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  • On an open, straight road, a giant tortoise can actually hit quite reasonable speed.

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  • Running

    We need a cocaine tortoise horror movie.

  • The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend

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  • Goodbye Non-KISS Appliances

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  • I dodged that bullet then. I do have a Bosch dishwasher. It's fairly new and I like it so far.

  • Impermanent NixOS: on a VM + tmpfs root + flakes + LUKS

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  • Hmm, not sure. That's what I was going to call it at first. I couldn't find much either way, but I did find this which uses ephemeral to describe it. Perhaps I should rename it.

  • Help Me With My Baby Nix Dev Environment

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  • I was wondering if I am using a large package like TexLiveFull, how to make sure nix don’t delete large packages after I close the shell? I also don’t want this package to be available in my global environment, as I don’t need to use it outside vscode.

    There's a bunch of tools that solve this problem.

    https://github.com/direnv/direnv/wiki/Nix

    In the link above check out the table in the "Some factors to consider" section. However, note that it hasn't be updated since May 30, 2022. Many of those tools don't depend on direnv if you don't need its functionality.

    Personally, I use direnv and enable nix-direnv using these options:

    https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=23.11&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=direnv

    Here's an example of how I use direnv with nix-direnv.

    Edit: damn over wrote what I wrote to the first question with a response to the second question. Thank goodness for automatic file backups I have setup in Emacs.

  • Help Me With My Baby Nix Dev Environment

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  • Another question is how to keep my packages up-to-date. I don’t do serious development work, thus I typically perfer my package and dev-tools to be on the latest version. I prefer to have a little management of this as possible. Ideally, every time I start up a nix shell, the package manager will grab the latest version of the package if possible without requiring additional interaction from me. Is this possible?

    Definitely sounds like you should look into using https://direnv.net/. Once you direnv allow the directory, as soon as you enter the directory it will create per-project isolated development environments.

    The in the .envrc file you could have something like:

     
        
nix flake update
use flake

    If your using nix flakes which also imply you're using git.

    However, without flakes you could use a tool like:

    And run their update command from the .envrc

    Or if you don't want to use direnv, then perhaps run a update command from the nix shellHook.

     nix
        
shellHook =
  ''
    echo "Hello shell"
    export SOME_API_TOKEN="$(cat ~/.config/some-app/api-token)"
  '';

    Sorry, I'm not sure about your last question.

    Edit:

    If you're using git and a forge like GitHub, then you could use a GitHub action to automate the update and create a PR. Such as a GH action like https://github.com/DeterminateSystems/update-flake-lock

    Personally, for projects I use direnv + flakes and that github action above, but I can understand if you don't want to mess with learning git.

  • Goodbye Non-KISS Appliances

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  • When you do buy one make sure it is one that could be legally sold in the EU so you can get one that lasts.

    I was going to call BS, but I set my VPN to Dublin, Ireland and started shopping there using google maps.

    Some places I looked:

    https://powercity.ie

    https://www.appliancesdelivered.ie/

    https://www.miele.ie/e/refrigeration-appliances-1022129-c

    Lot of interesting brands I ran across:

     
        
BEKO
BOSCH
CANDY
HOOVER
HOTPOINT
INDESIT
LIEBHERR
MIELE
NORDMENDE
NORKO
POWERPOINT
SIEMENS
TCL
WHIRLPOOL

    Really surprising to my that a Bosch / Miele can be had for less than $1000. In the US, it's hard to find anything less than $3k in those brands. I have seen some places around here sell Beko, but only in white.

  • Goodbye Non-KISS Appliances

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  • Thanks! I had nothing but doubts while typing it that anyone would read it. lol