I actually went to read older posts one day. They are actually much better compared to the more recent posts. Now it’s just trolls and shitposting.

LWN is where it’s at for Linux discussion.

Yeah, I’m also one of these people silently enjoying systemd and wayland. Every now and then there’s fuzz on one of these. I shrug, and move on still enjoying both of them.

128 GB here which runs out if I compile the complete project at work with -j32. And this sucks because 128 GB right now means the RAM cannot run super fast, meaning it is a bottleneck to any modern Ryzen…

In my experience, nix works exceptionally well with Rust. Python and JavaScript are nastier, especially if the libraries use C extensions.

Zenarmor ftw.

Musl can be a bit annoying compilation target sometimes. Usually it works but I’ve debugged bugs a few times that were due to musl target.

I prefer my distro with glibc…

But do not run Linux, the kernel.

And LLM is mostly for investors, not for users. Investors see you “do AI” even if you just repackage GPT or llama, and your Series A is 20% bigger.

Just waiting for one that requires you to compile one Monad to define your whole distro. Types all the way.

Then I’m writing a blog post how your Linux distro is a burrito.

Yes. And I feel sad because I haven’t been excited on any other OS for years after learning NixOS. I used to be excited about playing with things like FreeBSD, but now they all feel like something’s missing…

Not for everybody, but as a software engineer nix/nixos is blessing.

It is such a beautiful system too. I would love to use it more, but nix and NixOS have kind of ruined every other operating system for me…

I call it Wayland/Linux.

It has the best integration with zfs, and has had that for a long time already.

Yeah, also a bit wary of btrfs. I sure hope some day bcachefs can be the true cow filesystem in Linux. There is hope, it is pretty good already.

NixOS definitely solves the issue of rollbacks the best here. And FreeBSD.

Laughs in NixOS, smiles in btrfs snapshots.

Used i3 and then sway almost a decade. When Plasma 6 arrived, I just wanted to try it out and it just kind of stuck to me. Lovely desktop.

Come to Germany, the only country in the EU where paper usage is still going UP.

The docker desktop does. It is very tricky to install docker without it on the Mac.

You can try installing it on GitHub actions for your CI runs with the Mac runner. It can be done, but takes forever, is hacky and breaks very often.

I’m a dev and I mainly see issues with removed… Every update breaks some tools the cli tools are ancient, homebrew is slow as hell and breaks quite often, docker is really slow and costs money if you don’t know how to avoid that, it’s very expensive to get to a certain amount of RAM that costs nothing on PC and so on.

A great UI to stream your movie files from your TV. A bit like Plex, but open source.