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.
