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Oh huh. Thanks for letting me know! It might be my client I use Infinity for Lemmy. I'll check my actual instance, and then see about opening an issue for Infinity if possible.

Are Terminal Multiplexers a Fad? in c/[email protected]

[–] Noodlez 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or maybe terminal emulation needs to be brought up to speed with modern computing. New terminal specs and all that.

Nothing is better for remote computing and administration than a terminal. It's far too data data dense for anything to be competitive.

Nothing is better for quick and easy iteration of programming ideas than a quick text output in a terminal.

It doesn't need to be destroyed, it needs some iteration. It's an old technology with a lot of cruft.

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[–] Noodlez 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You have to be on the hexbear instance to see them btw.

As an owner of children, I approve this message in c/[email protected]

[–] Noodlez 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

JFC, some of these responses here about I 'should' do this or that. This is precisely why Reddit and most social media is cancer and people filled with 0 social and life skills.

I shouldn’t have to do anything. If you have an issue with my crying child, the onus is on you to find another space for yourself to make yourself comfortable instead of mandating what other people should/should not do.

Does that mean that parents should let their kids run around? Hell no. But this also means that you stop acting like another baby and find a way to adjust just like everyone else incl other parents."

FTFY. The problem with this argument is it's just as self-centered as the others. If your child starts crying or throwing a fit, go to the bathroom or something, soothe it, and come back. It's not that hard. If your child isn't poorly behaved, it won't cause any other problems. Don't let your child bother other people by being a nuissance. It's not on them it's not their child.

Nice in c/[email protected]

[–] Noodlez 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dayum. I can't get further than 4th floor. Phew that's sick dude.

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NixOS musings (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by Noodlez to c/[email protected]

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Hi all,

I've been using NixOS for a while now (About a month now) and I've been loving it, but I've had some thoughts lately.

I understand that Nix(OS)'s claim to fame is the fact that packages are reproducible. All dependencies are versioned and all packages are rollback-able (although not sandboxed). With proper maintenance (nix-collect-garbage mostly), the problem with space is mostly mitigated.

But what if a package's dependencies are out of date? These just stay out of date with their possible security problems as well. Not just that but it's (nearly) impossible to actually do your own manual imperative editing of packages to solve a quick problem since everything is declarative.

Not just this, but Nix uses mostly its own configuration methodology, so isn't this a maintenance nightmare as config files change and options are added/removed? Home manager is a prime example of this potential problem.

Plus more technologies being introduced on top of it to solve problems that seem already solved? (Flakes mostly come to mind).

I have come to the realiziation that, unlike a traditional distro like Arch/Alpine which I used previously, if maintenance dies I cannot feasibly maintain it myself, since it's mostly "magic". The upkeep of all the configurations plus all the dependency packages, and making sure each package compiles and matches the build configuration is a nightmare. I can barely do it with my own personal projects.

Anyways that's kinda it just expressing thoughts about it. I do love Nix(OS) and plan to continue using it. It's amazing, and its capabilities are matched by few to none, and from a user perspective it is an extremely seamless and simple OS. It's mostly from a maintainer perspective that I had.