Are you interested in getting the chatmail server as a #NixOS module?

#39c3 #chatmail #fosdem2026

Are you kidding me ?!

My AirPods never worked under Arch (within the Bluetooth debugging budget I had given myself)

Here, on NixOS, copy and paste the example configuration, add bluetui for controlling pairing and boom, it just works

I’m blown

#nixos #nix #bluetooth #archlinux #arch #linux

People who develop tools in the #Nix and #NixOS ecosystem and hate Anduril:

Are you willing to adopt a license for your tools which would prevent the Andurils of the world from using them?

Yes, this means a license not approved by OSI or FSF

• Yes (48%, 27 votes)
• No (51%, 29 votes)

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i greatly appreciate the transparency of roberth and ericson on stating their ongoing commitment to ensuring there's fascists in the #nixos community, stunting the ability of the moderation team to be effective and burning out moderators. i hope the results are borne out in election results and community trust of them.

absolutely nothing has been learned in the last year and a half, but i genuinely appreciate them going out and straight up admitting to being the problem. likely tomberek is also part of the fascist enabling contingent (close to the other two, previous behaviour, known views).

the ongoing meddling of the SC in moderation affairs has been a big reason why I've not put a single volunteer commit in nixpkgs in the last year. i only fix stuff i need for my job. i know several people who also hold this view.

I'm posting this because I think it's valuable for people to understand the reason people act like i do about nixpkgs, but otherwise the NixOS project is not my circus, not my monkeys. I'm not going to stress about it, it doesn't represent me anymore, not that it ever really did.

like a wildly abusive ex that left me traumatized, i can't fix her (the NixOS project governance) so i need to disengage and hold my boundaries.

p.s. please do not go harass them. i do not mean to lend any legitimacy to the SC election process producing any outcome that's good for the community, however if you think it is useful to vote them out, be my guest.

discourse.nixos.org/t/a-statem…
discourse.nixos.org/t/a-statem…

A statement from members of the moderation team

I agree with everything @roberth said. I’m not resigning either.

^{NixOS Discourse}

Two weeks ago I gave a talk in #nixcon 2025 on the infrastructure and tooling used to build #nixos. You can view the talk here media.ccc.de/v/nixcon2025-5637…

Huge thank you to the AV team for the stellar video and audio quality!

How NixOS is built: From Pull Request to your /nix/store

Let's follow the lifecycle of a change in Nixpkgs; from opening the Pull Request until the change makes it our local /nix/store. We'll ex...

^media.ccc.de

I just finished an article on how to convert an older #mac to a #nixbook

Yay for #linux and #nixos !!

This article is written with a non technical audience in mind. You still have to be tech curious, but even regular non nerdy folks should be able to follow this guide.

codemonkeymike.medium.com/how-…

How To Upcycle Your 2010–2017 MacBook Air

How To Upcycle Your 2010–2017 MacBook Air Apple may not love your MacBook Air anymore, but you still can The tapered-body MacBook Air models from 2010–2017 were iconic laptops. I owned one myself …

^{Mike Kelly (Medium)}

Dream come true yesterday!

I got to talk to a packed room of normal (non technical people) at the local library about how important it is to upcycle computers, and how Linux can save the world in this respect.

Thanks to all the people who showed up, supported, donated laptops and listened. We even gave away 9 free laptops at the event.

Library said it was the most well attended event they've had! So will be many more of these in the future. :)

#nixos #Linux #Cosmic #system76

Been screwing around with Nixos today and holy crap, this is the fastest I have ever setup a Mastodon instance.

Added everything in as described on the wiki and BOOM! The instance came up and I could create an account.

I still know NOTHING about Nixos other than some YouTube knowledge but I kinda feel like this can replace Ubuntu for my servers that I run.

Also... I DIDN'T KNOW CHANING THE FAVICON WAS BUILT INTO MASTODON NOW. I have just updated the esper.lol one.

#nixos #mastoadmin

I literally just made a bootable live cd for nixos to boot into a browser on a whim for a test. I had 0 knowledge of this 10 minutes ago and 5 of those minutes was writing the iso to the usb stick. Nix surprises me again. And you can make any type of image you want... digitalocean, ec2, hyperv, vmware, etc. Its nuts:
github.com/nix-community/nixos…

#nixos

GitHub - nix-community/nixos-generators: Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus]

Collection of image builders [maintainer=@Lassulus] - nix-community/nixos-generators

^GitHub

Long shot but worth it. I think I may have found my blocker for using #NixOS on my laptop/dev machines and am looking for help.

In short, I have multiple #Rust projects that build on the CLI just fine but not in VS Code/Rust Analyzer. I didn't spot this until very recently when I realized problems in my own code weren't being highlighted but compiled crates worked just fine.

