Yann Büchau :nixos:

(he/him) Environmental Scientist/Meteorologist @umphy. Built a low-cost CO₂ sensor network to monitor natural CO₂ emissions (dissertation: http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-117538), now developing meteorological payloads for multicopters.

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:vim: #vim :git: #git :gitannex: #gitAnnex :latex: #TeXLaTeX :openscad:#OpenSCAD #SolveSpace :prusaslicer:

:python: #Python
#hledger #plainTextAccounting

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2026-05-06 10:59:54 UTC

Would be really great if
> nix run codeberg:user/repo
was possible. It works for #GitLab and #GitHub already. #Codeberg should also work. Instead, one needs to write this unergonomic thing:
> nix run git+ssh://git@codeberg.org/<user>/<repo>
#nix #nixos

2026-04-21 21:33:23 UTC

Oh. my. god. For the first time in my life I now have access to a *wide angle camera* on my phone! 😱 🥳
Today I was brave enough to finally update my phone to the latest #SailfishOS 5 (I could absolutely not afford a bricked phone the last ~2 years), and it was the smoothest update ever, so my fears were unfounded. 🙃
In typical #LinuxPhone fashion, this¹ little hack however makes the selfie camera unavailable, oh well... 🫠
¹https://docs.sailfishos.org/Support/Help_Articles/Camera/#multiple-cameras-of-xperia-10-iii

2026-04-04 15:39:21 UTC

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@nprofile…vk66 Yeah, uncool. I guess reporting is the only thing you can do. I did it for that model now.

2026-04-01 12:05:09 UTC

In #Switzerland they have wheelchair swings 🇨🇭
#accessibility #wheelchair #playground
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2026-03-19 15:49:55 UTC

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This is pretty terrible. I thought I could make a link or an account for our tax accountant (to spare us the sending-documents-via-[e]mail dance) so they could just see all documents for a given tax year, alongside the respective tags so they could easily browse everything. Apparently this is not going to be possible. 😑

2026-03-19 15:43:14 UTC

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It's surreal: From what I have tested, the *only* way to decide what documents a #paperless user can see, is who the "owner" of a document is. First, there is no UI to see who the owner of a document is, you can just search for documents of a specific owner. Then, you can assign an owner to selected documents - a document can just have *one* owner. Conclusion: It's impossible to share certain documents with/between non-superusers. 🤷

2026-03-19 15:31:01 UTC

First road bump with #paperless for me today. The permission system is weird. It seems impossible to make a user that can just view documents with a certain tag or from a certain correspondent. Apparently one needs to manually (or automatically on document addition) add that user as "owner". And paperless doesn't seem to have a link sharing system for *multiple* documents or a specific search. Only for individual documents. Meh. 🫤

2026-03-19 07:26:57 UTC

Hooray @nprofile…d4sy, @nprofile…d7jq cherry-picked your @nprofile…un2n patch to configure custom file renderers for compound extensions like .tar.gz! 🥳
https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/5190

2026-02-26 12:59:25 UTC

TIL that #vim can edit files *inside* a zip file. 🤯

2026-02-22 11:49:32 UTC

Come on #LinuxMobile people, we're very close to the 10k mark for the new #SailfishOS #Jolla2 phone. Reaching that, @jolla will open source "The Other Half", the amazing changeable backplate with hardware accessories the #Jolla1 already had.
https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder

2026-02-22 06:36:00 UTC

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@nprofile…hf6n Maybe I'm overthinking this. But if I'm doing backups, I want to be sure they're 100% able to get me up and running again. What good is a backup that has the service fall onto its face on restore, because of some tiny race condition or caching inconsistency during the backup?
I don't trust the servies I run (#forgejo, #mattermost, #paperless, #immich, ...) to guarantee random snapshot restore to always work. Except #radicale though, which is dead simple on disk, just files.

2026-02-22 06:28:14 UTC

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@nprofile…hf6n Your nixos config is a gold mine, as usual, thanks! 👌
I wonder about the consistency though. Sure snapshots are atomic, but that doesn't mean the application state is consistent on disk. I'd highly doubt every service can easily survive unclean shutdown, especially when there's high traffic (I back up at night, so everything should be mostly calm) and databases are involved. I hate databases. I read postgresql for example is "consistent on disk" but then again also other warnings...

