Yep, exactly.
To be fair, if you use Debian, Arch, Fedora,… long enough, you also know how to tweak your machine for every purpose. In Nix, it’s just somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophecy, because you have to know how to tweak your system to achieve… anything, and then it’s the same tweaking mechanics for every other purpose as well.
My Steam Deck also runs NixOS.
Because this way I can much more comfortably configure it, plus everything game related I automated through nix for my Desktop (e.g. mod installs, reShade config,…) immediately and without any extra steps also applies to the Steam Deck.
Yes. Everything is NixOS. Because it’s perfect for everything.
Not to dimish your work at all, but: the Sonarr upgrades absolutely do work.
Ah, too bad. IMO better clients would make it drastically easier to convince people to switch.
Hm, I can create groups (also with muc), and the other members are added, but writing a message triggers “x left the group” for everyone. Dunno. Probably something trivial I overlooked. But honestly… Weather is too good today to be bothered 😄
Ah, I already had a TURN/STUN coturn server set up for matrix and jitsi, so it was just a matter of telling prosody about that. So I cheated a little I guess 😄 Here is my full config for that, in the unlikely event that you’re using NixOS.
Very cool!
Re: the backup / restore of state in NixOS: I found myself writing the same things over and over again for each VM/service, so finally wrote this wrapper module (in action e.g. here for Jellyfin), which confgures both the backup services and timers, as well as adding a simple rsync-restore-jellyfin command to the system packages. In case you find this useful and don’t already have your own abstractions, or a sufficiently different use case 😄
Nice, same! Was also really positively surprised by how great the Android app(s) for XMPP feel.
Only thing not working yet for me is group chat creation. Oh well. Maybe this weekend.
On the other hand though, voice and video calls have worked flawlessly.
Awesome! And good job, looks great!
Why are there no screenshots in the README.
Yes I know I can just install the app, but for an app that primarily seems to define itself by its UI improvements over the established competitor, the screenshots are the deciding factor in the question “Should I download and install this?”, and no screenshots defaults to “no”.
Real travel videos for niche places are so annoying to find now.
I’ve really been enjoying https://youtube.com/@ririregine
I mean, how can we feel superior if we are not wasting huge amounts of time setting things up!?
Why, by boasting that it’s so easy, just look at that, it is only two options you need to set thanks to the 80 custom modules I’ve written to abstract the abstractions from nixpkgs!
I WISH I could put an /s here, but I cannot.
Ehm… I’m also on Nixos and I’d say it’s super trivial.
services.openssh = {
enable = true;
settings = {
PasswordAuthentication = false;
PermitRootLogin = "no";
};
};
users.users.<name>.openssh.authorizedKeys.keys = [ list of pubkeys ideally read from file in repo ];
Eh, the machine is actually in one of my wireguard nets anyways, but for different purposes.
The nice thing about SSH key-based access is, I either have the key and login succeeds, or I have no business trying to log in.
That’s why my remote root server bans via fail2ban after a single failed login.
Yes I’ve had to write support to get a KVM. Yes it’s still configured like this.
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More scary than that is that the technologies are starting to keep up or exceed their expectations.
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The argument conflates privacy with secrecy. What we want is not to be allowed to “scheme nefariously in secret” but to enjoy ourselves without being watched, in private.
Also: just knowing that you could be watched does change your behavior, even if you have absolutely nothing to hide.
LLMs will never be conscious.
Past me had a dick
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
I mean… Depends on your threat model. Hetzner is a very reputable German hoster. The only way someone is going to try and read and puzzle together memory dumps is if you’re under investigation for something seriously heinous.
Shutting the VPS down also solves this.
But really, this is a general problem with every “someone else’s computer” solution.
E2EE still nice though, wish Immich had it.
It’s a very steep curve to start, with some additional minor steep parts along the way, but it’s not a long curve. Once you got the core concepts and the basic language constructs, you’ve learned most of what you’ll ever need.
Two nice resources: search.nixos.org is super handy, and you can search GitHub with language:nix and a search term to get tons of examples from other people.
Oh, and nix and just is actually a pretty common combo!