Yeah unfortunately i can’t quite recall the context, but I think they were attempting to make encrypted storage the default, but then that broke on existing databases or something? It was a pain at least, I know that much 😅

(Although would be less of a pain nowadays, now that Signal has proper sync to restore my history.)

I mean, I use the Flatpak, but I have also run into breakage concerning the experimental support, resulting in Signal Desktop no longer being able to start, and me having to track down a GitHub issue with a workaround. I can imagine wanting to run the Distrobox just so you’re closer to a system that the upstream developers actually test with - not so much to avoid running a single command, but to lower risk of breakage.

Not by default, IIRC, and the integration is still marked as experimental - so just what the readme is saying.

I think he did, but I’m not sure if he called that out explicitly. Basically the recommendation is: yeah, try it, but also, all the power it gives you can make you go off the deep end. Don’t fall for the trap of trying to build your own editing software.

NixOS I wouldn’t recommend to a beginner (maybe Nixbook, I’m not familiar), but Fedora Silverblue: holy hell maintenance is so low-effort. Major version upgrades are literally the same level of effort as regular updates, and take about as long. And they’re waaaaay less likely to break than conventional major upgrades. I’d recommend that to beginners and advanced users alike.

This is so true. It’s been good enough for me for so many years at this point, and yet it just keeps getting better. The whole experience is so much nicer now than it was years ago, which was better than years before that, etc.

(That said, better hardware also helps a lot.)

Ha, if that’s your first association, I think that might say more about you than about the phone :P

(Which is not a bad thing.)

Alyssa is so incredibly impressive. I don’t usually particularly suffer from impostor syndrome, but I wouldn’t even dream of being able to accomplish what she has.

Wow, even South Park? When does South Park ever give someone a jab! :P

Haha, too bad I didn’t listen to Madonna.

Ah OK, just found

Napster was the original peer-to-peer platform and drew heat from the recording industry. Artists like Dr. Dre, Eminem, Metallica, and plenty more spoke out against the platform.

(I do know Napster, but didn’t know they had spoken out against it. Ah well.)

Wait, what did Metallica, Dre and Eminem do?

From the release notes:

one of the last breaking changes we want to make before reaching the stable release milestone

So you’ll probably want to wait until they do a stable release.

Actual release notes: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/tag/v1.136.0

No browser uses a different engine yet (presumably because Apple only allows them to offer this in the EU).

Hmm yeah, I guess the question is: is it overly complex if I do want to store my backup of my Nix config online, version-controlled, preferably publicly?

That’s neat!

Is that just because your four servers aren’t used for anything that need a secret? e.g. I wanted to put my wifi password in there, and the password for my user account.

How do you access the private Git repo then? Don’t you need a secret to access it?

Copy one file over and it’s set up for you.

So, I’ve only played around with NixOS on a Raspberry Pi, but… Don’t people usually split their config up in multiple files, and then store than in a Git repository?

The process then still is: check out that Git repository, except there’s another step: copy over your private key so that you can decrypt your secrets.

Is that correct? Or did I make things needlessly complex for myself?