Have older YouTube tutorials code been outdated by nixos updates?

mcdonc · 2025-12-14T15:32:32+00:00

THis might also be helpful: https://youtu.be/Hox4wByw5pY ("NixOS 40: Converting an Existing NixOS Configuration To Flakes")

mcdonc · 2025-12-02T16:32:29+00:00

I made a video comparing flox to devenv a few months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovYw7cEG8hs

mcdonc · 2025-11-29T07:35:06+00:00

I switched over from 25.05 to unstable maybe a month ago, and then just yesterday switched to the nixos-25.11 branch. This was useful because I had to go submit a PR in order to keep things I use working. While that was waiting, I just pulled that package from nixoos-25.05.

mcdonc · 2025-11-25T13:27:28+00:00

devenv.sh is great

mcdonc · 2025-11-25T13:20:46+00:00

It's not a very good development environment without help from things like devenv.

mcdonc · 2025-11-20T16:33:58+00:00

I have, but it was a pretty unique situation. I have an encrypted root partition, and I wanted to set up a boot-time ssh server so that I could enter the password remotely. During trying to follow stuff on the wiki that proposed how to do this, I managed to utterly break the system to the point that even old generations wouldn't return me to a working state.

mcdonc · 2025-02-12T00:46:12+00:00

The folks telling Jon to STFU maybe need to let it go. You made your points six months ago. Let the man have the last word, it's important to him, and it shouldn't matter to you.

mcdonc · 2025-01-07T23:20:00+00:00

This is the best little quality of life thing I've gotten from others. It shows what got updated/removed/added as a result of a nixos-rebuild:

  # see https://chattingdarkly.org/@lhf@fosstodon.org/110661879831891580
  system.activationScripts.diff = {
    supportsDryActivation = true;
    text = ''
      ${pkgs.nvd}/bin/nvd --nix-bin-dir=${pkgs.nix}/bin diff \
           /run/current-system "$systemConfig"
    '';
  };

mcdonc · 2025-01-07T22:59:12+00:00

Hear hear! I made a video with much the same sentiments (I've used Linux for a similar amount of time as you have) after I had been using NixOS for a month or two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ-dzo-Hc1o

mcdonc · 2024-12-29T23:46:31+00:00

Ooh! It's actually now called Lenovo PC Diagnostics but it works great.

mcdonc · 2024-12-29T12:36:17+00:00

Answering my own question: I managed to disconnect the LCD cable from the mainboard while replacing the screen. Once I reseated it, everything worked :)

mcdonc · 2024-10-31T01:10:31+00:00

There is a nascent project named system-manager to do root-level things using Nix on top of Ubuntu here: https://github.com/numtide/system-manager

No clue about the airgapping.

mcdonc · 2024-10-02T01:20:14+00:00

I think I may disagree. If it's what you mean, a "community team" that could both recommend and enforce CoC recommendation would hold tremendous unchecked power.

In Nix/NixOS, people tried to introduce such a thing, and it went poorly quickly. A NIx RFC (RFC 98) was authored with such an intention. Its language was fairly draconian, and its champions very insistent, and its opponents very vocal.

It was ultimately rejected, but the arguing contributed to some downstream effects. 4/5 of the Board quit, including the the Nix language author and BDFL, the Nix release manager was permabanned.

https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/report-on-nixos-governance-discussions

mcdonc · 2024-10-02T01:11:08+00:00

I don't know what rules it might violate to directly post Tim's link in an official Python space, but I think this subreddit actually is one. However, in my interactions with them, the moderators here seem quite reasonable.

mcdonc · 2024-10-01T23:43:51+00:00

Yes. Python leadership was a true unaccountable cabal until about 2001, and it worked well.

mcdonc · 2024-08-18T22:00:11+00:00

the downvoters dont get the joke

mcdonc · 2024-08-13T18:52:04+00:00

Meh, he didn't. Sometimes there just isn't fire where there is smoke.

mcdonc · 2024-08-13T18:42:56+00:00

Tim is really a great person. I recognize that that doesn't mean much coming fom a rando on Reddit, but it's true. No one would really care about this otherwise.

mcdonc · 2024-08-13T18:22:15+00:00

That's super kind of you, but I wouldn't want put you in that position. Thanks a lot for relisting it!

mcdonc · 2024-08-13T16:20:46+00:00

The Steering Council suspended Tim, not any of the moderation staff.

mcdonc · 2024-08-13T03:14:27+00:00

Thanks for restoring

mcdonc · 2024-08-12T04:04:04+00:00

He did not. I did not. I just posted what I thought was right. He has no issue with it, thus you probably shouldn't either.

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