uthredii

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[–] uthredii@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh, sorry. It wasn't for me earlier (I linked through from Firefox suggestions)

[–] uthredii@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Have you set android autofill framework to use bitwarden?

[–] uthredii@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

Would be interesting to see how fast polars (a dataframe library written in rust) would be as it can be used in python.

[–] uthredii@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Libro.FM is DRM free and lets you buy any book once a month for a fixed cost.

[–] uthredii@programming.dev 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I think it depends on the website. There are some websites where chrome will work better either because chrome works better with certain libraries/technologies or because the developers put more time into optimizing for chrome.

On the other hand Firefox might have less bloat around telemetry that gives it an advantage too.

[–] uthredii@programming.dev -1 points 2 years ago

never had that issue before, as long as they have the same version and config

Then you are very lucky. "It worked on my machine" is a meme for a reason.

wasn’t that possible before with snapshotting (btrfs/lvm)?

I haven't used snapshotting with those before. I guess the difference is that with nix it is done by the package manager by default, with btrfs/lvm you would have to set that up independently (please correct of this is not the case).

[–] uthredii@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

So how useful it is in practice?

It's useful for quite a few things in practise:

  • You can be sure software that is packaged with nix will behave the same on different computers.
  • You can avoid dependency conflicts.
  • You can automate some things that would otherwise take multiple (mostly manual steps) on other systems.

This video shows off some of the cool things you can do with nix: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6Le0IbPRzOE&feature=share9

How do updates work?

You update a programming by specifying the latest version of a program in config and rebuilding.

You update the OS by pointing to the channel you want to use and rebuilding.

You can time travel back to a previous state if anything goes wrong.

Can it play Crysis?

I expect so, some people.do use nix for gaming.

[–] uthredii@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Isn't the fediverse an anarchist project?

It seems to be the most flat peer structure of any social media.

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