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The result will be age verification with a passport or ID "to protect the children". Probably this was the goal all along.

The fact that a “contact” is just a room with me and my peer and renaming my contact changes the room name for both of us tells me the UX is an utter failure. How can this be acceptable?

I am hyped for the improved gyro controller. Gyro aiming is so good that after some time it became way better than my mouse aiming.

> My preferred solution is to let client only write new backups, never delete.

I wish for syncoid to add this feature. I want it to only copy snapshots to the backup server. The server then deletes old snapshots. At the moment it requires delete permissions.

The nix cache exists for a reason.

How is ‘persist’ realised with cron? What about ‘randomized delay’?

nix and direnv might be worth a look.

You may be interested in the book Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning: http://gaussianprocess.org/gpml/ (freely available)

Not exactly, but PureNix

vlans

I like the notes on Knuth lecture “Mathematical Writing” https://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/reviewing-papers/knuth_mathematic...

So if not all and every platform is supported from day 1, then “it isn’t a solution worth spending any time on”?

Yes, today nix does not run everywhere C is used. So what? More platforms can be supported in the future.

NixOS

Or PureNix: https://functor.tokyo/blog/2022-01-03-purenix

Have a look at PureNix: https://functor.tokyo/blog/2022-01-03-purenix

Have a look at PureNix: https://functor.tokyo/blog/2022-01-03-purenix

Maybe PureNix helps lowering this barrier.

I have zfs on root with nixos since day 1. One line of code, as other fs like ext4, btrfs or bcachefs.

No, it is an unofficial mess that breaks very often.

I cannot thank you enough for these. It is so much useful to see someone doing a task.

And properitary drivers.

Yes, but systemd is missing and most drivers because they are not gnu.

I fully agree, but which there would be an escape hatch when needed. It is especially frustrating for python developers.

What really helped me were the videos of Jon Ringer: https://www.youtube.com/user/elitespartan117j27

However, until this works, nixpkgs should provide a wrapper around FHSUserEnv which allows developers to develop without the curse.

Fully agree. It is not the language, but the functions around nixpkgs.

No, you are maybe 80% there. - Your logger does not send a mail with the restic logs to me. - How do I check that the backup is newer than 24h? I have to make sure the last backup succeeds. - Do I have to touch a file in /var for every backup script? When do I touch it? After the backup run, before? What if I shutdown my laptop during the backup?

These corner cases take exponentially more time to get right than the first 80%.

"Someone could have packaged utility wrapper scripts in much less time than it did to add those features to systemd"

But nobody has, and I am exhausted to hear how easy it is without systemd without offering a non-hypothetical solution. You don't like systemd, then do not use it and move on. There are distributions without it.

There are some cool features in systemd that are not easy to do in cron.

Example: I use restic backup. One timer runs every 24h or on the next boot if there where more than 24h since the last backup as this is a laptop. Also it waits some random amount so that not all script run at the same time after boot. If a backup fails (eg remote server down) it retires every 15min, but no more than one hour before I get an Mail with a detailed report.

All really easy in systemd. No scripting required.