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Thoughts on keeping parts (assets *and* #nix code) of your public :nixos: #NixOS config private?
https://dis…

Public, reusable flake with private parts
I am looking for a way to have a public flake that is reusable as inputs in other flakes, but some parts of the flake are private. I think this is a very common thing, people sharing their config, but don’t want to share their secrets of course or some network settings. If those private parts are just plain files, then agenix or sops can be used, encrypted versions of those secrets are published (still kinda meh, but okay). The problem arises if some nix code should be concealed as well. Her…

Reinstated Obelix Saigon yesterday. Whereas Asterix is the 'skinny immutable' Nixbook config, with flatpaks layered on top, Obelix is the 'fat' one, with a fully featured configuration.nix. No flakes, no flatpaks, just plain nix pkgs. Works brilliantly. The laptop will go encrypted VoidLinux. Can't go wrong with that either.
#nixos

More radicale goodness on :nixos: NixOS: services.radicale.git can now sync regularly and on change via radicale with multiple remotes. Currently, it'll prioritise the remote's state in case of conflicts. It's so amazing to have a git history of your calendar and addressbook! 🤩
https://

🔄 Add services.radicale.git.sync (3668d66b) · Commits · Yann Büchau / ❄️ yannix · GitLab
Yann's nix library, packages, utilities, etc.

With Aurorix up and running (OCI container with KDE) it's time to start Asterix up also. That's my 'immutable', auto-updating Nix. Although less 'confined' than Aurorix it should be basically the same for the enduser. Looking forward to the comparison.
#auroralinux #nixos

After a recent *terrible* first attempt at using matrix as communication platform for our rather big measurement campaign in summer, I just tried selfhosting Mattermost, and boy is it a smoother experience. It's as if it was made for team collaboration, funny eh 😅
Also my first time trying out nixos-containers, very nice to encapsulate or group services together independently of your host NixOS.
#Matrix

The joys of running #proprietaryGarbage expecting an FHS environment and whatever other shenanigans on :nixos: #NixOS...
If anyone has any idea how to get the CEWE Fotobuch software to behave on NixOS, be my guest:

Getting CEWE Fotobuch to launch
I am struggling hard to get CEWE Fotobuch (a proprietary software to layout and order printed photo albums) to run on NixOS. Yes, it’s “proprietary garbage” as Tony would put it, please no discussions whether it’s good to use it or not. 🙂 It can be downloaded from this landing page, or the tarball directly from here. Apparently, there is only this one tarball link, which always points to the latest version, there are no stable links to old versions as confirmed in this thr...

I want to be ready for that Cosmic launch. And I got triggered by some toots. So I put cosmix-saigon back on the work laptop. Based on the nixbook project (thnks @… !) and nixos unstable (yep, living on the edge again). Solid. And ready!
#nixos

#Seafile has been removed in #NixOS 25.11 because "upstream only supports docker now", but I didn't want to migrate to docker. Good thing that NixOS 25.11 also introduces an #OpenCloud

Has anyone ever gotten `services.webdav` to work on :nixos: #NixOS?
I have a very simple and probably very common task: Expose a directory (in my case `/var/lib/paperless/consume`) via #WebDAV so my scanner can upload their PDFs there. I'm pretty much doing this¹ here, but also this person has p…

Webdav - cannot write anything
I got it to work by allowing create (C) and update (U) permissions (permissions = "RCUD"): services.webdav = { enable = true; user = "paperless"; group = "paperless"; settings = { address = "0.0.0.0"; port = 12345; auth = true; scope = "/var/lib/paperless/cons…

Multi-round Desktop Linux distribution showdown.
The winner of this round will face the winner of Mint vs. nixOS on round three.
The distros were chosen based on the results of a previous poll.
Please consider boosting to obtain a larger sample.
Round two: fight!
#poll #linux

It's this time of the year again, this weekend is #ZHF in Rapperswil.
After having participated in a few of those I was very happy when I discovered this RFC a few days ago.
https://gith…

This girl now self-hosts her DNS!!
https://github.com/LuNeder/nixos-config/commit/7c5358fd4de441e4bb5011fb90f182bbbfb6bd28

