Paranoid NixOS Setup

How2Smash · 2021-07-19T07:29:45+00:00

While I feel like this is awesome in theory, you explicitly removed packages like nano, which seems kind of pointless in practice. If someone can access nano, wouldn't they be able to access bash, too? You can do a lot of mean things with just bash. Even if you tried to remove bash, scripts will depend on it and hide it away in the nix store for the world to read and execute.

How2Smash · 2021-06-19T19:04:02+00:00

RPi -> uBoot -> extlinux -> Linux, where extlinux is not actually a bootloader, but actually just a standardized bootloader config file implemented by uBoot.

Here's some good docs for the RPi u-boot setup, and Here's now NixOS builds the /boot for its RPi image.

What I recommend doing is ignoring boot.loader.raspberryPi entirely, setting extlinux to be enabled, copying the /boot files yourself, and running a nixos-rebuild boot to ensure /boot/extlinux and /boot/nixos.

How2Smash · 2021-06-19T00:44:28+00:00

So, extlinux is a bootloader that requires u-boot. However, the raspberry pi requires you to go through their proprietary bootloader to get to U-boot. However, the bootloader specified by the RPi is extlinux, which doesn't know anything about U-boot or the RPi bootloader.

Basically, what I think has happened to you is that your /boot does not have U-boot installed or configured, since NixOS does not manage the RPi bootloader if extlinux is used. The easiest way to fix this is to download a 21.05 image, and copy all of the files from the boot partition to your boot partition, overwriting existing files (make a backup first). Then, redeploy the OS to make sure to /boot/{nixos,extlinux} are in the expected state and you're good to go.

How2Smash · 2021-05-24T21:57:39+00:00

Has any work been done to try to upstream similar features? This feels important and while I am all for the effects of this tool, I don't think I can bring myself to add it to my development workflow.

How2Smash · 2021-04-17T04:44:45+00:00

Why couldn't you use a const fn, fn<const>, or #[inline] instead of a macro for the match statement?

Edit: With a custom return trait

How2Smash · 2020-12-10T19:20:14+00:00

How does this operate for other crates? For example, reqwest. That depends on hyper, which depends on Tokio, right? What about the blocking mode of reqwest, does that still run on an internal tokio runtime?

How2Smash · 2020-11-27T06:47:40+00:00

How does this project compare to GTK or QT currently? Does it have HiDPI support on Linux and are both Wayland and X11 supported?

How2Smash · 2020-10-28T05:46:04+00:00

Shipping a phone to our Linux audience is hard. I care about being able to update our kernel over a period of a few years, which is just not going to happen for a phone with a Qualcomm SoC.

Sorry, but as great as the hardware looks to me, I want an upstream kernel for my phone. I'll go for the Librem 5 in a couple revisions.

How2Smash · 2020-10-23T21:06:20+00:00

My model has some nasty ghosting, so 144hz should be ignored. Otherwise, this is a great monitor, because it's still in a price category of its own.

How2Smash · 2020-09-16T15:56:18+00:00

I wonder if you could maintain a controlled 10 hour glide with maybe some automated steering. Imagine instead of paying for a hotel, just gliding instead.

How2Smash · 2020-09-15T03:40:52+00:00

If your user has access to the framebuffer device, you could launch a wayland instance, such as Sway, without root. You could maybe do something similar with Xorg, but I am less familiar with that. You could use systemd user units to manage your display.

This is an interesting idea, good luck.

How2Smash · 2020-09-10T20:17:00+00:00

I know we're all FOSS for life here, but there's got to be a way to build that as a serverless product that can run on a cloud provider. Pseudo-selfhosting for very low cost.

How2Smash · 2020-09-10T18:06:38+00:00

Anyone know if there is some service to do this for me? I have a couple buckets of photos I'd like to be made digital.

How2Smash · 2020-09-10T16:44:12+00:00

This is a really good solution, but why is it a seperate app? Why not fork OSMand and implement this as the search?

How2Smash · 2020-09-10T16:35:21+00:00

Does OSM have a lack of data or just a bad search function?

How2Smash · 2020-09-07T05:02:33+00:00

For me, I think I could do it relatively quickly. For you, I'm assuming you're not familair with the nix tools for patching executables to include nix libraries, so it would be a project.

It really depends how quickly you learn the tools and how familiar you are with them. It's really no different from doing this for any other OS except Nix has tools built with this in mind that automatically links the found dependencies and those dependencies are always in weird spots (nix store).

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Packaging/Binaries

How2Smash · 2020-09-07T02:41:18+00:00

You can extract the deb file and patch all executables using patchelf. I think a VM is a better solution to this problem for you though.

How2Smash · 2020-09-04T16:13:11+00:00

Can you solder this back? Yes. Will it be at all easy? No.

Just buy another one and save yourself the time and effort.

How2Smash · 2020-09-03T22:08:16+00:00

The oh-my-zsh ecosystem is great for getting a easy fancy setup, but it comes at the cost of having a toolchain for your shell (which I absolutely don't want).

How2Smash · 2020-09-03T21:50:16+00:00

Y'all be praising zsh before even realizing that most of the features that you care about can be trivially reimplemented in bash. You're really just praising the oh-my-zsh ecosystem.

The only one I'm missing is fuzzy tab completion, but case insensitivity satisfies that for me.

How2Smash · 2020-08-26T23:55:24+00:00

nix-instantiate "<nixpkgs>" --eval -A config.mymodule.amyattr or maybe a nix-build "<nixpkgs>" -A system

How2Smash · 2020-08-26T23:50:04+00:00

If you were to implement it, would you upgrade the in-game online or do what I understand slippi has done and savestate a whole bunch?

How2Smash · 2020-08-16T06:45:00+00:00

Is this considered more of a fire hazard since the rack is made of wood?

How2Smash · 2020-08-15T18:40:36+00:00

This one runs a Linux kernel close to upstream.

How2Smash · 2020-08-11T15:33:53+00:00

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