choobacker

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by choobacker 2y ago
Looks like I could use https://github.com/PNDeb/pinenote-debian-image on my PineNote.
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by choobacker 2y ago
This looks great. Is there by out-of-the-box usable e-reader that supports SSH? Air still has some manual steps/maintenance. For comparison, I've used PostmarketOS on Pinephone, and it required a lot of fiddly to get a poor experi
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by choobacker 2y ago
> I will not bank with HSBC because their app will not work if you install things from outside the Google App store I have this requirement too, since I like to use F-Droid. My point isn't that there are no such users. My point is t
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by choobacker 2y ago
I agree with his issues with dependencies. But I'm not sure about his other stuff. "Avoid features that add disproportionate cost" I expect part of the problem here is that it's often not clear what the value of features
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by choobacker 2y ago
+1. I think that about summarises it. Window managers can plausibly already do a lot of what other software can do, yet in practice, popular workflows tend to assume very little from the window manager. I try to avoid terminal multiplexers
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by choobacker 2y ago
> Source: this is a description of my own workflow and preferences, so I’m the ultimate authority on the subject, haha. It's fine to choose your workflow by whatever criteria you decide, but on a post about workflows on a discussion
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by choobacker 2y ago
+1. It's nice to have to a set of programs I moderately care about, so when I'm learning another language I can port them to it. They're unimportant enough that I can comfortably experiment, but important enough that I want t
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by choobacker 2y ago
Size is a limiting factor for so.e hardware and architecture too. NixOS works well for x86-64 and aarch64, but not so much armv7l, as so many consumer routers are. The PC Engines happens to be x86-64 with decent storage expansion, but for
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by choobacker 2y ago
I had a look more into this. https://www.reddit.com/r/openwrt/comments/114kv0y/weeding_ou... has some people with the problem that I'm trying to avoid. I see the fresh re-install suggestions probabl
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by choobacker 2y ago
Good job on raising that issue. TIL SSTP. > Nobody actually cares about security for packages that are not in the default install. Probably an exaggeration, but it's clear there are some packages that are insecure out-the-box.
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by choobacker 2y ago
systemd-networkd sets up a LAN interface, which Kea then serves DHCP for. CoreRAD is about the same thing, but for NDP instead of DHCP. I could have used systemd-networkd for serving DHCP and NDP, but prefer to use separate modular privileg
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by choobacker 2y ago
For wireless I started with the PC Engines miniPCI cards, but moved to a seperate AP for wifi6, and because hostapd was not fun. https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/eap615-wall is the device I use as an AP, which run
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by choobacker 2y ago
Tracking config via VCS is great, but the automatic changes is what then makes it tricky to understand what you've actually configured.
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by choobacker 2y ago
There's hardware that has the form factor of a router, but is powerful enough to run an ordinary Linux machine. PC Engines, various ARM64 SBCs.
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by choobacker 2y ago
Me too. My TP Link EAP605 is an AP running OpenWRT. Works well.
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by choobacker 2y ago
Not that I'm aware of. systemd-networkd + kea + corerad is the software I use.
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by choobacker 2y ago
I use a https://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm with a separate wifi access point. That's EOL now, so nowadays I'd look to ARM e.g. https://radxa.com/products/network-computer/e52c
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by choobacker 2y ago
OpenWRT is pretty great at offering features and security for consumer devices. Glad to see a release! I used it for a while, but after I've had it for a few months, and want to improve/diagnose something, I can't easily tell
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by choobacker 2y ago
Do we know how the human brain performs addition? I know how it's taught. Internally it has aspects of long addition, and caching, but I don't do perform that algorithmically. How then does that map to the physical structure of th
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by choobacker 2y ago
> as a working parent I might only have 30 minutes here or there where I’m able to play. When I get back to a game after a couple of weeks off, I can’t remember what I was doing, or what the controls are. It’s just not fun. +1, I fall in
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by choobacker 2y ago
It's impressive that volunteers are stepping up to archive this. I understand the desire to keep this open data available. How much of this sort of effort results in that data being used? Are there success stories for these datasets be
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by choobacker 2y ago
Nice write up! > When it was finally my turn, I stammered. > Watching it back, I cringe a bit. I was wordy, unclear, and unconvincing. > You can watch my mumbling in the recording I watched this, and the author was articulate and p
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by choobacker 2y ago
> Some people can't seem to see why Nix and Guix are in an entirely different class from traditional package managers +1. From talking to people with those views, it's not that they can't see it, it's that they haven&
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by choobacker 2y ago
It's good to see EU funding for open source, and for getting software easy to build, as Nix does. Bravo to the EU, NLNet and the NixOS contributors making this possible!
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by choobacker 2y ago
Those Debian tests are great. Good coverage, run on PRs. A little obtuse in parts, but still great.
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by choobacker 2y ago
Yes, the ergonomics are poor. I endure them for the results, but the ergonomics should be better. Guix has better ergonomics, but it's own set of downsides. I expect the underlying idea of holistic declarative systems is sound, and we&
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by choobacker 2y ago
> If your software is in such heavy development that you need changes all the time, it should never be in a stable distro to begin with, it's not stable code. Stable code by this definition experiences some stagnation. But the cost
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by choobacker 2y ago
To mitigate breakages we should be aiming for better test coverage, at various build levels: class, package, program, system. Our industry's story for system-level testing, for Linux distributions, is poor. NixOS tests are decent, but
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by choobacker 2y ago
I'm a NixOS user and contributor. This post is fair. Nix is very flexible, and it hasn't yet stabilised on a firm set of recommendations for a happy path. Going on a whim: * Use nixos-unstable. It's defacto stable, and gets m
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by choobacker 2y ago
I agree systemd's is easier to understand, and I'm a happy systemd user. But some of Shepherd's strengths are in other examples, and it makes sense to evaluate the whole. A few examples: * if we want multiple similar services

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