A smarter person would have used a fake SSN then claimed success when it never worked

I was recommended nix, because I used to use Linux with snapshots and write my setup notes in bash scripts

I just wanted to run docker with gpu access though…a dozen distros known for Nvidia support, I decided if I had to eat a shit sandwich, I would eat it once.

Nix actually showed the desktop with the generic driver… It was faster to see up docker and vscode and everything else then to enable the Wi-Fi

Nix is the one true Linux. Look at the lengths they go through to emulate a fraction of our greatness

I used to be, but once I started doing a commit each feature I got in the habit - it’s great when you fuck something up and need to see how you did it before

On solo personal projects I’m much worse, because I’m not afraid to rip it apart and put it back together on a whim…I usually go in with a goal, but then I might decide “this design isn’t going to work much longer, let’s rewrite this”, and 8 hours later I’ve made a bunch of improvements. Maybe even the one I set out to do

When that happens, I do like Minecraft - I give it a name.

And since the people I work with never read commit messages, after I list the changes I remember off the top of my head I sometimes do some creative writing. Sometimes I put my next plans to lay them out, sometimes I write about philosophy, sometimes I go on a rant about specific criticisms of the language or vent about how this was so much harder than it should have been. Occasionally I write a haiku

It’s so much easier to keep up with it when you just have fun with it…I just treat it like a reflection exercise

Do it. Don’t just configure your server, configure all your servers… Forever. How hard can it be?

I agree that I wouldnt call that an ad, but it’s a pretty distasteful plug

Does debian even exist? I’ve never seen it… I’ve used a dozen flavors of “debian” Linux professionally, as well as the headwear related branches and centos… Most recently I’ve gotten into nixos (I tried a half dozen distros, none of the “Nvidia friendly” distros would work with my graphics card outside safe mode, even after debugging and official docs listing it as compatible with Ubuntu… Five lines in the nix config, will nix again)

All this time, I’ve seen countless mentions of this mythical debian… at this point I’m pretty sure it’s just a meme, like Australia. I get Australia, someone mispronounced Austria and made up this wild story of a land full of deer who hop on two legs and kickbox (hilarious), but I don’t get the joke with debian. Is it just supposed to be the mythical Linux that works on any hardware configuration?

It’s almost a silver bullet. 300mb is pretty modest by today’s standards, and nix supports both bare metal and docker containers, and everything in between

Seems to me we need to bridge that gap - make nix smarter and more compatible with docker, and we get a fully featured desktop/dev environment that can be packaged directly into the minimal reproducible deployment package

And that sounds like a silver bullet to me