2026-02-08 23:23:01 UTC

services.radicale.git.enable=true now makes nicer commit messages, for events and contacts it will list the name and even describe renames. Proof of concept, written in bash/awk. It'll be hard to write a diff-parser that covers all kinds of changes, I guess having a local LLM could do it, but it'd slow down radicale significantly.
https://gitlab.com/nobodyinperson/yannix/-/commit/a794137eeaf3526e6e945a34d8769fe468e52f10
#nixos #radicale
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2026-02-04 11:44:28 UTC

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@nprofile…78e9 Well several years ago it was actually *me* who convinced him to move from Ubuntu to Manjaro 😅

2026-02-03 12:55:29 UTC

It's done, I successfully defended my #PhD! 🤩
My amazing colleagues made this gorgeous hat for me 😍
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2026-01-27 09:00:19 UTC

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@nprofile…mcwl What works surprisingly well is having a local @nprofile…9zlg do the OCR, and other stuff, including writing #plainTextAccounting transactions. I haven't had time to implement that fully though.
https://youtu.be/treF7oFLLmk?si=txA4iy0zcpxub_H_&t=119

2026-01-27 08:53:31 UTC

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@nprofile…mcwl Not yet, I've just started with paperless and I see a lot of potential there. I have a good pull-through duplex scanner now (Epson ES-580W) which makes scanning (even multiple) receipts a breeze, so that's what I'm doing now with all our receipts so I have them available everywhere when I do accounting later. Paperless learns some tagging after a while and does OCR (not that good on receipts though tbh), and manually-entered metadata is also available of course.

2026-01-24 09:05:40 UTC

TIL that btrfs will happily run into a "no space left on device" wall with no possibility to write metadata anymore (which is needed for balancing and thus getting out of this situation) 🤦
(btrfs haters and zfs enthusiasts incoming in 3... 2... 1...)

2026-01-15 14:28:23 UTC

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@nprofile…n5rd @nprofile…55dp I just added services.koffan #nixos service to #yannix:
services.koffan = {
enable = true;
settings.APP_PASSWORD = "asdf";
};
¹https://gitlab.com/nobodyinperson/yannix/-/commit/0a9c8137951daf4b0cf9d26e852b215fc531dce5

2026-01-15 12:42:04 UTC

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@nprofile…n5rd @nprofile…55dp
I just pushed the package to my #yannix utils, you can test #koffan like this:
> nix shell gitlab:nobodyinperson/yannix#koffan --command env APP_PASSWORD=asdf PORT=1234 DB_PATH=$HOME/koffan.db shopping-list
Currently working on the services.koffan #nixos module.

2026-01-09 19:40:43 UTC

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@nprofile…c4vc Interesting. I'm not sure that this causes what I mean (the stuff in the cosume folder that it already had in the queue, but re-added everything again after a restart, doubling the queue length and causing a lot of 'file not found' errors down the line because the initial queue eventually handles them first).

2026-01-09 16:01:19 UTC

The #homelab is noodling all our >5000 documents for the initial #paperless import. Kinda stupid that paperless bluntly requeues everything *in addition again* when you restart it (e.g. to fine tune import settings).

2026-01-07 14:15:50 UTC

Has anyone ever gotten `services.webdav` to work on :nixos: #NixOS?
I have a very simple and probably very common task: Expose a directory (in my case `/var/lib/paperless/consume`) via #WebDAV so my scanner can upload their PDFs there. I'm pretty much doing this¹ here, but also this person has problems uploading. I can browse the folder via WebDAV (e.g. from #Thunar or via #curl), but anything upload/file creation gives permission denied or crashes clients
¹https://discourse.nixos.org/t/webdav-cannot-write-anything/59221
#paperless

2025-12-09 10:31:56 UTC

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@nprofile…tzq8 Thanks. Did you read the forum post? agenix and sops-nix are not usable for nix modules that should stay secret.

