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You manage to live a life where if you don't like something, you can just avoid it?

> The Nix team is aware of all of this and made these tradeoffs intentionally to maximize package support and reduce contributor friction. Nix, for all its good design choices, lan…

> Even if they speak your native tongue, they'll have to learn how to interpret your slang and texting shorthand. This sounds almost impossible today, but what kind of tools might …

I play games on cheap hardware. I would like awards to focus on the quality of the game, rather than how they were made. Awards that focus on quality is too desired to not be a thi…

I used to hear about COSMIC and think "Glad to see more choice, but I doubt this will go anywhere". I wanted a Sway-like experience but with a desktop experience, and so tried it. …

I'm glad to see boot security prioritisation, and to see some of the fundamentals revisited, and scripts replaced with languages that contributors want to write in (NixOS leans hea…

+1. I'm keen for secure boot and TPM FDE, and would like to see lanzaboote in nixpkgs.

Yes, it's worth having ~hourly snapshots of your machine, using something like: https://github.com/digint/btrbk

Reading the NixOS release notes every 6 months is how I learn about new software that I might want to try: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/release-notes#sec-rele... For my fi…

Encrypted home directories are coming to the Steam Deck, using the same kernel API that Android uses. https://lwn.net/Articles/1038859/ FDE would be nice though.

Bazzite is a part of the Universal Blue family, which is more of a repackaging of Fedora Atomic. I'm a fan of my Steam Deck and SteamOS, but I'd like that experience to eventually …