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My nest configuration Hello chat, this is my nest configuration/services ported to home-manager. this was a small project and very useful, it helps me be the real Nix user. It also includes a script that autodeploys my home-manager config on each push. github.com/v1ctorio/nest

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I've created a fairly basic NixOS configuration for my laptop, using GNOME. It doesn't have many features right now, but it's fully functional with everything that is implemented, and I've been using it as a daily driver for quite a while. Configuration is here, it's pretty simple, so hopefully, somebody might be able to use it as a starting point or for reference: github.com/UHDbits/nix-config Screenshots of the basic setup are shown below

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Are you a producer working on NixOS? Well, with Nix automatic Windows VSTs all your Windows VSTs can be easily managed through your configuration.nix! Moving or reinstalling a system? No problem! This should do it just alright!

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I continued working on my NixOS config, updating and testing the installer, fixing bugs and updating my walker app launcher config. Config: github.com/Noah765/nixos-config

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I decided to redo my laptop’s nix configuration (using nix-darwin and home-manager) and make it public! this also gave me a chance to remove a lot of unnecessary hacks/fixes and make the configuration a lot cleaner and structured. github.com/ari-kl/darwin-nix-config

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# REPOST --- original message --- I installed nix on my framework!!! I still need to finish up the list of tweaks i did but here's a rough list: hyprland with animations and pretty windows, waybar with a custom top bar and a really cool webcam module i made that detects whether an application is using your webcam, a super fast tofi dmenu launcher, vs code with a theme and go support (needs more expansion; currently its a very barebones install of vs code), spotify with spicetify configs, mako for notifications, fingerprint support that perfers password by default (really annoying nix behavior that its fingerprint first by default) this required a bunch of pam tweaks and was a pain, and best of all its all managed with flakes and my wifi passwords can be commited publicly because they are encrypted with agenix! P.S. (Adendum?) i also did all of this while camping most of it over cellular on super bumpy Michigan roads while we were in the car for super long periods (~5 hours) i also discovered that the framework battery is almost perfectly 5 - 5.5 hours! P.P.S (doubular adendum??) i also attached a pic of my magnetic charging setup; i want to stick it into a framework module soon so it doesn't stick out but i'm pretty happy with it rn github.com/kcoderhtml/dots

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I installed nix on my framework!!! I still need to finish up the list of tweaks i did but here's a rough list: hyprland with animations and pretty windows, waybar with a custom top bar and a really cool webcam module i made that detects whether an application is using your webcam, a super fast tofi dmenu launcher, vs code with a theme and go support (needs more expansion; currently its a very barebones install of vs code), spotify with spicetify configs, mako for notifications, fingerprint support that perfers password by default (really annoying nix behavior that its fingerprint first by default) this required a bunch of pam tweaks and was a pain, and best of all its all managed with flakes and my wifi passwords can be commited publicly because they are encrypted with agenix! P.S. (Adendum?) i also did all of this while camping most of it over cellular on super bumpy Michigan roads while we were in the car for super long periods (~5 hours) i also discovered that the framework battery is almost perfectly 5 - 5.5 hours! P.P.S (doubular adendum??) i also attached a pic of my magnetic charging setup; i want to stick it into a framework module soon so it doesn't stick out but i'm pretty happy with it rn github.com/kcoderhtml/dots

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Worked some more on my NixOS configs. Improved the setup for the MC server and got rid of the deprecation notice on catppuccin-gtk! github.com/techyporcupine/nixos-config

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Today I worked on my Combined Manager fork and my NixOS config, fixing bugs, updating the installer and restructuring the config. NixOS config: github.com/Noah765/dots Combined Manager fork: github.com/Noah765/combined-manager

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Today I continued working on my NixOS config, finished my walker app runner config and did some refactoring. Repo github.com/Noah765/dots

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Today I styled the walker app launcher using GTK CSS. Walker module in my config: github.com/Noah765/dots/blob/main/modules/walker.nix

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Today I basically finished my calculator plugin for the walker app launcher. I learned a lot about bash (e.g. about named pipes and heredocs), expect scripting and systemd services in the process. Walker module in my config: github.com/Noah765/dots/blob/main/modules/walker.nix