2025-12-09 10:07:03 UTC

Thoughts on keeping parts (assets *and* #nix code) of your public :nixos: #NixOS config private?
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/public-reusable-flake-with-private-parts/73049

2025-12-02 08:45:52 UTC

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A :nixos: #nix flake next to the file would basically solve this, but one would need to go through the terminal. `nix develop` or something, then use the provided executable to open the file. But that's not very ergonomic. I guess it would be possible to turn the file into some kind of nix wrapper or polymorphic file that opens itself with a specific version on click. Does something like this exist? 🤔
#nixos

2025-12-02 08:44:07 UTC

Is there a concept of attaching the exact program used to create a file to the file? Like: I created this 3D model with this #SolveSpace or #FreeCAD version, with these patches applied, I want to do something so I can re-open this exact model with that exact version , without glitches, 5 years later. I feel, backwards compatibility is not what it once was. Ideally, double-clicking the file would open it in that initial version.

2025-11-22 04:21:04 UTC

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@nprofile…vz36 So ridiculous.

2025-11-05 18:49:35 UTC

Wow, the new #Immich "OCR text recognition" and "find similar pictures" features are absolutely amazing! 🤯

2025-10-05 02:25:40 UTC

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@nprofile…uqnt Is #mosquitto not lightweight enough? Have been using it for years on #RaspberryPi·s and it was never the bottleneck, even at high throughputs.

2025-09-11 14:43:58 UTC

Kinda annoying that #PlatformIO apparently has nothing out there that is properly citable. Don't they want credit? 🤨

2025-08-26 09:16:01 UTC

I just discovered #sioyek, a very fast and simple cross-platform PDF viewer that is designed around reading books or scientific papers. I auto-reloads when the file changes, so is well-suited for a #latexmk workflow. Reloading is quasi-instant and also doesn't redraw everything with this dereaded flicker like many other viewers do (looking at you #evince 😑). Right-clicking on an internal link a opens a real, scrollable subwindow preview, nice! 👍
https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek
#TeXLaTeX

2025-08-24 06:25:53 UTC

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@nprofile…tpje I'd also like to be able 'mute this thread' if its not mine.

2025-08-21 11:41:45 UTC

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@nprofile…nkkd @nprofile…8x0h
> Private repositories [...] are also allowed for really small & personal stuff like your journal, config files, ideas or notes, but explicitly not as a personal cloud or media storage.
Should be fine and I do it already for syncing of small time tracking data. I think they just want to prevent people shoving ridiculous amounts of data there.

2025-08-21 11:24:09 UTC

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@nprofile…8j6a Yeah sure, nothing's ever 'lifetime' these days...
But it's a limited-time offer, so maybe worth a shot? 🤔

2025-08-21 11:19:16 UTC

Does anyone know or use #Internxt¹?
295€ for a 3TB storage sounds... Too good? 🤨
But @nprofile…kk3j @nprofile…3lyx made a :gitannex: #gitAnnex remote for it, so it is a real thing?? 😮
¹https://internxt.com/de/pricing
²https://pypi.org/project/git-annex-remote-internxt/

2025-08-21 09:19:21 UTC

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@nprofile…5eef Right the ever present challenge 😅

2025-08-21 05:48:41 UTC

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@nprofile…5eef
> selectively syncing still seems to rely on editing a text file
That's the reason I eventually switched to :gitannex: to have more control. But it's by far not as convenient as syncthing in many regards.

2025-08-16 07:56:35 UTC

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The current academic publishing system is a terrible mess of quasi-monopolys, ridiculious publishing costs, #PhD's suffering from #publishOrPerish pressure, godawful paywalls, unpaid reviewers, authors waiving rights on their own work, and more...
#PLOS being a nonprofit brings some fresh air into this: They have no interest in accepting only sensational results - just good old peer review.

