All the good stuff available and you choose a POSIX shell? To each their own I guess.

Granted, I still prefer it to PowerShell, but only in how it feels, not conceptually.

Nennt sich TanteRegenbogen

argumentiert gegen Bogen

mgw

They aren’t MAGA. They’re in only for themselves and will temporarily ally with anything they think make them more in the long run. Which currently is Trump with MAGA, and while they share the motivation with him, it’s selfish. I mean if he wanted to, Trump could offset the higher cost. Why should Walmart and not the one causing it?

Okay, now what

Nette Spielzeuge habt ihr da.

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I don’t agree with your assessment really as I don’t see the core experience declining.

But also, it’s a free project and people are putting in their time wherever they want; I don’t think the project would reject a submission for something based on “we’re doing too much” if it’s within the scope of a desktop environment.

Admirable dedication to the cause

Ich hab die letzten Jahre immer die Waschmittel von Frosch gekauft, da scheinen keine drin zu sein. Kann mich über die Waschleistung nicht beschweren

Godspeed, keep the hacking spirit alive

Either my Ansible knowledge is too limited which is entirely possible, or you can’t do stuff there that’s possible with Nix. Let’s stay go with my example that you have something that requires changes in PAM. So you write an Ansible file installing the package (which is distribution-specific, so you’re losing one advantage you had over NixOS), enable the service and add your entries to the respective PAM file (e.g. login because you want to enable user authentication against kanidm on your machine). The ordering in these files matter. Sure you have insertbefore and insertafter for lineinfile and blockinfile, but this basically requires you to know the rest of the file in advance… not a problem if your system is always the same, but you don’t have the flexibility and composability that Nix offers.

I dunno man. I spent way less time configuring my machines on NixOS because it just works. But in fairness, that is after I have spent a lot of time learning it (compared to classic systems that is, not a lot compared to NixOS maintainers who write way better module than I do). Now that there is a foundation, I just run the updates. It’s almost scarily stable. And the ability to group related settings together is such a bliss because you no longer wonder about “what did I do to enable X”, just open the file, it’s all in one place. Stuff that could be three completely different things (e.g. a service specific config file, a PAM entry and the service activation itself in effectively 5 lines. Want to do something for multiple services? Just map over their list. Etc

I happily used Arch for 15 years and after trying NixOS on a decommissioned machine for one day I switched over everything as fast as possible. And I did try out Ansible on Arch, so it’s not like I didn’t try management via a tool. But using a system like NixOS just solves sooo many potential issues.

It obviously comes with downsides, for example there is no quick configuration change. Changing something small requires another evaluation. Still worth it

Yup just need to pick it up from your local rescue shelter

Did you know that the suffix for nix documentation files is, coincidentally, .nix?

I have never used any of these (except Uber once in 2016 maybe?) because of the exploitative model. Even though the situation here in Germany is a tad different with them. Fuck them. Regular companies are bad enough already

I doubt it. Nix has a ton of infrastructure and contributors there. Plus they wouldn’t gain anything immediately tangible from it. Codeberg is still git with a very similar UX to GitHub. Not the same can be said for Savannah.

That doesn’t mean it’d be a bad choice in the long run. But still.

Oh, interesting, thanks

Warum bietet halt auch keiner vakuumverpackte Chips an

I mean… It basically had no competition in the beginning. Also, its SILK codec was pretty good for voice, and without it, Opus would be worse for speech (Opus is basically two different codes working in tandem, SILK and CELT).

Haha what a sad hateful bitter fuck. May he find out more