After some great conversations yesterday I took myself up on my own challenge 🤣
After cosmix-saigon (using the unstable channel of NixOS, bcs of the most updated Cosmic DE) I just revitalized asterix-saigon.
Based on the nixbook project (thnks @… ) and NixOS Stable this gives you that rock solid stability and the latest and greatest KDE Pla…

💭 NixOS of today can exist because of bartering with corporations (the project receives goods and services in exchange for being a Schelling point)

I've recently reimplemented hei - my #nix / #nixos command helper in go, which massively improved the auto-complete support. In 0.2.1 I've also added a nice --confirm feature to rebuild, which does a nvd diff against your current system before confirming to switch
https://code.bas.es/marcus/hei

Towards simpler #btrfs raid setup with #disko:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/btrfs-ra

Btrfs raid with Disko
I wrote a helper function mkBtrfsRAID to make defining btrfs raid collections more ergonomic in disko. It has the “other” disks formatted with an empty partition table, so disko knows about them and asks for wipe confirmation on formatting. Doesn’t solve the abovementioned problem when the first disk that’s actually tried to be mounted fails or is missing though. let # make a disko.devices.disk attrset that empty-format the given disks before anything else mkEmptyDisks = { before ?…

nixos-graphical-x86_64-linux.rar

I've (temporarily?) stopped daily driving #NixOS on my desktop as of last month and it's actually quite a relieve not thinking "I should update this package" or "I should fix this issue" whenever I just use my computer. Still my go-to OS for servers though!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rperezrosario/115964575802672307
Onto round two, Mint vs. nixOS. Cast your votes here:

Home server root disk died a few days ago. (Important stuff is on #ZFS & mirrored, but ZFS on root for Linux has been a bad experience) I'm trying #NixOS this time, mostly so if it dies again, I can rebuild quickly.
It reminds me of `rc.conf` on

Unix philosophy.
Creating a mini video management tool with #fzf, #fd, #mpv and #ytdlp .
There a…

My boss came to me and said his #Manjaro killed itself (again). So I dared to pitch :nixos: #NixOS to him. He was *very* intrigued by the configuration file approach and all the utilities from my flakes that he'd be able to use instantly. Let's see if we'll have another NixOS user soon 😄

I'm being forcefully converted to nixOS

Organising my :nixos: #nix code and splitting out sharable things into a separate repo. Here for example is my package for #forgejoAneksajo (:forgejo: #forgejo :gitannex:

packages/forgejo-aneksajo.nix · 6353a52f63ec866b39fd50046f875587fcfed49e · Yann Büchau / ❄️ yannix · GitLab
GitLab.com

Where #NixOS :nixos:
#OVHcloud #OVHCloudSummit

The end of civilization is upon us.
I will master the skill of using flakes on NixOS today.
#nixos

why is nixos.org not accessible via ipv6

Here’s a link if anyone wants to take a look: https://github.com/LuNeder/nixos-config/tree/strawberry/Yoke/services/yt-dlp
(the .py file there is the only thing that’s LLM-generated, but that’s a quite significant portion of this downloader)

Working on upgrading my :nixos: #NixOS to 25.11, one of the config evaluation errors is:
error: 'kbibtex' has been removed, as it is unmaintained upstream
#KBibTeX is unmaintained? Aha. This commit history with recent commits in the last days does not look like an unmaintained project:…

Does someone have a working #shairport setup with #pipewire that I could copy?
#nixos

Disowned all my #AUR packages and deleted my account. I'm not interested in #ArchLinux anymore. :nixos: #NixOS gives me so much more.

Multi-round Desktop Linux distribution showdown.
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The distros were chosen based on their popularity from the results of a previous poll and its replies.
Please consider boosting to obtain a larger sample.
Round one: fight!
#poll #linux

Got some time to spare.
One install, one git clone, two file copies and one rebuild and that whole system, with all my applications. tweaks and settings, was rebuilt in exactly 31 minutes. The power of reproducibilty.
I'll grab a beer and head out to that bench.
#nixos #cosmic…

Such an amazing effort by @… to compile #Zotero from source in :nixos: nixpkgs. This will make it possible to easily try out Zotero patches or even make your own version with custom changes. Power of Nix! 💪

zotero: 7.0.30 -> 8.0.0, build from source by Mynacol · Pull Request #483099 · NixOS/nixpkgs
I have spent way too much time to build Zotero from source. The only other Linux distribution doing that is Alpine Linux (build files). Todo: Fix the git hashes. We unfortunately need fetchSubmodu...

