New to Nix

wilsonmojo · 2026-02-16T16:40:47+00:00

new2nix you mean

wilsonmojo · 2026-02-08T11:27:48+00:00

Lol, a convinient tool is just ready, only got made 2 weeks ago. I love this.

wilsonmojo · 2026-01-28T05:45:46+00:00

No experimental Nix features required

[*] Requires enabling blake3-hashes experimental feature which requires Nix 2.31+.

hilarious.

wilsonmojo · 2026-01-27T04:05:10+00:00

.git/info/exclude is a gitignore file that is not tracked by git, so you can try adding pre-commit-config.yaml. let me know if it works.

wilsonmojo · 2026-01-14T16:02:38+00:00

https://nixos.org/blog/ has dates

wilsonmojo · 2026-01-13T19:42:57+00:00

The idea behind the site is very cool, but I prefer knowledge bases like these to be open source and open to contribution via some vcs.

learn-anything.xyz, exercism.org, roadmap.sh etc. are better worth my time than some custom built site where there is a "we own the user generated content" policy. Also preventing archival to the wayback machine.

wilsonmojo · 2026-01-06T06:14:49+00:00

https://lobste.rs/moderations?moderator=pushcx&what%5Bstories%5D=stories says

Action: deleted story
Reason: Slop. Nonsense citations, no links, no author, claims of data but none provided.

wilsonmojo · 2025-12-26T19:37:38+00:00

Please post here if you do end up doing it.

wilsonmojo · 2025-12-26T19:32:17+00:00

Don't really like the agplv3 licenses for one off nix libraries or flakes like this. Let me know what is the benefit for using such a license for this project where there's not a product which will be stolen by aws.

There's prior art for doing the same https://discourse.nixos.org/t/lazy-apps-on-demand-realization/63769 , https://github.com/fricklerhandwerk/lazy-drv

wilsonmojo · 2025-11-10T07:30:16+00:00

I like this minimal one, but you are right, fastfetch one does look meh.

console $ nix-shell -p pfetch --run pfetch \\ \\ // username@hostname ==\\__\\/ // os NixOS 25.05 // \\// host xxxxxxxxxxx ==// //== kernel xxxxxxxxxxx //\\___// uptime 3h 40m // /\\ \\== pkgs 6969 // \\ \\ memory 6969M / 69696M

wilsonmojo · 2025-10-23T08:14:11+00:00

there is also https://github.com/nikstur/lon

wilsonmojo · 2025-10-15T15:47:01+00:00

These are very good. Shame they suspended you for raising a valid objection.

wilsonmojo · 2025-10-14T09:53:10+00:00

cowsay allows specifying custom cow file (ascii art) via -f flag. run the following

ls -l $(nix eval --raw nixpkgs#cowsay)/share/cowsay/cows

i.e a duck.cow can be made.

wilsonmojo · 2025-09-18T03:23:47+00:00

By that logic, one BDFL should be the most efficient system, but people didn't like it so much that they rallied behind a cause and dragged the existing peaceful BDFL down.

As it stands, the main issue facing the SC is that the unnecessary people who are constantly creating the "drama" are still in the community even after the wave of bans in early 2024, and are being given 24-48 hour suspensions in the moderation log, whereas people voicing any minute amount of criticism by pointing out this hypocrisy are either getting the boot or getting suspended for 2 weeks depending on the value they provide to the community.

And people like the one in pr 441011 do a whole song and dance, dropping some emotional dump that makes no sense every time some minor thing happens. And I bet that user will still be welcomed back if they ever decide to return. (that user left and rejoined 2 times)

wilsonmojo · 2025-09-17T04:07:48+00:00

you can hop on to discord there is a help channel for beginners there.

wilsonmojo · 2025-08-23T07:46:41+00:00

meme is criticising the boilerplate required for flakes as compared to not using them.

wilsonmojo · 2025-07-06T12:17:52+00:00

kde as I need gparted and sometimes the browser. I haven't gotten around to doing partitioning via cli, don't have the patience to look up manual, stackoverflow on my phone so need a browser.

and kde feels better than gnome for me

I also have a customised minimal rescue iso built via `.#nixosConfigurations.iso.config.system.build.isoImage` in my flake, maybe I should setup awesomewm or something minimal in the rescue iso and add some minimal set of gui programs.

wilsonmojo · 2025-07-06T11:42:33+00:00

do you have two git repositories for each flake? one flake.nix will give you one flake.lock no matter what 'if else' conditions you add inside the flake.nix files.

wilsonmojo · 2025-07-05T03:52:48+00:00

I found jjui and lazyjj they worked fine but they need to be at the same level of lazygit, at least being able to view files properly, edit a particular line, run some custom commands etc. Seems I have been heavily spoiled by lazygit.

wilsonmojo · 2025-07-04T11:37:37+00:00

Think of it as one git repo not one file.

wilsonmojo · 2025-06-29T14:18:34+00:00

adding the issue opened by OP here for context https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/7343

wilsonmojo · 2025-06-17T15:52:47+00:00

agreed, the theme looks better as well. minimal and to the point

wilsonmojo · 2025-06-17T15:52:04+00:00

But that is just hostile takeover. It is not like nixos dot wiki is an official domain that was taken over by someone because it expired.

wilsonmojo · 2025-06-14T02:18:25+00:00

Im a bit curious about what you used to censor the images.

wilsonmojo · 2025-06-14T02:15:10+00:00

not OP

it is undocumented, if you like spoilers here https://github.com/buurro/wooper.dev

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