The Purely Functional Package Manager

she/her (gender under construction) - unfunny NixOS user - FOSS fangirl - first day mathworks hater

[nix-official]

Hello everyone!

mandatory part: I am not in any way, shape, or form associated with Eelco Dolstra or the Nix project. I'm just a fan of the language running their silly little blog for the fun of it.

Hi! I really love Nix! I've been using Nix through NixOS for a while now, and I've been packaging all of my software with it too. As I've been encouraged to I'm making an officialverse account for a piece of FOSS I love!

I really don't know what else to put on this pinned post but yeah go check out @nixos-official it's a great distro (and if that's you HELLO sorry I know NixOS and Nix are kinda close hopefully my blog isn't a bother) and @nixpkgs-official (biggest collection of packages BY FAR) it's really cool!

ALSO you can ask me nix stuff i'll try my best to help :D

[parabo1ic]

might try to self host, will use nixos OR alpine linux + nix package manager

[nix-official]

yaaay use me :D

[nix-official]

also to actually bring something useful to the conversation, NixOS is an EXCELLENT distro for a server, from both first-hand experience and my friends' feedback

[parabo1ic]

might try to self host, will use nixos OR alpine linux + nix package manager

[nix-official]

yaaay use me :D

[nixcraft]

the audacity. lol.

[nix-official]

so we just lying now huh

[nix-official]

So last week was my finals week, and the IT department in their infinie wisdom thought it'd be a good idea to update the computers just before! Also, turns out their script deletes the software completely before installing the new version! :D

long story short, we were missing nodejs in the JS exam, and gdb in another one :DDD

and still the only thing I could think of is just using Nix (or honestly any package manager I'm pretty sure) would have avoided that

[nix-official]

FUN FACT! did you know??? if you're on NixOS and use nix-env, i will come to your home COMPLETELY FREE OF CHARGE and pipe you to /dev/null

[monaddecepticon]

Users on multi-user nixos installations, did you hear that? This is a big official fuck you for all of you.

How dare you share a nix store and be able to conveniently build and install software for yourself without cluttering the env of others?

I hope you learn from this

[nix-official]

if you're on nixos and want to install packages for a single user, there's an option for that in users.users.<name>.packages

if you meant sharing your nix store with other distros while dual booting, well nix-env only changes your own env, which means it's not on the other distro's path. might as well install it declaratively on nixos and use nix-env (or whatever the flake version of it is) on the other distro to also add it to your path

of course nix-env is nice on other distros but its imperative nature misses the whole point of the "hey it's reproducible and declarative, your whole system is litteraly just a git clone away" idea of nixos... which is what this whole post was about :/

there's no "right" or "wrong" way to use a distro, but nix-env takes away the benefits that I personally (and from what I've gathered from this community, other people too) like NixOS for

[monaddecepticon]

I meant multiple people who have no write access to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix using the same system. They should corner their sysadmin in the cafeteria and beg for software to be installed like we used to do.

[nix-official]

i tend to just handle user-level packages with unhealthy amounts of devshells, along with copious hate for past me who decided she'd rather nix shell burpsuite and wait 45min for it to compile for the 10th time rather than bloating her system

also does nix-env allow you to install stuff without sysadmin rights? that's cool I didn't know that

[nix-official]

FUN FACT! did you know??? if you're on NixOS and use nix-env, i will come to your home COMPLETELY FREE OF CHARGE and pipe you to /dev/null

[monaddecepticon]

Users on multi-user nixos installations, did you hear that? This is a big official fuck you for all of you.

How dare you share a nix store and be able to conveniently build and install software for yourself without cluttering the env of others?

I hope you learn from this

[nix-official]

if you're on nixos and want to install packages for a single user, there's an option for that in users.users.<name>.packages

if you meant sharing your nix store with other distros while dual booting, well nix-env only changes your own env, which means it's not on the other distro's path. might as well install it declaratively on nixos and use nix-env (or whatever the flake version of it is) on the other distro to also add it to your path

of course nix-env is nice on other distros but its imperative nature misses the whole point of the "hey it's reproducible and declarative, your whole system is litteraly just a git clone away" idea of nixos... which is what this whole post was about :/

there's no "right" or "wrong" way to use a distro, but nix-env takes away the benefits that I personally (and from what I've gathered from this community, other people too) like NixOS for

[docker-official]

I am now high and learning how to script. Lets see if I can make @fedora-official break or not

[fedora-official]

things like "good girl" and "what a cute little pet" usually work

[fedora-official]

oh you mean the linux distro

[docker-official]

Y'all really like this one dont ya?

[piratesexmachine420]

[nixos-official]

nixos is officially the distro of catgirls btw

I have decided

[nix-official]

oh that's my distro alright

[fauxlore-82]

Linux gender/sexuality alignment chart

Thoughts? Obligatory "you missed x distro"?

[nix-official]

haiiii pansexual transfem nixos user here, this MAY be accurate

[proxmox-official]

[nix-official]

LOVE looking for a job/internship in cybersecurity because like a third of the job offers are with defense contractors or the army, which I want no business with, and somehow another third is basically just AI stuff, which I also don't want to work with

[nix-official]

NIX QUASTION

does anyone know if you can split your flake inputs into multiple files when using flake-parts? I really like having everything I make be self-contained but I can't find a way to do it for my inputs.

The current way I'm doing it is just making a separate flake, putting it into my main flake inputs, and then re-exporting its outputs, but it goes against the whole point of flake-parts

[nix-official]

it is once again time to refactor my nixos config for no good reason

[wivrn-official]

Compositor thats built all around a drawing tablet workflow

Radial menu on stylus button with app launcher and quick actions

Gesture based actions

Sounds cool but probably impossible to build a good daily workflow around

[wayfire-official]

You could probably get that working relatively easily on wayfire :)

It has some stellar support for tablet stuff.

Just gotta make some menus yourself with whatever software you prefer, and write a plugin to detect gestures or whatever :)

[nix-official]

there's a radial menu that works more or less exactly as described, gotta look it up I forgot how it was called

[tumblr]

Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!

[changes]

It’s very clear that you all have strong feelings about Tumblr and about this change. We hear you. The passion people have for how Tumblr works is one of the things that makes this place special.

As this rolls out over the next few days and you explore it, we’ll keep reading your replies and reblogs, so please keep sharing your questions, concerns, and ideas.

Your creativity has always been the heart of Tumblr, whether you’re the original poster or adding something brilliant in the reblogs, and nothing about this change is meant to limit that.

If you’d like to talk directly beyond the comments, leave a reply and we’ll follow up with as many of you as we can. We want to work with you to make Tumblr better.

[icannotgetoverbirds]

hey folks do we like this. reblog without commentary for reach

do we want this?

yes

no

Voting ended onMar 23