Great points. I kinda feel the same with containerization. I have been wanting change my OS on my home server and while NixOS is great for that, I have decided to do things differently and use OpenSUSE Micro OS. My plan was actually Fedora Core OS, but after that Red Hat drama I decided to run with SUSE instead. It is an immutable distro with atomic upgrades that is designed for being a container host. It uses Ignition as the configuration for setting up things like users, services, networking, etc. My plan is then to just use containers like I was doing before on Fedora Server and for the other things to use Nix to build container images. Instead of using DockerFile, you’d use Nix Flakes to create really minimal images. Instead of starting with a full distro like Alpine, Nix starts from scratch and copies all dependencies over as specified in your flake. So the image only contains the absolute minimum to run. I think I’d be a fun side project while learning more about Ignition, Linux containers and Nix Flakes.

As for your point on config, I think it’s just part of the trade offs of NixOS. You either have a system that can be modified easily at anytime through the shell or you have a system that you modify centrally and is fully reproducible. You can already install packages with nix-env in the command line without changing your config, but that also won’t be reproducible. Maybe a GUI app for managing your config and packages could be helpful, although I’m pretty sure that’s low priority for NixOS right now.

Thanks, I didn’t know that. I’m learning now things on Lemmy!

The Gnome desktop is a pretty good middle ground in my opinion. It is in my opinion even simpler than Windows to use and allows enough customizability with extensions. People in the Linux world love to dunk on it for using slightly more RAM and not having the same amount of customizability as other desktops like KDE Plasma.

Not only that, but requiring internet for installing also isn’t optimal for many developing countries. What, you need to bring your PC to an internet cafe to install Windows? I hope Microsoft at least offers physical USB installation drives that don’t require internet access.

You can check it using the checksum. But who does that?

In all seriousness I am running NixOS right now using flakes. The package manager compiles everything unless a trusted source already has it compiled, in which case the package manager checks the checksum to ensure you still get the same result and downloads that instead. It also aims to be fully reproducible and with flakes it automatically pins all dependency versions so next time you build your configurations, you get the same result. It is all really cool, but I still don’t understand everything and I’m still learning it.

Just give everyone the time they need to create a complete product. Some of the greatest masterpieces take the longest time to develop. I don’t want games that are rushed to launch all buggy and finally get into a working state after months of fixes.

I think the equivalent would be to make a copy of that room without paying.

I only have it enabled for social apps when someone actually is talking to me, but I just don’t understand why there are notifications for these recommendations or suggestions from some algorithm.

Sadly the only way to contactlessly pay with your phone is Google Pay, Apple Pay or maybe Samsung pay at least where I love. And I don’t trust any of those companies. There is no other open source standard implementation and you can’t even just use your bank’s app.

There are really people out there using React for their static portfolio website. I think JavaScript frameworks are fine if they compile into a minimal bundle with lazy loading, incremental server rendering, etc. As long as you don’t ship unnecessary JavaScript with a full virtual DOM and slow down your page.

Yamaha makes audio products: Pianos, Speaker systems, motorcycles…

Thanks, I have a French exam in less than an hour. Wish me luck! (No, I did not get the choice to stop with French until now. This is my last French exam.)

Brave is still based on Chromium and suffers from Google decisions. Remember when Google wanted to remove Manifest V2? Brave would also be affected by that. Yes, it is open source, but they do not have the resources to maintain a seperate codebase with Manifest V2 support while Google keeps updating Chromium without Manifest V2. Firefox ftw

So being vegan? That’s what this discussion has been about? There is no way everyone would go vegan. Let’s just leave this discussion as is and not let it get toxic.

Then the black and blue ink run out so you’re left with the other colors. You either write with red and green, or get another pen just for writing.

Jerboa works just fine for me. I’m also on a Fairphone 4, but running CalyxOS with Android 13. Maybe you can try Jerboa from another source like F-droid instead of Google Play or vice versa. You can also try the IzzyOnDroid repository on F-droid.

Same. I just keep Brave around for that. I hope Firefox gets get support when Linux also starts supporting HDR.

So what do you propose as the alternative?

Especially when it locks you out for supposedly being racist.

I don’t know for everywhere, but we don’t chain them and they only stay for about 2 weeks (2 weeks is the minimum due to regulations) in their hut, after that they go to the veal farm where live in a “straw yard barn” (a barn with one big open space with straw on the floor) where they call walk freely and they also go outside daily.

But that’s for organic farming in the Netherlands, it may be different from a nonorganic farm in the US.