shouldn’t be be required to use a cloud service in order to use a piece of hardware that you bought and paid for.

of course. I didn’t really insinuate that it should.

But surely, a 3D printer could/can. It’s just that the software that runs on it shouldn’t have shit security and there should be multiple safeguards and redundant fail-safe systems.

I have MPV setup to play any YouTube link when I press ctrl cmd m with a YouTube video url in my clipboard.

thanks so much for sharing. I’ll give it a look.

It pulls in flakes from flakes. So, unless I want to travel the whole dependency graph down all of the flakes and put them in my top-level flake, I have to use impure. 😕

rebuild_intelTower_withUpdate() { ./home/scripts/pullrelease.sh nix flake update sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake .#intelTower --impure --show-trace nix build .#homeConfigurations.bismuth-edp.activationPackage --impure --show-trace activateHM }

Fair enough.

It really isn’t that bad, though, IMO. Here’s my super-customized xmonad tiling window manager NixOS config fully realized in a github repo. Feel free to fork it if it helps tame some of the intimidation factor.

I recommend NixOS. ;)

Unless you want to run a stake pool on Cardano, you’d have to fork and modify my config.

I absolutely adore it. Today, I added a simple bash script to one of my config options that runs just before my nix flake update command that gets the sha256 hash for the latest release of the Cardano-node then writes that hash into my flake.nix file using sed. Then, when I do a flake update that little hash update (that I used to manually do) is also built in.

Glad to help! I’m merely standing on the shoulders of the giants before me.

🧌 NixOS 🧌

~ I use xmonad/polybar/rofi/dunst and you could just use my whole config and have it up and running in a day, deleting lines and adding others. ~

Fork it and modify mine to your preferences. I even made a custom typeface to add my favorite crypto logos to my Polybar.

Why the fuck is Plex even a company? Attention venture capitalists: Get your money grubbing fingers the fuck off decent technologies that should in no way be tied to profit-seeking. We live in a dystopian hellscape.

I know it’s a strange place for this conversation but the facts remain: docker images don’t do this and nix flakes actually do. As the video I linked demonstrates and you allude to, Docker files aren’t 100% hermetic (which means they’re not reproducible) while Nix flakes actually do achieve this. Watch the video I linked for more explanation which directly talks about how nix works with the goals of Docker that you mentioned in the head of your last comment. I hope my non-confrontational tone comes across somehow. This is all said with respect and in the spirit of science.

No offense but it sounds like you don’t actually understand nix flakes if you think they’re 1:1 equivalent to Docker.

They simply are not containers. They allow the declarative BUILD of any derivation at any time in the future. They hermetically lock all dependencies and build instructions which allows you to archive and reproduce the EXACT content-addressed dependency graph of the software. You can rebuild using a flake while Docker doesn’t actually allow that same hermetic reproducible guarantee whatsoever.

See here for a much better explanation of the glaring differences between the two: https://youtu.be/0uixRE8xlbY

You could even build a container with a flake though I’d recommend OCI instead because they’re an open standard…

How long until nix flakes go mainstream and fix this problem?

This! ⬆️