2025-08-16 07:47:30 UTC

Has anyone here published with @nprofile…98nf?
My manuscript is slowly approaching submission state. It is a very technical paper about the essence of my #PhD: quantifying natural #CO2 emissions at the #Starzach site (Turns out, it's a few tonnes per day! 🤯)
Reading through the existing #PLOSClimate papers, mine seems a little too mathematical, but I guess it's fine? Typically one would submit this to AMT or JTECH but PLOS is a nonprofit, which I want to support.
#meteorology #PhDLife
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2025-08-15 19:58:41 UTC

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@nprofile…0x0n Nobody even mentioning :sailfishos: #SailfishOS, a good mobile Linux made by @nprofile…c4ws, which ticks so many of the mentioned "it's not there yet" boxes:
- well-integrated #Android subsystem (e.g install from #Fdroid or #AuroraStore)
- a battle-tested UI (that one is proprietary though)
- installable on very cheap phones
- ...
I really should've joined and talked about it. And since you mentioned it: Yes, I do in fact use the :nixos: #nix package manager on it 😉

2025-08-13 22:21:50 UTC

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@nprofile…znc5 Ah, your network blocks outgoing port 23, which is Telnet and commonly blocked. My uni does block it for example. Forgot that. Use an ssh proxy jump with -J for example.

2025-08-13 22:11:31 UTC

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@nprofile…znc5 Hm, my previously working ssh alias gives the same error 🤔 Haven't used it in a while though...

2025-08-06 06:37:14 UTC

K1 ist jetzt so weit, dass man mit Schablonen Spaß haben kann 😀
#parentingBingo #3DPrinting #3DDruck #PapaSein #FediEltern
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2025-08-03 14:30:43 UTC

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@nprofile…nyk7 Librewolf. Aber bei LibreWolf tun generell weniger Dinge als bei Firefox direkt, also merkwürdig 🤷

2025-08-03 13:02:51 UTC

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@nprofile…nyk7 Huch okay? Merkwürdig, vei mir tuts auf mehreren Rechnern 🤷 Das ist natürlich etwas nervig. Aber oft muss ich auch das BibTeX aus der Zwischenablage importieren und dann manuell das PDF als Anhang hinzufügen. Die Notizen in Zotero sind halt Gold 👌

2025-08-03 10:53:22 UTC

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@nprofile…nyk7 Ja das ist etwas blöd, dass das Zotero Browser Plugin das nicht checkt und einfach blind doppelte Einträge erstellt...

2025-07-31 17:35:58 UTC

Just found out that many chat apps (#Threema, #Signal, #Element, ...) ignore trailing dashes as not part of the url, breaking the link 😑

2025-07-30 14:28:20 UTC

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@nprofile…ftpf @nprofile…qe73
> you must be subscribed to the RSS feed 😁
Yes I am! 😉

2025-07-30 14:05:53 UTC

#forgejoAneksajo v12.0.1-git-annex0 just dropped! 🥳
Smooth update, even with my own patches 👍
Thank you @nprofile…ftpf for maintaining this amazing @nprofile…qe73 fork! 💪
#forgejo #gitAnnex

2025-07-30 07:03:06 UTC

Gestern ist das Unausweichliche passiert: K1 (3) hat sich zum ersten Mal am #Heißkleber verbrannt. 🔥 😣 Eigentlich erstaunlich, dass es drei Jahre lang nicht passiert ist 🙃 Aber das gehört zu den Erfahrungen dazu, die man im Leben macht... Heute Morgen tapfer mit Pflaster los 😌
#PapaSein #FediEltern

2025-07-29 15:26:24 UTC

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@nprofile…30tn @nprofile…y8jc Cool! Hab mal durchgeskippt, aber nichts zu einer tatsächlichen Backup-Lösung gelesen.
#Syncthing ist KEIN Backup! ⚠️ Muss man sonst auf die harte Tour lernen. Syncthing synchronisiert nur Ordner. Auch das Löschen von Dateien!
Auf dem :raspberrypi: #RaspberryPi muss dann noch sowas wie #borgBackup oder #restic oder :gitannex: #gitAnnex laufen, dann ist es eine super Lösung. 👍
z.B. hier: https://nobodyinperson.gitlab.io/talks/2025-tdf-life-in-git.html

2025-07-29 08:51:13 UTC

Wife and I improvised a wardrobe from scrap stuff we had laying around. 0€ spent, #3DPrinting holds everything together.
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2025-07-28 13:31:23 UTC

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@nprofile…nmwx Ja, ultra nervig. Bisher hab ich mir ein Gemecker als Radfahrer immer verkniffen...

2025-07-28 13:30:28 UTC

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@nprofile…hlvh @nprofile…nmwx Steht ja im Artikel...

