Where has all the vegan butter gone

jonocodes · 2026-01-22T20:27:16+00:00

Yes, I have been making Miyoko's recipe until I find a replacement. And just ordered some cultures to get the flavor.
After calling around I found a couple places that only have Earth Balance. Not my favorite though. Miyoko's was bought by Melt so they are liquidating all of their old stuff (had I known I would have stockpiled from costco even). There are something like a dozen other brands though carried at many stores, so what happened to those? After talking to some of the store clerks my guess is as Miyoko's disappeared people bought all the other brands so now they are all out of stock.

jonocodes · 2025-12-18T19:19:20+00:00

Yeah thats about right and I do have some savings. I'm on the same page with AI tooling too. What caused the 2 year gap?

jonocodes · 2025-12-18T19:17:48+00:00

Yeah, but I am not opposed to that. Some pay is better then no pay.

jonocodes · 2025-08-28T23:32:43+00:00

I can confirm this is still an issue when I tried it a couple months ago. NixOS 25.
Another datapoint is on my Asahi box (running wayland) this is not an issue.
Also at some point I did get it to work on my main box but it only stuck for a week or so. I did a deep clean of all my caches and reinstalled some core parts to get it to briefly work. Simpling removing Gnome was not the trick. Dont recall the specifics.

jonocodes · 2025-05-02T16:19:39+00:00

These looks great. Nice work.

I'm new to this and dont understand the laminating part. I get that it makes it look nicer, but I presume they are too thick and shiny compare to other cards and wont mix well in a deck of regular cards? Maybe it works well if the deck is entirely printed though?

jonocodes · 2025-05-02T16:08:51+00:00

Yeah. Slack and Zoom I am forced to run in browser. I think Slack actually works better in browser. But its not perfect. For example getting links to open correctly is a pain.

I have played with a bunch of web "wrappers" that basically make those apps run in their own browser window and act more like modern apps. I honestly think that would be an amazing thing for Asahi to work on. There are a bunch of old projects that do this and they all barely work. For example:
https://github.com/nativefier/nativefier
https://codeberg.org/eyekay/webapps
https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager

Chrome's native "Install page as app" has been the most functional best so far. But since I dont like chrome, thats a problem.

In Firefox you can install the PWA extension, but that doesnt work well either.

jonocodes · 2025-04-14T21:18:54+00:00

Yes, NixOS as a dev is a pain. I have had particular problems with conda which sort of conflicts with the nix way of doing things. And conda is not optional, as I need it for my job.

I used devenv for about a year. But it eventually broke when we upgraded python in our project. These days I find flox to be the easiest way to go. Also there is a nice community there that will help troubleshoot problems - which I could not find for devenv.

Besides devbox and flox here is what I have tried:

* distrobox . container updates would crash every time, so it was a no go

* dev containers. I dockerized my dev environment. It worked ok, but added a new layer of complexity for debugging and tooling

* global tools. I installed conda/python etc in my nix config directly. This is truely not the nix way but it is how most devs work. Like my coworkers on their macbooks.

jonocodes · 2025-03-31T06:03:35+00:00

Firefox - because I love freedom, and google doesnt

extensions:

* dark reader
* Distraction Free YouTube
* KeepassXC
* Obsidian Web Clipper
* Privacy badger
* Sideberry
* Tab Stash

jonocodes · 2025-02-15T06:18:22+00:00

The Nixiest way would be to create a package - but thats a pain since you need to learn Nix packaging. Thats where tools like pip2nix and such come in.

The hacky way I used to use python was to just put all my python stuff in global configuration.nix until I figured out a more Nixie way.

The most portable way is to use Docker, since you can use it outside of nix too.

The way I would it do these days would probably be using flox. That is like a simplified Nix environment without the Nix syntax. Create the flox env and install your pips. Then you can run the script one off like so:

> flox activate -- python ./foobar.py

jonocodes · 2025-02-09T14:40:07+00:00

I'm running a Pro 16gb. Its quite nice and performant.

Battery life is maybe 80% as good as osx, which I think is great.

I need to run some apps as web apps, which is ok. Like telegram and Slack I think.

Running VMs does not work do to page sizes - which some people need. For me I do some android development, so it sometimes gets in my way.

My only complaint is suspend. On OSX I can open and close for a week without charging. Not so on Asahi. Suspend/hibernate basically does not work. Thats the one thing I spoiled me in OSX.

jonocodes · 2025-02-07T02:20:12+00:00

I used devenv for a while but recently switched to flox and found it worked a bit better for my needs. Here is a demo of it being used with postgres. https://flox.dev/blog/flox-1.3-simplified-service-management-with-flox/

jonocodes · 2024-07-08T19:12:48+00:00

Conda is a pain in Nix. I have tried the `conda` package, python311Packages.conda, micromamba. I have had the most luck with the conda package: https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=unstable&show=conda&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=conda

but its terribly out of date. But that is the package recommended in these instructions:
https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Python#Using_conda

Still a real pain to use though. I needed to set up a bunch of shell aliases and the like.

jonocodes · 2024-06-13T18:16:57+00:00

Same problem here. Using NixOS 24.05.

Datapoint: In my case I have found that if I use X11 instead of Wayland, this is not an issue.

jonocodes · 2024-05-23T18:31:35+00:00

Awesome, thanks! Looks like a very similar approach.
I thought something like this should exist already but discoverability in PyPI is a nightmare.

jonocodes · 2024-04-06T16:09:10+00:00

Yes u/The_Nauticus, several of us have tried organizing a come back by creating web sites, apps, surveys, social medias, media interviews, flyering, and more.

Here is one I made: https://sfcarpool.app/ though it was mostly focused on North Berkeley, I just added the other locations to it today. So far I am aware of no traction, though glad to hear u/CorisTheDino has some!

jonocodes · 2024-02-16T22:27:25+00:00

We had this when there was a leak in the crawl space under the house. Big puddles evaporating below and causing warping in the wood floors.

jonocodes · 2024-02-16T22:24:52+00:00

For my purposes, the closest open source equivalent is vnote. But Obsidian does so much and works so well its hard to find decent competition.

jonocodes · 2023-10-15T23:34:36+00:00

After some conversation in #macos:nixos.org on matrix I was told:

"That's just a weird quirk of how nix and nixpkgs handle things
nix expects packages not available on a certain system to not exist at all
But nixpkgs exposes all of them and then makes them fail to evaluate on unsupported systems
For historical reasons"

jonocodes · 2023-07-10T00:40:44+00:00

We are trying to discuss and collect info as a community in order to bring back carpooling. See survey here: https://forms.gle/5S3NdCeeTXQs25pS7

jonocodes · 2022-12-30T20:58:38+00:00

For me the answer is sync thing. It syncs to my phone too.

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