stylix, firefox/firefox fork declarative configuration (pulling css files to include from 3rd-party git repos), and defining accounts which are then used for mbsync, thunderbird, khal, vdirsyncer, aerc, etc. are all killer features that will keep me using home-manager for the foreseeable future

It was BlueSky, not Mastodon and is linked in the article: https://bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/post/3lt2prfb2vk2r

I agree that there should be an alternative, open-source project, though I know I’m not all that qualified to support outside of financially, (which I would).

I disagree that this isn’t taking up space. Notoriety is a huge asset, especially for tools like this that rely on crowd-sourced information. It would be far better, all other things being equal, to start with the user base and name of ICEBlock than to make a competitor and need to promote it enough to get people to use it over ICEBlock. I highly doubt that a competitor will get anywhere close to the same media attention that this got.

there are a few options for configuring neovim in Nix. My favorite is NixVim. my config: https://codeberg.org/jevans/nix-config/src/branch/main/homeManagerModules/cli-applications/neovim/default.nix

I’ve considered doing this. Did you have to remove the old screen even though you were doing a chassis swap?

I’m sorry, but using data from US averages (largely representative of single-family-home suburbs) to make sweeping statements about how urban living is bad is simply misleading and borderline irresponsible. Living in a multi-family building, living without a car, getting electricity from renewables, and using electricity for heating and cooking is insanely energy efficient. It takes advantage of density to reduce infrastructure needs, and can benefit from having resources developed / farmed at scale, further reducing energy and emissions.

If you need ANY infrastructure to connect your “shire” to anywhere else, you need to include that in your analysis. It will have a massive impact. Need a car? You’ve already lost. The road infrastructure per capita alone will put you over the edge, let alone the infrastructure required to build and maintain said car or the emissions from the car itself if not electric.

It’s becoming more common, but it mostly comes down to available tooling. At this point all three of the big game engines have a Vulkan backend available, but that’s a fairly recent development. And if a developer isn’t using a game engine, writing their own openGL renderer is easy, and writing a Vulkan renderer is a nightmare.

Okay thanks I was very confused bc I had never seen that as advice anywhere haha

recursiveMerge

Can you explain how you would use this here? Would this make files like this in my config unnecessary?

no.

kinda related: I get that you gotta make money in this world, and I’m happy to pay for a book, but it always makes me so sad when authors don’t offer DRM-free eBooks, especially when the content is about ending capitalism. This is even worse because, not only do they only have a DRM-laden option, but they also only selling it on Amazon.

It’s really frustrating how common this is.

Hans Gruber is the antagonist in Die Hard

To be a bit more charitable, my reading of this article was not that Markdown is being mistaken for something like Word or TeX, but that Word is being mistaken as necessary or even desired for a lot of what it’s used for when basic markup will do the job just fine.

Portugal? https://apnews.com/article/spain-portugal-power-outage-electricity-b0c5fbca49b8422248c4f933e20303b3

I put all my apps on my home screen and I keep all non-FOSS apps in a single folder as a reminder to find replacements. The vast majority of my apps are FOSS at this point.

ooo thanks! I haven’t looked into that in a while

I appreciate the way you did things. Here is mine. Mine is a bit more hierarchical, and bit more abstracted (especially in the flake), but I wouldn’t say one way is better than another.

https://codeberg.org/jevans/nix-config

It’s even simpler than that: In the first instance a human learned a thing. In the second instance a bunch of humans wrote software to ingest art and spit out some Frankenstein of it. Software which is specifically designed to replace artists, many of whom likely had art used as inputs to said software without their consent.

In both cases humans did things. The first is normal, the second is shitty.

Sorry, just to be clear, are you equating a human learning to an organization scraping creative works as inputs for their software?

The OSI doesn’t require open access to training data for AI models to be considered “open source”, unfortunately. https://opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition

I agree that “open weights” is a more apt description, though