GrapheneOSRuinedMyPixel

@GrapheneOSRuinedMyPixel@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was using a mix of debian servers, arch thinkpads and macos macbooks at the point where I moved everything to NixOS (macbooks did not survive this transition and were donated due to never working properly because of t2 issues).

  Nix is extremely hard. I mean, don’t get me wrong, initial setup is easy, adding and updating packages is the easiest experience between all package managers out there, nixpkgs is overpowered as it has almost all the software that exists since there are no conflicting dependencies in nix. Getting something that is not in nixpkgs to run is impossible for a beginner (nixpkgs has steam-run to partially solve this, but results may vary). Getting to the point where a tornado may pass through your home and destroy all the hardware inside, and the whole recovery process from that point is about 20 minutes of your time, including the trip to the store for new hardware, requires significant effort, both time and mental, that most of us don’t have. But the entire point is that it is possible with Nix!

  If Debian is like owning a 90s Corolla, NixOS is like owning a factory that can make any car you like. You can choose to get a 90s Corolla, you can choose to get a newer Corolla, you can skip corollas entirely and make something new and fast. When the new and fast thing breaks, you can make a new car or go back to the Corolla. The Corolla comes completely ready to use by you from the production line. If you need to adjust the mirrors, you just make a new car with the correct mirrors setup. All the cars you make after that will come with the mirrors setup how you like them, because that is now a part of the manufacturing instructions the factory has.

  The only caveat is that factory gets updates every 6 months and then your car building pipeline may break when you get the update. In three years I’ve been using nixos fixing those took about 5 minutes and usually boiled down to stuff like ‘previously we had a list of car colors, passed as a string, now the factory expects to get a hex color code’.

  Judging by the commit history, I moved most of my machines to NixOS after about 6 months building my config, then, 8 months later I rebuilt the entire thing from scratch when I understood nix enough to make everything truly modular.

  I really doubt that once you’ve embraced NixOS you’d be tempted to use anything else or try LFS. NixOS is beautiful. NixOS just works (after 6 months of setup).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lightbulbs⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Please share your experience when you get to it! I try to avoid iot stuff though and thought of something simpler like dimmable lights that get warmer when dimmed - like the Ikea ones, but with 2700k as the highest point it does not really work.

  I thought that maybe the ideal solution would be to wire DC lightning with relays controlling groups of different temperature LEDs. Maybe glueing LED strips to the ceiling and a translucent film under them to diffuse it a bit? I feel like ordering a giant bin of random LEDs should lead to the best possible CRI.

  Also each of the 8 bulbs I ordered had Ra>95 written on the box and they just lie because I can instantly tell that the light is wrong. Bad CRI is so prevalent that friends come to my house and think my lights are incandescent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lightbulbs⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, we only turn the lights on after the sun’s color temperature matches our 2700K lights. During the cloudy winter days we spend the entire day in darkness to avoid mismatched temperature.

  Sometimes I really want to get adjustable LEDs for winter, but it is hard enough to find warm ones with a high enough CRI. I once ordered and returned about 8 different bulbs which had price points from €2 to €100, before going to Ikea and buying bulbs there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  steam deck as bluetooth controller:

  You can use the Steam Deck as a Bluetooth controller by enabling Bluetooth in the settings and pairing it with your PC or other devices. This allows you to utilize its controls for gaming on compatible platforms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon buys a car⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  installing and setting up every month is a bit of a pain

  Repent of your sins and turn away from imperative ways, for the Kingdom of Reproducibility is at hand. Convert your heart to NixOS and accept Its grace; this is not a suggestion, but a command for your eternal soul.