I love it, but the configuration is messy. Many packages are out of date, but the Scheme syntax makes it easy to update them and build them on your system.
Problem is, getting these updates merged with the upstream never happens generally speaking (I have several open patches), so you end up having two working trees in your local Guix repo, and heaven forbid you run guix pull on the wrong branch.
Also you can’t just install these packages, you have to import the keyrings of any packages that access the kernel. That requires you to go to the website, check out the owner of the key, see their contributions and decide for yourself if you trust it
+1 for Alpine. I had my reservations due to their mistrust for glibc which rattled my GNU sensibilities, but musl is rock steady and all my apps feel stable and hackable.
Gnome is a harmless though. It’s so benign it’s reliable.
KDE is glossy and featureful and sometimes my CPU fan doesn’t go down for whole hours because baloo is scanning my entire filesystem (including various conda installations) despite me repeatedly asking it not to.
Pulseaudio should have hooks
# cat /etc/pulse/default.pa
load-module module-switch-on-connect
load-module module-exec
load-module module-exec arguments="path/to/your/script.sh %s"
(where %s resolves on trigger to the name of the sink added)
Your script.sh should then match the first argument to the name of the sink you want to control, and then run
# path/to/your/script.sh
if [ "$1" = "THESINKIWANT" ]; then
pactl set-sink-volume $1 40%
fi
this is high level trolling, kudos sir
BG3: WhickedWhims and BasementDrugs
ah good point
{ "key": "six",
"value": 6,
"comment": "6 is a bad number. Use five." }
dunno, the system might ran out of RAM due to lack of swap, but the drive should be fine due to the limited writes
If the system you have has enough RAM you could load the entire OS to RAM and then change the writeback settings to a high interval
nothing that drinking can’t fix
There is exactly one Fritzbox (Modem+Router) that can be flashed to dd-wrt, but only if it hasnt been patched by upstream firmware
wine-staging-wow64 has been a godsend for me in terms of performance
eh, it equates region lock with racism and feels more like an anti-corpo rant than a comprehensive view of locked/unlocked devices.
A better link would be the lineageOS devices page, or the postmarketOS devices page. These will tell you explicitly which chipsets and models are open and worth getting
Also, there’s literally a Greggs on every corner or a greasy spoon that’ll make you a sandwich for 2.50
the best resource in Guix is searching the irc logs or reaching out to their irc directly. The manual only gets you so far