So far, very stable. I am forced to use Nvidia performance mode if I want an external monitor which is slightly annoying, but I can reboot into normal mode when on battery.

Its the poor battery usage that irks me. The battery life gets me 90 min of use, so not great.

I got steam for some gaming, guitarix and ardour for music, libre office, IDE and git tools all good to go.

Worth it

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I set up my outgoing email to relay through an external server. I used to have comcast business class but when I sold my house, my only option at my condo is the comcast provided by the HOA (Comcast communities) which is residential. So lots of sites refuse to accept email send directly from my server. Comcast has a relay but it has crazy low rate limiting which is a pain when we need to send emails to all players.

[–] brechmos@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, what are you using (software and hardware) for the email relay?

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

A homebuilt rack mounted server running Fedora and sendmail. I've been using/configuring sendmail since the 80's and we didn't have fancy .mc preprocessing back then.

The outgoing relay is a paid service by Hostinger which resells titan.email. I just set the configuration in the relay to use the same credentials I set up in my SMTP/IMAP connections in tbird.

[–] Cirk2@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Bundling my two sata ssds into a single zfs volume, instead of manually moving stuff around between the nvme and two sata ssds. Combined with compression, and for my code folder deduplication it also resulted in a lot more usable space.

[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months ago

Booting directly from UKI signed by my Secure Boot keys.

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Nix! Just being able to run nix-env -i git and get a newer, isolated, git installation on an older Debian is very nice. Makes it easy to remove.

I can also do nix-shell -p <application I want to try out> if I want to test stuff out.

I've been able to ignore the Nix language pretty well so far, so no incredibly steep learning curve quite yet. Nix OS is still too spoopy for me.

[–] mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago

Adding a terminal multiplexer. Now I understand why UNIX is an IDE.

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