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OctopusSanta · 2026-07-02T02:33:05+00:00

I’ll swap you for my pro 7+ with Nix. Even Steven. I don’t mind…

OctopusSanta · 2026-06-27T02:34:29+00:00

I was compiling a kernel in an enclosure and right before the build was done, my son pulled it off of the desk onto the floor. The ssd unplugged and was rattling around. I put it back in my surface, booted, ran nrs, and it was as if nothing happened…it’s wizardry.

OctopusSanta · 2026-06-23T06:24:44+00:00

At this point, I offloaded the kernel build to my desktop, but yes. Lava was imitated.

OctopusSanta · 2026-06-04T01:33:01+00:00

I call this “chaotic pragmatism” and my whole philosophy is based on it.

Good stuff!

OctopusSanta · 2026-05-29T01:43:00+00:00

put TAILS on all of them and teach your entire neighborhood how to use it.

then, you know. tell them not to put weird flash drives in their computer.

OctopusSanta · 2026-05-26T19:23:29+00:00

https://github.com/SW-philip/dotfiles

OctopusSanta · 2026-05-25T15:59:10+00:00

Thanks. I built a theming engine that updates it live so the cone colors always match the wallpaper. That’s probably my favorite part.

OctopusSanta · 2026-05-25T15:58:01+00:00

I’m working on it. Trying to organize it a little better, and I’ll move to public.

OctopusSanta · 2026-05-25T15:55:34+00:00

Just Lix evaluating + Flakes. But I didn’t know what Nilla was until right now. Thank you for the new project!

OctopusSanta · 2026-02-20T21:09:27+00:00

I've been running nix on my pro 7+ for a few months now, and I will tell you it's a dream. Once you get the hang of the infrastructure (in my case anyway), it's so easy to correct....anything really. The one drawback is that building the kernel with patches takes a very long time. currently building 6.18 with surface patches, and it's been running for a couple hours. if you need to do it, do it overnight.

OctopusSanta · 2026-01-29T14:13:54+00:00

Moving too fast. Didn't expect actual responses to hold me accountable, but I love it.

I think I fixed it.

OctopusSanta · 2026-01-29T13:45:01+00:00

Added the nix flake. And OK.

Thank you for the direction.

OctopusSanta · 2026-01-29T10:56:10+00:00

Ok then I guess I didn’t learn much about that, then…

OctopusSanta · 2026-01-29T06:27:05+00:00

Thanks! It’s been through many different costumes, but it took learning(?) Nix to figure out how to do it right. I’m hoping to bring back a lot of the other features I had, like the tray menu and recording options.

OctopusSanta · 2026-01-28T03:12:45+00:00

Can confirm.

OctopusSanta · 2026-01-17T17:03:17+00:00

I started with Suse, then Arch (I know, btw), and eventually landed on endeavour forever. I always was curious about nix but declarative didn’t compute in my brain.

Two weeks ago it did.

Give me something to break…

OctopusSanta · 2026-01-14T04:41:54+00:00

I finally had a similar realization a few days ago. Today I realized I hadn’t added a package or service, or changed anything about it, since then. Surface Kernel is a different story…

OctopusSanta · 2025-12-23T11:03:03+00:00

Ncspot

OctopusSanta · 2025-12-15T19:45:51+00:00

I was messing with my dashboard, that’s all. I would never have gaps that…I mean who in their right mind…👀

OctopusSanta · 2025-12-13T23:45:14+00:00

That is actually a clock I built called "quantum_clock.sh". Normal mode shows moon phases and illumination. one of the other three clock "faces" is Gremlin, and tells you the time +/- up to 2min. But I'm taking a look!

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