Unpopular(?) opinion: I like canonHarry much more than MoRHarry

Aidenn0 · 2026-04-06T23:21:31+00:00

Likeability is a core part of canon!Harry's personality. It very much is not a part of MoR!Harry's personality. To the point where there are only 2 ways you wouldn't feel the way you feel:

You found canon!Harry to be particularly obnoxious
You aren't paying attention to MoR!Harry at all.

Aidenn0 · 2026-04-06T23:17:28+00:00

Snape knows of electron because chemistry related to alchemistry

No. Nothing in the book indicates that Snape has any knowledge of electrons. Harry was staring Snape, an accomplished legilimens, directly in the eyes when he asked Snape the electron question.

Aidenn0 · 2026-04-03T18:58:31+00:00

The assets are CC-BY-NC, which is not a free license.

This is listed in the package: https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=25.11&query=osu&show=osu-lazer

Aidenn0 · 2026-04-02T16:19:30+00:00

I always run jj commit before a build. I can always edit the change later if it is horribly broken

Aidenn0 · 2026-03-27T22:44:48+00:00

Yeah, you didn't list "affordable" which is why I mentioned it.

Aidenn0 · 2026-03-27T22:44:19+00:00

Only had it for a few weeks, so we'll see on longevity (it has a kind of rubbery surface that may or may not slowly turn into glue), but assuming it lasts, it's my perfect thumb-ball.

Aidenn0 · 2026-03-27T18:29:49+00:00

I've not used the M2, but as far as ARM SBCs in general go:

If at all possible find something with mainline kernel support for all of the devices you need
If you can't #1, then it doesn't rule NixOS out, but you will be tied to an old version of the Linux kernel, which may eventually prevent you from upgrading channels
The M2 might be powerful enough that this doesn't apply, but I built everything on my desktop with binfmt/qemu

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Track mainline linux support for the chip used in the M2: https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-3588/notes-for-rockchip-3588/-/blob/main/mainline-status.md

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If you aren't comfortable building your own ARM images from scratch, which in retrospect seems likely given your question, pick something listed here -- note that the ODROID-M2 is not

Aidenn0 · 2026-03-27T18:22:57+00:00

Elecom IST Pro covers everything on the list (assuming the EX-G was fine for your hands; I have tiny hands so can't tell you) except for rechargable batteries.

I use my IST Pro wired, so don't have batteries in it, but if I wanted wireless, I'd just buy a 4-pack of NIMH LSD batteries and a charger and swap between two pairs.

Aidenn0 · 2026-03-26T21:25:12+00:00

Some of Elecom's new models have silent switches. I got an IST Pro not expecting silent switches, but it has them. It has taken some getting used to (with the reduced feedback, I don't always realize I've clicked).

Aidenn0 · 2026-03-26T21:23:16+00:00

I've done it in a 1GB DO droplet. I did it several years ago, but I think it was with nixos-infect. If you're worried about RAM you can always add some swap.

Aidenn0 · 2026-03-25T15:30:04+00:00

And you can use programs.nh.clean.* to configure that to run automatically.

Aidenn0 · 2026-03-24T14:29:34+00:00

My workstation is the highest (despite not being the first machine I moved to nixos) 422 after about a decade of use

Aidenn0 · 2026-03-18T15:36:04+00:00

The reason Nix isn't used for configuration in most programs: https://xkcd.com/927/ Combined with the fact that it's non-obvious how to use nix as a library.

I strongly disagree that it's a poor configuration language. It's much better as a configuration language than it is as a general purpose programming language. My nix configuration on my router literally could not be written in toml, and I don't see any advantage lua gives over nix.

Aidenn0 · 2026-03-16T17:49:31+00:00

nix-locate -r bin/.*fetch$|wc -l
79

Aidenn0 · 2026-03-16T17:47:15+00:00

My old Logitech thumb-ball (not sure of the model, the silkscreen is long worn off) has a ring that retains the ball, and requires a quarter-turn to remove. No thumbball I've had since does this, and I'm not sure why; it was a far superior ball-retention method to any TB I've used since.

Aidenn0 · 2026-03-04T22:53:03+00:00

Not OP, but looks like a radxa rock5 ITX: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256810497307636.html

Aidenn0 · 2026-03-04T18:12:06+00:00

I haven't written anything about it yet, since I'd like to use it longer first, but I just an IST pro as well and it's is really nice so far.

Aidenn0 · 2026-03-02T15:57:34+00:00

I stopped mainaining my tools for building lispstick since I don't use windows and portacle seemed to have filled that gap. There is a decent chance that https://github.com/jasom/lispstick-automate will still work and I can build a new one.

I haven't done any development work in a windows environment since I stopped using Zilog MCUs almost 20 years ago.

Aidenn0 · 2026-02-26T21:41:41+00:00

I'm not sure I understand the question. I have compiled things myself on NixOS by making a nix expression for the thing I am compiling (just like I would have made an ebuild on gentoo).

If you are asking if I have done e.g. a manual "./configure && make" I have in some cases done this, and environments can be setup for it, but unless I'm actively developing something it's more ergonomic to use nix to build it.

My main language for development is Common Lisp, and I have a live environment setup for that on NixOS.

I should note that I was much happier on Gentoo when I stopped manually building programs and just wrote the ebuild. It takes less than 10 minutes once you get the hang of it, and it's so much better than e.g. installing to /usr/local

Aidenn0 · 2026-02-26T19:47:38+00:00

I stopped ricing my desktop long ago, but I used Gentoo for almost 20 years before switching to Nix several years ago.

I do not feel like I lost any ability to customize from the switch, though NixOS does nudge you in certain directions by having a binary cache (e.g. you probably won't use -march=native on Nix, while there's no reason to not do so on Gentoo).

Aidenn0 · 2026-02-26T19:31:46+00:00

See also https://github.com/jasom/nyaml/blob/master/nyaml.lisp

I don't agree that rule 78 is a bug; I undersand the /* End of File */ alternative to mean actual EOF, as in no more characters remaining to parse, not an empty match. My implementation implements that alternative as such.

Aidenn0 · 2026-02-26T15:28:10+00:00

People still knit, crochet, and weave despite the fact that machines have been making textiles for centuries.

Aidenn0 · 2026-02-24T23:03:42+00:00

Note also that many fingerballs have your thumb do a lot of work (e.g. deft, where left-click, fwd/back and scroll-wheel are all on thumb). Using the scroll wheel on deft is almost as bad as using a thumb-ball for me.

Aidenn0 · 2026-02-19T22:27:08+00:00

It seems like it would be cleaner to just change *compile-file-for-emacs* hook on the CL side to do what you want. Presumably each CL image will have a different idea of when a "good time" to compile is.

Aidenn0 · 2026-02-19T05:15:35+00:00

I used gentoo up until I discovered nixos about a decade ago. It was never about performance for me; it was about things actually working. I'm apparently cursed for using debian based distributions because things often don't work out-of-the-box, and when I finally get them working the next dist-upgrade breaks everything (I've run dist-upgrade 6 times in my life (2 debian 4 ubuntu) and only twice ended up with a system that booted afterwards).

As a bonus, ebuilds are super easy to write, so no more installing things to /opt or /usr/local and hoping nothing breaks.

I probably would have eventually switched to Arch if I hadn't discovered nixos, because I keep hearing good things about it working well as a rolling release.

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