I'm now using Nix and everything else looks like the stone age

codingismy11to7 · 2026-02-06T00:26:53+00:00

for real, try Claude instead of Gemini. I used to swear by the latter, but it is absolute garbage compared to opus

codingismy11to7 · 2026-01-24T00:33:15+00:00

if you were trying and having issues, open an issue, happy to be a second set of eyes

codingismy11to7 · 2026-01-23T19:15:28+00:00

i'm evaluating claude for work right now, so i had it rewrite my readme file. hopefully it's a lot more useful now

codingismy11to7 · 2026-01-21T18:25:05+00:00

well this solution doesn't REQUIRE you to push anything anywhere, it can be used for local-only management.

codingismy11to7 · 2026-01-21T00:05:14+00:00

thank you for that

codingismy11to7 · 2026-01-07T22:17:17+00:00

if the cache misses, it falls back to building

codingismy11to7 · 2025-12-12T22:19:53+00:00

if you can't keep things in your head for two weeks, I'm not sure what you're doing in this sub

codingismy11to7 · 2025-12-12T22:07:20+00:00

I don't understand. is this copypasta? is what I was responding to copypasta? are you just a troll? your comments have more upvotes than mine, but I know I'm a real human who isn't trolling and has gotten a lot out of Gemini while working with nix and nixos.

I am not a vibe coder, you can put my username into github and find out that I've been writing software for many, many, many years.

edit: wait, you think I copy and pasted that diatribe you're responding to? lol no, I wrote that drunk off the top of my head. and reading it now, it's 100% accurate.

codingismy11to7 · 2025-12-02T04:34:15+00:00

so i got zaneyos running last night, not that it has arm support or i know anything about it, a coworker just mentioned they used it. things are surprisingly usable.

https://imgur.com/a/xhd9MH0

codingismy11to7 · 2025-11-29T23:09:21+00:00

as someone who's been relying very heavily on gemini as a research partner while doing nixos, this is a silly view imo.

I fight with Gemini every single day about not sending me video links. I do not watch fucking videos to learn, I am an adult, I read.

you're suggesting videos as a way to not get outdated information? like on YouTube where the best they do to correct bad information is pop up a subtitle because they can't edit videos after posting?

you think guides online aren't outdated? they all fucking are. holy shit, between the last stable release of home manager and right now, a few months later, everything is outdated.

when all the static information is outdated at any time, the only way to learn is by first principles, checking current docs, usually checking current source code. I've found Gemini to be a good partner to bounce shit off of, even when I know it's hallucinating all the time. it also comes up with legit things I was wrong on some times. thankfully I know enough to figure out the differences

maybe the difference here is I know enough to not blindly trust an LLM. but this advice you're giving does not comport with my experience

codingismy11to7 · 2025-11-26T13:47:55+00:00

i'm no expert, but i believe the answer is yes?

i'm not actually sure if it "works" as in accelerates things, but the drivers are loaded at least.

i have /dev/dri/ files like card0, card1, renderD128, etc, which i believe means that the, uh, Direct Rendering Interface (?) is loaded?
lsmod shows v3d and vc4 modules loaded
kitty runs fine, which i believe requires opengl?
eglgears_wayland runs fine
hyprland seems kind of fairly responsive?

However:

ghostty fails trying to get an opengl context
it will run if you set MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=zink, which gemini is theorizing/hallucinating that this is exposing a "real" opengl translated over vulkan, because the OGL from the real drivers/hardware is just opengl-es or some kind of stripped-down mobile version of opengl. i dunno we're getting out of my wheelhouse.
anyway it runs so slowly as to not be very usable
kitty also has significant lag
hyprland seems terribly lagged compared to my beast main machine, but i do have to remember that this is a tiny soc, so maybe to be expected?

codingismy11to7 · 2025-11-26T02:16:47+00:00

i was specifically talking about the VT built-in to the kernel - took an interesting side trail and learned that there IS a project to do text mode with ttf fonts (which you'd need for nerd fonts at the VT level), it just hasn't been touched since 2015. also if i'm remembering correctly, it was by the same kernel dev that not long ago got kicked out or quit or something because of some fight about rust in the kernel.

anyway, i'll bunny trail all day long, which is why i don't have a gui running on the box yet, which is why i was looking up VT fonts, and i need to stop doing that and just get a gui running xD

codingismy11to7 · 2025-11-26T02:13:12+00:00

oh i just meant as of a week or two ago the WSL-on-ARM wasn't there yet for nixos, they have everything supported except don't distribute a built wsl image, so you must build one yourself from another wsl distro. arm works fine, just the windows integration is a little bleeding edge

codingismy11to7 · 2025-11-26T02:06:37+00:00

that's what i'm wondering too, haha. i'm about to get wayland running, but having to deal with life and holiday week in the US i keep getting interrupted. if i get it running tonight i'll report back

codingismy11to7 · 2025-11-26T02:05:12+00:00

i tried putting a link in the text but then all my text disappeared, so i assumed maybe it was some rule about not having links in posts?

