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

Finally getting around to messing with #nixos . I've been interested for a while, but I put together a new desktop this weekend and now I'm trying something new on the new hardware.

The recommendation to try it on a VM before installing on bare metal was an excellent one - the whole consistent build thing makes that workflow trivial so that has worked out very well. I've still got lots of things to still iron out now that I'm daily driving it, but it hasn't really slowed me down yet so overall very happy so far.

Excited to not need to worry about system config going forward if this works out well, I've had a dotfiles repo for over 15 years now, but the underlying system has always taken a bunch of configuration to get them back to how I like them.

#NixOS friends.

So, through my dive in the last week or so, I've come to the conclusion I want to have a single top-level flake.nix file that defines configurations for each of the machines I administer (that's close to 25 ish but for now let's just say 10 ish some are desktops, some laptops, some routers).

I've got a file that defines some functions, like laptopconfig will take a hostname and then include all the relevant stuff for laptops and specific stuff for that hostname.

but...

Our fleet of #multicopter​s is growing as we prepare for our part in the #TeamX¹ campaign in 🇦🇹 #Austria next month.

We'll provide valuable in-situ #temperature, #humidity, #wind and #turbulence measurements with our custom meteorological PARASITE system on multiple copters in parallel across the Inn valley. This data will help with understanding wind shear in mountainous regions and eventually improve
#mountainWeather forecasts.

Our PARASITEs carry several atmospheric sensors and we derive the turbulent 3D wind vector from the copter movements. @nobodyinperson suggested to name them like #BugsLife characters 🐛😉. He put a nicely customized ❄️ #NixOS in there to stay in control of the software, integrate it all and sync data e.g. to a #forgejoAneksajo instance (#forgejo with #gitAnnex support), our own or the one of @fzj_rdm during the VITAL campaign last year.

#Austria #Österreich #Inntal #Innsbruck #meteorology

¹https://www.teamx-programme.org/observational-campaign/

Hmm wondering if anyone can help me with a #linux question.

I'm running #nixos with #gnome 48, and even though I disabled automatic updates and notifications in Gnome Software.. still, every day, I get a notification saying "Updates are out of date" (even though when i click on it, it shows no updates)

Oddly enough, this is also happening on my project #nixbook , which is cinnamon (but still running gnome software)

How can I stop this!?!?!