Good luck on the journey! What I meant is that over time, you’ll realize that what you did was probably not the most elegant was to do something, at least that’s my experience with my config. Like, I started with a flake with an explicit config for each machine (basically multiple nixosConfigurations) and then turned it into a lib with functions to turn a set of hosts from json into an attribute set (kind of a simple inventory done). My last efforts that are still ongoing (cough) are splitting my NixOS modules off into a separate flake using flake-parts.

I do understand you meant having the stuff that your need work, I just wanted to hint that the language is very powerful and as such, most configurations have room for improvement, as in learning to do things more efficient or do things that weren’t possible before.

Can’t have files if you don’t have a computer to store them tips forehead

and most people are frankly too dumb or lazy to properly verify outputs.

This is my main argument. I need to check the output for correctness anyways. Might as well do it in the first place then.

NixOS […] learn everything

I don’t think it’s possible to learn everything for NixOS as a casual user / admin. It’s massive. I was luckily able to sneak a NixOS project into work which gave me some paid time on the topic. But there’s always room to learn more about it. Which is a good thing - by its nature, it’s just more powerful than conventional distributions.

Privileged ports can be used by processes that are running without root permissions.

I guess you mean unprivileged ports?

So if the sshd process would crash or stop for some other reason, any malicious user process could pretend to be the real ssh server without privilege escalation.

Not really, except on the very first connection because you need access to the root-owned and otherwise inaccessible SSH host key, otherwise you’ll get the message a lot of people have probably seen after they reinstalled a system (something like “SOMEONE MIGHT BE DOING SOMETHING VERY NASTY!”).

Agreed. But he’s also an abrasive know-it-all. A modicum of social skills and respect goes a long way towards making others accept your pet projects.

This isn’t what I get when reading bug reports he interacts in. Yeah, sometimes he asks if something can’t be done another way – but he seems also very open to new ideas. I rather think that this opinion of him is very selective, there are cases where he comes off as smug, but I never got the impression this is the majority of cases.

I wasn’t talking about the protocol, I was talking about the implementation: PulseAudio is a crashy, unstable POS. I can’t count the number of hours this turd made me waste, until PipeWire came along.

PipeWire for audio couldn’t exist nowadays without PulseAudio though, in fact it was originally created as “PulseAudio for Video”; Pulse exposed a lot of bugs in the lower levels of the Linux audio stack. And I do agree that PipeWire is better than PulseAudio. But it’s important to see it in the context of the time it was created in, and Linux audio back then was certainly different. OSS was actually something a significant amount of people used…

My point was not only that aspect, but also about the fact that input and output of the task is information. And while information itself can be a “product” or be provided as a service, in most cases, it’s not.

But anyhow, I feel like I’m overexplaining myself over a term I said wasn’t good.

Think that’s called NATing

With administrative, I meant that IT is a about information flow - defining rules how data is consumed, transformed and ultimately output. These by definition of a classic business I’d see as administrative.

I agree the wording isn’t good, and I didn’t mean it as in “anyone working in IT is just performing administrative tasks”, but rather that the field of IT is traditionally more of an enabler of other businesses.

The mechanic is usually the actual worker - you run a repair shop - but his spare parts management is an administrative task, and nowadays usually implemented by an IT solution.

At least in some cases, it might just be wholesome advice. The fact that you have “a job” and a whole different persona from that and they’re two separate things that sometimes intertwine probably brings you closer to us in administrative tasks (in the end, IT is by definition always something administrative rather than actually productive) than me as in an IT guy with an influencer. Because ultimately, your actual identity is your job, and by conclusion, your whole life is performative, which sounds REALLY exhausting

Stronger compartmentalization

Me and my Steam Deck

Mostly used it in 2023 or so when I was sick on the couch. And yeah some hours on the trip I’m currently on. But it would just have been fine without.

Sometimes I see people post pictures use it in the most scenic locations, similar to the promotional video. And all I can think of is that if you want to play game so badly, you can just stay home. Much easier and also probably safer for the deck.

To each their own. Just hard to understand for me

Yeah, this one is on Kent… again.

He posted on Patreon that there’ll be a DKMS module. In my opinion, this should have been the option from the very beginning and upstreaming at a later point in time. It would have avoided a lot of drama. And now bcachefs is kind of tainted. The only way I ever see it back in mainline is there is an independent downstream of Kent’s kernel that has no connection to him whatsoever.

Shame because I had very good experience with the filesystem. Definitely better than when btrfs was new. But Linus is unfortunately right; Kent is unable to follow agreed collaboration rules.

Unfortunate situation that could have been avoided entirely. Though I don’t want to be too harsh on Kent. He spent a lot of time and work on bcachefs and it’s his most important project. As such, he’s more passionate about all of this. But the same can be said for Linus and the kernel on the other side.

PipeWire my beloved 😍

I can use WIFI with Airplane mode, is my IMEI being transferred to any place in this situation?

No

Can you elaborate how it is compared with MAC? What might happen to how cell tower compares IMEI and MAC when I spoof MAC?

A cell tower doesn’t care about your MAC. In fact you can have devices without a MAC in a mobile network (like dumbphones). However, a malicious entity might be able to correlate these two with a setup where he controls both cellular and Wi-Fi equipment.

Radio here refers to your mobile (non-wifi) wireless connection, though technically, Wi-Fi is also radio and can be used for triangulation purposes by access points. Technically speaking, any communications method that uses electromagnetic waves is radio, regardless of modulation and data encoding.

Does this mean our IMEI is identified by cell tower as long as the airplane mode is off?

The IMEI is how the cell tower differentiates the individual network participants. It can be compared to a MAC address.

Fair, though the fact doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

If you want easily replaceable parts and a system that can unlock the bootloader for example, your argument can be made for 99% of phones on the market. The more requirements you add, the smaller the scope gets until there are no devices left to choose from.

The reason for not using a headphone jack is making it simpler for the manufacturer, one less connector to handle which also limits how slim a phone can be.

I’m not saying this is good for the consumer, but there are reasons for integrating the functionality into the USB-C port.

Think I’m getting it, my Redmi Note 8 is aging and I’m pretty sure the current batch of custom ROMs is basically the last apart from the fact that the kernel is no longer supported, and Xiaomi is closing the doors on custom ROMs more and more it seems. Yeah, the new FP isn’t perfect but it seems good enough to pull the trigger, and while the Pixels seemed like a good alternative in some aspects, Google recently made it very clear where they see Android’s future, and it’s not more open.

An issue shared with the headphones themselves