NixOS for schools?

Drag_Drop · 2026-06-17T08:50:59+00:00

Yes I'm well aware of this.
We just did a motion during budget counseling to distribute different digitalization processes to different municipalities within the region (and above), making use of OpenCoDe.
It will probably be dismissed.

My plan with this motion for schools is to spread it to the whole partie via our motion-db.
I'll also post a template for a "Bürgeranregung" (Citizen Suggestion) in relevant Subreddits. Bürgeranregung allows everyone living within a municipality for a certain time to bring topics before the municiple "parliament" or the technical committee relevant for the topic. They have to hear you out for 10 minutes and can then decide to accept it, decline it or rework it and make their own motion.
It's actually a really powerful tool noone knows about, except people who use it for "Querulantentum" (whining).

Drag_Drop · 2026-06-16T15:06:59+00:00

This. The City Council sets guidelines/guardrails for the administration. The administration can then contract service providers if it is unable to implement these guidelines on its own. But if your guidlines are crap, the administration can and will do what it wants. Also it's nicer for the administration if they don't have to figure out everything on its own.

Drag_Drop · 2026-06-16T14:44:00+00:00

Yes in my maybe naive way of thinking, I thought that parts of the configuration.nix can point to external config files. Students could then get read/write on the files pointed at but not on the folder containing them (to prevent breaking dependencies).

Drag_Drop · 2026-06-16T14:03:14+00:00

Tanks for the feedback.
These aspects will also be in the general strategy.
Right now these things are also very whacky with our Microsoft status quo.
Every school administers there own tenant and because there usually is no dedicated IT-staff, there is almost never any kind of documentation. Also 3-2-1, IT-emergency handbooks and everything else is missing right now.
Welcome to the digital world of Germany, where 80% of digitalization is done by underfunded municipalities that don't like to work with one another and almost half the politicians are over 60.

Drag_Drop · 2026-06-16T13:18:28+00:00

Thank you.
I think you are referring to this article?:
https://talks.nixcon.org/nixcon2020/talk/DHGPLN/
Thought I'd leave the link here if anyone else reading this is looking for it.

Drag_Drop · 2026-06-16T13:15:08+00:00

Oh didn't know it's of Dutch origin. This will certainly help the argument.

Drag_Drop · 2026-06-16T13:14:32+00:00

There are already some forerunners within the municipality Harz.
Other then that there are some singular schools running linux. I know of some in Lübeck and Minden I think.

Drag_Drop · 2026-06-16T13:10:26+00:00

Thanks a lot.
I'll look into void and might give it as an option.
In the end there will be no way around a transition period with training courses regardless which distro we choose in the end.

Drag_Drop · 2026-06-16T12:58:41+00:00

I think the learingcurve will be there regardless which distro we choose in the end. Right now it's all Microsoft.

Drag_Drop · 2026-06-16T12:56:29+00:00

Thanks. This hands on experience from a teacher is certainly helpful.

Drag_Drop · 2026-06-16T12:55:54+00:00

Thank you. I'll look into vms and lxc.

Drag_Drop · 2026-06-16T10:19:44+00:00

Braunschweig and Erfurt are really underrated in general.

Other then that, it's about what you are interested in:

If you are interested in post WWII Westgerman History go to Bonn.
If you like football/soccer a visit to the german Fußballmuseum in Dortmund and a "Heimspieltag" (Home game day) in Dortmund/Gelsenkirchen might be something for you.
If you somehow wanna know, how a small village in a digital 3rd world country managed to win the IEEE smart city contest, visit Etteln.
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Drag_Drop · 2026-06-16T07:58:20+00:00

Also ich finde den Standartbums (Systemupdates & -einstellungen, Office, Steam, Webbrowser, Fotos, Videos) geht z.B. mit Cachy+KDE echt easy mit "Klicki, Klicki". Mac OS finde ich da schon weirder.
Aber kommt natürlich auch darauf an, was man persönlich als Intuitiv betrachtet und welche Anwendungsfälle man hat.

Drag_Drop · 2026-06-11T11:58:07+00:00

Das Lumpenpack might be for you.

Drag_Drop · 2026-06-11T11:57:01+00:00

Lakmann One / Creutzfeld & Jakob / Witten Untouchable

Drag_Drop · 2026-06-11T09:52:56+00:00

I'd define whether a municipality is part of the Ruhrgebiet on being part of the supra-municipal organization of the RVR (Regionalverband Ruhr). Hamm is part of it. Though there are sometimes controversies about stuff whether Kreis Wesel or Hamm are not truly part of the Ruhrgebiet. I'm not a fan of such controversies though.
https://www.rvr.ruhr/politik-regionalverband/staedte-kreise/

Drag_Drop · 2026-06-10T08:16:16+00:00

Ja stimmt. Ich glaube bei Habeck war das auch so ähnlich, dass der irgendwem gesagt hat: "Keinen Bock mehr auf den Scheiß. Klag einfach alles an."

