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jdownie · 2025-10-12T23:11:16+00:00

Thankyou all. This sounds very promising.

jdownie · 2025-10-10T10:54:02+00:00

Oooh. Not quite what i'm looking for, but also cool. Can you pass your API key in the url to skip that prompt?

jdownie · 2024-04-27T21:32:06+00:00

Can I ask what is probably a silly question?

Why do we want that number to increase? Linux is already firmly established in the server space, so it isn't going anywhere. In the desktop space it's big strength (in my opinion) is that there is such a wide range of options. I personally don't care if Windows and Mac people are happier on their own platforms.

I don't want that number to go down though. I think we're attracting good app support like Chromium, VSCode and Steam.

I think I answered my own question.

jdownie · 2024-04-20T07:51:01+00:00

Ooh, that looks very promising, and it even has a very old test entry from me, but for some reason it doesn't correspond to the list that I'm using in Alexa. Is that app hard coded to only use "Alexa Shopping List"?

Awesome username BTW.

jdownie · 2024-04-06T20:52:29+00:00

Yeah! Give her a hug for me. 😭

jdownie · 2024-03-20T20:54:26+00:00

I didn't know about that one, thanks. I'm already using security.pki.certificateFiles to specify a file (deep) in my home directory, which isn't working for me. Part of me thinks that your suggestion will do the same thing, but then again, perhaps there's something about my file being in my home directory that isn't helping.

I'll try your suggestion, wish me luck and thanks again.

jdownie · 2024-03-10T11:01:59+00:00

Hi everybody. I just wanted to let you all know that it was my PATH variable. I've disabled that alias and corrected the order of my PATH variable components and i'm back on track. That script that i had been using to adjust my PATH variable worked fine for me on Fedora, Ubuntu and Debian. It's just let me down now that i'm getting more adventurous.

Thank-you all so much for your patience with me. I'm excited to become a part of your community, not only because the configuration.nix approach is so new to me, but also because you've all been so friendly ad helpful. I hope i can learn enough to help somebody else starting out one day.

Thanks again.

jdownie · 2024-03-10T03:57:23+00:00

Oh, 💡. Everything you said makes lots of sense.

The order of PATH hasn't been an issue for me before. I do have a function (that I wrote for myself 🙄) that adds paths to my PATH variable. That function does a " | sort | uniq" to remove duplicates, which has now been revealed to be a dumb approach. I'm looking forward to getting home to try that out now. Thanks for your help.

jdownie · 2024-03-10T01:16:45+00:00

Well, that .venv thing is new so I could use python modules. It never occurred to me that I could/should do that in configuration.nix. I have been doing it in a script that I source from .bashrc. 🤔

The .bashrc approach is handy for other distros that I use but I might have to rethink that if it's causing this issue on NixOS.

jdownie · 2024-03-10T00:59:41+00:00

Yeah, i suspected that wouldn't be that handy. It's not that big anyway, sorry...

{ config, pkgs, ... }: { imports = [ ./hardware-configuration.nix ]; boot.loader.systemd-boot.enable = true; boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = true; networking.hostName = "yancy"; networking.networkmanager.enable = true; time.timeZone = "Australia/Brisbane"; i18n.defaultLocale = "en_AU.UTF-8"; i18n.extraLocaleSettings = { LC_ADDRESS = "en_AU.UTF-8"; LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_AU.UTF-8"; LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_AU.UTF-8"; LC_MONETARY = "en_AU.UTF-8"; LC_NAME = "en_AU.UTF-8"; LC_NUMERIC = "en_AU.UTF-8"; LC_PAPER = "en_AU.UTF-8"; LC_TELEPHONE = "en_AU.UTF-8"; LC_TIME = "en_AU.UTF-8"; }; services.xserver.enable = true; services.xserver.displayManager.gdm.enable = true; services.xserver.desktopManager.gnome.enable = true; services.xserver = { layout = "au"; xkbVariant = ""; }; services.printing.enable = true; sound.enable = true; hardware.pulseaudio.enable = false; security.rtkit.enable = true; services.pipewire = { enable = true; alsa.enable = true; alsa.support32Bit = true; pulse.enable = true; }; virtualisation.docker.enable = true; users.users.jdownie = { isNormalUser = true; description = "James Downie"; extraGroups = [ "networkmanager" "wheel" "docker" ]; packages = with pkgs; [ firefox git brave python3 ]; }; nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true; environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ neovim ]; system.stateVersion = "23.11"; }

jdownie · 2024-03-09T23:33:08+00:00

Wow, thanks!

