Half a year ago, I replaced my Thinkpad T14 with a 14" MacBook Pro M1. I was a happy Linux and Thinkpad user for over 7 years. This is how it went. Previous setup My previous setup was NixOS with i3wm and XFCE as the desktop manager on a Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Gen2. I reviewed it in detail. The AMD CPU didn’t get hot and the fans didn’t make any noise....
Dokku makes it very easy to deploy and run simpler web apps. Recently, I had to deploy a slightly more complex web app with multiple non-web worker services talking to each other. It’s surprisingly simple to get make this work. ...
It took me three months and five attempts to fix this issues. Upon reboot two terminal panes and one Emacs instance auto started and I didn’t know why. ...
Dropbox has some well known issues on Linux which made me look at alternatives. I found an alternative that I am very happy with. ...
Upgrading NixOS so that it uses a different channel is simple. When you run following command as root: nix-channel --list You should see a list of channels. If you did not touch channels so far, you should see this: nixos https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-21.05 By running the following command (as root): nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/<channel version> nixos you will remove the 21.05 channel and replace it with <channel version>. To apply the change, you need to run following command:...
Following the NixOS installation guide I ended up with a setup using a stable NixOS channel that just keeps giving. Sometimes however, it can be necessary to include packages from an unstable channel. ...
On Linux you can set attributes to ignore files for syncing. ...
If you use urxvt to connect to your EC2 instance through Elastic Beanstalk, running eb ssh will give you a shell where autocomplete does not work. Fix that by running TERM='xterm-256color' eb ssh
3 months ago I installed NixOS, i3wm and XFCE on my new Thinkpad T14 (1st Gen). It is my main machine that I use every day. In this blog post I summarize my experience with this setup. ...
You sit in a cozy coffee place and you just finished your coffee. You are still not connected to the WiFi while the MacBooks and Surface devices around you have sent and received Gigabytes of data since you sat down. You are a Linux user. ...
With following command you can print a random string of a certain length on Linux. tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 </dev/urandom | head -c 32 ; echo '' The string is safe to use in most web contexts such as HTML forms or environment variables.
In order to play Anno 1404 on Proton, follow these steps. ...
Install Dropbox using NixOS in your preferred way. ...