2025-07-25 07:21:56 UTC

Kind of sad that there is no #FOSS #Android app for just watching #MQTT traffick. At least not on #FDroid. 😔 All the apps on #GooglePlay are littered with ads or other bullshit.

2025-07-24 16:43:08 UTC

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@nprofile…9vhf Is that so? 😅

2025-07-24 07:28:37 UTC

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@nprofile…8j6a @nprofile…ak5g Scheinbar, jedenfalls musste man was dazu ankreuzen.

2025-07-23 13:24:47 UTC

Sneak peak für meinen talk „Das Leben in Git” beim #TdF in #Tübingen am 26.07.2025, 19:00 in der Westspitze.
https://cfp.cttue.de/tdf4/talk/EECDBS/
#git #gitAnnex #forgejo #forgejoAneksajo
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2025-07-22 12:14:06 UTC

:librewolf: #LibreWolf's obsession with preventing everything HTML canvas is gettin on my nerves... It even ruins pasting images into the built-in #PDFjs PDF viewer, but you only realize that AFTER you're done and open it in another viewer, to realize that the image is all f*cked up. 🙄

2025-07-21 10:48:01 UTC

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@nprofile…pe35 @nprofile…ax9d I'll leave this to the people that have an idea of HTML and CSS 🙃 Maybe this was enough to trigger nerd-snipe someone 😉

2025-07-20 20:01:54 UTC

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@nprofile…72y7 Ah, that solves the 'finding local files' part, thanks! But why is there no way to select all 🫠

2025-07-20 12:52:57 UTC

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@nprofile…72y7 Yes I found that out now. It still makes it super hard to free up space like this:
- no way to list or filter for local files
- no way to select all files from a search, must select all indovidually
- no way to select months/years, only days in timeline
So effectively, to be safe, you need to manually comb through your timeline, select all files with the cloud+checkmark *individually*, then delete from device. With the overall sluggishness of the app, not quite fun 😅
#Immich

2025-07-20 07:20:10 UTC

Does #Immich really have no procedure to delete photos locally if they're already uploaded? We need space on this phone but manually deleting stuff in the file manager feels very wrong. Ideally I'd like to select albums or individual images in the app, then "delete locally". But apparently that does not exist... 😑

2025-07-19 06:02:57 UTC

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@nprofile…88lj @nprofile…9dqp Nope 🙃

2025-07-18 16:36:05 UTC

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@nprofile…xmz4 For a command line interface (in bash) that takes patterns as arguments for a downstream operation. Glob patterns are simpler to understand for people than regexes so I wanted to use globs. But then I realized that there is no grep for globs. So I wrote it in Python instead (fnmatch).

2025-07-18 14:27:00 UTC

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@nprofile…9dqp Very good, but not in the traditional sense. It can make different pitches. But you don't blow it with your mouth 😉

2025-07-18 12:25:35 UTC

Wow, apparently there really is no grep for glob patterns, wtf 🤨

2025-07-18 06:26:59 UTC

Can you guess what this is? 😉
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2025-07-18 06:24:15 UTC

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@nprofile…k43c @nprofile…efsc @nprofile…4tpe Holy crap the #SailfishOS browser can handle 500 tabs?? 🤯 Guess I finally need to update to SFOS5...

2025-07-17 15:05:26 UTC

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@nprofile…0t79 Apparently it just installs a dynamic link loader thing in a normal location where programs expect it and thus makes precompiled binaries that look for libraries work. Feels like a lightweight FHSEnv just for compiled libraries? 🤔

2025-07-17 07:17:27 UTC

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Lol no I just forgot I had nix-ld enabled 😅
https://gitlab.com/nobodyinperson/nixconfig/-/blob/da888166967368457eeee3e8dbffeed23a16b098/modules/fhs.nix#L44
#nix #nixos #Python

2025-07-17 06:28:14 UTC

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@nprofile…grv5 Ah, the joys of the #AUR... 😅

2025-07-17 06:10:30 UTC

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@nprofile…grv5 What AUR issue? No mention of it in the article, only in the title 🤨

2025-07-14 12:36:19 UTC

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@nprofile…dm4p No, of course not. But all the other stuff. I guess nice that is asks about the bootloader and installer image as source etc. but if you just wamt a vm of a non-nixos distro for testing nix on, Debian is apparently the wrong choice. For me.

