Completely unrealistic. They’ve never have the word ice on their uniforms.

I tried Cinnamon out in a live distro It was pretty pleasant. I find Nemo for more enjoyable than Dolphin.

Tried KDE in the early days, it was all over the place. Switched to gnome when it was baked. I had been gnome for years. Every update broke and replaced plugins to make it work like I wanted. I’ve had Windows layout since’95, I have to go back and forth a lot, so muscle memory is key.

After fucking with gnome for the 90th time. I tried KDE again, it was just layed out like I wanted. No plugins, no fucking with it. The worst thing I have to do is set dolphin not to open on single click.

I see people here going well if you don’t take it as it comes you’re going to have a bad time. That’s pretty much the least Linux comment I’ve ever read. That’s OSX in a nutshell.

I sure as f don’t miss x, but for the fing love of God can I get some access at the shell level to my input devices? The death of Autohotkey is killing me slowly.

I mean, it’s supposed to keep drones and real air traffic from mixing.

on two separate physical drives Computers and this will never happen

Password protecting “bios” usually works if you must dual-boot tho.

Meanwhile my NixOS install had a failure to mount an encrypted swap at boot costing me 1 and a half minutes of downtime on every boot that only took 30 seconds to fix but 6 months to get around to.

This very moment, I need to go downstairs and start breakfast, pack lunches.

Ohh look this Lemmy post applies to me! I should post there!

24m past wakeup alarm.

Yah yah, I’m going…

Mostly, it’s a downmixing issue.

The movie is mixed to have Music, Speech, SFX spread out through 5.1 or 7.1 The speech and primary important sounds come through center. General music is a mix of L,R and Surround. When you feed that audio track to a dumb tv, it does a horrible job at turning it into L and R sound only.

If you feed it through a good 5.1 or 7.1 receiver or soundbar, you get options for Speech and surround and you can mess with levels individually. But the speech is front and loud.

If I just plug my roku into my tv, the center channel is almost at, all I get is the light intermixing of center in L and R so speech is horrible. you jack up the volume to hear the speech, then all the other sound is way too loud

Likewise, in most cases just taking an AAC and convert it to mp3 without adjusting the levels, it ends up sounding like trash.

Wow, I never had a manifestation. I just woke on the couch one morning and realized I didn’t have control over my breathing and couldn’t move. I was living alone and unemployed at the time and it occurred to me that if I was actually frozen in place that no one would find me, potentially, for a very long time.

I tried to scream but nothing came out. After what seemed to be ages, I heard about 3/4 of a second of loud static and passed back out. I woke up some short time “I think” later groggy but able to get up.

But I have no idea people actually saw manifestations, I guess in retrospect what I had could have been worse.

I hate flatpacks worse than I hate snap

I spent their better part of two days wourth of spare time trying to get OBS and flat packs to take plugins.

To be honest, I only install stuff that I use everyday and randomly. For anything that’s part of a certain project or subsystem either use nix develop or nix shell.

I have one that activates kdenlive, makes YTDLP available, FFmpeg, MPV, and then when I exit that shell all that stuff is no longer linked.

Likewise I have oodles of rust and python projects that only bring into being what they need to get the work done.

I would argue it’s harder to get a root exploit on Silverblue because more of the filesystem is less mutable and applications are more sandboxed.

I’m running NixOS because declarative is saving me time on system changes nad keeping multiple workstations synced up.

SB is more well protected against unauthorized system changes, Nix is more flexible while still providing good rollbacks.

Root can’t hit it simply, it’s mounted rw, with a RO mount inside. Root can just check add and remove stuff while running with nix commands.

Basically, it you have a privileged access exoloit, it’s possible to target someone in ways you can’t in silverblue

Some people have made ways to make it more immutable. You can do things like add user folders and etc to the store. Harden it a little more. I’m the end, priv can just modify config*.nix and run rebuild in the background changing whatever.

Other os, you have to commit changes and actually reboot. Which gives you an opportunity to check for changes and deny. Or at least fully detect it happened.

It’s not that it’s dangerously insecure, but it’s important to recognize it’s not actually bulletproof and targeted attacks are still quite possible. It’s LEAGUES more secure than regular OS, but you can’t go full LifeLock on it.

And the other 4 items?

Not everything in the config paths are in the store.

None of the users are in the store

Any users can run arbitrary binaries as long as they’re not dynamically linked.

Root can permanently add and remove arbitrary stuff to/from the store at run time.

It’s pretty good in a lot of ways you can’t modify hosts and you can’t throw stuff into cron, but a great deal of Nixos is mutable.

until your distro releases

That’s saved my ass soooo many times. I now screw with X or Wayland to my hearts content, change 2-3-10 things at a time. ohh something didn’t work? reboot!

It’s not even fully immutable, but it has a lot of the protections of it. The declaritive part is pretty hot and the package system is expansive and extremely safe.

it’s also really nice to be able to commit new changes without rebooting.

that’s fair

For me, it felt like old times. Bringing up slackware, then bringing up redhat, then fighting in laptop Nvidia and AMD drivers. I was scary how much of my existing knowledge was useless though. If you install it by the book, you can’t even run a linked library.

I spent a couple of hundred hours learning how to configure it. I’ve been running it for around a year and a half. I’m still sub-par. First time around, 23.11, I installed home-manager as a flake. I got it up and running in a couple of hours, but managed to wedge myself when it was time for updates. I had written just enough weird nix language to make my configs not work in 24.05. I could get the OS to come up, but not home-manager. I started fresh, taking old configs item by item and re-implemented them via the docs fresh.

When I got a new laptop, I booted off the USB, copied my home folder and grabbed configuration.nix and home.nix and it all just magically worked.

That said, NGL, 25.05 has me a bit worried :) But at least I don’t have to fight Wayland this time.

NixOS: How do I install OBS?

edit /etc/nixos/configuration.nix

locate environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [

and add

linuxPackages.v4l2loopback
(wrapOBS {
  plugins = with pkgs.obs-studio-plugins; [
    obs-backgroundremoval
    obs-shaderfilter
    obs-vintage-filter
    
  ];
})

Then you need to install the kernel driver

you can find the instructions here:

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/OBS_Studio

make sure you follow the part about boot.extraModulePackages = with config.boot.kernelPackages; [ v4l2loopback ];

if you want to use the virtual cam driver.

You may find out that you want to install this in home-manager or flakes instead, but those are novels themselves.

edit: ohh yeah almost forgot run

sudo nixos-rebuild switch

after you edit the configs to install

NixOS: How do I update the version of OBS after it’s installed?

sudo nix-channel --update

sudo nixos-rebuild switch

If it breaks, the errors are mostly unhelpful, you need to poke around and make educated guesses.

If it bricks you can go back to the previous version in grub by selecting the second to the top entry

make sure you garbage collect every now and then or the app store gets huge.