Maybe there’s a way, but I looked all over the settings and internet and even had an AI agent do a search for how to enroll my keys and couldn’t figure it out

I have an HP Envy from several years ago and the BIOS is super locked down so I can’t enable secure boot on it. With my previous HP laptop, I had a ton of trouble getting the WiFi to work

Helix + my Nix-based configuration tool

Let’s say the only difference between two sets of programs/developers/realities is that one program is open source and the other is not. Scenarios:

• Some sort of attacker is determined to get the source code through any means necessary. If the program is already open source, the developer will not be targeted because of this. If not, then the attacker might target the developer in ways to get it leaked.
• Some sort of attacker wants to hijack the program to execute some other attack. In either case they will need to manipulate the developer somehow, but if the program is open source the attack would need to be hidden in plain sight, whereas for closed source that isn’t necessary so the attack surface within the codebase is much bigger. But depending on the project structure it would also be a lot harder to social engineer someone into accepting malicious code changes if they don’t have access to the code to begin with. At the same time, if the users think the program’s developer is compromised for some reason, they can typically hard fork core parts of the project if it is open source, which this possibility limits attack vectors further.
• The developer needs to hide something that people finding out will make attacks far more likely (i.e. something illegal). In this case closed source might help them hide it better (but the compiled output might also need to be obscured somehow).

If the only difference is strictly whether it’s open source or not (i.e. no outside contributors), I would say open source developers are safer unless something about the source code that’s not in the binary would provoke someone powerful.

But the part that actually annoys me is how everyone uses flakes and expects you to too, but it’s been an experimental feature forever and doesn’t seem any closer to becoming not-experimental.

Lix at least doesn’t pretend that Flakes is something obscure.

Ever noticed how Linux is getting slower and slower to boot? Absolutely systemd.

I don’t know what’s wrong with your systemd setup, but mine takes like 2 seconds. I spend more time waiting for GRUB to time out.

Systemd has been putting a lot of effort into eliminating the need for SUID binaries with run0 and polkit integrations, so I’m curious if other init systems are doing anything similar.

Second NixOS. I’m curious as to whether Gentoo does much that NixOS doesn’t do, aside from not using systemd and not having a world-readable store.

What sort of battery life do you get, and what’s the screen and touchpad like?

I use a MacBook M1 Air with Asahi Linux (using Fedora + Nix home-manager) for programming and web stuff and it works decently aside from a few missing features, although I hate the soldered storage and RAM. I might get a Framework or MNT laptop when it dies.

Is it possible to buy one anymore? Having NixOS on a phone sounds awesome

I was messing with the NixOS system config in weird ways and accidentally bricked it a few times, but I just booted into a previous configuration and fixed it. Whereas with Arch you would be fucked and have to pull out a rescue disk.

If I ever find systemd-ageverificationd on my computer I’m nuking it

Let me guess, you’re 2147483647

Yeah I’m more concerned about whether it has what I actually want. Which when I used it over a year ago it was missing tons of programs I use (both first and third party channels) and Nix was not. Although it’s nice to see that Niri and Helix are packaged now and their Rust packaging improvements. Other aspect is the flake ecosystem, where Nix has flakes for things like styling, security hardening, etc whereas Guix didn’t seem to have a flake-like implementation at all. Although at least it’s an alternative if systemd really goes to shit.

Nix is very heavily tied to systemd though

Has the lack of software ecosystem improved much lately?

Does DuckDuckGo even use the Bing API anymore? I thought it doesn’t exist now

If you add a couple O’s it means turds in English too

Next it will be Omarchy