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tosser811

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tosser811··on Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments
Funny, after 10+ years of using TurboTax Online I moved to FreeTaxUSA last year and it's like a breath of fresh air. TurboTax couldn't do what I needed to do (e-file a late return) and FreeTaxUSA had no problem with doing that.
tosser811··on OLED iPad Mini
I use GrapheneOS on my Pixel and it gets very dim. Also, I have the night mode (orange tint) cranked way up - something that the stock OS should allow you to do.
tosser811··on NixOS is making me less afraid
Yes, AUR is one of the things that brought me to Arch back in the day. I was really tired of building and maintaining my own .debs.

I'd say Nix is even easier than pacman/AUR from a maintenance perspective because you can create overlays for whatever you'd like to change and not worry about the mechanics of building your own packages. The overrides are just maintained in the flake or nix config. Also there are already a huge amount of packages in the nixpkgs repo (probably more than base Arch + AUR.)

tosser811··on NixOS is making me less afraid
Yes. I run NixOS on 5 machines, one of which is a gaming laptop with an Nvidia card that makes heavy use of Steam and Proton. It works fantastic and is so much less of a headache than Windows.
tosser811··on NixOS is making me less afraid
I used Arch for about a decade before trying out NixOS unstable channel. I won't be migrating back. Everything is much tighter and saner. Only complaint that I'd have is that the pull request merges and package builds lag behind a bit, but I've grown used to that. It's up-to-date enough.