When they change the menu, it automatically updates what's on your plate.
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Adam Dinwoodie
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Queer techie larper. Still not sure about this social media business.
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Hat / turtle jigsaw puzzle by @simontatham@hachyderm.io now available on Printables.com at https://www.printables.com/model/1614132-hatturtle-jigsaw-puzzle. Hopefully slightly easier to find for people looking for models to print!
Minimal #NixOS VM base config, for when I want to quickly spin up something disposable to reproduce a problem.
After writing something similar two or three times, I figured it was time to do the job properly and commit it somewhere I'd find it next time I go looking.
#NixOS / #nixpkgs questions: I'm running against nixos-unstable. Home Manager has a "news" feature that tells me when things change in ways I might care about. Does anyone have a cunning way to get notified about changes to the Nixpkgs and NixOS release notes?
I can write my own monitoring script, but if there's a way of doing this that doesn't require reinventing this particular wheel, that'd be preferable!
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@alexisbushnell passing on to a BSL interpreter friend who I think might be able to help...
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@bloor I have fond memories of having a senior manager visit from another office, him forgetting his suitcase keys, so I got the office 3D printer to print the appropriate TSA key. Pretty sure that was the first time the office printer had been used for anything actually work related.
Welp. Google retiring another feature I make significant use of. And therefore giving me more reason to move my email hosting over to @beasts@social.mythic-beasts.com
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/17101213?visit_id=639214292624149115-3513201760
(I expect Mythic Beasts also doesn't provide this feature exactly as I use it, but this was one of Google's killer features for me. One less thing I lose when I migrate, in return for working with a service provider who I actually like and trust.)
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@peri4n@fosstodon.org That's the opposite of the problem I have! I'm happy with the Home Manager news notifications I get after running home-manager switch; what I'm after is some way to find out about breaking changes in NixOS modules or Nixpkgs...
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@tek@freeradical.zone I remain baffled that one of the UK's largest ISPs, and the only option in many places (including for me) for speeds over 90 Mbps, is still IPv4 only.
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@reym@mastodon.social pretty much exactly that, just as a flake itself rather than a blog post. nix run github:me-and/nixos-minimal-vm should be a single command to get the VM running.
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@IncredibleLaser@troet.cafe the mk*OptionModule definitely help catch some types of breaking change, but that's only a small subset of https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2605.section.md and https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/doc/release-notes/rl-2605.section.md Sounds like I might need to write my own module to monitor for changes to those files...