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refreeze , 10 days ago

As of the latest release (21), you can simply install microG on regular LOS and no longer need to install LineageOS for microG since it now includes the necessary signature spoofing support.

refreeze , 13 days ago

If you don’t need the GPIO then buy a small form factor office PC like a Dell Optiplex Micro or a Lenovo/HP equivalent. They cost about the same on the used market, are more performant without the ARM headache and use only marginally more power (maybe 5-10w more at idle).

refreeze , 16 days ago

Invidious?

refreeze , 20 days ago

Ubuntu -> Arch -> Debian (stable) -> Fedora Silverblue -> NixOS

refreeze , 1 month ago

btrfs snapshots are still useful on immutable distros to recover accidentally deleted data.

refreeze , 1 month ago

I’m curious, why do you use LVM with BTRFS and not just use BTRFS built in subvolumes?

refreeze , 1 month ago

You will hate Ansible if you are coming from Nix. I went the other way and Nix is 1000x cleaner.

Being able to actually reverse changes is trivial in Nix, but can be a headache in Ansible. Not to mention the advantages of writing in an actual language and not yaml full of template hacks. I personally don’t see much future for tools like Ansible, there is considerable inertia working in its favor right now and it is absolutely true that it is widely used, but the future of configuration management is for sure more aligned with how Nix works.

refreeze , 1 month ago

Similar to my scheme:

laptop = “laptop”
nas = “nas”
router = “router”

Then if there are more than one in each category I use nas-0, nas-1, etc.

refreeze , 1 month ago

Wow, to each their own I guess… Is this satire?

refreeze , 2 months ago

I have used all three! I started with Server then went to CoreOS running Kubernetes and settled on NixOS which I have been very happy with for about a year now. I run about 25-30 services all using built in modules.

Regarding security, if you are using well crafted modules on NixOS, there should be good systemd hardening in place. That being said there is no reason you can’t just use containers on NixOS.

I also find deploying NixOS far superior to butane/ignition used by CoreOS/Fedora. I use nixos-anywhere and can deploy my entire server in a few minutes without manual intervention.

refreeze , 2 months ago

I have been reading about this since the news broke and still can’t fully wrap my head around how it works. What an impressive level of sophistication.

refreeze , 2 months ago

HP = Has Problems

refreeze , 3 months ago

What a great looking release. I’m most excited that we finally have proper caldav/carddav support built in!

refreeze , 3 months ago

It’s a real shame that Nautilus doesn’t have a built in split view, I always love that when I try Dolphin.

refreeze , 3 months ago

I use it over Tailscale only and it works perfectly as an alternative.

refreeze , 3 months ago

I think it is a combination of the required precision, liquid ink vs solid filament and the difficulty of handing paper vs simply moving a print bed on a 3d printer.

refreeze , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Probably using ddcutil. There is a popular gnome extension for the same thing: …gnome.org/…/brightness-control-using-ddcutil

refreeze , 4 months ago

Great album!

refreeze , 4 months ago

I also settled on NixOS after Ubuntu -> Arch -> Debian -> Fedora -> Silverblue -> NixOS. Couldn’t be happier and no plans to leave.

refreeze , 4 months ago

Prometheus and Altertmanager

refreeze , 4 months ago

Its referencing how much she uses her private jet.

refreeze , 4 months ago

Time to fork it.

refreeze , 4 months ago

Meanwhile I get support for both completely ad free with infinite selection on my Jellyfin server… What on earth are these companies thinking, you literally get a superior product by not paying for it. I would gladly pay a small fee per download of DRM free files if that were an option.

refreeze , 4 months ago

Agreed. I used to use Silverblue and it was very stable but did not solve all the problems that Nix addresses. Once you experience the first reinstall with NixOS you will wonder why we did things any other way. It’s amazing to just run one command and have things set up exactly how you like.

refreeze , 4 months ago

You might be interested in setting up network bound encryption via Clevis and Tang. I use a hidden pi zero in my house acting as a Tang server. It’s great being able to reboot any of my encrypted servers without having to manually unlock disks.

refreeze , 4 months ago

I’m using the recently merged Clevis module for NixOS. There was a recent talk at FOSDEM about it.

refreeze , 4 months ago

Framework. I’ve run Debian, Fedora and for a while now NixOS, all of which have worked flawlessly.

I did have to replace the heatsink/fan part on mine because the fan bearing started clicking, but I’m sure that was just a first generation product issue (I was one of the first batches). I was glad to be able to do the replacement myself at relatively low cost and the process couldn’t have been easier (took about 30 minutes).

My previous machine was a 2013-ish ThinkPad X series and the Framework absolutely blows it out of the water. I’m looking forward to upgrading mine to a Ryzen motherboard sometime in the not so distant future.

refreeze , 4 months ago

Grand Theft Auto.

All of them, but especially V. I have tried a few times to play them but never get more than a few missions in before losing interest in the story. I think I have to like or identify with a protagonist to enjoy a game, and most GTA characters are pretty unlikable.

refreeze , 5 months ago

Great take, I wish more would see the music industry like this as well.

I used to pay for Spotify premium then realized that I hardly added more than a handful of new things to my “library” each month. I switched to budgeting the same monthly funds towards building a local library from direct purchases and bandcamp.

It really depends on your level of consumption of new content whether a subscription service makes sense.

refreeze , 5 months ago

Self hosted invidious is really underrated, it even works with the Sponsorblock plugin.

refreeze , 5 months ago

Every hour via Restic to a local Mino instance on my NAS. Once a day to backblaze B2. Once a week to an offline HDD in my fire safe.

Keep in mind the more often you backup the less total time each backup should take to run. If your backup software isn’t too heavy to run and stores backups incrementally, there is little penalty to frequent backups.

refreeze , 6 months ago

I like memos.

refreeze , 6 months ago

I’m a Miniflux user as well but prefer the Flux News app: github.com/KevinCFechtel/FluxNews

refreeze , 6 months ago

I used to, but recent budget wireless (Earfun, Soundcore, et al.) are getting good enough to compete with wired for me. Having things like multipoint pairing which is obviously not possible with wired is hard to go back from once you get used to it.

refreeze , 6 months ago

Also consider Nix/NixOS, I have used Docker, Kubernetes, LXC and prefer Nix the most. Especially for home use not requiring any scaling.

refreeze , 6 months ago

Continued increase in Nix adoption. It seems like 2023 saw a real shift in favour of immutable solutions in general and Nix in particular.