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When you go to configure something niche and upstream's merged what you need like 3 weeks ago
#NixOS 25.11 is Xantusia 
<3
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If you'd like 130GB /nix volume in a standard free-tier GitHub runner ️
then you want the Nothing but Nix GitHub action 
- Brutally purges unnecessary software from GitHub Actions runners
- Creates a
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With just one line added to my #NixOS configuration.nix file and a simple toggle in the Firefox LanguageTool add-on, I now enjoy full offline spelling and grammar checking! This was easier as expected.
services.languagetool.enable = true;
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Okay the fastest workaround I found for now is:
# build laptop's system on the server (a lot already built, doesn't take long)
server$ nix build .#nixosConfigurations.$LAPTOP.config.system.build.toplevel)"
# copy system manually from server to laptop
laptop$ nix copy --from ssh://server "$(nix eval --raw --apply builtins.toString .#nixosConfigurations."$(hostname)".config.system.build.toplevel)"
# then nixos-rebuild as usual
laptop$ nixos-rebuild --flake . --use-remote-sudo switch
Has *anyone ever* gotten 
#nix to automatically fetch things from another of your machines instead of cache.nixos.org and/or rebuilding everything _again_ locally?
The manual¹ claims one can use --substituers ssh://yourmachine, but (of course) that doesn't work. Terrible or no error messages, that weird 'SSH stdout first line:' message, different port only settable via NIX_SSHOPTS='-p 1234', hangs indefinitely at `querying info about missing paths`...
¹https://nix.dev/manual/nix/2.24/package-management/ssh-substituter.html
nix.devServing a Nix store via SSH - Nix Reference Manual
After a few weeks of using #FreeBSD and going through the awesome books by @mwl, I can't stress how much of a breath of fresh air *BSD systems are. Documentation, man pages, all there. Config files exactly where you expect them. The majority in .conf format....
Don't get me started on jails. I used to be in love with NixOS, but #NixOS gave me that nagging feeling of not being in control anymore and too many things had been abstracted away.
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If you are using #NixOS, just use this configuration
```nix
{ pkgs, ... }:
{
services.orca.enable = true; # for screen reader
environment.systemPackages = [
pkgs.pied # only available on unstable at time of writing
]
}
```
As of today, my computer can __nicely__ read aloud for me !
I'm lazy, i read slowly, so i don't like reading, i skip a lot of articles
I have been looking for a solution for several months
Fixed my #nixos initrd issue not getting dhcp
Added
boot.initrd.network.udhcpc.enable = true;
boot.initrd.network.flushBeforeStage2 = true;
Also I think it was weird cable issue. Plugging the 10 year old computer into the new router - no IP. Plugging it into older 10/100 switch - gets IP.
Most important: tell me why. #nixos #fedora #silverblue #Kinoite #linux #foss #floss #KDE #kdeplasma
This is a really good video by @notthebee on using #NixOS in a #homelab. He explains the benefits and downsides very well in a casual tone. Everything he says speaks right out of my heart why NixOS is so amazing and why I am doing it pretty much identically as him. Worth watching!
A little annoyed with NixOS's documentation.
I had to rewrite the whole GPU information because NixOS documentation is a mess. For starters there are 4 sources, 3 Wiki sites for NixOS concerning Nvidia
Wiki 1 https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nvidia
Wiki 2 https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/NVIDIA
Wiki 3 https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-x11-graphics-cards-nvidia
My goal is just to enable the drivers and allow the user access to the generic settings. If they want to dig deeper or need more, they can explore that on their own, and I link to the new official Wiki (twice) where they can obtain that information. There was a whole thread on their support forums concerning the Wiki and Nvidia, and how to best get Nvidia working. https://discourse.nixos.org/t/there-are-3-nvidia-wiki-pages-for-nixos/64066?u=linuxisbest
Having me go over everything (several times) gave me the opportunity to expand the AMD and Intel support. It also made me look over my configuration and realize I needed to help make this easier to read. In some places I had too much white space, in others not enough, while going a little too deep in documentation, when the whole goal is to make this easy, so I had to rethink some things.
The good news is I think ultimately, I ended up with a better configuration file (have a look): https://codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/NixOS_Configuration/src/branch/main/basic_config.txt
#NixOs #Nix #Linux #Foss #Nvidia #Development
nixos.wikiNvidia - NixOS Wiki
Thanks to the awesome @leftpaddotpy and 9999years (I don't have their fedi?!), we now have #Lix 2.93.0: https://lix.systems/blog/2025-05-06-lix-2.93-release/.
The release notes contain a lot of goodies, nevertheless, another cool thing about it is that it contains a tremendous effort from eldritch horrors to rewrite the I/O and threading model to KJ: the Cap'n'Proto asynchronous runtime.
This unveiled a massive amount of hidden ordering constraints in the codebase, very hard to debug.
1/2 #NixOS
Lix · Announcing Lix 2.93 “Bici Bici”We at the Lix team are proud to announce our fourth major release, version 2.93 “Bici Bici”.
This release focuses on bugfixes and continues integrating Lix with the KJ asynchronous runtime, in order to replace the previous bespoke implementation.
Hii~,
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My favourite logic gate is XOR.