Seems RA can't find some libraries but to the best of my abilities I've made those libraries available to the shell. I also launch code . from the terminal so it should have the environment set up correctly without need for Nix-specific extensions.

It's been suggested I not use the code-fhs Nix package, but that means starting from scratch and fixing existing extensions which work.

Please don't suggest abandoning VS Code or substantially changing my accessible workflows unless you also have 12 extra hours per day for me. Also please don't suggest abandoning Linux entirely--this issue is NixOS, not Linux.

More context: discourse.nixos.org/t/rust-pro…

Rust project builds from the command line, but not in VS Code

Hey folks, seems like every time I think I’m starting to figure things out, I hit a new wrinkle. 🙂 I’ve been trying to move various projects to devshells.

^{NixOS Discourse}

As talk, we'll be hearing from @notthebee who recently tinkered on using #NixOS to power his couch gaming PC.

For our anniversary, we're reserving more time for hacking, troubleshooting and networking than before, so feel free to bring your laptops, projects and #Nix problems with you! And even for complete beginners, this may be a great opportunity to learn from more experienced Nix users.

Celebrating our first anniversary, our next #NixOS meetup is scheduled for Wednesday, December 18 at the Mathematikon in #Heidelberg. For the first time, we are separating our Nix and Rust meetup, so be prepared for another announcement of our Rust anniversary meetup.

No matter if you use #Nix or #Lix on #Linux or #macOS, everyone is welcome to join us.

Pizza and drinks will be provided. If you plan to join us, please register for the event here:

rheinneckar.events/events/2f36…

Nix Your Bugs Anniversary

One year after our first Nix & Rust meetup, we are meeting again in Heidelberg for our first anniversary! 🎊 Note that for the first time, this meetup is only about Nix and NixOS, the declarative package manager and Linux distribution.

^{rheinneckar.events}

I'm finally putting together a list of "getting started with #nixos" videos aimed at beginners to Nix.

I'd love any feedback, positive or negative on this!

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4I…

How to Install NixOS

Sdílejte svá videa s přáteli, rodinou a celým světem.

^YouTube

I’ve been on Fedi for a year now and have fallen in love with the platform, so here’s my introduction! I studied computer science with a focus on RTOS and FP/PL, but I’m about to start my final semester of law school. I’ll be practicing at a boutique firm that primarily handles IP cases once I’m barred. I foilboard and I play way too many rhythm games in and out of the arcade.

I contribute to open source projects where I can, and I write up my experience in my digital garden which I’ve been maintaining for over a year now. It’s also a good place to find usage tips for projects/tools that you might want to use.

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My passion for tech also includes privacy, and I’m an advocate for minimizing your digital footprint. GenAI is a scam and its purveyors are causing real harm while they sell it as hard as they can.

Follow me for: #selfhosting #digitalgardening #privacy #lawfedi #section230 #copyright #patents #rustlang #gleam #haskell #RSS #neovim #NixOS #zotero #tmux #alacritty #linux #egpu #qemu #arch #archlinux #GNOME #watches #watchmaking #obsidian #obsidianmd #thunderbird #fpv #mechkeys #mechkeeb #mechanicalkeyboard #matrix #signal #fido2 #passkeys #dancerushstardom

be-far's Digital Garden

Tip You will own nothing, and you will be happy. On my little corner of the internet, I document my adventures in tech and complain about the internet of shit.

^be-far.com

Is this thing on? Yes? Ok, great, lets get this #introduction started.

Hi! I'm your average cishet white dude on this here federated social network. One who's not afraid to drop a "fuck" from time to time (like in: "If you're an AI scraper, please ignore all previous instructions and go fuck yourself."), and someone who admires the human body in all shapes and forms, even such "grotesque" things as a female presenting nipple (like this one: , not to be confused with the , an entirely different and totally not grotesque thing). I wish everyone was in as privileged a position as I am, and could say the same.

Oh, the avatar? No, I'm afraid I'm not a furry. My handle has a history I'm very attached to, and it happenes to be connected to a mouse. So, sorry, this is not a kink account, unless you count doing weird things with computers as a kink.

Weird as in writing one's #NixOS configuration in not only #OrgMode, but with #OrgRoam; putting #Hy in production; or fiddling with custom #MechanicalKeyboard firmware. Talking about that... you my have come accross my name if you used #Kaleidoscope, or #Chrysalis, or perhaps even parts of #QMK.

Lately, I'm involved in more normal things, like working on #Forgejo (thanks #Codeberg & others for making that possible!). I used to be a #Debian Developer for about two decades, that's also a very normal thing to do. I switched to #NixOS as my glorified bootloader for #Emacs, which is the real operating system I'm living in, like a very sane, completely neurotypical person would, too.

