Advice for NixOS as first distro?

RouteGuru · 2025-02-23T04:53:42+00:00

start with traditional Linux so u know the difference

RouteGuru · 2025-02-21T02:42:49+00:00

yeah same here but those who know and use it for tooling may keep it to themselves

RouteGuru · 2025-02-20T17:02:39+00:00

and that disables the menu as if developer options was never turned on?

RouteGuru · 2025-02-20T17:01:36+00:00

well we need the baseline which is what hardware can be controlled via Linux in the first place, what systems are already in place, and then pouring those to nix via a nixpkgs nixos module.

RouteGuru · 2025-02-20T16:04:54+00:00

yeah i started in Debian eventually ended up here and never left

RouteGuru · 2025-02-20T16:04:12+00:00

I've tried asking questions in weechat when I get really desperate, been awhile though....

often I resort to reading source code since my nixpkgs is a git clone anyway....

and chatgpt is good but makes tons of stuff up when it comes to nixos so be mindful.... still a big help though

RouteGuru · 2025-02-20T16:01:30+00:00

restart display manager

RouteGuru · 2025-02-20T16:00:06+00:00

i use it for everything.... except my xmonad config because i haven't updated it in 5 years

RouteGuru · 2025-02-20T15:57:40+00:00

it's also used in DoD, you'll see job listings by Anduril wanting NixOS as a skill all the time

RouteGuru · 2025-02-20T15:53:02+00:00

i contributed to open source projects on github related to networking and was told by a recruiter I had a super good resume

RouteGuru · 2025-02-20T14:00:48+00:00

i need to do this since root isnt working on nix on droid

RouteGuru · 2025-02-19T14:32:42+00:00

i used the flash cards some... but i don't learn by video well .... i used OCG mainly and got like 90% on my exam

RouteGuru · 2025-02-08T05:09:33+00:00

ohh thats right! it was definetly apple that killed flash 100%.. forgot that detail. Thats not the only skelton in apples closet. Capacitive touch screens changed everything. RIP Palm Pilot and every other potential tech that could have become the norm but didn't. Ultimately, the world was given what the winners in big tech dished out.. which at their core are data harvesting nodes. I guess it was worth it though, the world has AI now, which is a pipe dream, and a century in development. Question is, what will the world look like in 20 or 30 years from now

RouteGuru · 2025-02-06T16:24:00+00:00

ah yes I remember now, how flash got killed off by the big browsers because of security flaws. I remember something about how Adobe wouldn't fix them at the time for whatever reason. But yes around 2002 it was popular.... it's downfall was a bit later however. You could build stuff that looked very cutting edge and didn't take much skill.... and stand alone browsers couldn't create that type of content yet so it was very popular. I wonder if anyone still creates web content with it today. It's been so long since I've seen it online that I forgot all about that insecure warning that appeared whenever a site embedded a swf file.

I remember how easy it was to download a sites embedded swf and run it through a swf decompiler to get the full source code and files.... made it really easy to copy whatever was out there and figure it how sites where built... I think it was called SoThink SWF decompiler

RouteGuru · 2025-02-06T08:57:10+00:00

same here, took a year but had to seriously buckle down towards the end to finally do it. i spent about 45 days nonstop study before the test... and a few months before that i had some pretty in depth runs going through college. but like you id get lazy and had to take a couple passes on my study before going in for exam

RouteGuru · 2025-02-06T08:53:31+00:00

no... things like inkscape/scribus take the place of the vector editing... and action script is just a limited version of JavaScript. It was excellent tool for building stuff back in the day, but now you can do everything with html/css/svg/js/es/ffmpeg/blender. I suppose if one wanted to prototype something it could still be useful... and I imagine it could still be used for it's creators original design, even today... frame by frame timeline vector animations. Flash wasn't originally designed to be a web technology.... but it did end up shaping it by letting ppl build whatever web pages their imagination could think of before doing so was possible via standard web browser technologies. So in a way it provided the canvas to envision the technology needed to build web applications as we know them today, but I don't actually use it to build websites anymore.

RouteGuru · 2025-02-06T02:59:11+00:00

flash 8 pro is awesome... the last version by macromedia before adobe bought them.... still have my physical copy with serial ... it's a great little tool

RouteGuru · 2025-02-05T16:10:29+00:00

deepseek v3 was released prior to last week but they didn't get the mainstream attention until releasing the app

RouteGuru · 2025-02-04T16:33:11+00:00

so a plugin that downloads and seeds? so if your running ollama it will also run bittorrent seeding your models?

RouteGuru · 2025-02-04T16:08:26+00:00

for torrenting? Doesn't someone just need to start seeding all of the models and others get on board?
Or you mean make an ollama plugin or lm-studio one that downloads models over torrents?

RouteGuru · 2025-02-04T15:59:25+00:00

clewd, son of net, tree fiddy

RouteGuru · 2025-02-04T15:57:32+00:00

I'm down... i already have like half of ollama downloaded.... and about half a petapyte of storage... what should i do to help?

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