foxheadman

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by foxheadman 9mo ago
You manage to live a life where if you don't like something, you can just avoid it?
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by foxheadman 9mo ago
> The Nix team is aware of all of this and made these tradeoffs intentionally to maximize package support and reduce contributor friction. Nix, for all its good design choices, landed on a supply chain integrity threat model that unfortu
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by foxheadman 9mo ago
> Even if they speak your native tongue, they'll have to learn how to interpret your slang and texting shorthand. This sounds almost impossible today, but what kind of tools might they have in a century? That doesn't sound impo
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by foxheadman 9mo ago
I play games on cheap hardware. I would like awards to focus on the quality of the game, rather than how they were made. Awards that focus on quality is too desired to not be a thing. I expect generative AI to become a competitive advantage
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by foxheadman 9mo ago
I used to hear about COSMIC and think "Glad to see more choice, but I doubt this will go anywhere". I wanted a Sway-like experience but with a desktop experience, and so tried it. It's surprisingly good: a DE with powerful en
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by foxheadman 10mo ago
I'm glad to see boot security prioritisation, and to see some of the fundamentals revisited, and scripts replaced with languages that contributors want to write in (NixOS leans heavy towards Rust). As the project doc notes: > This r
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by foxheadman 10mo ago
+1. I'm keen for secure boot and TPM FDE, and would like to see lanzaboote in nixpkgs.
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by foxheadman 10mo ago
Yes, it's worth having ~hourly snapshots of your machine, using something like: https://github.com/digint/btrbk
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by foxheadman 10mo ago
Reading the NixOS release notes every 6 months is how I learn about new software that I might want to try: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/release-notes#sec-rele... For my first few years of NixOS I did
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by foxheadman 10mo ago
Encrypted home directories are coming to the Steam Deck, using the same kernel API that Android uses. https://lwn.net/Articles/1038859/ FDE would be nice though.
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by foxheadman 10mo ago
Bazzite is a part of the Universal Blue family, which is more of a repackaging of Fedora Atomic. I'm a fan of my Steam Deck and SteamOS, but I'd like that experience to eventually be available via community supported distros, whic