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Oooo, thanks for the pointers! Will be revisiting this tomorrow!

Ah, this is awesome! I currently run k3s on a decently spec-ed NixOS rig. I tried getting k3s to recognize my Nvidia GPU but was unsuccessful. I even used the small guide for getti…

For myself, my blog and GitHub activity were key points in my interviews that heavily influenced my previous two hires. > Also I can't decide what to write about, and whether to ma…

Interestingly, I’m not sure why more people don’t use archinstall, which is provided with the official live ISO: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archinstall I have no issue doing …

> https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-europe/rats-e... This was a fascinating read, thanks! For anyone curious of why public latrines exploded: > Even worse, these publi…

> I’m looking forward to the new iPad Pros, but I can’t shake the feeling that the same old iPadOS cycle is about to begin all over again. This is EXACTLY how I feel. WWDC will rol…

Sorry for the delay, just barely saw this! I use journalctl to follow the log. My NixOS module for it is here: https://github.com/heywoodlh/nixos-configs/blob/master/nixos... If th…

> simply because a terminal-driven workflow via SSH is at least possible This has been the one thing that has kept my iPad useful! I use Blink (grandfathered into their Legacy Pro …

Having an iPad Pro with an M1, I grow increasingly frustrated each year with how incapable my iPad is compared to my Macbook/Linux laptops. iPadOS still feels like iOS with some vi…

I recently started my own Mastodon instance for myself in this same train of thought. I noticed that one of my toxic traits was reaching out to people too often about things I foun…

I feel the same way. I wish they offered a second factor for SSH auth — when I last looked, they didn’t. I also send myself notifications any time a failed or successful SSH login …

I’ve found it most helpful to review other people’s configurations to learn Nix. Some specific ones I really like: https://github.com/malob/nixpkgs https://github.com/fufexan/dotfi…

A literal Apple

Nice

Was looking into Certificate Transparency logs recently. Are there any convenient tools/methods for querying CT logs? i.e. search for domains within a timeframe Cloudflare’s Merkle…

Been a long-time lurker of your blog. Some of the best FreeBSD content out there, imo, thank you for putting it out there. Despite never being able to fully commit to a BSD over Li…

> Love the community of people just trying to make Linux awesome on the desktop Couldn’t agree more with this! :) I’d be curious to know what aspects you enjoy about Bluefin that h…

Second line in the post: > Bluefin is a custom image of Fedora Silverblue by a bunch of cloud-native nerds. Fedora Silverblue is an immutable variant of Fedora[0] [0] https://fedor…

> Who wants to use docker on a Mac anyway? For a long time, before really doubling down on Nix, Docker Desktop was my go-to for getting a Linux runtime whenever MacOS wasn’t suffic…

I will echo the sentiments of writing for yourself as the intended audience. Write content that would benefit and interest you — especially when you solve problems that aren’t supe…

Fair enough! As I stated, I have no personal stake in Rocky's approach as I am not a user interested in the Enterprise Linux ecosystem. That being said, if I was, I would be concer…

> The route Rocky is taking results in a distro that is bug-for-bug compatible. Point taken. From my perspective, it seems like a short-sighted approach to rely on loopholes to obt…

You're correct, I was referring to AlmaLinux's former status of being downstream of RHEL. Additionally, from Red Hat's perspective, AlmaLinux is still downstream of CentOS Stream (…