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  • smiletolerantly@awful.systemsto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    10 days ago

    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.


  • smiletolerantly@awful.systemsto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    12 days ago

    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)











  • I hate the HA implementation of voice assist. It’s either “what you are saying has to be recognized as EXACTLY this string” or it’s “try an LLM lol”.

    Hie the fuck do you influence if your voice recognition model spits out “To-do, ToDo, todo, To-Do, To Do or to do”? Because if you try to add an item to the ToDo list, then this difference matters to HA.

    The answer is: by matching what is recognized against all known entities, and picking (with a threshold) the closest match. But that’s just not possible currently.