Ephera

Yeah, you understood my comment entirely the wrong way around. When I say "dotfiles", I mean the non-Nix way of managing application configurations. Nix Home-Manager happens to write to these dotfiles, but that means I don't have to deal with the dotfiles myself.

I feel like setting up a new machine is just the easiest to explain.

Personally, I find dotfiles messy, as you often just want to change one or two settings, but you always carry along the whole file with all kinds of irrelevant other settings. This also makes it impractical to diff two versions of those dotfiles, especially when programs write semi-permanent settings into there.

I guess, your mileage will vary depending on what programs or desktop environment you use.
For example, I love KDE, but they really don't do a good job keeping the config files clean. Nix Plasma-Manager generally fixes that, and for example allows defining the contents of the panel in a readable form.

Personally, the stepping stone I needed to know about is Nix Home-Manager, which basically allows you to manage your dotfiles independent of the distro. From what I understand, if I do switch to NixOS, I'll continue using this code with just some minor tweaks.

But yeah, I agree with the verdict in the post. I like it a lot, but I would not have made it past the initial learning curve, if I didn't happen to be a software engineer. Sysadmins will probably be able to figure out how to put it to use, too. But it's just not for non-technical Linux users.

Versteh's insbesondere nicht, wenn's dann Plastikverpackungen sind. Einige Produkte kaufe ich nicht oder nur selten, weil es mir zu viel Plastikmüll ist. Was bestimmt keine seltene Einstellung unter Veganer*innen ist...

Mir persönlich geht's oft so, dass die Kerntemperatur meines Körpers einfach irgendwann zu niedrig ist, insbesondere wenn ich nur rumgammele und mein Kreislauf nicht in Schwung kommt. Also an den Extremitäten ist es zu heiß, aber wie deine Quelle auch anschneidet, die niedrige Kerntemperatur "will tend to suppress sweating as well". Und Schweiß wäre eben insbesondere gut darin, die Extremitäten runterzukühlen. Daher hilft ein warmes Getränk dann oft dieses Temperaturgefälle wieder umzukehren.

Mice can often find ways you wouldn't believe, but they still have to adhere to the laws of physics, so you might simply not have suitable holes in your apartment for them to enter. But yeah, also quite possible that they can smell the cat and don't want to enter the lion's den.

Yeah, sometimes I wonder if they do these bad names for the free publicity of people complaining about them. But then there's plenty examples where the name isn't just clunky, but rather actively confusing for potential users...

His job is to spread lies and fear, so no reason for him to say something different, if he would know reality...

She wrote "a drum", so we might be talking less than ten quid... 😅

On KDE, I'd recommend getting a KWin Script for tiling. Krohnkite is what people use currently.

It's not as buttery smooth as dedicated tiling window managers and it can be a bit glitchy at times, but it is better than one might expect and significantly easier (and likely less glitchy) than trying to get bspwm to work in Plasma.

Many people enjoy programming, you know. I've got like ten reasonably-sized projects and I haven't posted about them anywhere. Because I built them to scratch my own itch, both in terms of functionality I could use and the itch to build something, no matter what it is. I'm not wasting my time, because I'm doing something I enjoy.

The system for domain names is called Punycode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode

But it's still combined with domain registrars rejecting names like "αpple.com", which ultimately needs a human to approve names.

There could also be a system like here on Lemmy, where there's a separate display name, but it still doesn't really solve the impersonation problem...