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Today I continued working on my NixOS config. I am currently building a calculator plugin for the walker app launcher and learned a lot about named pipes (also known as FIFOs) and expect scripting. Dots: github.com/Noah765/dots

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Today I continued to work on my NixOS config. I chose an app launcher, styled it and added some useful Nix tools. Dots: github.com/Noah765/dots

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Today I continued to work on my NixOS config. I chose an app launcher, styled it and added some useful Nix tools. Dots: github.com/Noah765/dots

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Created a new section of my NixOS config for a server on Oracle Cloud that will be hosting a minecraft server! github.com/techyporcupine/nixos-config

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Redid my entire Home Manager config in NixOS in order to simplify it and add all of it into my NixOS modules. This modularizes it more and makes it easier for other people to use! github.com/techyporcupine/nixos-config

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Today I wrote some additional docs for Combined Manager and finally continued setting up my NixOS config. Combined Manager Repo: github.com/Noah765/combined-manager Combined Manager PR: github.com/FlafyDev/combined-manager/pull/8 Dots: github.com/Noah765/dots

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Today I made the final tweaks and created a PR for my fork of the Combined Manager project, a project that provides a new structure for NixOS configurations. My fork has some bug fixes, better error messages and additional features. This fork is part of my NixOS desktop setup project. Repo: github.com/Noah765/combined-manager PR: github.com/FlafyDev/combined-manager/pull/6

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Today I finished my fork of the Combined Manager project, a project that provides a new structure for NixOS configurations. My fork has some bug fixes, better error messages and additional features. This fork is part of my NixOS desktop setup project. Repo: github.com/Noah765/combined-manager

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I have more or less finished my fork of the combined manager project and migrated my nixos config to it. Combined Manager Fork: github.com/Noah765/combined-manager

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I continued to work on my fork of the Combined Manager project, fighting some bugs in the nixos module system. Post about the problem: discourse.nixos.org/t/problems-with-option-evaluation/48763 Repo: github.com/Noah765/combined-manager

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I continued working on my fork of the Combined Manager project, a project that provides a structure for NixOS configurations. My fork provides an even cleaner structure for NixOS configs, better error messages and some additional features. This fork is part of my NixOS desktop setup project. Repo: github.com/Noah765/combined-manager

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I continued working on my fork of the Combined Manager project, a project that provides a structure for NixOS configurations. My fork has a cleaner structure, better error messages and some additional features. This fork is part of my NixOS desktop setup project. Repo: github.com/Noah765/combined-manager

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Added support for nixified.ai in my NixOS config, but was promptly greeted with a warning that my GPU was too old 😞 github.com/techyporcupine/nixos-config

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Did a couple things with NVIDIA in my NixOS config. github.com/techyporcupine/nixos-config Built my Blender installation with CUDA support so I can render with my GPU now. Also rolled back my Nvidia Driver to version 535 as 550 was causing kernel panics. Hopefully looking at this config can help some people who might be struggling with doing either of those things!

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I created a fork of the Combined Manager project, a project that provides a structure for NixOS configurations. My fork has a cleaner structure, better error messages and will have some additional features. This fork is part of my NixOS desktop setup project. Repo: github.com/Noah765/combined-manager

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I continued working on my NixOS desktop setup. Eventually, it should include the following features: • Impermanence (only keep the specified files) • Efficient window managment (hyprland with the hy3 plugin) • App picker (anyrun) • Bar (using waybar or ags) • Correctly configured apps (for my preference) • Installer • Probably more Repo: github.com/Noah765/dots

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I started working on my NixOS desktop setup. Eventually, it should include the following features: • Impermanence (only keep the specified files) • Efficient window managment (hyprland with the hy3 plugin) • App picker (anyrun) • Bar (using waybar or ags) • Correctly configured apps (for my preference) • Installer Repo: github.com/Noah765/dots

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Extension to my last NixOS project, I also worked on updating Plausible myself and donating it back to the community, but that ended up not working. (Feel free to not give me time for this, it was kind of a failure) github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/321814

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Rolled out support for an HDHomeRun in my Jellyfin instance, and decided since it was so hard to do I'd work through it in Arcade and then opensource my findings for other NixOS users trying to do the same thing! github.com/techyporcupine/nix-server-modules/blob/main/jellyfin%2Bhdhr.nix

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Another NixOS project for #arcade Combined Home manager into the rest of my config with it's NixOS module then went through all the files and added comments where I deemed necessary! github.com/techyporcupine/nixos-config

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As the first thing I do for #arcade , I switched my NixOS config from using Powerlevel10k as my Zsh theme to Starship, and I'm liking it a lot. Here is a screenshot of my terminal now!

