The interfaces are a bit basic, sure, but everything seems to be 2 clicks away at most, and the design language is pretty clear… What’s your issues exactly?

I sometimes wish for a bit more variety in the android TV interface (maybe a large “recently added” carousel that also shows short descriptions, or something), but I’ve never had anyone have any issues navigating and using the UI.

Boring, but functional.

Shouldn’t it be the other way round? If I’m a guest at someones house, IMO I should go out of my way to do as the host does.

Use a large spoon instead, won’t bend.

Not sure. You mean something like r/NuclearRevenge and Co?

We really, really do. I miss r/PettyRevenge and cousins, plus r/TalesFromTechSupport.

And yet, in non-English speaking countries, virtually every kid is taught English to a level that’s at least “roughly business”.

I also reject your premise of 8 hours / day for a year; how about 1-2 hours / day for 4-8 years.

In the case of English, school kids would get more like 2-4hrs per week and be perfectly fluent after a couple of years, btw.

Idk. With Arch I felt like I constantly had to be on top of things. With nix, everything is rock solid and stable, and if I want to change or add something, I do that, once, and then it’s also rock solid until all eternity and across all my machines.

In total I might have spent more time interacting with nix already, but it feels less like “work” than with arch. Higher setup burden, almost zero maintenance burden and zero mental overhead.

Happy holidays btw

Edit: forgot to include the context. For the Thunderbird example, I have spent 1-2 hours once, 2 years ago, converting all the Thunderbird config options to nix, and adding my mail accounts through nix. I have not had to go into the Thunderbird settings since, and after doing a fresh install on a new machine, my accounts are already THERE on first boot. A lot of things are tedious in nix, but you do them ONCE.

Nah, both ways are fine. The first one just installs the package, the second one enables the module, which installs the package + does a bunch of additional setup and gives you super convenient configuration options (like setting up mail accounts declaratively from nix)

Don’t you mean

home.programs.thunderbird.enable = true;

?

Yeaaaah I was pretty sure “Pornhub for Enterprise” isn’t real, but still had to look it up. Could have fooled me otherwise.

Especially because this ticks a lot of boxes for me. Well. Apart from the polycule.

Don’t forget the almighty:

journalctl -fu <servicename>

And yes, I am always reading that as “fuck you, service”.

Company went “here’s your budget for ordering a laptop. Put on it whatever you want”, and so there’s NixOS running on it :)

(To be fair though: small-ish, tech focused company)

I’ve actually been having a great time with simple-nixos-mailserver.

Running with a dedicated ipv4 at a highly reputable hoster, to my knowledge, I haven’t landed in a spam folder yet!

Wait, why? I thought I was generally gold at spotting these things, but here I’m struggling. The only thing that looks a little out of place to ne is the ring on his pointing hand, but that might genuinely be a dark band + shadow. What else have I missed?

Plus oneesan is “older sister”.

Indeed.

Wait, no, hold on

My dad loves the Wank. No idea why. It’s a nice view, sure, but there’s so many nicer ones. Instead of exploring new views and mountains in the alps, he just climbs the Wank like 10 times a year, trying to beat his record (1h10min)

Another recmendation for Actual. I spend very little time having to interact with it, because after the initial setup, all transactions are now synched from my bank accounts, and 90% are automatically classified into my categories (not by “AI” or something, you just set rules like “payments to Rewe are always groceries”).

No, not really. The imperativity of ansible vs the declarativity of nix actually does make a big difference in practice.

FWIW, I went to school in mid-2000. My sibling even later. They still taught it back then, and at least here, I am pretty sure they still do. (And why would they not, after all…)