Just a reminder that nix packages works on most any distro, and then they work like other universal packages, but without the sandboxing
NixOS is just when you take this to the logical conclusion and have every part of the distro packaged in Nix, including configuring your OS, and optionally your users configuration files as well.
If you hate the word handegg, then maybe call it American Rugby, instead of American Football
Call it handegg
Except for my home directory, I have a little bit state on my machine, ssh host keys, WiFi credentials, journal logs (I almost want to remove this, but I bet that would bite me in the ass one day)
The root partition is a tmpfs ram disk, and everything not saved in a separate partition, and either mounted or symlinked on to my root partition is lost at shutdown and regenerated at boot. Its less than a second extra to boot, and it uses about 16MB extra memory. Everything is made very convenient through the impermanence nix module and the sops nix module
I need to check the price of broken steam decks, there are so many fun project’s I could do if I had the motherboard or daughter boards in the steam deck, and no I need my current steam deck intact to play on
I understand why you think this, but its kind of wrong. Because Nintendo has had the upper hand with hardware many times.
And yes, I’ll just wait and use my steam deck until SD2, because I also just want a computer that I can play games on.
Is this from a high res texture pack for sims 1?
Bazzite wants to say hello
Oh cool!
Seeing your affinity for nix, I’d go with nixos, either it is on the raspberry or a laptop, and then boot into sway, then have it open the terminal on boot, kitty, or another similar terminal.
Id probably hyper focus on making the perfect nixos config, I’m unsure if I would want to have it part of my main flake or a separate flake
Did you make that TUI? Why? What does the TUI do? I’ve written TUIs using that framework before (assuming it is dialog) and the file browser I don’t like, so I always end up making my own file pickers for it.
What I would do if I needed a typewriter like device, to not be detracted by, pooh shiny thing.
I would want a bigger screen, the pi400 looks like a great choice, I agree that a mechanical keyboard would be better but what is more important, having everything in one unit, or having better parts?
What about just using an older laptop, if you have one. Install Linux, any flavor, I see you are comfortable with raspbian, so Debian, Ubuntu, mint etc should make you feel right at home. Most any other option is also fine, like fedora, or arch Linux if you want a little bit torture, or nixos if you want more pleasure and torture.
Any hardware you ended up with, any distro you ended up with. Just delete all apps that are not for your one specific need. Including the web browser!
Any desktop environment should be okay, as long as you remove all apps not for let’s say writing and file management. Optionally switch to a window manager, like i3wm, sway, or hyprland (hyprland is the first thing I’ve recommended thus far I haven’t used extensively), to make it feel more like a focused machine!
Optionally, if your text editor is terminal based (like mine, I use vim or neovim), if it helps you focus even more, just disable the display manager (the login program) so you log right into the tty. The main drawback over using a window manager like sway and a nice terminal emulator like kitty or Ghostty, is that you can’t view images or all nice effects in let’s say neovim. But this might be a plus in the end. If you don’t need emojis.
A bonus tip! If you continue with your setup like you do right now, or if you chose a window manager, or just straight tty. Use udisks / udiskie to auto mount USB drives, similar to how KDE or gnome does it.
Also for file manager i now use yazi, it’s in the terminal, will work in tty or a terminal in a desktop or window manager. There are just a couple of things I miss from my old file manager I used before called ranger, but yazi is much faster and light weight.
Also maybe use ssh to copy over your files? If you want to have network access, maybe network access is a bad idea
Wife has started to expect oversharing, she corrects me when it’s just us two, and then I am not sharing enough. When going into social situations, she reminds me of thinking about what is okay to share before I share.
I need to fidget when I have to sit and listen to things. It can seam like I don’t care about the topic, but if I am using all my focus on not fidgeting I sometimes can’t focus on what the other person is saying.
Don’t get into keyboards, I have multiple keyboards, most expensive one I spent $300 to build, the one I am using now is $150, and I have a few others in that price range, and one that is half built
I almost picked up a $60 keyboard impulse buy for my wife today. Then I thought that she is using the $300 one, but she wishes the key caps were pink, maybe $60 is reasonable just for the key caps? No stop it
Similar things like fighting sticks, I don’t want to talk about it
For paid hobbies, 3d printing isn’t that awful, as long as you learn 3d modeling while your at it. It’s a bit of a cost, after that the consumables isn’t horrible, and I can leave it for a while and come back a few times per year, and it can mix with other hobbies.
I enjoy programming! It’s free, and I can hyper focus on a programming project, and if I move on I can move on to another programming project.
I usually try to get at least a few YouTube videos in before going to bed after programming. Because if I hyper focus on programming and then go to bed, I will wake up in the middle of the night with a solution to a problem I had. While that is great fun, I have enough issues getting enough sleep as it is, don’t need to wake up at 3AM and having to get over to the computer to write down an algorithm or something, then test it, then post about it online because I am so happy and proud and can’t get back to sleep
My brother will get into expensive stuff, and then he can’t finish what he starts, and his hp proliant server is still collecting dust in his spare bedroom.
My father would have projects that he needed to take up additional mortgages for, like buying a fish selling truck (why not ice cream ffs), or a boat, or shit. Or buying farming equipment even though he has a lawn sized lawn and not a field sized lawn, or a boat or shit.
I did say democrats, not far left. And I did compare them to a far right group, not the reasonable non GOP Republicans
MAGA Republicans: will riot if you give them a Facebook event invite
Democrats: let’s see, maybe they will riot if you take their houses or something. At least they might write a strongly worded comment
su is already a highly valued command
Pork can also be eaten raw, if you slice it into thin slices like bacon, and put it in a laser cutter that only fry the fat. (take a picture, use image manipulation to make a mask that guides the laser cutter)
Should be completely fine TM
With patience, something ADHDers have in a abundance for the weirdest thing at the wrong time