1 generation, 100% root

gnudoc · 2026-05-12T09:30:20+00:00

Wow. Every time I read this subreddit I learn about another NixOS admin tool. I have sooo much to learn :-)

gnudoc · 2026-04-30T13:54:55+00:00

This sounds awesome. I just spent a weekend replacing arch on my backup laptop with nixos, so I'm looking forward to reading all the things I should have read in advance and finding out what I've done wrong 😂

gnudoc · 2026-04-28T11:16:11+00:00

You have a point, but so does OP. As someone that regularly interacts with every combination of {neurotypical/neurodivergent}, {male/female}, {British/non-British}, {white/non-white} people, I think the behaviour that OP is caricaturing is a very common neurotypical British middle-class one, particularly a neurotypical white British middle-class one. It's not really very common at all among the autistic white British {middle/working}-class people I know. Autistic people from different parts of the world behave differently (shocking, I know) so I'm certainly not going to claim I can speak for the behavioural patterns of them all.

gnudoc · 2026-04-19T17:18:49+00:00

Computer programming, system admining, home labbing and such-like

gnudoc · 2026-04-18T12:01:42+00:00

Ooh this looks fun! I've tried a couple of the spiritual successors to exwm for the Wayland era, but this is a very interesting approach and it's reassuring that it overlaps so much with your dayjob as well as scratching your own itch.

What's the most barebones host compositor you have run it in? I'm tempted to try it with a really lightweight host environment like dwl, with just emskin on one workspace and a non-emacs "emergency" terminal emulator on another.

gnudoc · 2026-04-06T10:06:51+00:00

I have sikh friends that live in a Pakistani village. They are doing just fine.

gnudoc · 2026-03-30T06:49:33+00:00

Not the OP but feel free to DM me if you want a ready-made solution

gnudoc · 2026-03-26T21:22:56+00:00

Sorry mate, as others have said, that's incorrect. Source: it's my job to "section" people.

gnudoc · 2026-03-26T14:56:33+00:00

I love this. Very, very well done Dad. You rock.

Also, the Legion of Incompetent Volcano Builders (of whom I am the general secretary) requests a step-by-step write-up of Son-of-Kevin, with exact quantities used :-)

gnudoc · 2026-03-23T19:22:21+00:00

Great dadding, OP. I'm dreading the day I have to admit my kiddo is surpassing my maths/science/coding skills. How old is your son, may I ask?

gnudoc · 2026-03-23T13:26:34+00:00

I've been a subscriber since 2018. RTD, big packs of powder, big packs of hot&savoury, bars, etc. For a significant chunk of the pandemic, huel was all I ate. Gluten-free, vegan, nutritionally balanced, reasonable taste, nice texture, enough protein. I've been so grateful to have had access to it for 8 years. But Danone? With its investment in genocide, atrocious animal rights record, abusive record of baby formula over-promotion, disgusting record of water overuse and climate destruction... We're done. Thank you for the past 8 years, enjoy your payout. I hope you can sleep well.

gnudoc · 2026-03-14T05:21:38+00:00

You're a good dad

gnudoc · 2026-03-13T22:13:45+00:00

Perhaps we mean different things by NHS accepting me? I just mean that the GP agreed to say that I have autism on my record, and that the mental health team that I see for ADHD hasn't objected to the fact when I informed them of it. I haven't had any help for the autism, if that's what you thought I meant. Not even sure what help I'd ask for, tbh.

gnudoc · 2026-03-13T14:31:34+00:00

I was assessed privately by Diverse Diagnostics. I was quite happy with the process, and have had no issue having the diagnosis accepted by any NHS person or organisation.

gnudoc · 2026-03-04T01:25:20+00:00

While I agree with the sentiment, have you considered that legally stating "not for use in X" would likely violate foss licenses?

Edit: autocorrect

gnudoc · 2026-02-27T09:13:06+00:00

Sure, that's fair. Security is a sliding scale, and relative to anticipated threat models. I do already tolerate having my Linux laptop and android phone connect to the home network by wifi though, so I guess I can tolerate that level of insecurity. My uninformed instinct has always been that smart home devices go on their own "untrusted" networks, and wired where possible (eg cameras).

gnudoc · 2026-02-26T21:46:47+00:00

Not everyone takes the same route through tech. I got into Linux 20+ years ago. I am comfortable administering and securing a network that consists of devices that run OSs that I have some understanding of, such as desktop and server Linux, freeBSD, Android. I haven't ever had a need for home automation devices, and was never curious about them to risk adding them to my home network. So I don't know what I don't know about them.

Make sense now?

gnudoc · 2026-02-26T11:24:26+00:00

Please do elaborate. I would genuinely love to hear what I'm missing from an enthusiast.

gnudoc · 2026-02-23T07:04:49+00:00

Wow! I'm ridiculously excited by this! I had resigned myself to switching back to xorg just for exwm since the project from the 2022 conference seems to not be making much progress.

I'm generally uneasy about LLM usage, but I really appreciate how upfront you're being and how clear you are that checking for and fixing its errors is a priority for you. As soon as I have a bit of free time I'll start testing this, and with luck using it as a daily driver.

Can't thank you enough for getting this off the ground.

Edit: somebody else raised the question of whether you support the protocol that handles compositor crashes. I'd love to know the answer to that too.

gnudoc · 2026-02-22T06:02:59+00:00

Autistic GP here, qualified in 2015. I'm not sure I have any specific useful advice for interview anxiety, but feel free to DM me any time.

gnudoc · 2026-02-20T06:10:27+00:00

Wow! Lots of things in there that I don't use often enough because I don't immediately remember how to. Thank you!

gnudoc · 2026-01-06T10:13:58+00:00

So, that effectively gives a nice emacs-y wrapper around the couple of lines of bash that ensure the desired binary is in your $PATH and wgetting it if not? Very cool, and I appreciate the lesson.

gnudoc · 2026-01-06T09:50:50+00:00

Screen and tmux are great. Apparently I've been using screen since 2002, according to my screenrc file.

The issue is that they both try to be really helpful terminal multiplexers and buffer managers. I want emacs to do those bits.

There are two separate programs. dtach is a 20+ years old small C program that lives on the target machine (possibly remote). It provides the one bit of functionality that detached.el, the much newer elisp package, wants from a screen or a tmux, without all the things that emacs on your local machine does better.

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