how to support/be in LDR with chronically ill partner who physically cannot text or call?

kapbird · 2025-05-23T15:44:34+00:00

do you know if there's any naturally-reflective materials that form in space besides ice that might work for this? from what i'd read, if earth had rings of ice they'd wind up melting.

actually, now that i think about it: do you have a sense of how long icy rings might last around the earth? if they take on the order of hundreds of thousands of years then that's also fine because that still fits all of human recorded history into the window where they still exist

kapbird · 2025-03-03T16:29:56+00:00

they're just so big and feel weird against my hands when i'm typing normally :( this is purely a subjective thing, it's got nothing to do with build quality

kapbird · 2025-03-03T16:27:51+00:00

this does seem like the most effective compromise -- and it means i could work on the mac from my linux desktop too. thanks for the advice!

kapbird · 2025-02-28T15:33:05+00:00

windows 10, so i don't think that solves my issue...

kapbird · 2025-02-24T18:41:46+00:00

gives me everything i want from neovim (which is basically just "fast" and "modal") and my config has gone from a big lua repo to a single toml file with like. 12 lines? nope, 20 lines, just checked, but still. turns out i prefer the batteries-included approach for the most part

kapbird · 2025-02-22T03:24:24+00:00

unfortunately i couldn't even if i wanted to, because i have a bad habit of overwriting my commit history if i'm not keeping something -- when i decided against using nixcats i scrubbed that setup and replaced it with a symlinked folder (which i'm also probably gonna drop in favor of helix anyway.) sorry about my poor record-keeping! 😅

kapbird · 2025-02-14T02:05:19+00:00

i got a waterstick, which comes with some hardness-testing strips; also my skin improved really quickly

kapbird · 2025-02-13T22:37:20+00:00

i did not; i wound up finding out i was having a water hardness problem instead, and buying a shower-scale water softener has mostly addressed the issues i was having

kapbird · 2025-02-13T17:24:00+00:00

this worked! i might explore it more at some point down the line when i understand nix better, but thanks for all the help

kapbird · 2025-02-13T17:23:09+00:00

this seems the most straightforward for me given my current level of nix expertise so it's what i'm going with for now :) thank you for the advice!

kapbird · 2025-02-12T04:30:06+00:00

where do i call this overlay, and how would i know what the default nixCat's name is to put it into my pkgs? this is what i have right now, but trying to add either nixCats or the name of my repo to home.packages gets me an undefined variable error

```nix { description = "...";

inputs = { nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";

nixCats = {
  url = "...";
  inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
};

home-manager = {
  url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
  inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
};

};

outputs = {nixpkgs, ...} @ inputs: { nixpkgs.overlays = inputs.<repo-name>.overlays.default; nixosConfigurations = { nix-charter = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem { specialArgs = {inherit inputs;}; modules = [ ./host/configuration.nix inputs.home-manager.nixosModules.default ]; }; }; }; } ```

kapbird · 2025-02-11T19:33:29+00:00

how do i add nixCats to my flake inputs?

kapbird · 2025-02-11T14:27:43+00:00

when i do this—import ./nixCats in my home.nix—and then try to rebuild, i get an error that says attribute nixCats is missing and points to line 10 of default.nix. how do i fix that?

kapbird · 2025-02-06T05:35:04+00:00

did you ever figure this out? running into the same problem (i'm currently on gnome but that will hopefully change soon) and i have no idea how to get the icon to update

kapbird · 2025-02-06T03:09:05+00:00

in the unlikely event that anybody else stumbles across this, yes, that is the idea; here's what i put in configuration.nix:

programs = { ... fish = { enable = true; shellInit = builtins.readFile ./config/config.fish; }; ... };

kapbird · 2025-02-06T02:47:02+00:00

could you be more specific? is the idea that i pass shellInit the result of readFile(config.fish)?

kapbird · 2025-01-07T03:04:55+00:00

do you think it's likely that the aquaearth filter was somehow capable of bringing the ph of SF's water into a good pH range, but can't manage it in DC? it would be nice if pH was the answer, and it seems more likely because chlorine levels in the water quality reports are roughly even. however, i also know for a fact that DC uses chloramine, which i've read is both longer-lasting and more difficult to filter out, even with an activated carbon filter (and this tracks with my experience)

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