mei 🌒& @ckie@pixie.town

that marks our finish of GitS SAC 1st Gig OVA. btw did i tell you, dear reader, that she is Very Everything? also the writers are poor cowards for how they treat her. but she's SO GOOD like DAMNNN.

SHE'S SO GOOD!!!

🖼

look she's called Major by everyone and she's really fucking hot. also the plot is pretty decent good tension and release. bit simple at times but its really good (:

@aynish have you tried asking the union orga?

@jalcine @nasser like we forget what we're going to write if it doesn't already have lots of opinions! when writing a Big Thing the architectural choices hint at how it should be extended and such

when it's a small thing there's less patterns you can latch onto, everything is New, maybe you write less code but it's closer to the root of the semantic reasoning if that makes sense

tldr writing a 30 line macro to use it in a 2 line way is way more fun than deleting 15 lines and adding 15 lines (because i'm growing an existing thought rather than starting over)

but i grew into this amount of complexity and that's a self-assuring path, like we learned programming from mashing apis [like this one](https://discord.js.org/#/docs/discord.js/main/general/welcome) together until fire

@nasser can simple things have lots of opinions though?

briefly looks at ur memories

@elilla ah! i have a non source control elipse and its pretty comfy. looking forward to the elilla& selfies in the msa tho!!

@elilla

@skye wrote a lot here before, if you're looking for more general data to consume: https://toot.cat/@skye/110573872409338413

can i ask why MSA?

@elilla cc @joepie91

@skye hello where is the second like button

@elilla what prevented you from using the bootloader generation list?

@skye today in Figuring Out The Kernel Version:

`rg 'KernelVersion:\s+(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)' --replace '$1' -NI | uniq | sort`

@elilla yeah i feel like it lost a bunch of those things, like Xvfb and just starting an Xserver into a single program and having that Work.

it's a pretty elegant arch; shame it got buried by everything

@skye yea

but about ARM, it could be good, but mobile SoC manufacturers don't get anything out of that bc they're entrenched. like you wanna buy 50k chips from qualcomm? NOPE. like they just won't let you basically if you're not one of the companies they've been with for decades

@elilla it should be free eval perf but the semantics are slightly different (in a way that probably doesn't matter if you don't use any `nixpkgs.*` options in your NixOS config)

@wxcafe clem adorable AND has good opsec

@elilla oh yea well there's nix-env but flakes are a big heckin mess created while the nixos community was starting to grow faster,

@elilla

> - quite surprised to have no functional "nix search" or something. we are expected to use the website for everything? I don't like using websites I like command lines

heh, so:
for a package: `nix search nixpkgs hello` (requires flakes, slow by default), older `nix-env --help --query`, scroll to examples mgiht be faster in some ways

3rd-party nix-index (binary: nix-locate) is great:
```
ckie@cookiemonster ~ -> nix-locate bin/hello |& rg hello.out
haskellPackages.hello.out 839,624 x /nix/store/lwcn76793qmkzkch95shdscimwxc62h9-hello-1.0.0.2/bin/hello
hello.out 55,704 x /nix/store/mdi7lvrn2mx7rfzv3fdq3v5yw8swiks6-hello-2.12.1/bin/hello
```

> duplicating everything on ~/.config/sway/, but I can't figure out how to make "right control is super" in xkb options

`services.keyd`, should work everywhere since it's using the kernel uinput mechanism

> `gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor 1.5`
will do it for all GTK apps including firefox. (you need package `glib` to have gsettings.) can I put this in the nix conffiles somehow :thonking:​

[with home-manager, yes](https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/options.html#opt-dconf.settings) (and you can make HM a part of your NixOS config)

> also firefox says "Your browser is being managed by your organization", which made me chill a bit thinking I'm mixing work profiles or s/t but I guess it's just due to NixOS updates/root cert/something?

you [can configure firefox from nix](https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/unstable/#build-wrapped-firefox-with-extensions-and-policies) and we set a few things by default apparently, [here](https://github.com/ckiee/nixpkgs/blob/6ff448e50d4ca115d50ed6145f575be2093ad30c/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/firefox/wrapper.nix)