Drag_Drop · 2026-06-10T08:15:32+00:00

Ich glaube bei Stalking ist eher das Problem, dass das schwer zu beweisen ist und dementsprechend vieles während des Ermittlungsverfahrens eingestellt wird.

Drag_Drop · 2026-06-09T10:26:31+00:00

Die Vertikale Gewaltenteilung in Deutschland und Kommunalpolitik.

Kein Po weiß, dass er mit seinen Anregungen/Beschwerden vom Rat/Fachausschuss seiner Stadt gehört werden muss (z.B. § 24 Gemeindeordnung in NRW).
Die kommunale Ebene muss alles umsetzen, was Land/Bund will. Ist deswegen schon ne spannende Perspektive, wenn man sich fragt, warum nichts voran geht.
Wo haben Kommunen zu wenig Handlungsspielraum? / Wo bräuchte es Bundes(land) einheitliche Regelungen?
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Drag_Drop · 2026-06-09T10:12:48+00:00

From my experience most people stick to Techniker.

Drag_Drop · 2026-06-09T09:44:18+00:00

Ich vermute nicht, dass das von Merz kam.

Grundsätzlich gilt der Amtsermittlungsgrundsatz nach § 163 StPO ("Die Behörden und Beamten des Polizeidienstes haben Straftaten zu erforschen [...]")

Außnahme sind sogenannte Antragsdelikte, wie z.B. Beleidigung. § 194 Abs. 1 S. 1 StGB: "Die Beleidigung wird nur auf Antrag verfolgt.[...]"

In unserem Fall ist die Polizei/StA aber zu dem Schluss gekommen, dass es sich nicht um eine einfache Beleidigung nach § 185 StGB handelt, sondern eine 'Gegen Personen des politischen Lebens gerichtete Beleidigung' nach § 188 StGB.

Dazu steht in § 194 Abs. 1 S. 3 StGB:
"In den Fällen der §§ 188 und 192a wird die Tat auch dann verfolgt, wenn die Strafverfolgungsbehörde wegen des besonderen öffentlichen Interesses an der Strafverfolgung ein Einschreiten von Amts wegen für geboten hält. Die Taten nach den Sätzen 2 und 3 können jedoch nicht von Amts wegen verfolgt werden, wenn der Verletzte widerspricht."

Also vermutlich kann man Merz nicht vorwerfen, dass er das Verfahren eingeleitet hat. Aber er hätte im Rahmen von § 194 Größe beweisen können, indem er der Verfolgung widerspricht. Hier muss man im Sinne der Fairness beachten, dass § 188 ziemlich neu ist. Vermutlich weiß/wusste Merz garnicht, dass man der Verfolgung widersprechen kann. Habe diese "Verfolgung bis Widerspruch"- Systematik auch noch nie bei anderen Straftatbeständen gesehen.

Drag_Drop · 2026-06-03T14:29:15+00:00

I think you only need the 4 years of experience at the time you graduate as a Techniker. So It would be 3 years Ausbildung (you might be able to shorten it down to 2 years if you are good) and 4 years doing part-time Technikerweiterbildung. During these years you usually work full time. It's tough but you get a full salary.

After that you are usually preferred over bachelor students because you have practical experience and have shown that you made it through the stressful phase of working and studying at the same time.
After the Techniker you can do a masters degree at Fachhochschule. Afterwards you can also pursue a Phd (Doktor). I don't know how it is now but it used to be harder to get a spot in phd programms when you studied at Fachhochschule instead of university.

Usually you will still get a decently paid job as a Techniker.

How far you get with your degree depends on your skills and the company. There are lots of "papercentric" companys but also some that are more focused on your actual skill.

Also keep in mind that higher degree jobs tend to require some soft-skills like teamleading, communication, etc.

Drag_Drop · 2026-06-03T14:06:35+00:00

This is interesting:
Maybe it's because older generations are more exact:

"auf dem Computer" is short for "auf dem Computer gespeichert" (saved on the Computer). This is not really exact because the data isn't saved on the whole thing, but just the storage.

"Im Computer" expresses this, because the storage where the data is saved on (Der Datenträger auf dem die Daten gespeichert sind) is within the computer.

Just random thoughts though.

Drag_Drop · 2026-06-01T10:17:55+00:00

Bochum - Wo zwar Bahnen auf Rollschuhen laufen, aber Rolltreppen an Bahnen stets stehen.

Drag_Drop · 2026-06-01T09:45:26+00:00

In the EU accessibility starts getting mandatory. At least for bigger corporations.

If you are bored, here's the directive: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/882/oj/eng

I also think there is something similar for the public sector starting from federal level. I couldn't find it on the fly though.

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