FrederikNJS
@FrederikNJS@lemm.ee
- Comment on What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia? 1 week ago:
Mittens take away too much dexterity for many things. But a 3-finger glove is the perfect compromise: snowsportprofessionals.com/…/8272aca90cb09ec2c85e…
- Comment on Windows 7 and 8 now dead for gaming, as new Steam update pulls support 1 week ago:
If you want to migrate to Linux, I would strongly suggest you set up a dual boot, and start playing with it to gain experience. Being able to switch back to something you know is a massive benefit when you are still learning.
While Linux has come a very long way, you are sure to experience some hitches along the way. If not because of Linux itself, then because you are not familiar with how to do “that one thing” on Linux.
- Comment on Is this what every election is like? 1 week ago:
Since all of these politicians are at the same time ensuring that they are above the law, I don’t think you can count on getting them arrested.
- Comment on Anon lives dangerously 3 weeks ago:
Many accounts can go in the red
- Comment on I'm just gonna stick to slotted, thanks 4 months ago:
You mean Pozidriv?
- Comment on First using NixOS. It's awesome. 4 months ago:
The whole point of NixOS is that it’s “immutable” and “declarative”.
In essence this means that you store the entire system configuration in a bunch of text files. So your bootloader configuration, all your installed packages, every system service, every filesystem mounts, and even your partition layout and dotfiles, all of it in a common shared configuration.
There’s even a concept called flakes, which lock the specific version of everything, so if you copy all your config to another computer (or reinstall), then applying the config will restore every system configuration to exactly that state. So if you like how you configured your machine, and want another machine exactly like it, you just copy all your configuration to the other machine, and run the nixos-rebuild command. Now the two machines are configured exactly identically, all the same package, all the same services, all the same configurations, even all the same versions if you make use of flakes.
If also means that you can reason about your entire system setup just by looking at those configs. Is that piece of config in the files? Then that’s how your system is configured. If that piece of config isn’t there, then that is not how your system is configured.
Want to install an application, just add it to the list in your config, and run the nixos-rebuild command. Now you have that installed. Don’t want it anymore? Just remove it from the list, and rerun nixos-rebuild.
On top of that NixOS stores every generation of your config, so even if you break something, you just restart and pick the previous config generation, and your system starts up exactly as it was before you broke it, and you can go and resolve the issue in the config that broke your system.
If you’ve ever done any programming, and made use of a dependency management tool that stores a dependency lock file, this is very similar, but for your entire operating system.
If you’ve ever managed infrastructure via Terraform, then this feels like that, but for your entire system configuration.
- Comment on Anon helps with his gf's vaping addiction 5 months ago:
Why?
Let’s say the original bottle contained 100ml of liquid at a concentration of 50%. You want to want to bring the final concentration down to 1%. You take a new bottle with 98ml of “dilution formula” (probably water) and add 2 ml of the original concentration to it. You now have a liquid with 1% concentration.
- Comment on ... tadaaa 7 months ago:
Are you familiar with the concept of a caffé latte?
- Comment on Thank the EU there’s a prominent “Reject” button nowadays 10 months ago:
Damn… That is very disappointing.
- Comment on Billy Mitchell has surrendered 10 months ago:
According to Karl, Billy must pay all the legal fees if he withdraws from the lawsuit. He must also pay the legal fees if he loses. Billy’s only way out of paying would be to win the lawsuit.
So the longer Karl strings him along, the more the fees will mount.
And since Billy doesn’t have a leg to stand on he can either withdraw now, pay a lot of money, and admit he lied. Or he can keep fighting mounting more fees in the slim nope of winning.
- Comment on Thank the EU there’s a prominent “Reject” button nowadays 10 months ago:
Wow… How did they argue that consent was still “freely given”? And also that it is “as easy” to give as it is to withdraw consent?
- Comment on Thank the EU there’s a prominent “Reject” button nowadays 10 months ago:
Yeah, lots of pages are trying to pull that stunt, which isn’t legal according to the GDPR. Facebook and many news outlets are trying it too.
I filed a complaint about Facebook with my local data protection agency, which agreed and forwarded the case to Ireland. Well see whether Ireland conforms to the GDPR.
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 10 months ago:
I use Colemak, so I kinda welcome the on-screen keyboard, as the layouts can be switched.
- Comment on The Fediverse should do what redditors have always wanted and Reddit Inc. has always refused to do; Distinguish between NSFW and NSFL. 1 year ago:
Yes, a renaissance artwork that contains naked women, actual hardcore porn, and a Russian soldier being blown to pieces in Ukraine, should not occupy the same “NSFW” tag…
Of course there’s going to be grey area stuff, but 3 buckets like this is much much better than a single “everything people might not want to see” bucket.
- Comment on The Fediverse should do what redditors have always wanted and Reddit Inc. has always refused to do; Distinguish between NSFW and NSFL. 1 year ago:
There’s plenty of combat footage in the various combat footage and Ukraine related communities.
- Comment on Rate this battlestation set up in the backroom of my house 1 year ago:
Perfect for a room scale VR setup
