Another unexpected joy running an immutable operating system: Emacs 30 does not ship complete treesitter implementations for the languages it proports to support out of the box.

Instead, you get an opaque error about missing so's, have to find the command that goes and downloads the language spec implementation (!) from some random web site, usually githib (!!) and compile it (!!!) and install into $HOME (!!!!).

I hope that whoever decided any of the above was a good idea was having a great time being super high on whatever substance they were on when Decisions Were Made. But it obviously can easily break horribly on any system other than one being identical to the OG hacker's personal setup. If they were running a SMTP service, it'd be an open relay.

Clearly, this is a challenge for people with slightly less loose security postures (that is to say, even just having a security posture), or for people who run $HOME in heterogeneous environments, and also probably in a bunch of ways I can't even imagine.

Good times!

#Emacs #GNOMEOS

So here's some reflections a few weeks in after having replacing Ubuntu with GNOME OS as the sole OS on my daily driver laptop.

1. OMG still feels great finally having a complete, up to date set of GNOME packages and a stock GNOME desktop, after decades of Canonical picking and choosing what and when to package - Calendar and Disks in particular. Even poor old Software seems to work well enough now.

GNOME OS remains by far the best desktop experience compared to Windows and MacOS, and having the whole thing together as intended is *chefkiss*.

2. While I miss being able to do things like `dpkg [-L/-S]` to work out what packages own what files (mostly while trying to debug problems with the OS), in general the immutable system works amazingly well such that I don't even think about software updates anymore. It Just Works™.

[con't]

#GNOMEOS #Ubuntu

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jorge/116573025291473462

Will be my daily driver soon! Today I'm on bluefin latest (based on Fedora).

#GNOME #GNOMEOS #Bluefin #Fedora #Linux

I am totally melting this strix halo. I'm using this tool to run a memory system locally. I can even send the local model to do stuff as a subagent. And then someday, completely local.

That makes sense to me, this is just the AI version of "hybrid cloud". The other workload maxing the CPU cores is building #gnomeos and #bluefin dakota, which I do all locally via this setup - test NUC reboots.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cApfuO4WG9g

Hey @kyle greg k-h was explaining his setup to me and now I am kind of motivated to see how people home lab this stuff out. I am going for the "locally driven testlab to make Project Bluiefin" because that would make a good talk lol.

https://github.com/Siim/superlocalmemory

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jorge/116400660942383418

To me this is the coolest thing! Can't wait to daily this.

#Bluefin #GNOMEOS #GNOME

It's pretty cool how useable GNOMEOS is nowadays. Apart from the issue I had earlier when combining multiple NVMe drives, everything's been smooth sailing so far.

Will stick to Fedora at work, but the idea right now is to keep using this on my daily driver on my personal machine. (Last summer I tried it for a month)

#GNOMEOS #GNOME