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I'm a robotics researcher. My interests include cybersecurity, repeatable & reproducible research, as well as open source robotics and rust programing.

  • Experimenting with CachyOS kernel on NixOS via Chaotic's Nyx - NixOS Discourse

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  • Appreciate the heads up. Looks like they use merge bots to auto update the package version JSON files for git packages, making for a very large/frequent commit history. Was that what made bisecting imposable?

    I also see they pin the nixpkgs input, but do others normally modify that nixpkgs input to follow their global nixpkgs from their own system flake, or does that invalidate the use of Nyx community cache?

  • Experimenting with CachyOS kernel on NixOS via Chaotic's Nyx - NixOS Discourse

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  • Compiling the Linux kernel from scratch takes over an hour on this laptop. Given I'm tracking the unstable channel on a rolling distro means doing that several times a week. Ain't nobody got time for that. Or at least I don't...

  • Experimenting with CachyOS kernel on NixOS via Chaotic's Nyx - NixOS Discourse

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  • I don't have resources to locally build an optimized kennel for every update for each of my systems, thus my interests in keeping with a community cache.

    I didn't do much here, just swapped the kernel via config and ran some benchmarks. I posted as I was more curious to hear of what engineering trade offs may be at play, and what experience folks have had in daily driving CatchyOS's kernel patch sets.

  • Experimenting with CachyOS kernel on NixOS via Chaotic's Nyx - NixOS Discourse

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  • I wasn't sure if these results were specific to my older hardware, or more generalizable to newer systems.

  • Adding Linux GPU Benchmarks: Best Distributions for Gaming Tests, ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs

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  • Indeed perhaps. I'd really like to see something like a Content-addressed Storage model from snix get upstreamed. That could really revolutionize bandwidth requirements for nix package updates and store sizes. Imagine downloading only the binary diffs for updates to packages like large modern browsers, IDEs, election apps, etcs, that mostly share common files across versions and packages. Suddenly, daily driving a rolling distro on the bleeding edge would be no more taxing on networks or disks than your average infrequent Debian update.

  • CtrlOS - NixOS with 5-Year Enterprise Support

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  • Sounds like their target customers are commercial service providers and industrial device manufacturers using NixOS, but need to support stable deployments for longer than NixOS's current 6 month release cycle. Probably not to applicable for individual desktop users, but they still plan on hosting a public channel and cache for newer releases.

  • CtrlOS - NixOS with 5-Year Enterprise Support

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  • I Tried Fedora KDE as a Beginner (It's AMAZING) - Switch and Click

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  • IBM acquired the company behind Fedora Linux. Although I doubt they had any corporate influence in the production of this particular vlog.

    I wonder if they would have had better luck with Kubuntu or KDE Neon? Perhaps if they're still on KDE by the time KDE releases their Arch distro variant, they could test that too on their hardware.

  • I Tried Fedora KDE as a Beginner (It's AMAZING) - Switch and Click

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  • Given the amount of trouble shooting demonstrated throughout the video, don't think the marketing was entirely positive...

  • Announcing Diesel 2.3.0

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  • Appreciate the detailed context, and thank you for your work!

  • Nix - Death by a thousand cuts - Jono's Corner

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  • The comment thread sparked a few new questions for me.

    That will likely soon stop working because steam-run is no longer a grab bag for literally every library out there.

    What recently changed with steam-run?

    Is using pkgs.appimageTools.defaultFhsEnvArgs with pkgs.buildFHSUserEnv a suitable alternative? 

     
        
   #!/usr/bin/env nix-shell

   { pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> { } }:

  (
    let base = pkgs.appimageTools.defaultFhsEnvArgs; in
    pkgs.buildFHSUserEnv (base // {
      name = "FHS";
      targetPkgs = pkgs: (with pkgs; [
        /* add additional packages here e.g */
        pcre
        tzdata
      ]);
      runScript = "bash";
      extraOutputsToInstall = [ "dev" ];
    })
  ).env

  • Overlays and Version Pinning in the Nix-Config Overlays Module - Unmoved Centre

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  • I'm basically deep into my learning phase of nix, and whenever I find something worthwhile, I like cross posting to read what others may think. It's also a handy means of "bookmarking", recalling what authors I've found so far and when I personally discovered them. Glad you appreciate the current deluge of posts.

  • Nix: Reasonable Default Configs - Patrick Jackson

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  • That's a good one. Definitely seems selecting substituters closer to runtime is more flexible. Especially when the system may be roaming across networks like a laptop that may move outside your home LAN that links to your local desktop cache.

  • Nix: Reasonable Default Configs - Patrick Jackson

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  • Recommendations of cool configurations

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  • Nix explained from the ground up - Surma

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  • It's a great video, and I hope the author is able to publish more nix content like this again soon. We'll just have to watch their blog's RSS feed in the meantime.

  • Nix: Reasonable Default Configs - Patrick Jackson

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  • Tailscale not installing?

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  • That is a bizarre looking error. What architecture is your host system? Is your config repo publicly viewable? Installing tail scale is your only build issue?

  • nix-on-droid: Nix-enabled environment for your Android device - GitHub

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