Don't turn that perfectly functional old laptop into e-waste, install a Linux distro!
- even old laptops are perfectly capable of serving downloading and serving some video files.
- built-in UPS!
- emergency screen and keyboard included.
- avoid insane ram prices!
- external HDDs cheap as chips.
Legitimately such a good language for experimentation. I can easily see this being a language I transition my personal projects to.
Congrats on the milestone Unison Team!
mynixos.com/nixpkgs/opti...
Since your original comment was about NixOS not giving you access to language-specific package managers, this is likely not what you're looking for.
AFAIK, steam-run bubblewraps a binary in a namespace that emulates the filesystem layout and set of libraries steam expects to see on a debian-like system.
I recommend it if you are grabbing a random binary off a GitHub release and want to run it "safely". Not for dev work, or running a PM.
Oh, yeah it's great for setting up the system for running random binaries, not so ergonomic for on-the fly changes for getting random python packages working.
This is where I feel devenv really shines. It's easy to quickly iterate when trying new packages, and you can share the result to your team.
nix-ld will require writing a shell.nix that brings shared libs into the LD_PATH.
If you're looking for an easier intro, give devenv a go. It uses the NixOS module system under the hood, comes with support for your fav tools, is cross platform and just plain convenient.
Perfect for we who are mentally challenged enough to tackle it.
Turns out that ai is really bad at making maps based on data... and at history... who would have thought!
Asked Gemini & chatgpt to make a map showing the mortality rate of cities during the 14th century Black Death pandemic... can you spot the errors?
This is excellent though
Same, NixOS on my framework EDC, and on my old X1 carbon repurposed into a server.
I do miss the Trackpoint™ on the X1.
You can add whatever you want on top, including alternate package managers, virtual environments and devcontainers.
Yes, it's sometimes inconvenient to teach third party packages not to use hard-coded paths to system libraries, but tools like nixld make this pretty easy tbh.
Absolute bullshit, you can use poetry, hatch, bun, npm, cargo, NuGet, hex, etc on nixos. NixOS literally only provides the OS.
NixOS gives your users *more* flexibility because they can install their tools of choice without needing root privileges.
Compared to Windows 11 where the base OS is 27Gb, I think 9.8 for a full OS, office and development suite is pretty svelte!
Oof, the curse of automated testing. The one thing never tested is "what happens if I just leave this thing paused for more than 30 seconds". Because who wants to sit and wait for tests that way for nothing to happen?
Run a memtest on it. If only a segment of memory is bad, you can mask it off at boot.
PR: Replace all ugly single commas (,) with objectively fancy double commas(„).
You can now spin up Unison Cloud clusters on your own infrastructure!
✅ Build elastic distributed systems and services in vastly less code
✅ Fast, typed RPC
✅ Deployments in seconds
✅ Free to get started
youtu.be/0sZqI1XoGLY
Unreal, and so beautiful.
AI impoverishes us at every step of the process: - data centers pollute our environment - energy use drives up costs - content theft robs creators of income - the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages - using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence - the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:
At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
There’s a lot that’s wrong with Cville (a lot wrong with the world) but this is the only town where people, and of all walks of life, tell me that they like my shirt.
Oh god, I hope not.
Can you imagine the NixOS community forced to actually support previous releases?
RHEL for all its flaws does fund a pretty big engineering org. They put a lot of work into the kernel, GNOME, and cloud stacks like open shift.
Framework ftw. I struggled to get it working on my old X1 carbon, turns out Lenovo's EFI implementation is just broken...
github.com/chayleaf/nix...
In one of the latest episodes of the Behavioral Science for Brands Podcast, Rory Sutherland discusses how Kagi stands out by prioritizing user interests over advertisers - highlighting what happens when search engines put advertisers first.
Full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngQe...
Uhhh, yea there is: www.hellotux.com/nixos
Also this Redbubble page is linked to from the NixOS website's donate page: www.redbubble.com/people/mogor...
Sculpt OS, or Haiku
Solidarity from Aus. Would be great to have no kings here also.
ExaPunks, JellyCar Worlds, Cobalt Core, CrossCode
You don't need tons of graphics power to have fun.
