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I ran OpenBSD on a Thinkpad 20 years ago, with wifi working! Back then Linux and BSD were about as painful to use as eachother. Still run opnsense on some routers. I revisit FreeBSD from time to time, but I'm a developer and that the experience has gotten worse over time. Most IDEs barely work and I need Docker for a bunch of workflows. I think BSD has always been good for appliances or datacenters, but it has only been backed more into that corner. It continues to surprise me how little BSD has benefited from millions of Mac users. Most of all it makes me so thankful for how far Linux has come - truly first class experience. https://fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov @nevent1qvzqqqp…

You're doing a great job! https://fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov @nevent1qvzqqqp…

See you at SCALE. Here's some juice to get you there. I'm bummed to miss the meetup for the third year in a row, since ill be giving an UpScale talk on pen testing. Nix the world! https://fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov @nevent1qvzqqqp…

Chris, you mentioned uptime kuma in your network setup. I have been using gatus which is similar but has a declarative config for the endpoint monitors. Here is my setup in Nix: https://github.com/jonocodes/configs/blob/ed66d056e2b106235… Side note. I set this service up to debug some networking issues. Turned out switching my router from OpnSense to Nix was the solution. :) https://fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov @nevent1qvzqqqp…

Thanks for roasting my configs! I use git a little differently. Syncthing is my source of truth. My desktop is kind of the command center so I mostly edit the configs for my other headless servers there. Then in a server terminal I just have it run the rebuild switch since the configs instantly sync. Every month or so i actually commit to git. But this is mostly for sharing. I generally think git is too much overhead. I dont want to think about commits, merges, and reverts just to update a package on a system. https://fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov @nevent1qvzqqqp…

I loved the Nix config reviews. And there are so many interesting ones in github. Every system I have has an alias 'u' that updates everything regardless of package manager. And I did it this way in Nix for a long time. But eventually it started causing issues, so now I have it broken into more granular aliases: https://github.com/jonocodes/configs/blob/main/nixos/README… Feel free to roast the configs while you are there. PS. Thanks for showcasing my reader app, Savr. https://fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov @nevent1qvzqqqp…

My nix configs started from a template I found online. Many hosts but all sharing a single flake.lock. This seems like common practice when I look at other people's setups. But why do you think it is? This effectively means that when I update the package versions on one machine, it will do it to the rest of my machines. I dont want this, so I'm going to rework my setup. But am I missing something? If you are curious, here are my configs. https://github.com/jonocodes/configs https://fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov @nevent1qvzqqqp…