2025-07-14 09:24:46 UTC

Wait, does #uv just make #Python work on :nixos: #NixOS? 🤨

2025-07-13 17:12:20 UTC

Man am I glad to have moved away from the :archlinux: #ArchLinux ecosystem. The #AUR is such a mess. Dependencies vanishing - no notifications. Packaging standards changing, people manually complaining to please follow standards. No real way to submit patches. Adopting dead packages takes ages. No assertion whatsoever that anything builds at all. Everything can break tomorrow. Partial up/-downgrades don't work, you're screwed.
Now on :nixos: #NixOS all of that is just so much better 😌

2025-07-12 18:19:39 UTC

Es ist so krass, wie unterdimensioniert #eBike's sind. Bezahlst Dich dumm und dämlich, denkst, Du kriegst was Dauerhaftes mal, ohne Platten und Reparaturen ständig, Pustekuchen: fliegt die Pedale ab. 🙄 Nachdem es einen "unplattbaren" Mantel zerstochen hat. Nachdem zwei Ständer abgebrochen sind. Wobei ein Stück Rahmen abgebrochen ist, sodass der getauscht werden musste. Und und und. Zum Glück das meiste Garantie. Aber nervig ist es! 😠
#Fahrrad #FahrradBubble
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2025-07-11 09:16:27 UTC

Right, if you update a remote :nixos: #NixOS machine via an #autossh tunnel (that received a minor change) and it gets stopped for the update, you got yourself a problem 😆
Luckily, there is restartIfChanged = false; 😌

2025-06-29 16:14:40 UTC

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@nprofile…zdd8 @nprofile…53tr Oh das muss ich mir als Alias einrichten! `alias shit=git` hab ich schon 😁

2025-06-29 16:01:46 UTC

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@nprofile…hl7p @nprofile…9m4w I mean the fact that you as an end user of the OS can just mess with and fix stuff like this is an absolute superpower of #NixOS. Without much hassle you can turn the innermost parts of the OS upside down as you like, for your own machine, *reproducibly*, once, and stop thinking about it, because it integrates (and stays!) directly in the roots of the OS, and sharing your work including context and timeline is as easy as a git push.

2025-06-28 23:48:27 UTC

Today I've been fighting again with this absolutely stupid :nixos: #NixOS bug that dates back nearly 20 years now, which prevents you from naming an executable 'log'. Yes, it is NOT possible on NixOS. 🤦 🤦 🤦 And working around it is beyond frustrating. Fixing it requires a mass rebuild, so it's not that simple. 😩 😂 It's so terrible but also hilarious...
Issue: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/354057
Initial forum post: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/354057

2025-06-27 07:58:24 UTC

Who else wants :vim: #vim line editing in `nix repl`?
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/13398
#nix #NixOS #neoVim #vi
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2025-06-24 12:55:43 UTC

Ah, that's where my 133GB disk space went 😅
#NixOS
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2025-06-24 07:19:34 UTC

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@nprofile…8j6a I was using it on a weird Samba share where filesystem bullshit caused all kinds of problems, so I used an export. Sometimes you wonder why git thinks the tree is dirty, especially with unlocked files. But if you keep them locked I guess you won't have problems.

2025-06-24 07:12:16 UTC

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@nprofile…8j6a @nprofile…9dqp Yes, other clients can also get stuff from exports. My general rule is: If you *can* use a normal git repo, do it. This is what works best and is most versatile. However:
- your TV player might not like symlinks (need unlock then)
- git will refuse to update the tree if for some reason the tree on the remote gets dirty. Even with receive.denyCurrentBranch=updateInstead. This is annoying and caused me to use exports. Exports can also track old versions now.

2025-06-20 07:34:25 UTC

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@nprofile…5drj Ah, the golden #JollaPhone, I loved it just as much as my #NokiaN9! 🤩 But yeah, even today there's no cache for armv7. But luckily pretty much every handheld is aarch64 now, for which hydra does build. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have tried it on SailfishOS.
At one point I'll also use home-manager to provides my cli environment and services also on my phone. But I have to factor out my home manager config for non-nixos first.