:nixos: #NixOS module to set up #UniBonn VPN
https://…

nixosModules/networking/networkmanager/ensureProfiles/uniBonnVPN.nix · 3bf8a147989476668adc2e9908e9df55675720a6 · Yann Büchau / ❄️ yannix · GitLab
Yann's nix library, packages, utilities, etc.

I’d like to make it clear that I in no way feel entitled to be the first one to make NixOS work on musl, in fact I’d even prefer if someone else did it first and shared their config so I could copy it!

Great, ecryptfs was dropped from nixpkgs, because apparently it wasn't updated in 10 years 😑
ecrypts was always my go-to solution for encrypting only my home directory, if full disk encryption is not available.
So what does one use now for homedir encryption?
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/

ecryptfs: drop by Sigmanificient · Pull Request #479934 · NixOS/nixpkgs
While looking into python2 remaining bits, i come across this package, and it seems appropriate to remove it. ecryptfs hasn't been updated sine May 2016, and seems to have questionable maintena...

I'm updating that Asterix-Saigon config (my Nixbook respin for KDE) bcs I just noticed the fresh-editor is of course available in nixpkgs. The breadth of my madness is astounding.
#nixos #kde #nixbook

Okay weird. simple-scan (the simple #Linux scanning app) kept crashing with 'buffer overflow detected'. I tried other versions as far back as from #NixOS 23.11 (nix run github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-23.11#simple-scan), which successfully launched and still detected the scanner. Surprisingly, after a su…

To everyone's satisfaction I've been quiet over the last week and a bit.
That state of bliss will end soon 🤣
I got caught up in zfs, btrfs, encryption, bootloaders, Chimera Linux and Alpine, what have you. It's been a great ride, a challenging one and a shouting-at-clouds rollercoaster, all in one. Two options awaiting me, choice to be finalized today. Slackware, Gentoo, FreeBSD, even NixOS have become boringly reliable 😂!

Anyway, here’s Catask for NixOS if anyone wants to take a look and maybe review or something: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/483167

It was nice to learn about containers and bootc. But after reinstalling Cosmix yesterday (my NixOS spin) I've decided to stick to that. KDE on the laptop will be served on Alpine, FreeBSD or Void for the next month (at least). GitHub repo's will go today, I'm perfectly happy at Codeberg.

Mmmm, Nix has MangoWC in the packages repo as well
How about Panoramix-Saigon, an immutable, auto-updating NixOS with a Wayland window-manager ?
Now that's something...

With all my KDE, dwm, MangoWC, NixOS, Gentoo, FreeBSD, Wayland, immutably complicated stuff it is very refreshing to just download an MX Linux iso, install it in under 10 minutes and have evrything you might want up and running in no time.
Well curated, well styled, great tools, you name it. Documentation excellent.
What a great distro! A gem.
#mxlinux

Reminder that iSH.app is a must-have for anyone trying to deal with large quantities of files in iOS. iOS is awful at dealing with large quantities (200 ) of files (or even a very large single file), using iSH for moving, transfering with rsync or even comrpressing them is a way better experience than trying to use Files App or any of the native stuff for this.
Just mount -t ios /mnt /mnt and choose the iCloud Drive folder you want to mount.
(Note that rsyncing the files and then compressing them in the destination will be way quicker than thew other way around due to the lack of JIT or actual virtualization, but either way iSH will be way better than Files App because it actually works instead of just failing, freezing and crashing all the time with no error message)
The iPad would be a really great device if they just let you unlock it and install an OS that actually works. My dream device for college would be an iPad with Apple Pencil but running postmarketOS or NixOS or something, plus Rnote or whatever for notes.

Ok lmao trying to run NixOS in an 8GB SD Card didn’t work at all

#Zigbee #HomeAutomation without :homeassistant: #HomeAssistant, instead all defined in :nixos: #nix /