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Today I've been fighting again with this absolutely stupid :nixos: #NixOS bug that dates back nearly 20 years now, which prevents you from naming an executable 'log'. Yes, it is NOT possible on NixOS. 🤦 🤦 🤦 And working around it is beyond frustrating. Fixing it requires a mass rebuild, so it's not that simple. 😩 😂 It's so terrible but also hilarious...
Issue:

Can't call a program `log` · Issue #354057 · NixOS/nixpkgs
Describe the bug An executable called log will not be made available in /run/current-system/sw/bin when put into environment.systemPackages. Steps To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior: Crea...

#limine looks interesting. A non-annoying way to get secure boot and a pretty boot menu in #nixos? Sign me up.

During the last 2 years with #NixOS, I've mentioned multiple times that my system performance is very poor on my backup notebook: Lenovo #X260 with a 2y old crucial 2TB SATA SSD BX500 2.5"
After setting it up with Debian 13 on the 2TB SSD as well as on the original 250GB SSD, I have to say that th…

Well. That was pretty easy. Boot process secured and prettified with #limine #nixos

Trying to package @… for :nixos: #NixOS, wish me luck :blobcatspace:
#Nix

Recently switched from arch to #nixos and encountering a strange networking issue where network over wifi drops out every ~30 seconds or so. Very occasionally had problems on arch but nothing this bad.
Have been enjoying getting to grips with #networking but this one is particular annoy…

Just a bit over a week until (my first) #NixCon :blobcatspace:
(and my second time at a conference in Switzerland)
#NixOS #Nix

Has anyone provided helper functions with and for one of their :nixos: #NixOS modules? 🤔
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/providing-helper-functions-in-and…

Providing helper functions in and for a module
Some (of my) module options would benefit greatly from helper functions for defining option values. An example would be populating services.jupyterub.kernels, which can get quite verbose if you include things like wrapping in an FHS env or custom virtualenv management. Sure, types.submodule exists, but such a submodule is rather suitable for perfectly similar structures with just different values. Instead, something like this would be helpful: { pkgs, config, lib, ... }: { services.jupyterhu…

Nice #nixos Oslo meetup today. Meeting up with old friends and seeing https://github.com/ezemtsov presenting about building monorepo tooling using the TVL Kit (https://github.com/tvlfyi/kit)

#NixOS driving me nuts right now. Keeps rebuilding coreutils for aarch64-linux when building for my RPi (but it's definitely in the cache, so it has to be some obscure special version deep down), it takes ONE.FRICKING.HOUR just for it to fail on ONE 'test-free' (qemu: uncught target signal 11 (Segmentation fault) - core dumped). 😠
Also, I can't override what I don't find, w…

#NixOS 25.05 system update (approx. for 4 weeks) took 1h7min on my lenovo #x260 i5 (16GB RAM).
I have no idea why the performance is so poor on that machine in contrast to T490 with same NixOS configuration.
I'll see after I switched back to

Ah, that's where my 133GB disk space went 😅
#NixOS

Finally! I was able to install #nixOS back on my work computer. What a delight, everything just works and is declarative, customized to my preference. I really love #KDE #plasma6

Nice interview with @… about :nixos: #nix and #NixOS (and #elixir, which I have no…

Does someone know if it is possible to use the devenv services with flake-parts?
I would like to only consume the nix modules and use them with flake-parts.
I know that services-flake exists but I want specifically the devenv services.
#nix #nixos

Yay, I finally figured out how to build HTML documentation of my custom :nixos: #NixOS options. 🥳
Some thoughts:
- It still contains *all* normal NixOS options (it's a 13MB HTML file...)
- I don't see a way to filter for only my custom options - be it just by regex for example
- It's the documentation of *possible* options, doesn't include the actually chosen val…

📝 `nix build .#docs` now builds a HTML with NixOS options config (including custom ones) (b7be1d09) · Commits · Yann Büchau / 📦 Yanns NixOS Config · GitLab
My NixOS Config

I upgraded my lenovo #T490 from #NixOS 24.11 to 25.05 within an hour or so.
I've lost "xdu" (custom package doesn't compile anymore), had to manually download a closed source binary once again, had to manually replace "okular" with "kdePackages.okular" and remove &quot…

Anyone using #JupyterHub (services.jupyterhub.enable=true) on :nixos: #NixOS? Then you should have run into the database migration issue here:

JupyterHub database migration
I am struggling hard to get my JupyterHub working again. After an update (longer ago), JupyterHub often requires a manual database migration and refuses to start: ❯ journalctl -efu jupyterhub ... Jun 04 22:10:41 yann-desktop-nixos jupyterhub[1038575]: Found database schema version 0eee8c825d24 != 4621fec11365. Backup your database and run `jupyterhub upgrade-db` to upgrade to the latest schema. ... Jun 04 22:10:42 yann-desktop-nixos systemd[1]: Failed to start Jupyterhub development server. …

Hier sind die Folien meines :nixos: #NixOS workshops grade eben beim #Tübix2025:
https://no…

Tried switching to #ghostty on both macOS and #NixOS. On macOS, it replaced iTerm2 for me and the transition was pretty smooth. Also worked fine with fish and starship ootb. Just the still persisting SSH issues (which are blamed on ghostty being too new for external applications to recognize it)…

Tfw you just want to roll out a minor configuration change to your #nixos setup but you’ve git pulled and your steam deck wants to rebuild Linux and mesa.

Holy cow 😅 Iterating on :nixos: #nixOS SD card images surely adds up...

I have joined the #Immich cult and I am *very* impressed. :nixos: #NixOS made setup a breeze and it slurped 100GB of photos and videos like a champ while staying responsive. Facial recognition is amazing, a bit of manual merging and tagging is necessary, but that's expected. Also the keyword search wor…

Packaged another open source #nodejs application for #NixOS today. A few words of advice (or more of a plea) to my fellow #FOSS JS devs:
1. Don't try to modify your frontend assets at runti…

:nixos: #NixOS has made me like :bash: #bash. I use it so frequently with pkgs.writeShellApplication and have accepted to use its non-POSIX "advanced" features like (associative) arrays, the [[ ]] conditional syntax, the variable string mangling magic, etc. I absolutely love how writeShellApplicati…

Grade noch paar Folien für meinen :nixos: #NixOS Workshop¹ heute 14:00 Uhr beim #Tübix vorbereiten.
Hatte die letzten Wochen so viel zu tun, dass ich tatsächlich NIX vorbereiten konnte. #baDumTss

Oh wow ​LLMs are just so terrible. 🤦‍♂️
I made a #systemd service watcher¹ ( :nixos: #NixOS module²³) which regularly feeds systemd status outputs into an LLM (mistral here) and sends me an email if it thinks it found real problems. Well, now I always get alarmist emails with bullshit warnings, suc…

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Setting :xfce: #Xfce desktop background image on :nixos: #NixOS with #homeManager for all known monitors

🖼️ xfce: set background for all monitors (def8b01c) · Commits · Yann Büchau / 📦 Yanns NixOS Config · GitLab
My NixOS Config

Troubleshooting infinite recursion is my least favorite #nixos problem.

Right, if you update a remote :nixos: #NixOS machine via an #autossh tunnel (that received a minor change) and it gets stopped for the update, you got yourself a problem 😆
Luckily, there is restartIfChanged = false; 😌

:nixos: #NixOS Issue #354057¹: Can't call a program 'log'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujwvIVknADI&
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TFW someone randomly drops your browser of choice from #nixpkgs #nixos #vivaldi

Not attending #GPN23 this year but I'll be at #NixCon2025 :blobcatnomcookie:
#nixcon #nixos

Hell yeah, finally a standalone #Threema desktop app¹ that works without an active connection to the phone! 🥳🎉
First time using a #Flatpak for me². Luckily, :nixos: #NixOS has a way to manage Flatpaks dec…

Okay why tf would it be that `nix profile install git ssh://myurl` always installs a version some commits behind? 😠 `nix profile ugprade` the same.
UPDATE: use --refresh.
#nix #nixos

@… Have you tried putting #nixbook on 32-bit hardware? I have an Asus eeePC r11cx laying around that I loved at the time and would like to revive. But last time I tried compiling a 32-bit

Interesting post from tazjin, an experienced #nixos contributor, about trying #guix https://tazj.in/blog/trying-guix#fnref1 it didn’t particularly make me want to try guix, but it was an informative and fun read.

Wait, does #uv just make #Python work without #FHS shenanigans on :nixos: #NixOS? 🤨