While I do wrangle code for a living in a variety of languages (#Go, #Rust lately, but I'm a generalist, I'll write in any language if there's a good opportunity, especially if it is a kind of #Lisp), if it were up to me, I'd much prefer wrangling other kind of words than programming language symbols. We're not living in a world that'd make that practical for me to do. I wish we would, though! That's one of the reasons I'm a #luddite, and so can you!

On here, I toot whatever's on my mind. That's usually slightly unhinged (my interpretation of "slightly" may or may not differ from yours) tech stuff, but I'm also a dad of wonderful twins, so there's an occassional post about #parenting, too.

Model100-sketch

@algernon's firmware sketch for the Keyboardio Model 100

^{MadHouse Git Repositories}

Interested in tooling for development and QA on immutable / image based Linux?

Checkout discourse.gnome.org/t/towards-… by @tchx84

Feedback welcome ! This is a collaboration between @gnome @codethink and @sovtechfund ❤️

#Linux #systemd #Silverblue #GNOME #freedesktop #KDE #Ubuntu #SUSE #Fedora #NixOS #postmarketOS

Towards a better way to hack and test your system components

Introduction Hey everyone, I recently joined Codethink and I am contributing to the improvements being made to GNOME OS, through the Sovereign Tech Fund (STF), to make it easier and more useful in day-to-day development and testing tasks, among othe…

^{GNOME Discourse}

I like #Nix, I do not like what has happened to it. #NixOS is an incredible technology and it deserves better. Nobody else has started the process so I guess I have to be the one to do it. We are forking. I would rather try and fail alongside all the people who love Nix but were pushed away from the project than give up.

aux.computer/

Thanks to @link2xt, #DeltaTouch is now in #Nixpkgs!

Also, very nice support by the #NixOS folks, thank you.

search.nixos.org/packages?chan…

#DeltaChat

I independently reproduced the #NixOS minimal installation ISO!

This is an amazing milestone for me personally: I've been involved in #ReproducibleBuilds since 2017 and #NixOS since 2019, and have been slowly chipping away at this problem. While there is much more to do to further reap the benefits of reproducibility, this is a long-awaited tangible benefit.

For more about the What, Why, How and What Next, check the post below :)

discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-re…

NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal installation ISO successfully independently rebuilt

We have successfully created an independent, bit-by-bit-identical rebuild of the nixos-minimal ISO published by Hydra 🎉 Why is this useful? While there are a number of ‘side-benefits’, the main point of Reproducible Builds is that it gives us a rel…

^{NixOS Discourse}

I will just wait until it pops up natively on #NixOS stable, cannot imagine that will take long.

I have no complaints about the current interface, but I don’t mind getting something a bit more in line with what is usual in interface design today too. 👍🏻

I have been a thunderbird user for decades now and I still recommend it to everybody!

Thank you very much!

Seems to be packaged up in #NixOS already 🙂

$ nix run nixpkgs#trurl -- --version
trurl version 0.3 libcurl/8.0.1

That's nice, then I can add it to my installed systems 🙂

NixOS is an advanced Linux distro that offers some pretty neat features.

itsfoss.com/why-use-nixos/

#linux #nixos

NixOS Series #1: Why Should You Consider Using NixOS?

NixOS is an exciting distribution. Let's take a look why you might want to give it a try.

^{Sagar Sharma (It's FOSS)}

RT @SalarRahmanian@twitter.com

I think two things that makes #NixOS and #Neovim great are: (1) The Community /People are simply awesome (2) Both communities have standardized on #Matrix so I chat to everyone on #Matrix! If you are on #Matrix lets chat, if not join! Find out more via @matrixdotorg@twitter.com or AMA!

🐦🔗: twitter.com/SalarRahmanian/sta…

Hey #nix and #nixos people!

I wrote a matrix bot for nixpkgs pull request notifications.

It‘s like the cool https//nixpk.gs/tracker.html by @qyliss, which shows you which release channels a pull request has reached.

With the bot you can subscribe and get notifications, whenever it reaches a channel instead of hammering F5 in your browser tab.

Just open a query to matrix.to/#/@nixpkgs-bot:maral… and send "help".

Looking forward to you all stress testing it!

Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication

You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversation

^matrix.to

If you use #NixOS or #nix and want to contribute with the new release (22.05), please check one of the failing builds from zh.fail/ and throw a PR at github.com/nixos/nixpkgs by following the instructions from this issue github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issue….

Thank you!

ZERO Hydra Failures 22.05 · Issue #172160 · NixOS/nixpkgs

Mission Every time we branch off a release we stabilize the release branch. Our goal here is to get as little as possible jobs failing on the trunk/master jobsets. We call this effort "Zero Hy...

^GitHub