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  • If you find that you’re generally reading articles on a single device (e.g. your phone), consider a local RSS reader app that doesn’t require a server elsewhere. I’ve been using read you for this (also interested in trying out feeder ), and its a great, simple, elegant solution. The occasion where I’d like to see the feed on my computer is definitely outweighed by not having to manage self-hosting or pay for an online solution.





  • Thanks! I ended up messing with Nixos a bunch in the past few weeks. My impression is generally positive, though while many of the things it does are very elegant (like the gnome example you mentioned), a lot of it also seems a bit hacky. Ultimately, figuring out how to declaratively configure specific things seems to take so much more time than my current approach of a written document detailing the steps of setting up my system.

    I’m going to keep tinkering in a VM though, and maybe I’ll have a breakthrough. Keeping configs working across two computers especially is tempting (read: an excuse to get a second computer).

    One last question - one of the things I worked on was Firefox with home manager. How did you get it set up so bookmarks were included in the config?


  • Nix has been on my mind for a while, but I’ve been hesitant to go all in. Unfortunately, messing around a bit with VMs I still don’t feel like I have a good handle on how it all works.

    One question I’d ask you is how much upfront work it is to get, say, a stable setup for a laptop where all of the little things are working (opening/closing the lid, connecting to external screen, switching audio outputs, media keys. Laptop stuff!)

    As context, a long time ago I ran Gentoo and later Arch, so I’m not technically clueless, but eventually decided to switch to easier distros that came with a reasonable system defaults that works out of the box. I’m super interested in NixOS for all the reasons you mentioned, but worried about how time I’ll end up spending just getting that config file to where I want it!