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phantomwise

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  • Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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  • Wait how does Nix Unstable have a better score than the AUR? With four times less maintainers? That's really impressive, especially considering how much more simple Arch packages are to make.

  • Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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  • Yes it's a headache if you don't have a clue what you're doing and suck at coding like me, but the good parts might make the headache worth it depending on what you want of your distro. A week ago I couldn't wait to get a new laptop to reinstall Arch, but now I'm actually wondering if I should keep trying Nix... OH GOD HAVE I CAUGHT THE NIX BRAIN CANCER? 😭

  • What is your most useful Linux app which others might not know about (please don't just give the name but a link and why it is good for you) ?

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  • Oh cool that's good to know!

  • Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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  • There's one evil genius responsible for both JSON and JavaScript? °o°

  • Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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  • Succinctly : "OH GOD MY EEEEEYES"

    I'm not a fan of nested parenthesis... but aside from that I don't know much about the language, is it more convenient? Does it also suffer from the error messages from hell problem?

  • According to Pornhub data (yes seriously!) Linux market share in 2024 increased more than 40% relative to 5.1% of all users.

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  • That link is amazing... they even have maps 😂 !

  • UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’: Who are they? | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera (2025-07-01)

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  • me_irl

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  • The rest of the time when I'm supposed to be productive.

  • Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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  • I'm sure it'll get better once I'm more used to it, just venting a bit. Sorry for the rant

  • Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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  • Yes emoji use is proportional to the decrease in my sanity after those two weeks

  • Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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  • I've been stuck on Nix for two weeks because I thought it would be a good idea to put a distro I had never used but that wouldn't break on my backup laptop in case my main one ever broke. I just couldn't force myself to install debian, not that I have anything against debian, it's just... kinda boring, while Nix seemed very interesting. IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME I SWEAR.

    Guess what happened... I broke Arch. Then I reinstalled and the next day the laptop broke. Then the next day I tried to get my data back and the hard drive broke. So, backup laptop with Nix for two weeks...

    • I really really really like the declarative stuff. Installing packages through config files is so nice I'll never lose track of what I've installed ever again 🥰 🥰 🥰 I was already using a git repo for all my config files + GNU Stow to symlink everything to its proper place, so adding the .nix configs to that setup was very easy.
    • Having a clean system on rebuild is great. No more clutter left everywhere that I don't know about, no more half broken stuff left lying around.

    But...

    • It's not Arch. Not Nix's fault, but I kept hearing that it would be "like Arch but declarative"... and it's really not 😑 Everything seems over-complicated vs as simple as possible.
    • I absolutely hate the language.
    • What's with those error messages from hell???
    • And speaking of hell, every language that can't just use indentations like YAML instead of cluttering the code with {} and [] and () should have been relegated to the darkest pit of hell 20 years ago. But points to Nix for being less awful than JSON (the comma on every line but not the last thingy make me want to build a time machine to go murder the grandparents of whoever thought it was a good idea)
    • Packages are out of date even in the unstable branch (I know it's unfair since it's not trying to be a rolling release... but... but...)
    • Where are the source packages? Is that an Arch only thing? I liked having packages that automatically use the latest git commit without needing to manually install from source and manually reinstall each time I want an update like a medieval peasant... 😭
    • Nix packages are weird. Even someone who's terrible at coding like me can read Arch PKGBUILDS... I miss you Arch 😢
    • Apps not working because of paths that don't exist on Nix... what do you mean I need to patch the package myself? 😭 But at least there's steam-run, great preserver of what's left of my sanity.
    • Can't wrap my head around installing some stuff like VSCode extensions (the advice I got was "don't bother just do it imperatively...) (Edit: Finally figured it out!!!)
    • Wiki is often sparse on info and not very helpful if you don't already know what you are doing (and I clearly don't 😅)
    • Hidden configs. Some stuff works on its own like pipewire even though I haven't installed or configured it (I went with a minimal install that just gave me a tty then build from there, no DE), and how it's already configured is not in the default config files. It's very confusing not knowing why some stuff works and how it's configured by default.

    But it's kinda growing on me. Like mold. Or cancer. Brain cancer.

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  • I don't really care about sound quality when using earphones at home because I only use them when there's a lot of ambient noise so the sound will be bad either way. When doing vacuum cleaning, or the dishes, stuff like that. When I still had a smartphone I used a 1,5m extension cord so it wouldn't pull on the jack each time I move, but since it died I'm using a much longer one plugged to my PC (not actually 10m, that was hyperbole, more like 5m). It's not very convenient I'll admit, but it does the job.

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  • Well not actually lost... I just haven't found under which furniture it rolled yet 😅

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  • What statistics? People buying thin phones over thicker phones doesn't mean much when that's almost all that's being sold nowadays and every phone is trying to be as thin as possible. It seemed to me that 90% of what we're told people want is actually just what companies want to push on us because it's cheaper and more profitable.

    All the people I know who are average users couldn't care less about how thin the phone is, two mm more or less doesn't make any difference. They care about screen size and being able to use it without too much hassle. If they get a phone without an audio jack half of them will just assume that they can't plug earphones at all. And they are not the ones who will complain. But then, Fairphone isn't marketed towards average users, so maybe their users have different priorities? Idk

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    • They are expensive. You can get wired earphones for 2 euros that actually work and are reasonably durable. It's not a great loss if they fall in a puddle or if I step on them.
    • They are a lot more failure prone. Half of those I tried didn't work or only half worked, and those that did work didn't last very long.
    • They have shitty range. I can use a 10 meters extension cord with wired earphones if I want to.
    • They require charging. And it's a law of physics that everything that requires charging always run out at the most inconvenient time.
    • Also THEY ALWAYS GET LOST. Wireless earphones, mouse, controllers... it doesn't matter, if it's not attached with a cable they'll just disappear.
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  • "The fact that we removed the promise not to sell your data from our website is pure coincidence."

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  • Or looking at cat memes. That's what the internet is for.

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  • Why does The Fairphone (Gen. 6) not have an audio jack?

    After some of the criticism that we received about removing the headphone jack from Fairphone 4, we did consider bringing it back for The Fairphone (Gen. 6). However, we realized it would be at the expense of increasing the phone’s dimensions. We also looked into the consumer data and Fairphone 4’s weight and thickness were more of an issue than the lack of a minijack, so we decided to keep the same approach, although it was a difficult decision. We didn’t want to invest in OLED technology for the display and then not have improved the phone’s dimensions and weight. But just like with Fairphone 4 and Fairphone 5, we will still offer an adapter, which has had overall positive user reviews.

    "We heard the criticism but decided that no, you would still need an adapter to use headphones, plus a USB-C hub to be able to charge the damn thing while listening to music or watching videos"

    Funny how that's the same excuses that we get for modern laptops terrible design. "We HAVE to make it thinner so there's no space! You wouldn't want a laptop that's not complete shit if it meant it'd also be less thin and breakable, now would you?"

  • Let him out 😢

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  • Why would you kill a moth? It's so fuzzy and cute like a miniature plushie 😭