571: Multi-Machine Lifestyle

LINUX Unplugged

Wes reports from the Skunkworks lab, and Brent tells us about his new computing lifestyle.

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• Nix Nerds Matrix Room
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• Minisforum UM690 Pro
• pyenv-flake: experimental nix flake that can build pyenv pythons
• dotenvx-flake: A nix flake for dotenvx
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• Try the JB Test Gathio Instance hosted by HybridSarcasm
• Berlin with Brent: September Meetup at Nextcloud Conference · JB Events
• Fix Kate sudo saves - use Plasma 6 version of Kate by MarkSort · Pull Request #3 · ChrisLAS/nix
• Running OpenBSD 7.5 on your laptop is really hard (not) — I couldn't use OpenBSD exclusively; there's software that I need/want which isn't available. But I do appreciate certain of OpenBSD's qualities: it's a simple, ultra-lightweight, traditional UNIX. I have an ancient ThinkPad running OpenBSD configured as a minimalist desktop: it's nice for focused work. Sure, it can't run Steam or play Netflix, but sometimes that's a plus...
• @fabean's NixOS configs
• IBM Classroom LAN Administration System V 1.30 User Guide
• 0xchat: Secure chat built on Nostr
• Get NIP-05 verified
• Pick: termscp — 🖥 A feature rich terminal UI file transfer and explorer with support for SCP/SFTP/FTP/S3/SMB
• Learn Nix The Fun Way — Sure, it’s sort of portable, if you tell the person running it to have curl and jq. What if you relied on a specific version of either though? Nix guarantees portability.