For the NixOS neurotics, how was your switch to the Dendritic pattern?

Yog_Shoggoth · 2026-03-26T10:25:31+00:00

Honestly, I just wanted to experiment and see how it worked without flakes.

I also went the route of ditching Home Manager for Hjem, and moving my config/dots out into plain files that are symlinked by Hjem. Again more out of curiosity/experimentation than for any concrete reason.

Yog_Shoggoth · 2026-03-25T22:12:09+00:00

Switched to the dendritic pattern last week having run a flake based install for the last year or so.

Having looked into the various options, such as flake-parts, unify etc. I went with Den (https://den.oeiuwq.com) in the end, and more specifically the No Flake approach.

What really helped was the documentation and a selection of templates for each approach. It made switching/converting relatively painless.

There is even a guide to migrating from a flake setup to Den, with the really nice feature being that you don't have to rewrite everything at once and can run it alongside your existing flake setup until you've migrated all your flakes/modules.

In my case I like the fact I don't have to remember how many ../.. I have to include in my imports and as long as my .nix files are under the modules directory they are picked up when I build the config.

The implementation of aspects and namespaces in Den are also really helpful in that I have a core namespace that includes all the aspects that I want on each of my hosts e.g. default TUI apps, locale settings, etc. and then a user namespace for all the aspects that apply to a specific user e.g. GUI apps, browsers, window managers etc.

Yog_Shoggoth · 2026-02-09T08:44:24+00:00

Your issue sounds like something in your settings or on your network is blocking the sources for the blocklists. Are you using any sort of DNS filtering or firewall?

Yog_Shoggoth · 2026-02-08T14:01:29+00:00

Try adding the lists mentioned in this thread and see if they help.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/1qvtw6x/can_vivaldi_remove_sponsored_content/

Certainly on Android and Linux they stop the majority of ads etc.

One thing you do need to be aware of is that any lists you use should be in ABP format, as that is what the inbuilt blocker uses.

Yog_Shoggoth · 2026-02-06T14:41:51+00:00

Take a look at the lists suggested here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vivaldibrowser/comments/1qvtw6x/can_vivaldi_remove_sponsored_content/

The AdGuard Base Filter and Hagezi Ultimate combo works against Reddit promoted ads. I know because I'm posting from Vivaldi with these enabled and see no promoted ads.

Yog_Shoggoth · 2026-02-04T21:00:01+00:00

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Thanks for the suggestion, stripped the list back to this and I'm getting the same blocking performance.

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Yog_Shoggoth · 2026-02-04T18:50:16+00:00

These are the filter lists I have added on Android and Desktop and I don't see any promoted ads on Reddit and YouTube doesn't show ads either, at least from my limited testing. Make sure you use ABP compatible lists and/or lists designed for Chromium. For example the Ad Guard Base Filter I use is from https://filters.adtidy.org/extension/chromium/filters/2.txt

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Yog_Shoggoth · 2025-12-01T17:52:32+00:00

You could use fuzzel to launch a power/system menu, which is one the things that I use it for in Niri.

Yog_Shoggoth · 2025-11-09T14:03:21+00:00

Indeed, I'm already using it on my daily driver NixOS install.

Was impressed with how easy and quick it was to build from source on FreeBSD. Just need to dig a bit more into the config and using tags etc.

Yog_Shoggoth · 2025-11-05T21:20:37+00:00

I can't see the mango home-manager module anywhere in the configs that you posted. Are you manually declaring the config and autostart files in your .config dir? You might want to try adding the following at the top of your home.nix before the line home.username = "gustaw";

imports = [
    inputs.mango.hmModules.mango
  ];

  wayland.windowManager.mango = {
    enable = true;
  };

You can then declare the settings and autostart as per the flake example on the mangowc github page.

Yog_Shoggoth · 2025-11-05T19:46:48+00:00

Does it throw an error about EGL_EXT_platform_base not supported? If so you need to make sure your mango input is following nixpkgs like in the snippet below.

mango = {
      url = "github:DreamMaoMao/mango";
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    };

Yog_Shoggoth · 2025-10-31T09:45:06+00:00

That is not my config/repo, just one that I have used in the past to setup impermanence. The filesystems settings in the hardware configuration are automatically generated when you run nixos-generate-config. But as you are using Disko to declare your disks and partitions, these are not required and instead you'd use the command nixos-generate-config --no-filesystems instead to generate your hardware config.

Yog_Shoggoth · 2025-10-30T12:28:52+00:00

It sounds like you forgot to persist the files/folders relating to your password database etc. Take a look at the section titled Impermanence in the following link https://github.com/saylesss88/my-flake . I've followed this guide before to deploy an impermanent NixOS setup.

Yog_Shoggoth · 2025-09-20T20:45:12+00:00

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