Yeah, you understood my comment entirely the wrong way around. When I say “dotfiles”, I mean the non-Nix way of managing application configurations. Nix Home-Manager happens to write to these dotfiles, but that means I don’t have to deal with the dotfiles myself.

I can buy jars of pre-cooked white beans here, which I’ve been putting into all sorts of dishes, from salads to curries to tomato sauce. They’re almost like tofu, in that they fit into everything, but I like their taste somewhat better than (unfried) tofu.

I feel like setting up a new machine is just the easiest to explain.

Personally, I find dotfiles messy, as you often just want to change one or two settings, but you always carry along the whole file with all kinds of irrelevant other settings. This also makes it impractical to diff two versions of those dotfiles, especially when programs write semi-permanent settings into there.

I guess, your mileage will vary depending on what programs or desktop environment you use.
For example, I love KDE, but they really don’t do a good job keeping the config files clean. Nix Plasma-Manager generally fixes that, and for example allows defining the contents of the panel in a readable form.

Personally, the stepping stone I needed to know about is Nix Home-Manager, which basically allows you to manage your dotfiles independent of the distro. From what I understand, if I do switch to NixOS, I’ll continue using this code with just some minor tweaks.

But yeah, I agree with the verdict in the post. I like it a lot, but I would not have made it past the initial learning curve, if I didn’t happen to be a software engineer. Sysadmins will probably be able to figure out how to put it to use, too. But it’s just not for non-technical Linux users.

Versteh’s insbesondere nicht, wenn’s dann Plastikverpackungen sind. Einige Produkte kaufe ich nicht oder nur selten, weil es mir zu viel Plastikmüll ist. Was bestimmt keine seltene Einstellung unter Veganer*innen ist…

Mir persönlich geht’s oft so, dass die Kerntemperatur meines Körpers einfach irgendwann zu niedrig ist, insbesondere wenn ich nur rumgammele und mein Kreislauf nicht in Schwung kommt. Also an den Extremitäten ist es zu heiß, aber wie deine Quelle auch anschneidet, die niedrige Kerntemperatur “will tend to suppress sweating as well”. Und Schweiß wäre eben insbesondere gut darin, die Extremitäten runterzukühlen. Daher hilft ein warmes Getränk dann oft dieses Temperaturgefälle wieder umzukehren.

After seeing how excited some folks got during COVID, that’s genuinely somewhat of a worry for me. Kind of like how lonely, young men can be sold on the idea of war, because they think they’ll finally be adored as a hero, you can just as well find preppers who think they’ll finally be adored, because they bought toilet paper before everyone else could.

In the case of COVID, it was thankfully a disappointment for the preppers, in that the best survival strategy was staying in your cushty home. That will be the case for the vast majority of infectious diseases. But I still bet someone out there had the intrusive thought that maybe they shouldn’t help reduce the spread of COVID, because you won’t be deemed a hero without a real crisis…

Proper ants only have 6 legs, though. But yeah, these spiders-turned-to-ants would have 8 legs.

Well, and crabs technically have 10 legs, with their foremost pair typically equipped with pincers. 🙃

and no longer require a forced restart after applying an update via a package manager.

To be honest, that’s the bigger Linux news…

Soll ja kein Auftrag an den Innenminister sein, aber es ist ein baldiger Auftrag an die CDU als Koalitionspartner hier Gespräche zu führen.

Mice can often find ways you wouldn’t believe, but they still have to adhere to the laws of physics, so you might simply not have suitable holes in your apartment for them to enter. But yeah, also quite possible that they can smell the cat and don’t want to enter the lion’s den.

It looks like a guitar pick to me. 🙃

Yeah, sometimes I wonder if they do these bad names for the free publicity of people complaining about them. But then there’s plenty examples where the name isn’t just clunky, but rather actively confusing for potential users…

His job is to spread lies and fear, so no reason for him to say something different, if he would know reality…

She wrote “a drum”, so we might be talking less than ten quid… 😅

I don’t think, it’s open-source…

This does not look to be open-source. The webpage lists open-source licenses for the libraries used by this app, but there’s no open-source license for the app itself.
And while there’s a GitHub repo, it’s empty. It seems to be used just for hosting the APK files.

An open-source app with decent editing capabilities is Fossify Gallery: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fossify.gallery/

Peter Lustig. He hosted a popular kid’s TV show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lustig

Incidentally, he was also married for some time to the author of the bottom left and middle.

OpenOffice has seen essentially no development since 2011, when the trademark got transferred to Oracle after they bought Sun Microsystems.

The project got forked into LibreOffice to dodge the trademark issue, but it’s the same devs, practically the same project, but now under a non-profit organization. Well, and with 14 more years of development.

So, use LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice. It will most likely come pre-installed on whichever Linux distro you go with. But you can also try it out on Windows beforehand, if you have concerns.

On KDE, I’d recommend getting a KWin Script for tiling. Krohnkite is what people use currently.

It’s not as buttery smooth as dedicated tiling window managers and it can be a bit glitchy at times, but it is better than one might expect and significantly easier (and likely less glitchy) than trying to get bspwm to work in Plasma.