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adsjhdashkj commented on Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1 blog.ipfs.io/2020-09-08-n... · Posted by u/Fnoord

MarcScott · 5 years ago

I just bit the bullet and use NixOS as my Desktop. There's a bit of work after initial install, to setup your config files the way you want, but after that you're all set. I've had no problems transferring my configs when I change hardware, and end up with an identical environment that I had on my previous computer.

adsjhdashkj · 5 years ago

Sidenote, i'm taking the plunge into NixOS, but notably using Flakes.

While i've dabbled in Nix in the past some things felt more odd to me than perhaps they should have. Primarily the fact that it felt like all these configs were spread out and i didn't understand how Nix wanted me to version them.

Flakes (from early tests) seems to make this very clear. As it starts from a repo, so i'm attempting to make all my configs, including Home Manager (of which also feels weird lol) start from the Flakes installation.

Flakes also solves the reproducibility problem that i didn't get why NixOS had. So far it's really neat.

adsjhdashkj commented on My wife recently passed away. I used my time off to build her a giant bookshelf reddit.com/r/DIY/comments... · Posted by u/frans

codingdave · 5 years ago

I'm a bad woodworker. My furniture has bad joints, gaps between pieces of wood. I don't use good wood. I do a poor job painting or staining it... and everyone still just sits down on my chairs and says, "This is so cool that you make your own furniture."

Start small, start bad, improve on each project... and give it time.

adsjhdashkj · 5 years ago

Stupid question - would it be sane to get involved in this stuff without having a means of transporting large objects?

Every time i look into wood related work, be it home repair or artsy stuff, everything is huge. I have a Prius. I'm not too thrilled at the idea of buying a 2nd car (truck), and i don't want to drive only a truck.. so how am i to get the supplies?

Sounds like a silly question, but yea - things are just big. And i always thought i can't bother if i don't have a truck. Especially with the ~$70 overhead on shipping i see from lowes, home depot, etc. And i'm not aware of any local (wood) places that deliver.

Am i missing anything obvious?

adsjhdashkj commented on Gitter is joining Matrix matrix.org/blog/2020/09/3... · Posted by u/BubuIIC

adsjhdashkj · 5 years ago

Can anyone comment on the state of UX with Element these days? I'm changing to Linux/Windows from Mac, so i'm dumping iMessage - but i'm not convinced Signal has a good enough UX to keep me and my family happy.

Sidenote, i love how i can pay Element and support Matrix/Element.

adsjhdashkj commented on Show HN: Elsa – A QuickJS wrapper written in Go github.com/elsaland/elsa... · Posted by u/qu4k

seg_lol · 5 years ago

It is amusing how each of us define our own _lightweight_, for me it is the size and readability of the code. Others it is the magnitude of the executable bytes. To someone else it might mean the startup time, the number of dependencies or the build/test/debug iteration time.

adsjhdashkj · 5 years ago

Ooo, and one more: Depth of features.

Software that achieves my goal in a focused manner is something i typically enjoy. I don't want it to do everything under the sun, i want it to do one or two things well.

These days, to me, a "lightweight" alternative to Dropbox would be one that focuses on filesharing with none of that other junk.

adsjhdashkj commented on Nix × IPFS – Milestone 1 blog.ipfs.io/2020-09-08-n... · Posted by u/Fnoord

adsjhdashkj · 5 years ago

Tangent, what's the best way to use Nix-like features in a mainstream distro? Eg, i've been evaluating PopOS recently because i want a Mac equivalent OS. Ie, i don't want driver/config issues.

However one problem i never see solved from any "normal" distros is reproducible systems. Hypothetically if i used Nix as a Desktop my config would be bulletproof. .. but then i'm going through a fair amount of work configuring everything when, as established, i want none of it.

So i (as a user) seem to want some middleground between no effort installations / configurations of my Desktop, with reproducible snapshots/states/configs/something.

