dinckelman

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[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Just to clarify for everyone else:

  • Nixpkgs is the equivalent of a core distro repository for NixOS. Instead of Core + Extra + Multilib + AUR on Arch, we just have Nixpkgs that has everything
  • A Nix "module" is essentially an app with pre-packaged declarable options. So rather than just installing something as is, you can use its options to declare how you want it installed. 99% of the time, this is the preferred way to do things.
  • Home-Manager is a third-party Nix module, that lets you declare stuff in ~/. Very convenient for shells, browsers, and whatever else you want in there
  • Stylix is another third-party Nix module. For supported things, it will style your apps with the preferences you've defined. Handy if you want a uniform look and feel for the things you use
[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 49 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

They’ve actually done the exact opposite. The lobbying, the import laws, the absence of a foreign export market, and the manufacturing of cars that would never pass safety laws anywhere else, all resulted in the kind of dogshit that Americans have to experience now. Why improve if you’re the only player

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago

They can keep this privacy invading dogshit to themselves

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

There are some lists that are designed specifically to run with Proton and/or on the Deck, claiming solid 40-60 fps on the Deck, so i'd take a look at what's available in Wabbajack. In my case, i've definitely expected more framerate, but i can't really complain here, because this list is really heavy in most aspects. 100% worth playing though

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've tried several lists over the years. The now defunct Thuldor's Skyrim, and my current Tempus Maledictum list, both experienced the same issue. They get installed and run just fine, but i'm about 60% of the fps short, compared to Windows. I suspect it's because of the vram overhead, and io bottlenecks in wine

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

The most likely answer is it'll happen when he finally pisses off his own minions enough. He's more likely to die, before he'll see any kind of real punishment for anything.

Now that he's about to rob several millions of people of basic needs being met, maybe things will start moving

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We’re talking about a population, where a 1/3lbs burger was rejected for being smaller than the 1/4lbs. But even besides that, the fear-mongering, and the propaganda, have clearly worked

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Blatant and unchecked invasion of privacy. This should be not just opt-in, but not even installed by default

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)

No one’s stopping you from just downloading the app you want. They changed the default, not eliminated the option to have something elsr

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Oh no... people will have less ads, without being bullied into paying... what would the billionaires even do. Don't get avocado and coffee for a bit, i guess

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

This is a good example of what people consistently overlook/misunderstand, when it comes to Nix.

Obviously you can remount a /home, or just pull the dotfiles from a personal repo, but the strength of Nix is also in that I can re-create my entire config exactly how it is defined. If i were to setup a machine completely from scratch, with a mature enough config, it will get me from 0 to my exact desktop completely unattended.

But there are also many more advantages to it, at least in my eyes. Let's take trying/tweaking new packages as an example. Yesterday I pulled an old repo for an Outer Wilds mod. The thing needs a dev environment, and a mod manager for the actual game. A nix shell got me both, I finished my work, and when I exit out of fish, both are gone, just as I wanted them to be.

Another good example would be partial os updates. I've used Arch for almost 9 years before switching to Nix, and pretty much a top3 Arch rule is not doing partial updates, or partial rollbacks. In case of a breakage, I would have to manually redownload an older version of a tarball, pacman -U the package, and then hope i'm not cooked. In the case of gcc incompatibilities, it can quickly become a massive pain in the ass. My nix flake would never experience this problem, because I already have two different scenarios available - either i build based on an older lockfile from my git repo, or I create an overlay for a specific input I need, so that it still pulls what it needs, and doesn't interfere with the rest of my system

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

As much as everyone hates Nintendo, apparently, this means literally nothing for them. This does, however, make the used market a nightmare to deal with

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