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go for it, I installed NixOS on Asahi on a whim a few months ago and I only rebooted to MacOS to resize the partition

It's not mainly about speed (although the ceiling is much higher), but about ergonomics, and, plainly, enjoyability. The other benefit of making your own environment is mastery and…

it's funny I first noticed this visiting a random blog, then went on X and got the same error... is Cloudflare the Internet now?

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I agree, I'm very much against any line length constraint, it's arbitrary and word wrapping exists.

It's del.ici.us after del.icio.us

"Ruby is the love child of Lisp and Smalltalk, raised by Perl the eccentric nanny" - Josh Susser

No one can tell what the exact multipliers are, but history has shown us that what happens is everyone gets richer.

I don't use Determinate Nix but I've heard it recommended. As I've said I've had 1 or 2 issues with my Nix install on Mac over several years. Re: ffmpeg, it's just something do to …

This is just from my experience, I'm not part of any kind of Nix cult or anything, not that I'm aware of. I don't know what you're talking about re: third party wrappers, this is j…

I'm curious of what the packages are because I only have ~10 packages that I use from homebrew, either very Mac-specific or that have better packaging (ffmpeg, mpv)

An easy option nowadays is Determinate Nix https://docs.determinate.systems/determinate-nix/

I'm interested in how you use that homebrew-to-nix converter, if you have links to configs or can describe it briefly! I agree that nix-darwin is a bit overkill, I mainly use it fo…

Oh yeah, I knew about devbox but hadn't seen (perhaps it's new) that it can handle global packages: https://www.jetify.com/docs/devbox/devbox_global/

Yeah, I'm just addressing you specifically, you could switch easily and Nix has a much larger package selection (outside of GUI apps on macOS). And it immediately can do more via n…