Can you give me some pointers? I’m still new to docker and podman; hoping to get this going without too much learning curve to start with!

I’m planning to do it with podman. It’s supposed to be quite easy to convert between the two.

Cool! Thanks for explaining.

Thank you for the correction. So then, a more tinker-ready OS could do atomic upgrades, but allow manual changes/customisation to the system internals. And also handle traditional distribution-style package installation.

I suppose some people might still want to upgrade certain packages and not others, but that seems a pretty rare case these days - or maybe I just don’t hang out in the right crowds!

I also think atomic distros will become the norm eventually, but I think there’s a long way to go, and not just with user adoption. When I was looking into Nix I was very excited for quite a while, but eventually I realised it’s just another way of handling the package distribution/integration problem. A brilliant one, I agree, but with upsides and downsides like any other answer. And I realised that the incredible work put in by the Debian packagers is a better fit for my needs, no matter that it’s an older approach.

Perhaps one day, Nix or Nix-like will mature and grow to have the right options to fill my needs better. Perhaps one of the modern Atomics will be good enough for me. Or perhaps Debian et al will run out of steam and good works, or perhaps my needs will change. Or perhaps I’ll die first, after a long and happy life using traditional community package distributions.

But I look forward to the glorious future of GUIX/HURD. Even if I never live to see it.

we’re not afraid to tinker

what’s keeping YOU from switching to an atomic distro

1. Being able to tinker. Atomic distros are about choosing in advance to not tinker with a large part of your system. There’s good reasons to do that, sure, but not good enough for me right now.

ChatGPT thinks everything is brilliant.

Awesome. Everything is awesome.

You might use this what-if as a starter.

At the start of the scenario, the entire Earth’s population has been magically transported together into one place.

This crowd takes up an area the size of Rhode Island.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/8/

For me it’s also the breadth of people there.

The answer is, on the outside.

Eldritch Monstrous Amalgamated Common Software

On a real note, though, it had a great Haskell mode I much miss now doing Julia in Vim. Being able to write code snippets in the editor then shunt them into the interpreter in the other pane is so good. Every now and again I tell myself I’ll learn EViL and check out Emacs again. And it still starts faster than some electron-based ide.

Ah, the ecumenicalist.

Like comparing Microsoft Office to Markdown.

*ducks*😶‍🌫️

+1 for Inkscape. I have no experience with the commercial competition but I’ve found Inkscape awesome, and used it for things it was probably never intended for.

I’m also looking forward to trying Immich, but I’m slowed down because I decided I should learn podman and use that instead of docker!

I do a lot of photo organising myself with file structure and timestamp filenames, but it looks like I can have Immich see my ‘proper’ library of files, and for the family it’s hopefully a helpful tool.

Does anyone know how well the iPhone app works? I had problems with the next cloud app, which otherwise was great for connecting my general web of tech with an iPhone.

… tja and Tja; are these your alt accounts?

Especially on mobile FOSS often makes a big difference to user experience cleanness, not just privacy/freedom that you’ll be glad for later.

Thanks for bringing this up. I almost thought to try Joplin again, from this post. But for me, having my files as files for me to use as I please etc, is too important. I guess the Joplin way works for some.

Vi! Vi! Vi!

Yes!!

Love Simon Tatham’s puzzle collection. I’ve enjoyed it for years; these days I use the hardest setting on the 6x6 towers puzzle when I can’t get to sleep: see if I can solve one or two without any intermediate notes (just fixing each actual tower number, and without trying out and going back) before my brain runs out and is ready to sleep.