Autocorrect hates me, I am sorry.
I can’t tell you the number of jobs I’ve done where I built completely privacy preserving services that perform just as well as big tech invasive options.
They don’t need all that data, it has zero real payoff in ad targeting or attribution that a good statistical model can’t match.
Are you talking about NixOS?
You can install post user nix home manager distributions which are separate from the shared nix environment (not sure if that’s the right term)
Edit: should have added: meet everyone on the team in a separate interview, “we think your last job overpaid”, “it’s really close between you and another candidate, can you do one more call?”, senior responsibilities with junior pay, 6 years experience with new tool, we include AI use in performance reviews…
Companies: we can’t find anyone to hire
Their hiring process:
That is good to know, because I do not want to replace a 2tb ssd.
Ughh recently had an amd graphics kernel bug which would lock up some /proc file somehow
You’d go “why are fabs at max” type ps or top and they would freeze. System monitor would freeze.
“Okay, I’ll just reboot, this is fucked”, and systemd is just there:
Luckily it’s patched now. Hopefully those hard reboots didn’t damage anything.
Write a script that installs one random AUR package a day.
Then you’ll either never be able to leave, or distrust your system forever and want to spend less time on it.
There are too many people who use downvote to disagree with cogent and well written points.
I try to only downvote if something is obviously trolling, in bad taste, or wildly stupid.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with installing homebrew into your NixOS system if that helps you get stuff done
For me I like iterating on my home lab so it’s nice knowing I 100% did not forget that I left some port open or service running, it’s all nicely defined in a configuration module I set up.
There’s a low chance I’m going to reuse my configs, but it’s nice I have the option.
Probably the biggest value is it’s all written down nicely in a structured and documented system instead of my old sub folders of just/makefiles and bash scripts and’s inlined configuration.
Then there’s also nice stuff: my config also defines a dashboard for checking the status of my services (when I add a new service, it regenerates as the service is added automatically), I can see which users I created to run in containers, i can experiment with a new desktop environment and just comment out a block to go back.
Sounds like they should migrate to NixOS, they’ll get exactly that, but then they’ll message you every time they want to change anything.
What source do/should you ever have to read though?
There’s probably an easier distro and solution for them
Is there a golden retriever labelled “random person on IRC with answers to all questions, writes a driver for you so you do t have to enter that house”
He always looks like he just shit himself.
I have multiple times partitioned the wrong drive. With a graphical installer.
I now physically remove the SSDs I don’t want to partition.
Unironically, I don’t get how anyone lives with something like Arch.
Do you guys have to reinstall the OS every few months? How do you deal with the accumulation of crap and weird settings over years?
I tried Fedora and I found even that was annoying because you’ve got 50 different serviced and servicectl things to manage, which all have their own implicitly managed state, and some require committing changes through custom CLIs to update them (I have more than once forgot to push my boot settings — whatever that’s called, I’m a noob and was following guides).
I don’t think I can go back from NixOS and immutable distros. I really like that it’s hard to forget my firewall has an open port for service xyz, because the port is defined in a nix file with the service configuration.
I’m not saying the arch way or standard Linux way is wrong, not at all. It’s just incredibly not something I enjoy and it makes me feel not confident about the state of my computer.
This is why they restrict Mythos and similar.
They want the vulnerability machine, and they don’t want you to have it.
There’s a pair of goldfinches who have settled near my yard and eat there daily! Goldfinches!
If you labelled this with asshole, small colon, prostate, etc. So it’s on topic I would upvote, but sadly, I cannot upvote this one.