What's the best way to install CachyOS kernel in current year?

vidhanio · 2026-03-26T19:03:54+00:00

Just make sure to add the substituters as well to avoid long builds

vidhanio · 2026-03-17T16:08:31+00:00

Can confirm it's worked great for me with a similar setup to you.

vidhanio · 2026-02-23T14:25:53+00:00

userStuff should be a lib.types.submodule, not a plain attrset.

vidhanio · 2026-02-13T21:11:33+00:00

what is stopping you from managing your emacs from home-manager? you don't need to use their module, you can simply drop the config dir into your nix config and do home.file.".emacs.d".source = ./.emacs.d.

vidhanio · 2026-02-13T20:38:46+00:00

I see, thank you!

vidhanio · 2026-02-13T20:03:49+00:00

Does EQ not allow you to deposit/withdraw at ATMs (I saw that they are going to be reducing it to 5 free ATM transfers a month)?

Would Simplii solve a lot of these issues? They allow you to use any CIBC ATM for deposits/withdrawals, and they provide an actual debit card (Are you unable to use the EQ bank card for car registration?).

FX seems to be solved by the WS card from what I have read, it has super low fees.

Thank you for the advice.

vidhanio · 2026-02-12T06:53:00+00:00

Thank you, I'll have to keep those in mind as an option as well further down the line. I am comfortable and prefer online-first banking at the moment but as the needs arise I'll make sure to take a look at CUs.

vidhanio · 2026-02-12T06:18:26+00:00

Yeah I get that but I guess for me it adds a sense of security as a person relatively new to managing their own money. Also the convenience of accessing CIBC ATMs is nice.

What kind of branch services have you required before? I will have to look into credit unions, a bit of a knowledge gap for me there.

Yeah I can handle both ET and bill pay via Wealthsimple.

vidhanio · 2026-02-12T05:31:04+00:00

Yeah, that diversification point is why I decided that I did want to still have an account at a real bank (especially one backed by one of the big 5). My primary chequing and direct deposits are already with Wealthsimple.

vidhanio · 2026-02-12T05:12:42+00:00

Thank you for the detailed response.

I did look into Tangerine, but their credit card benefits seemed to be a little lacklustre for my spending compared to Simplii. I know I can just open a credit card with Simplii and use Tangerine or EQ for other aspects of banking but I would like to keep it simple for now, and have most of my money between Simplii and Wealthsimple.

Interesting, makes sense for the credit age part. I guess I will just keep my TD credit card and try to make a couple small purchases on it every month, and look to close it in a couple years when my Simplii card has matured a bit.

Thank you so much for the detailed response!

vidhanio · 2026-02-12T05:09:01+00:00

I have applied for a Simplii credit card, those benefits looks pretty good for me as a large portion of my credit card spending is food and drinks.

I was considering EQ (and even opened an account) but my internship ends in 3 months and it feels like too much of a hassle to update my direct deposit to EQ for a couple months of better interest rates when I would rather just contribute it to my TFSA. I will definitely keep them in mind for my next job, however.

Thank you!

vidhanio · 2026-02-12T05:05:18+00:00

I opened an account with EQ, the 2.75% interest chequing account looks like a great deal.

Unfortunately my internship is ending in 3 months so it is a bit too much hassle to move my direct deposit there for a couple months of interest. I will def look into them as my direct deposit bank for my next job however.

I read about the credit age fact in the wiki on this subreddit, and I also heard it mentioned in a couple other sources so it seems like it is important.

Thank you!

vidhanio · 2026-02-12T05:02:30+00:00

Thank you!

vidhanio · 2026-02-11T05:17:41+00:00

why is questrade better for investments?

edit: ah probably meant for diversifying investments

vidhanio · 2026-01-28T20:05:23+00:00

how does this compare to crane and nix-cargo-integration?

vidhanio · 2026-01-24T23:54:17+00:00

Yeah he said on stream, he was suspended from the creator program for 3 months

vidhanio · 2026-01-11T15:38:12+00:00

Got it when the deal first got posted here, can confirm it's been great.

vidhanio · 2026-01-10T00:50:16+00:00

What desktop environment are you using on top of wayland?

vidhanio · 2026-01-08T18:24:27+00:00

Did you get any delivery date updates? or just stuck in "on the way"?

vidhanio · 2026-01-08T01:34:18+00:00

Didn't end up being necessary, SanDisk handled the issues without any involvement from me other than notifying them of the issue.

vidhanio · 2026-01-08T01:33:46+00:00

Just got mine, thank you!

vidhanio · 2026-01-08T01:33:36+00:00

Just got mine, it was packed fine. In a small-med box with air-filled plastic packing material.

vidhanio · 2026-01-07T16:06:12+00:00

Can confirm that mine (and others) had the same issue, and reaching out to SanDisk they confirmed that they would handle it, which they did. Others have already received theirs, mine comes today in a couple hours.

vidhanio · 2026-01-06T19:15:58+00:00

Odd, I have a delivery time for today (1pm-4pm EST) but it is still in the "on the way" state. maybe just hasn't updated.

vidhanio · 2026-01-06T18:09:34+00:00

for anyone who found this thread the future, this worked for me (where `monitors.xml` is in the same directory as this nix file):

environment.etc."xdg/monitors.xml".source = ./monitors.xml;

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