You can use Nixpkgs on other distros/OSs, so maybe that is enough. But is there a better way?

adsjhdashkj commented on Fatal brain-eating microbe found in Lake Jackson, Texas water supply bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-c... · Posted by u/open-source-ux

jofer · 5 years ago

Yeah, but the original was _very_ much targeted at a specific region.

First off, the idea that this entire area is all in a floodplain or is repeatedly being rebuilt is just plain false. It ain't. End of story.

The bigotry comment is due to the history of the region. Flood control has historically been used to forcibly evict black communities, particularly along the gulf coast. Its a bit of a dog whistle here.

Yes, I'm a white guy. Yes, I'm still bringing it up.

Ever notice how it's only the majority non-white cities people are calling for forcibly evicting everyone from? Case in point: Houston, but not Galveston or Corpus Christi. New Orleans but not Baton Rouge or Covington.

Ever notice how it's the poorest communities that are at risk of losing their land, and not the wealthy-but-equally-flood-prone communities next door? (E.g. no one's saying "force people out of Katy", they're saying "force people out of the third ward")

Maybe you don't, but here, it's a big deal.

Historically, that same argument (it'd be better for everybody if no one lives there) is at the heart of a lot of egregious behavior by local and state governments (mostly local).

It's the reason people were _so_ pissed off about the arguments that big swaths of New Orleans shouldn't be rebuilt. It's why "we will rebuild" was such a rallying cry.

And it's why targeting the main African American population center in the state specifically (Houston -- I'm not talking about Lake Jackson in this, as I don't know it that well.) and falsely claiming it's flooding all the time and constantly having to be rebuilt at taxpayer expense tends to provoke a strong response here.

adsjhdashkj · 5 years ago

(small preface: a lot of my replies to your comments are not intended to be combative or smug, but i fear they may come off as such. Apologies. I don't intend it, but i'm also too tired to rewrite. So fair warning :)

> Flood control has historically been used to forcibly evict black communities, particularly along the gulf coast. Its a bit of a dog whistle here.

To what end? I'm not disputing you here because frankly i have completely zero idea - but i struggle to even understand the assumed motivation. Evict black communities from their home, but then later let them return (as most evacuations are temporary)?

Or is eviction different than evacuation here? Do they kick out the black communities calling the area unsafe, then move white communities in? Seems bizarre, but i'm often quite abstracted and puzzled by racist behavior. Again, not disputing, merely questioning.

> Ever notice how it's only the majority non-white cities people are calling for forcibly evicting everyone from? Case in point: Houston, but not Galveston or Corpus Christi. New Orleans but not Baton Rouge or Covington.

I really haven't, but this isn't something i pay attention to. I certainly wouldn't have read someones comment about forcibly evicting someone to assume they wanted to then, later, move white folks in.

> Ever notice how it's the poorest communities that are at risk of losing their land, and not the wealthy-but-equally-flood-prone communities next door? (E.g. no one's saying "force people out of Katy", they're saying "force people out of the third ward")

I'd be in favor of this situation if the state/taxes were paying for the "third ward", but less so Katy. Rich folks tend to live in nice areas, regardless of how much of a risk that area was in before money moved in.

Which isn't to say that taxpayers didn't _also_ cover the rich folks. I'm just saying i wouldn't immediately assume rich areas need tax payers to have their homes protected from floods. And, i'm generally against tax payers helping constant flood areas. Seems a waste of resources.

> Historically, that same argument (it'd be better for everybody if no one lives there) is at the heart of a lot of egregious behavior by local and state governments (mostly local).

Plenty of things have been used to commit horrible things - i don't see that as an argument of the idea being inherently bad. You can do good or bad with just about any tool/power.

You may be correct, but does it make living in Tornado Alley (or w/e random example) any more safe? Any less of a burden on the taxpayer? I'd imagine not.

> And it's why targeting the main African American population center in the state specifically (Houston -- I'm not talking about Lake Jackson in this, as I don't know it that well.) and falsely claiming it's flooding all the time and constantly having to be rebuilt at taxpayer expense tends to provoke a strong response here.