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day 12 i thin of #15-days-in-public! so i worked on my website home.patcybermind.tech ! and i finally got the domain working and the port working so now you dont have to type home.patcybermind.tech:5040! i just had to change some lines in the Caddy file and it worked. After that i transfered the styling i had done in html to css so that things are easier to change for exemple, the color of the main text is now a variable however the website is currently running on the flask dev server which isnt very sustainable. I used to use gunicorn but when setting up my domain i realised that my username had an upercase character and for reasons i dont understand it had to be lowercase so the nest admins kindly changed my name from Patcybermind to patcybermind which as you could have guessed broke quite a bit of things with my user install. For the most part it wasnt that bad like i could easily make a new python venv etc and some stuff you could easily change by changing the file names but nix, wellp thats more complicated. not only did gunicorn break but i also cant uninstall it to reinstall it or to simply use the debian install so ill have to see what ill do when i get there. Aside from that today i also worked on the sprig website which is something i had been wanting to do for a long time but i didnt know how to start thankfully cosmin and some of the other sprig devs helped me out which im very grateful for because i had no clue how to start and then i set the dev server wrong.

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Day something of #15-days-in-public. Today I didn't do a whole lot of work, as I focussed on my mental health and some odd jobs (Cleaning my desk, getting some school-nixos deployment stuff done) but I did add a dark mode and changed some fonts around

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Did some ricing today - starship, hyprland, and rofi. I needed to fiddle with NixOS a ton, but it kinda works now!

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Day 20: Made a pr to nixpkgs adding dotcopy to it. If anyone here is a maintainer, I would greatly appreciate a review. github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/293622

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Day 18: Learned how to use nix develop. Didn't get much done to be honest.

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Day 14: started learning how to package my go app for nix

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2 week project to try to make Manjaro for nixOS (idea from @zrl)

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finally compiled a bambu studio for NixOS and got 3d printer trained

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Yay I installed NixOS on an Orange Pi Zero with an Allwinner H2+ (armv7l). Embedding the bootloader in the SD Card image was kinda complicated, but cross compilation simplified things. Here's my flake: gist.github.com/karmanyaahm/5dc741b52dfbf6cbcb32da2fc90a31e3

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My NixOS PR finally got merged after only ... checks⌚... 2.5 months and 20 million revisions github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/213816

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Day 1 of Winter Hardware Wonderland :winter-hardware-wonderland: : 1. Collected even more USB Setup phase fingerprints with my old Digispark-based device. Now I just need two types of teachers' HP Laptops and M1 Macs. 2. Building Circuitpython is haaaaaaard. The crazy dependency management is the primary reason I hate embedded things. Maybe I should Nix this... 3. @KaiZheng-U049N5Y0WM9 agreed to 3d print my cases and ship them to me ❤️. I need to hurry up on finalizing the design so they get here on time. Making a better open-source USB Rubber Ducky with OS Detection www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbiJCnHBr70&list=PLxlDG2SH_6rvZrNAuVXI0BIdv7MWvkMNm

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My first contribution to NixOS!!! (for IPFS Kubo) github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/213816 (scrappy: nix)

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mmmm Nix. Moved my website to my new NixOS IPFS Caddy server running on Hetzner with vastly better reliability than my previous Ubuntu/Oracle Free tier server. github.com/karmanyaahm/nixos-ipfs-caddy-web-server Image pre-cache/post-cache

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Deciding to reset my personal machine and reinstall NixOS from scratch! Was feeling weighed down by previous configuration

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Making a tutorial on creating a NixOS development VM on a Mac!

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