- GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM shouldn't be needed anymore and was
likely a skill issue in the past.
- NODE_OPTIONS should be set per-project instead of globally.
- GATSBY_TELEMETRY_DISABLED should also be set per-project, although the
framework seems to be in standby mode currently.
I added specializations over a year ago when I was still new to NixOS
and trying out some of the many different features unique to it. These
days I don't need much more than a terminal and a web browser, and I
haven't used GNOME or Plasma in over a year at this point.
Nowadays everything I need from a computer I can accomplish with the
terminal. Nixpkgs trained me to dig deep into source code to figure out
how to do things, and using a PinePhone significantly improved my
awareness of how Linux interacts with hardware and how to configure it.
One of the biggest motivators for dropping these environments is that I
can't keep up with the changes that are made to GNOME and Plasma.
Hyprland has served my needs well and feels more stable since there
isn't a user interface that's constantly changing.
Note that glib was supposedly added for mounting-related things, but
this should be possible to upstream into the derivation instead if it
hasn't been added already.
The year is 2024 and httpie is no longer in fashion. httpie was broken
on NixOS anyway due to certificate verification errors, and wget is
unnecessary overall since scripts that depend on it have their own $PATH
with it available.
See: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/94666
rustscan is a nice alternative to nmap that's easier to use and doesn't
require the usage of sudo in certain situations.
nix-update is a nice script that makes updating the versions and hashes
of packages way easier than editing them by hand.
It's better to be pragmatic here and not choose tectonic when texlive
works extremely well and without any of the problems one would encounter
with tectonic.
The future of tectonic is unfortunately a mystery as well, due to the
status of the GitHub repository and its dependence on the unmaintained
XeTeX.
See: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/593031/what-are-the-downsides-of-using-xetex/593217#593217
Now that tmux works again, it makes sense to choose it over zellij due
to the vastly superior community support around it. Using tmux-256color
makes colors work properly in programs like htop, and neovim benefits
from squiggly lines and italics from kitty as well.
After having to use vagrant again after a while I've decided that it's
better to simply "do things the right way" the first time with the
declarative nature of Nix instead of trying to make install scripts
work.
Notably, the feedback loop between provisioning Vagrant boxes was
lacking compared to rebuilding on NixOS, and the virtual machine
frequently had to be destroyed and provisioned all over again, versus
having already built derivations with Nix.
Sometimes you really need to use a stable and reliable Xorg desktop
system. GNOME crashes when switching workspaces with osu! open, and
Plasma seems like too much for just wanting to run osu! without
having to worry about all the Wayland shenanigans decreasing fps.
I used bspwm for years however development has slowed down recently.
I've always liked dwm from trying it previously, and it is comforting
knowing that your window manager is minimal and will always work the
same way.
Dropped some extra cargo dependencies since I'd rather only use what's
available in cargo. Also added statix since it seems to catch some
things not found by nixd.
- kanjidraw: Online alternatives with radicals etc. are better
- dmenu-wayland: Breaks with multiple monitors
- obs: Easier to use wf-recorder
- wallust: Easier to use stylix
This was used for "cargo upgrade" however there have been major
improvements to cargo since I added this and dependabot on GitHub
handles this better anyway.
One major downside of cargo-edit was that it would take a very long time
for the initial upgrade to occur, which made me use "cargo update" more
anyway to avoid the long wait times.
It turns out that nixVersions.latest is actually 2.23.3 now and this
version conveniently doesn't have the new homeModules attribute for
flake check backported yet, so we have to downgrade to 2.22.3 anyway.
See: 0a78a55d51
Fixes an issue where previously the background color would be incorrect
when the color scheme was changed, which was particularly noticeable on
Phosh where the background would display when toggling the on-screen
keyboard.
Note that the logo has been intentionally left out this time to simplify
things a bit.
This should help avoid surprises when using other computers and simplify
things a bit. Note that super for the application launcher was cool but
now I prioritize launching applications from ironbar instead.
This was an interesting experiment however it wasn't very practical
since text became difficult to read and the wider width of the font
broke a lot of programs on the small PinePhone screen.
Will be trying this again since Hyprland offers a substantial
performance improvement over Phosh and hardware accelerated videos
are broken anyway with the lower cpu speed.
This was my attempt at using GNOME Mobile. It works inside the x86_64
virtual machine but fails when reaching "Started Display Manager" on the
actual device.
Unfortunately there are too many bugs for Hyprland on the PinePhone such
as hardware accelerated videos appearing red and convergence in general
being much slower than the phosh counterpart.
Most of these applications are poorly designed for mobile,
don't start up at all, or aren't relevant for my use case.
Note that the correct `portfolio` application was actually
`portfolio-filemanager` in nixpkgs, and I removed it due to
the lack of thumbnailing support.
`networking.firewall.checkReversePath` was being set to "loose" from
Mullvad VPN, which was causing an issue with the kernel used by the
PinePhone with Mobile NixOS.
By changing this option to `false`, we get rid of the "This kernel does
not support rpfilter" error, which seems to be inaccurate due to the
result of `sysctl -a | grep \\.rp_filter` on the phone being consistent
with the result on the laptop.
A lot of these applications are cute but I'd never end up using them,
such as a regular expression GUI and other novelties that web
applications accomplish in a more advanced manner.
Helps prevent issues where we accidentally use an import from derivation
and cause flakes with multiple platforms to fail when running things
like `nix flake check`.
This fixes an issue where previously the derivation had to be evaluated
before importing the base16 scheme, thus causing `nix flake check` to
fail when multi-platform support was added.
See: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/4265
