Git integration seems to be so embedded that it's easy to miss. Open a git repository folder and you can switch branches and whatnot. But, like, in the command palette, there's no Git > Pull or Git > Clone as in vscode. (I have barely scratched the surface so it might be there hiding in plain sight.)

I think about it like this:

Layer 2b: ->> User applications (flatpak, nixpkgs, etc.)

Layer 2a: ->> User data (mutable, persistent no matter what your system layer is)

Layer 1: -> System (immutable/read-only/updated "atomically" meaning all at once) 

Layer 0: Hardware

Or, alternately, it's what macos has been doing with absolutely no fanfare for several versions now. That's not a knock, btw. It's an illustration that it can be completely transparent in use, though it may require some habit changes on linux.

I cannot for the life of me figure out what is going on (but I'm not terribly involved). I can tease out that he was disruptive, but I cannot figure out in what manner he was so.

Still, this feels like a Grade-A old school Internet community meltdown from the early 90s.

11 months later …

NixOS looks interesting whoosh sucked into a warp

And that's without counting the roll-your-own variants. uBlue has been a remarkable project.

I look back on learning to live with NixOS and laugh. It made my brain hurt, and if I'd only found the Misterio77 repo sooner, it would've saved a lot of premature aging. But, if you have some basic familiarity with programming concepts, it's an easy OS to live with, just different. And so, so, so, so powerful.

They do desperately need a set of opinionated example builds and much better documentation.

One of the more annoying things about living in Florida is that we have closely related animals that are nearly identical, but they don't have glow-butts. (At least not down in the bottom half of the state.)

I'll wait for someone from like Lakeland to say they have them.

Oh, no, it's exactly that. "If you let one Nazi into the bar, congrats you have a Nazi bar."

Yeah, I will definitely try another live iso. The ONLY possible lead I have is that in btop there's a .gnome-session entry that pops to the top of the list when the pause happens, but (a) the peak displayed CPU usage is like 10%, and (b) I can't figure out what it is. So I'm going to try both a KDE session and maybe a new user just to see if there might be something config-related. Though, again, I didn't change anything in my nix config.

Part of my issue is that I'm not even sure how to describe what's happening to search to see if it's a known issue in recent kernels, gnome, etc. I keep descending into insane metaphors, like "it's sort of like when the cat is about to throw up a hairball and everything pauses while the horror unfolds in front of you."

Integrated laptop keyboard (so I assume USB under the hood?)

Thanks to COVID and work from home and smartphones and Teams/Zoom, I've gone from an hour commute each way to a constant stream of meetings, texts, emails, IMs, etc. that must be addressed immediately, from 8am to 6pm. I don't think the "back in my day" folks fully understand how much more people are asked to do now. I once obliterated an older colleague when he complained that youngs these days don't put in half the hours he used to. I was like "Um, you used to go to the print office and wait four hours for prints to come out, take them back to the office, proof them, then take the documents to the courthouse and file them in person. In the same time, I'm responding to 100 emails, reviewing 20 documents ON MY PHONE, conducting 3 conference calls, listening to 2 coworkers' breakdowns, and drafting, reviewing, printing, proofing, and submitting the documents you used to sit and wait for." To his credit, he said I was right and I never had a problem with him again.

All of which is a long way of saying that, sometimes, more often than I would like, I can't just "go to the restaurant" because of time or because I'm no longer commuting. For all their problems, the apps mean that I'm eating fewer frozen pizzas and more poke bowls and salads.

Not to mention schools release at like 2:30. Need your kid taken care of after that? It'll be a few hundred $/mo for an after-school program. Sorry working parents.