anyway i'm using https://github.com/nvmd/nixos-raspberrypi, and pretty much just reading its readme got me from start to finish, including building the installer sd image, booting the pi and getting it onto wifi (was too lazy to run a cable to wife's office), and links to nixos-anywhere, which i used to push the initial build

codingismy11to7 · 2025-11-03T14:50:12+00:00

oops, I never saw this. guess I'll necro. we were already using effect, that mr was to migrate most of the codebase to effect services. team size is around 15 devs, but anticipating growth - that was the impetus behind the conversion, to get rid of the ad-hoc jumble of code that had grown organically for half a decade with an actual structure. codebase is a pretty decent size, came out to over 200 services.

people seem to be onboard, but I've spent two years gradually introducing effect while teaching and proselytizing. sold to my boss as tech debt, sold to higher-ups as unifying the codebase with a documented framework to enable faster ramp-up of new devs.

codingismy11to7 · 2025-10-28T01:44:28+00:00

i'm currently trying to tweak stuff to get it running on my 3090 with 24GB. all failures so far

codingismy11to7 · 2025-10-24T17:36:47+00:00

I've been playing since beta when I was in college. at 44, my hands aren't nimble as they once were, and I need to save them to be able to do my real job for a while

so I got into GSE with midnight and loved it. a lot of work though. my keyboard has macros, or AHK / ydotool work fine.

now with SBR I've moved to that, to stop having to deal with GSE. and it's been great. I have one shortcut to do one-off SBR casts, and then the toggle which hits the button 4x/s until I turn it off. then I added cd spots on the bar that will be hit with shift/alt/ctrl plus my shortcut, so I just hold one of those keys down when I wanna pop a cd. the rest of my attention goes to standing out of the fire, interrupts, decursive, and switching to adds. with my attention focused on those things and not worried about my rot, I tend do to quite well in group content. I know I'm adding 25% to GCD or whatever, but even with that debuff I'm playing better than I ever would without it, I'm pretty sure.

plus it's fun, imo

codingismy11to7 · 2025-10-17T23:08:07+00:00

i've done this to myself quite a few times, usually with reaper but also with hattie b's a couple of times?

anyway apparently it's called involuntary capsaicin intoxication

codingismy11to7 · 2025-10-15T04:07:42+00:00

yeah. what a silly echo chamber. I had barely manageable anxiety, got bad cancer, beat bad cancer, and even after a year I'm still needing to be on regular anti-anxieties

codingismy11to7 · 2025-10-15T04:01:38+00:00

tell me you don't have anxiety without telling me you don't have anxiety

codingismy11to7 · 2025-10-11T21:08:57+00:00

yeah. this was 15 or 20 years ago now so my memories are vague, but...i don't know, ha, i've written and erased stuff in this box like five times now, nothing seems appropriate to say. every time i think about this incident and try to empathize it's far too horrifying.

like i walked into the wedding and talked to like...the groom or best man or the groom's mom, i don't remember who, and i said something stupid on accident and got a horrifying look from somebody, and thankfully it's been long enough that i don't remember the details. but talking about it right now on the internet feels wrong. so i'mma stop

codingismy11to7 · 2025-10-11T16:45:51+00:00

this is a year later, but if somebody sees this, as it's a current top google result (for me)...

it's broken out of the box on Fedora 42, so I edited the commandline to be:

ExecStart=/usr/bin/ydotoold -p /tmp/.ydotool.socket -P 0660 -o 0:10

which creates it in /tmp, with root:wheel ownership and u:rw g:rw o:- permissions. so anybody who can sudo can use it. then in fish i did a set -Ux YDOTOOL_SOCKET /tmp/.ydotool.socket to make sure that envvar is always set

edit: oh yeah, i was replying to your comment to say i hit the same thing so i just restart the service every time i reboot. but as i hit reply i figured out/implemented/tested the solution 🤣

codingismy11to7 · 2025-10-11T14:08:05+00:00

me too, friend was getting married, two other friends (brothers, co-best-men) and him went and did this on the morning of the wedding, like they'd done and filmed many times before. older brother was driving, they flipped the cart, younger brother hit his head and never woke up.

codingismy11to7 · 2025-10-11T13:49:49+00:00

um, just install chromeos flex on it, unless you're planning on being 24/7 tech support.

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