I use a VPS for port forwarding. Maybe my case is more special, as I already had the VPS for web hosting.

Maybe… I haven’t tried it to be honest. I will need to setup a VM for that, as my personal files would get wiped anyway.

If you want to test it yourself, try to rm while nixos-rebuild is running.

NixOS has rm. But it’s not under /bin. There is no /bin in NixOS. The user’s programs are inside /run/current-system/sw/bin, and those are symlinks from files hidden in /nix/store.

Running rm -rf / --no-preserve-root under NixOS, will not nuke the entire system, since /nix/store is mounted as read-only, and only remounted as rw when new applications are downloaded, or older unused ones are wiped.

Please use “/usr/bin/env [command]”. Otherwise, it will not work on NixOS

Who is self-hosting in lambdas? Isn’t the idea of self-hosting to control your infrastructure (preferably including the hardware) ?

It can be simplified with the use of runCommand:

{
  boot = {
    plymouth = {
      enable = true;
      theme = "breeze";
      logo =
        with pkgs;
        let
          src = fetchurl {
            url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixos-artwork/refs/heads/master/logo/nix-snowflake-rainbow.svg";
            sha256 = "sha256-gMeJgiSSA5hFwtW3njZQAd4OHji6kbRCJKVoN6zsRbY=";
          };
        in
        runCommand "out.png" { } "${imagemagick}/bin/magick -background none -size 200x200 ${src} $out";
    };
  };
}

I had such a relationship, that recently ended. Apparently, I was not supportive enough.

Breaking up was a big relief, although I am still a bit worried about them.

VHS. No one will bother with it.

I trust no closed-source encryption mechanism. If I had to use any kind of cloud backup solution, I would first encrypt the files locally with a mechanism that I fully control.

I have been thinking of doing such thing to keep backups of my home Nextcloud server.

Did you set the WantedBy field?

Did you systemctl enable the service?

The Nix package manager can be installed on most distros.

Keep in mind though:

• GPU accelerated apps will require nixGL, or symlinking Nix’s Mesa to /run/opengl-drivers
• Debian 12 has an ancient version of nix, and you need to first grab the nix binaries from the 24.11 channel. Newer channels do not support Debian’s nix
• Fedora may require to disable SELinux. Otherwise it can be a real pain to properly configure nix

Bedrock Linux requires you to change distro.

Let me introduce you to distrobox. It containerizes the distro of choice, and allows you to install any software of any distro, without messing any system files.

Regarding the VPN case though, I haven’t tested it, but I would rather install any kind of proprietary software inside a VM. Steam may be an exception.

Did kings have to grind?

It’s great that poverty seems to decline. However, have you ever wondered what caused/causes poverty on the first place?

Spoiler alert: it’s not caused by people that are not grinding enough

Now replace “get money” with “get money”

Conservatives will get really upset once they realize you are changing genders

Unless they didn’t “systemctl enable simulation.service”

I have yet to see anyone brave enough, to mount /home to NTFS

I had such an issue with Teams on Mac the other day. It had a phone call stuck running in the background, so I tried to Quit the app. The Quit Teams option just turned gray, and the laptop even refused to reboot.

A kernel update didn’t generate the initramfs

This sounds like a bug on Nix configuration, or the kernel build process.

If NixOS had caught the error, you wouldn’t have gotten a faulty generation at all. This is different from pacman/apt/dnf, which will happily continue the upgrade, resulting in a broken system with no easy way to fix it.