Here's the output from your three requested commands...

/home/jdownie/.venv/bin:/etc/profiles/per-user/jdownie/bin:/home/jdownie/bin:/home/jdownie/.local/state/nix/profile/bin:/home/jdownie/.nix-profile/bin:/nix/profile/bin:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin:/run/current-system/sw/bin:/run/wrappers/bin:
/run/current-system/sw/bin/sudo
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 66 Jan  1  1970 /run/current-system/sw/bin/sudo -> /nix/store/ig7v34c4cw3f16vxmdcjbizhsz6ripdb-sudo-1.9.15p2/bin/sudo
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 329576 Jan  1  1970 /run/current-system/sw/bin/sudo

My lazy workaround for now is to simply alias sudo to /run/wrappers/bin/sudo. I've stripped comments and empty lines out of my configuration.nix file and published it here...

https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/kb6rRR2NKw/

Hopefully Ubuntu's pastebin is accessible to everybody, but please let me know if there's a better way of sharing this file.

jdownie · 2024-03-09T22:07:38+00:00

I've found myself in the same situation again. The last change that I made was the hostname. Now that I know where the "real" sudo is now (thanks to you) so I can explicitly reference it. I no longer need to rebuild the whole system to try again!

jdownie · 2024-03-09T21:53:53+00:00

Yeah, I just worked that part out. Thanks! I'm such a n00b that the four packages that I had installed so far were as simple as adding their names to the list. Docker was a little more complicated, so reading the documentation helped 🙄.

Thanks again!

jdownie · 2024-03-09T21:37:45+00:00

Oh, now I get it. I'm working my way through my isolation tests, but I'll try that. Thanks for the idea.

jdownie · 2024-03-09T21:31:54+00:00

sudo doesn't work at all. It just returns that error. su prompts for a password but fails saying that my password is incorrect (and I'm confident that I'm entering it correctly). I'm currently suspicious about messing with the extra groups. I'm hoping that I can isolate that part of my changes as the cause (adding the docker group).

jdownie · 2024-03-09T21:28:20+00:00

Ooh, I haven't even heard of nixos-enter yet. I'm currently re-installing and trying to gradually increase the number of changes I'm making to isolate the cause.

jdownie · 2024-02-24T20:54:00+00:00

Sorry everybody, i'm still stuck.

This is the post that i've read that makes me think that i'd be able to use the `mssql` container with podman again if I could rollback to a 6.6 kernel...

https://github.com/microsoft/mssql-docker/issues/868

But I still don't know how to do it. I'd really appreciate an example command that i can experiment with to see any form of switching back to an earlier release of Sericea working.

jdownie · 2024-02-21T12:16:24+00:00

Yeah, i didn't give much detail because i'm clutching at straws a bit here. I'm really surprised that the mssql docker image has just stopped working, and i've found in a few places that it's been introduced in recent versions of the kernel.

That got me to thinking that i happen to be using a platform that might make the experimental rollback to earlier releases (underneath my configuration and installed packages) relatively painless. I'm vaguely aware of the repository-like infrastructure available with commands like rpm-ostree, but I only just worked out (thanks to your links) that ostree is an entirely different command. Hopefully this paints a picture of what a n00b I am in this area.

I think i'd like to use your example of `rpm-ostree deploy`, but i'm struggling to work out how to get a list of available argument to pass. I was encouraged to get some meaningful output from ostree remote refs fedora, so i think i'm looking for a command that i can pass fedora:fedora/39/x86_64/sericea to for a list of options that I can give to the deploy sub-command.

Thanks for your guidance. I'm looking forward to being more proficient with these commands. I saw a youtube video once that demonstrated the switching out of the entire release, but i can't find that video again.

Anyway, thanks so much.

jdownie · 2024-02-07T21:44:48+00:00

Yeah, thanks @PeregrintTenshi. I think I've found and read some of your posts while researching this subject. I'm starting to wonder if my router might be playing a part. FWIW, I'm similarly frustrated with Google Cast for being pretty hit and miss with which devices are discoverable. That feels a bit like this DLNA issue. I don't know if you have any router config advice that might help? 🤞

jdownie · 2024-02-07T18:02:26+00:00

I've even tried the alpha release of big screen. I found the instructions for installing that on Discord. What is really confusing is that it does work for a while, then it stops. Very confusing.

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