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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • You can get pretty far with copy-pasting. If you want to try it out, you should first realize that there’s always 10+ different ways to do the same thing. Stick with what works and with what seems the most intuitive to you.

    Personally, I suggest going straight for a flake-based setup. Flakes are somehow still labeled experimental, but they’re actually mature and broadly adopted.


  • After trying out a few distros over the last 20 years or so (openSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Fedora and Silverblue were the ones I actively used for a stretch of time on desktop, Debian and CentOS on server), I also landed on NixOS.

    Who knows what the future brings, but things feel more settled to me than they ever have. Maybe that’s because there’s a (declarative) solution for every custom setup, it’s just a function of time and profiency in Nix. Or maybe it’s because I invested quite a bit of work into a trivially reproducible setup for most of my machines and workflows (all in one glorious version-controlled flake), that the sunk costs are too high to switch elsewhere.

    I’m still willing to experiment with DEs/WMs, currently running Gnome on my main and Sway on weaker machines. Hyprland is a bit out there for my taste, but I’m really looking forward to giving Cosmic DE a try once it’s ready.





  • I use btrbk (on a btrfs filesystem) and I’ve never been happier. It fits my workflow perfectly: Frequent automated local snapshots with the occasional incremental backup to one of several encrypted external drives. It’s fast and reproducible since it’s all in a single conf file.













  • Kann Severance und Raised by Wolves nur unterstreichen. Außerdem in den letzten Jahren unterm Radar geflogen:

    Mythic Quest – Komödie über das Entwickler*innenteam eines World-of-Warcraft-ähnlichen MMORPGs. Wer was mit diesen Spielen am Hut hatte, kommt hier auf ihre* Kosten.

    I Love That for You – Komödie über einen Home-Shopping-Kanal. Das Script baut im Laufe der Staffel etwas ab, aber die Prämisse und die Hauptdarstellerin machen es für mich empfehlenswert.

    Und sollte klar sein, aber niemand schaut irgendwas aus diesem Thread vor Succession und The White Lotus.