Mostly Grey former ginger with a preference for Rust. Leads wg-rustup, sorry about the mess. He/Him or They/Their Now @kinnison@fosstodon.org too
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Whenever I see someone say 'cyber' I assume '..sex' and whenever I see someone say 'crypto' I assume '..fascist' because otherwise I'm never certain what they mean.
I'd have assumed cybersex was almost entirely a male-dominated field. And yes, that demotivates me :D
Yesterday's NixOS experiments were left with a functional computer whose desktop felt like home \o/. But it's a big mess of hacks. After some more hacks tonight I need to start turning all that into proper declarative config including home-manager. Any suggested examples?
Right now I'm trying to learn *enough* to get a basic familiar desktop environment going. Once I've managed that I'll consider what to do afterwards.
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Looks like with thinkfan installed it copes - I think the thermal performance of this laptop has failed to cope with being in a box for five years. Maybe the paste has all dried out. Still it's working now and I have a laptop with encrypted disk and LVM, so experiment continues
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Urgh, I know this test laptop (x201) is ancient, but why is nixos shutting down during install? No hints shown that I can catch before it's too late :( I now can't even get the USB to boot all the way to the nixos desktop before it shuts down. (overheating?)
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I'm going to make the effort to *try* on a real laptop if this x201's battery will take some charge, but I don't yet have any warm fuzzies.
I suppose in some senses I'm utterly spoiled by the Debian installer. I get the feeling that from a scriptable-PoV nixos will be lovely, but from an "I want to setup a laptop with a reasonable default so I can experiment" it's a pig.
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Yeah, I feel like I've done my dues with linux-from-scratch so many times that I simply just don't want to do it all by hand, especially if it'd be over-and-over in experiments to find what I want.
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So far I have to say that my nixos experience is underwhelming. Particularly the utter lack of any installer to make it easier to get started.
Does anyone know of a nixos installer which can do EFI boot, FDE, LVM, etc. ?
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So, I'm being tempted to have a play with nixos on a throwaway VM. Does anyone have a recommendation of how to get into it? @grhmc perhaps?
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You've done some plenty evil Rust by now - surely this should have been a no-brainer? Or was "no-brain" the reason you're doing this in C? :D
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