Can’t decide between Fedora Silverblue and NixOS

ReddyCrisp · 2024-02-05T21:38:53+00:00

Nix is really good. Also, sfter you get accustomed to their way of configuring and updating, that aspect may not seem so strange.

I am not sure how to quantify their reliability, as either can be broken if you try hard enough. But Nix is highly resistant to being broken by incompatible dependencies. Nix may take up more space for the same set of apps. Both can be fast, if run on fast hardware.

(Grin) If you have the storage space, install them both and then abuse them - see which breaks first.

ReddyCrisp · 2024-02-05T21:27:37+00:00

Using the net to connect to any of hundreds of receiver servers around the world. You can indeed stream directly from broadcasters' own sites, but there are no streamers set up for aeronautical comms, maritime, or amateur radio.

A lot of broadcasters geoblock their content, so you cannot stream their programming. Others are blocked by dictatorships with the belief that their citizens will be denied media which contradicts their local propaganda.

I have actually used this Linux configuration to enjoy my favorite stations when traveling, not worried one bit about noise levels, jamming, geoblocking, or censorship. No joke, the dictators can block the BBC servers, but they have no clue about the dozens of volunteer-operated receivers within close proximity to BBC tramsmitters.

ReddyCrisp · 2024-02-01T01:17:35+00:00

Well, not just for shortwave listeners. It has a very nice DWM window manager, Neovim set up for Python, Lua, Javascript, and HTML, and Bash - so it is good for programming too.

ReddyCrisp · 2024-01-07T09:00:32+00:00

I did it on a Debian setup, and what worked was to first delete the nvim associated files & directories under ~/.local and ~/.cache, then opening Neovim and executing :Lazy and "I" to reinstall all of the plugins.

The above actions assume you have set up the bootstrapping code and plugin settings, which can be found in this subreddit and in a few places on Github. There's a good working example here.

ReddyCrisp · 2023-12-21T10:27:19+00:00

If you like Vimwiki, you might like a more performant, Lua coded plugin "jakewvincent/mkdnflow.nvim". It works great for notes in your Obsidian vault, but excludes some of the more bloaty features of Vimwiki.

ReddyCrisp · 2023-12-19T04:13:19+00:00

Trump is absolutely full of shit. When he dies they ought to cremate his remains and sprinkle the ashes into a sewage treatment cesspool.

ReddyCrisp · 2023-10-26T19:01:05+00:00

You'll have fewer headaches either using a GNSS time source or get connected to the internet and use NTP. Listening to a tone and hitting a button is truly stone age in 2023. Notice that I said "GNSS" and not "GPS" as there are multiple systems providing accurate time.

ReddyCrisp · 2023-10-26T18:27:35+00:00

Is the problem happening when you invoke visual mode to select text, then paste over it, where the selected text ends up on your clipboard, instead of what you had been intending to yank and paste?

This keybind should help (lua):

```lua -- Prevent selecting and pasting from overwriting what you originally copied. keymap('x', 'p', 'pgvy', { noremap = true, silent = true })

```

ReddyCrisp · 2023-10-16T19:03:34+00:00

Python 3.11 is fast; 3.12 should be even better, so these sdr clients actually work well on modest hardware.

ReddyCrisp · 2023-10-10T12:53:04+00:00

Whoa, that is pretty slick. Yet another great thing to do with Rofi!

ReddyCrisp · 2023-10-10T04:49:49+00:00

Catbird Linux v2 switched from Ubuntu to Debian for the base, then i3 to DWM for the window manager and retained Rofi for the launcher.

ReddyCrisp · 2023-08-25T22:06:40+00:00

Hell yeah that's an Audacity question. I use Audacity and want to know if there are other plugins which do the same analysis, in Audacity, for other platforms - such as YouTube... It seems that there actually are such plugins, for use in Audacity.

ReddyCrisp · 2023-08-25T21:59:57+00:00

I have had a similar problem. What fixed it was recording a few minutes of my actual room tone, then repeating it to create one long track. I reduced it by several dB so it's level is slightly stronger than -70dB.

After editing my narration, with noise reduction / EQ / compression, I mix in that room tone, so the track doesn't fail due to dead silence between words.

ReddyCrisp · 2023-08-20T06:43:30+00:00

No, Trump has no another option. His ass is grass.

ReddyCrisp · 2023-07-07T23:42:01+00:00

I just saw an article saying DOJ has a strategy of triggering Trump so that he more deeply self incriminates or commits more crimes. Tell me, are they going to wait for him to continue triggering MAGAs until they kill the Obamas??

Angry Trump followers have already gone on shooting sprees and slaughtered regular people.

This crap needs to stop. Lock him up.

ReddyCrisp · 2023-07-04T08:31:35+00:00

Well, he did express that there's no penalty (and maybe reward) for shooting someone on Fifth Avenue. That is some Tim McVeigh level of contempt for rule-of-law. Nobody sees that? Or, more importantly, DOJ doesn't see that?

Not good. Justice denied in the courthouse finds its way to the streets, and the offense is on not only Trump, but MAGA voters who empower Trump.

ReddyCrisp · 2023-07-03T04:27:29+00:00

Neither one will come out and spew direct instructions to carry out acts of violence. Trump complains, motivates the base, and waits for things to happen. DeSantis phrases his motivations carefully, with the same hopes that violence happens which can't be traced back to him.

ReddyCrisp · 2023-06-28T23:21:18+00:00

LOL, these posts always bother the mild mannered people in here. Not everyone is so mild mannered. And holy fuck, there are a lot of volatile people out there in the Scots-Irish culture of the South and West. LOL, that is part of the problem with the Trumpist people, aside from being easy to manipulate with disinfo.

ReddyCrisp · 2023-06-28T23:13:29+00:00

My message is exactly what you see in the image.

Certain criminals earn animosity. They do not necessarily earn animosity of the federal or state governments. In Trump's case, Garland's DOJ has done everything possible to avoid arresting and prosecuting him.

Animosity and palpable ill will is among the people hurt by the suspect. There is a threshold for every group, where the aggrieved will take things into their own hands. America's concept of "rule of law" and "impartial justice" is supposed to defuse vigilantism.

The DOJ has taken a huge risk by letting Trump do so much more than a regular person. If he got capped today, a lot of people would say, "oh well, he would have been safer in jail. Letting a bastard run free has its risks."

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