That seems perfectly fair. With all of this said, i haven't changed my view, but i imagine we agree more than disagree. Since i'm not making, imo, any grand exclamations. Merely saying that we shouldn't live in areas that cost too much to be worth it.

I know very, very little about the New Orleans incident, rebuild, etc. It just seems foolish to build a house on sand, is all.

adsjhdashkj commented on Fatal brain-eating microbe found in Lake Jackson, Texas water supply bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-c... · Posted by u/open-source-ux

jofer · 5 years ago

By the logic you'd have to use to claim all of this area is "in a flood plain and uninhabitable", you'd have to apply the same to virtually every other city in the US.

The flood plains mostly aren't inhabited here. (Yes, there are some exceptions.)

The area isn't what everyone seems to think it is.

adsjhdashkj · 5 years ago

I'm not talking about any specific location. Just the idea that it's some bigoted idea to say that, if year after year an area is burned to the ground, we shouldn't spend taxpayers dollars to fund a disaster area.

If insurance can calculate costs and decide what is too expensive to insure, we can too. That's all.

adsjhdashkj commented on Fatal brain-eating microbe found in Lake Jackson, Texas water supply bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-c... · Posted by u/open-source-ux

jofer · 5 years ago

Seriously?? Are you that ignorant and bigoted?

Have you ever lived here? It's clear you have _zero_ knowledge of the area.

What about SF or Seattle? The bay area is non-stop superfund sites, and unlike the gulf coast, there's _zero_ involvement from the companies that created the mess. Here, we have a few, but with _heavy_ mitigation from the companies involved. Y'all have absurd earthquake, fire, landslide, and drought risk.

Let's turn that around... How about: "Evacuate the west coast. No one should be allowed to live in California, Oregon, or Washington. It's just a drain on taxpayers."

adsjhdashkj · 5 years ago

I dunno, it does seem reasonable to me. Including your (albeit too wide) statement.

I refuse to live in a flood plain. Why would you? Not only do i not want my house to be destroyed, but the insurance alone is a good incentive to not live there.

If fire repeatedly pops up in my neighborhood i'll do the same thing, move. Why wouldn't you?

If the insurance would be insane because statistically it's likely to repeatedly happen why should taxpayers fund that sinkhole? I'm normally super liberal with taxes, but there has to be a balance. I believe in "free" healthcare, but we can't promote bad health patterns, as it would be a needless drain on the healthcare costs. Likewise i'd support taxpayers covering these types of disasters, but if you know the area is insanely prone to disasters why should the taxpayers fund it?

You're playing the victim card too hard mate. I get your point, but i don't think it's a "region bigot" issue here. Yes, people should move out of fire prone areas, why on earth would you think otherwise?

adsjhdashkj commented on WSL Getting GUI Support twitter.com/craigaloewen/... · Posted by u/pjmlp

paulsmal · 5 years ago

it is, once I install nvidia drivers I get no wayland support

adsjhdashkj · 5 years ago

What's the material advantage of Wayland? I've done a tiny bit of research on what it is, but not how it materially provides a better UX to the end users. Thoughts?

adsjhdashkj commented on WSL Getting GUI Support twitter.com/craigaloewen/... · Posted by u/pjmlp

ruffrey · 5 years ago

I’d settle if it just had proper chmod support. Seems like putting the cart before the horse.

adsjhdashkj · 5 years ago

I assume you're referring to the integration between Windows and Linux?

Because WSL2 i've not had a single "chmod" issue, .. not sure why i would. Chmod within linux works just like you'd expect. However permissions across the OS boundary is another story.

Though TBH i'm not sure what you'd expect from chmod'ing files in the Windows side. Seems unfair to expect Linux-centric behaviors to work on the Windows installation. Eg you wouldn't expect to be able to put Windows applications inside Linux Containers, right?