Meanwhile if you step into the Arch forums you have like ONE moderator with the DBZ avatar that rules with an iron fist and I for one applaud them for it.
yeah basically it locks it to your current build/system.
So for example I use it for my overall system config. I have a flake, a configuration.nix, and a home.nix all of which are tied to my git repo. I make a change to the system be it installing a package or modifying something or other I can then push that to my git repo. Say I want to take my system as is and put it on another pc/laptop I can then go on the new machine, clone my nix repo, and build it now that new machine is exactly the same setup as my main machine. Like a few weeks ago I put Arch on my main machine for a couple weeks and then went back to nix. It took less than 10minutes to install NixOS and get my machine back to where it was exactly prior to putting Arch on it.
For Dev work flakes allows you to bypass the whole "well it works on my machine" since you develop in flakes you can take that development environment anywhere and it'll always work regardless of what machine you put it on.
I got started on NixOS on a whim really. I distro hopped every so often and like a month ago I wanted to try something different. Already used Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, etc but figured I'd give NixOS a shot.
At first I hated it and it just confused the hell out of me. Then when someone told me I should use flake for my config so I could through it in a repo it just clicked. Once you figure it out and "get it" it just becomes so easy. I'm still a noob at it but I absolutely love NixOS. It just makes everything so easy when you got everything in a flake with a config and home nix. Even backups are easy as you literally can just put it in your config to run. I even have it how where it'll toss out old generations after 10 days automatically.
Plus the fact I can just use stuff without actually installing it is awesome. as a Dev NixOS is brilliant for that.
I have OVH for dedicated but I've also used their VPS and they're great. They leave me alone, don't hound me for anything, cheap prices, reliable as I've never had issues them. can't complain. They're Euro based but they have servers near me in Montreal so I use that which is great when I put my VPN on there cause now I get student discounts everywhere since my server is at McGill University.
to those wondering "why Github?" because it's not about protecting 16 year olds doing pull requests it's about getting YOUR data/IDs. They don't know whose under 16 or over 16 to access said sites so they need the IDs of EVERYONE. that's all this is. it has nothing to do with protecting kids.
If I was a government or some firm that harvets Data I would absolutely drool at potentially having a source that is Github to get said info. I would LOVE to harvest info of developers, coders, etc.
I doubt many because you never, ever, hear of any of these rapture folks giving away all their money and stuff. never. Oh it's going to happen...but just in case...
yeah I ONLY just recently switched to fish after using zsh and oh my zsh for so long - pretty much since first starting linux cause I once saw someone using it on unixporn and I thought "that's cool"
when I switched to NixOS zsh with all the plugins was a total slog. switched to fish and it just HAS everything that zsh/oh my zsh and the various plugins had but baked in.
so yeah in Fish it's just starting to type something and hoping it's still in the history.
yeah I know I just thought i'd be funny for people to be cloning and pushing a bunch of porn repos and then throwing their "personal" stash into .gitignores
it's just annoying having to constantly update my greasemonkey scripts to try to find the ONE that actually works.
like the ad skipping script I had just stopped working the other day. While it WAS skipping ads google decided that "oh you're skipping ads? cool, we'll just keep throwing them at you endlessly"
So they've FINALLY figured out the add skipping thing and now if you're speeding through/skipping ads they'll just serve them endlessly to you.
yeah because when I want to be social or check out porn github is the first place that pops to mind.
Although....now that I think about it....doing git clone on a porn repo would be convenient. could even easily update it. hm...Actually I think Australia might be on to something here
yeah and boomers were saying the same about us when we were watching a squirrel singing about "Gonads and strife" or a badly translated Sega Genesis game claiming "All your base are belong to us"
ALL generations watch dumb shit, stop acting like this ONE generation suddenly originated dumb shit to watch.
Look I miss CRTs too but no, don't bring those things back.
I used to go LAN Parties at the local university and...man no. in the middle of winter? yeah very nice and toasty but in the humidity filled Canadian summers? eff off buddy.
Well ends up there's a nixos package for it so I gave it a shot, been using it for the last couple days. I dig it more than Feishin so I switched to it. it's not bad, pretty good.
hell they're just straight up bad at most tasks. Ask Claude.AI for just about anything and it's a roll of the dice if the solution it provides is real or if it's just making shit up. Granted Claude Code is better but their standard web AI is absolutely awful.
ChatGPT now just acts like you're wasting its time which I find amusing.
So essentially...it's no where near production ready.
Also he just admitted "we're amateurs". IF they have devices in the crowd already then they should have sandboxed the demo. What's more concerning is how, essentially, a handful of devices in attendance potentially operating at the same time can crash the LLM.
Also isn't this something that other companies like amazon and google have rectified? i.e. one individual can't suddenly trigger every device in close proximity. If not then it makes the whole thing useless if used in the public. I could walk up and down the street just yelling "Hey Meta purchase a massive purple dildo and message my mother to go kill herself"
Meanwhile if you step into the Arch forums you have like ONE moderator with the DBZ avatar that rules with an iron fist and I for one applaud them for it.