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Hardware must be well supported in fully-libre-land ... had to go nonguix pretty much right away.

Yep, same here. I started with nonguix. I didn't realize it was easy to add additional channels.

Profound meditation and enlightenment on the essence of Scheme is a must. I had one of those ‘no, this is where you don’t want a closing brace’ moments and my zen was blown out of the water.

Aaaah. I juuuust had this happen to me. Took me a bit to balance the parens again! 😂 Although, so far Scheme seems nicer than Nixlang. I've also had curiosity to learn a functional language, so Guix gives me a reason to learn about functional programming.

Yep. Totally using nonguix. I'm trying out Guix for the reproducibility and system management, not (just) for the FOSS software.

From my initial research, I thought that Guix was only going to allow 100% FOSS software. But I've learned that's not the case. It's actually pretty easy to add additional channels in order to install non-FOSS software. The third-party channels integrate nicely!

I added nonguix and also a channel for Tailscale!

    
(list (channel
        (name 'nonguix)
        (url "https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix")
        (branch "master")
        (introduction
          (make-channel-introduction
            "897c1a470da759236cc11798f4e0a5f7d4d59fbc"
            (openpgp-fingerprint
              "2A39 3FFF 68F4 EF7A 3D29  12AF 6F51 20A0 22FB B2D5"))))
      (channel
        (name 'tailscale)
        (url "https://github.com/umanwizard/guix-tailscale")
        (branch "main")
        (introduction
          (make-channel-introduction
            "c72e15e84c4a9d199303aa40a81a95939db0cfee"
            (openpgp-fingerprint
              "9E53FC33B8328C745E7B31F70226C10D7877B741"))))
      (channel
        (name 'guix)
        (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git")
        (branch "master")
        (introduction
          (make-channel-introduction
            "9edb3f66fd807b096b48283debdcddccfea34bad"
            (openpgp-fingerprint
              "BBB0 2DDF 2CEA F6A8 0D1D  E643 A2A0 6DF2 A33A 54FA")))))

  

use something like distrobox, bottles, flatpak to run extra software

YES! That's my plan! I think I just figured out how to configure flakpak a little better.

These are only part of the steps needed: https://flatpak.org/setup/GNU%20Guix

You also need to source ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile.d/flatpak.sh in order to get the desktop icons to show up in the GNOME app launcher. (Using guix home for that!)

Need to work on getting distrobox setup next. I was able to guix install distrobox, but it requires some extra configuration apparently.

Neat. Although, I wanted to go through the installation pain experience. Eventually, I'm hoping to run Guix on a server. I'm starting with my laptop first.

Flatpak Zoom had no camera access.

I used Flatpak Zoom for all my job interviews recently. Camera and mic worked flawlessly.

cockpit

A what now? 🔎 https://cockpit-project.org/

Are you also scared of databases and prefer storing things in raw txt files?

Yes, actually. 😅 I can't manage a database for more than a few weeks before I screw it up or want to easily edit something and stop using it.

I don't think databases are bad. I think I'm too much of a fuckup to manage one.

There are several projects named zipline. I think you're talking about this one though: https://github.com/diced/zipline

Yep, great links. That's what I've been using. Not all the content I'm looking for is available as torrents though. On top of that, I'm mainly interested in Latino Spanish dubs, not Spanish Spanish.

I should try more sites from the downloading category though. I just automatically went to the torrenting section and skipped over others.

Oh, shit. Do Indians also have esquites??

an email provider that already offers unlimited email aliases

Migadu offers unlimited aliases for $20/year. The aliases can be receiving-only or sending-and-receving aliases.

I also learned the hard way that you should probably pick a .com (preferred) or .net TLD. Other TLDs may be blocked by smaller companies, especially .xyz. I had my emails go into a blackhole when I tried to email my town's garbage company from a .xyz email.

You gotta pick something:

• that sounds neutral or professional
• that people can pronounce
• that isn't a homophone
• that isn't hard to spell

And probably a domain that doesn't include your real name.

Looks neat. Do they use standard IMAP/POP for email? Are they writing their own email/webdav software or just using Nextcloud?

I've been on migadu for like 2 years now. It's been pretty solid and I really like all the control and features they give you. I also really like they're using standard protocols, so no lock in.

Although, they're missing WebDAV, but I guess that's out of scope for them. And they don't have all the privacy features other players do, which I'm ok with.

I have calendars and contacts hosted at northmail.ca, which again doesn't have the most private/security features, but for me that's ok. I like that northmail.ca is just a Nextcloud provider. I also tried nubo.coop, another Nextcloud provider, but they were slow for me in the US.

Wow. First he switched to Linux, now he's de-googling, self-hosting?? I mean... good. 👏

Yes!!! Keep enshittifying! Yes! nods menacingly

Lemmy is my main social media. I don't use anything else. Occasionally, I still get reddit in my search results though.

Oh, I also use Discord.

Cool! It's the main way I install GUI apps now.

I'm on a laptop. Arch, btw.

I went here: https://superpractica.org/play/online/

I can get past the godot loading screen. I see "Super Practica", "Play topics", "Info", etc. But clicking doesn't work. Keyboard input doesn't work.