just use a community-lead or non-profit foundation lead distro: NixOS (better than silverblue/kinoite in all aspects they try to sell), Arch, or Debian.

For professional usage, you generally go Ubuntu, or some RHEL derivative.

Totally supportive. Great to have a wayland Rust implementation (and Rust increasing adoption by FOSS community); more specifically, smithay, which further than System76 is building upon, like projects by the community this WM for example https://github.com/MagmaWM/MagmaWM

Well; darwin users, just as linux users, should also work on making packages available to their platforms as Nix is still in its adoption phase. There are many already. IIRC I, who never use MacOS, made some effort into making 1 or 2 packages (likely more) to build on darwin.

as Reddit now going to IPO. That happened to Twitter->Mastodon, can happen to Reddit->Lemmy as well.

We had seen it coming haha

I can keep Firefox bleeding edge without having to worry that the package manager is also going to update the base system, giving me a broken next boot if I run rolling releases.

On Nix[OS], one can use multiple base Nixpkgs versions for specific packages one wants. What I have is e.g. 2 flakes nixpkgs, and nixpkgs-update. The first includes most packages including base system that I do not want to update regularly, while the last is for packages that I want to update more regularly like Web browser (security reasons, etc).

e.g.

• https://codeberg.org/yuuyin/yuunix/src/branch/main/flake.nix#L52-L77
• packages with pkgs (nixpkgs flake) https://codeberg.org/yuuyin/yuunix/src/branch/main/profile/packages.nix#L12-L26
• firefox with pkgs-update (nixpkgs-update flake) https://codeberg.org/yuuyin/yuunix/src/branch/main/profile/app/firefox.nix#L14-L16

When I was packaging Flatpaks, the greatest downside is

No built in package manager

There is a repo with shared dependencies, but it is very few. So needs to package all the dependencies… So, I personally am not interested in packaging for flatpak other than in very rare occasions… Nix and Guix are definitely better solutions (except the isolation aspect, which is not a feature, you need to do it manually), and one can use at many distros; Nix even on MacOS!

Some of them will detect if using virtualization. For example http://safeexambrowser.org/ by ETH Zurich

Ironically enough, it is free software https://github.com/SafeExamBrowser

their work essentially go in the trash

They learned a lot in the process probably, that is the most important for them after all. But relying on API is risky, so always go HTML scrapping. The frontends are super useful for finding information already there without accessing the actual website. Always use Lemmy here for everything else.

KDE Connect has been very unreliable to me. I’m using magic wormhole now.

Oh I misread; thought it enabled following fediverse users from within lemmy, but now i see it is actually the other way around. Thank you for clarifying!

Lemmy users can now be followed. Just visit a user profile from another platform like Mastodon, and click the follow button, then you will receive new posts and comments in the timeline.

does an admin needs to enable the follow button? it is not appearing for me.

Wonderful! Thanks contributors for all the work!

Not the package managers as I understand, but the service providers providing the applications; so it would include e.g. everyone hosting package archive mirrors. This all makes no sense, because the Internet, which runs Linux, would basically stagnate.

Article 6 of the law requires all “software application stores” to:

• Assess whether each service provided by each software application enables human-to-human communication
• Verify whether each user is over or under the age of 17
• Prevent users under 17 from installing such communication software

It may seem unbelievable that the authors of the law didn’t think about this but it is not that surprising considering this is just one of the many gigantic consequences of this sloppily thought out and written law.

That law is a big document; would have been helpful if Mullvad’s article directly cited/referenced as for us to verify some of that.

Yeah Lemmy is pretty good on that and overall as well. I wish more people would move from the popular proprietary/centralized forums alike to here. Maybe it just needs more word of mouth…

Nice to see you and your project here as well✨✨✨

It is pretty useful! Thanks!

PS: Also worth sharing on !nixos@lemmy.ml

Wow the rendering is much better/faster now 🌠

I don’t know about language models in specific. I read this recently on “federated learning” https://venturebeat.com/ai/federated-learning-key-to-securing-ai/

It says data privacy issues. Maybe it is also a more complex architecture.

You’re a person of culture as well I see; I upvote comments of culture yes📠

I remember talking with you at the NixOS matrix; nice to see you here as well💖✨✨✨🌠

It is because it departs from POSIX that it is good; I recognize the syntax for some functionality is cumbersome and hard to remember though. There are similarities like command names and piping still…

I use NixOS and home-manager, so for switching I just

  home-manager.users.yuu = {
    programs.nushell = {
      package = pkgs-update.nushell;
      enable = true;
      configFile.source = ../../config/nushell/config.nu;
      envFile.source = ../../config/nushell/env.nu;  
    };
  };

The config.nu and env.nu is basically the default just with a customized prompt.

Then in my alacritty.ylm I set shell to the nu binary

shell:
  program: /etc/profiles/per-user/yuu/bin/nu

Also learned from official resources https://www.nushell.sh/book. When I have doubts, I ask either on Nushell’s GitHub discussions or https://matrix.to/#/#nushell:matrix.org

And to keep a POSIX shell

{
  environment = {
    systemPackages = with pkgs; [
      mksh
    ];

    sessionVariables = rec {
      TERM = "alacritty";
      TERMINAL = "alacritty";
      SHELL = "${pkgs.mksh}/bin/mksh";
    };

  environment.shells = [
    "${pkgs.mksh}/bin/mksh"
  ];
}