2025-06-19 22:20:20 UTC

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@nprofile…d2u0 Yes, I wrote it myself:
https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/installing-the-nix-package-manager-on-sailfishos/17503
Here's more background story:
https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-community-news-14th-december-nix/17577

2025-06-19 22:13:12 UTC

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Luckily, I have :nixos: #nix on my #SailfishOS phone, so getting the #Immich cli was super easy. `immich upload {Pictures,Videos}/Camera` was *much faster* than the Android app, checked locally for duplicates via hashes and uploaded everything like a champ.

2025-06-19 22:11:15 UTC

Initial impressions of the #Immich #Android app:
- the webinterface (even on mobile) is *much* more responsive and fluid than the app
- setting up the syncing is... weird. It keeps forgetting settings, gets stuck half way, doesn't continue after screen lock, seems toalways upload everything, not check for duplocates on-device, etc. But eventually it does its job.
- We'll see how reliable the auto-upload is. I have heard of many issues.
Conclusion so far: Use the web app for browsing images.

2025-06-17 06:58:14 UTC

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@nprofile…9dqp @nprofile…8j6a Exactly, add --numcopies=1 to get rid of the locking for this one command. commenting the remote out in git config --edit could also help, but then your numcopies setting might prevent the move alltogether. Git annex tries very hard to not accidentally delete data, that's why it behaves lile this.

2025-06-07 09:04:12 UTC

Oh wow LLMs are just so terrible. 🤦‍♂️
I made a little #systemd service watcher which regularly feeds systemd status outputs into an LLM (mistral 7B here) and sends me an email if it things it found real problems. Well, now I always get alarmist emails with bullshit warnings, such as this one, where it thinks that @nprofile…qe73 running for over 4 hours without an error (unbelievable, right?) is "unusual* 😅
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2025-06-03 19:38:38 UTC

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@nprofile…wxla StreetComplete v61.0 on SailfishOS 4.6.0.15 (afraid to update to 5), with "emulated" Android v11 API level 30.
There's many issues/questions about disabling sound in SC. This doesn't work for me, probably because of the virtual Android in SailfishOS.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/StreetComplete/FAQ#How_can_I_disable/enable_sound_effects?

2025-06-03 19:21:04 UTC

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@nprofile…wxla @nprofile…zdd8 @nprofile…ypzn You complete a task, the circly thing goes away, it plops. On #SailfishOS this stops any other audio being played.

2025-06-03 19:16:53 UTC

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@nprofile…zdd8 I just used @nprofile…ypzn directly. @nprofile…wxla is also cool, but the stupid un-disableable plop sounds keep interrupting my audiobook, so I don't use it as often.

2025-06-03 19:05:54 UTC

Was looking for a trash can in this Black Forst town, searched in @nprofile…ypzn, no results, so I walked around and added all trash cans I could find and other stuff I found useful 🗑️
#OpenStreetMap #mapping
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2025-06-01 09:48:14 UTC

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@nprofile…4aaa Thank you very much, this is a very cool project!
I managed to make a :nixos: #nix file to get it to work on #NixOS. I could successfully draw some lines but anything else pretty much resulted in errors and nothing happening 😅. Could very well be NixOS bullshit though...
https://gitlab.com/nobodyinperson/fluencyCAD/-/commit/5396f93c87407a534296de5f8fc133acf867af8e
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2025-05-18 14:38:55 UTC

I am looking for a file drop sharing service that's ideally already available in :nixos: #NixOS. Like #Lufi or #fileshelter, but there are no services for those. More ideas?

2025-05-17 17:00:03 UTC

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@nprofile…8j6a 40k files should be ok. I would `git annex get` a bunch of files, tag them, `git annex add` them, then optionally commit, then do the next batch. 40k commits is not necessary.

2025-05-17 16:43:27 UTC

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@nprofile…8j6a @nprofile…9dqp Exactly. You wouldn't be in this situation otherwise, right 😉 Ideally, only add perfect static files you never want to touch.
Ah, another idea: Use the borg special remote to push to. That'll deduplicate pretty much everything.