I've been trying nixos recently and after watching a bunch of tutorials from various people, I have managed to enable home-manager and flakes.

My question is: where should I write the packages I want to install? In home.nix? In flakes.nix? In configuration.nix (probably not)? I'm probably only gonna have a single user on this machine.

So far, I think the only difference between writing the packages in home.nix compared to flakes.nix is that in the 1st senario, the apps will only be available for the user, while in the 2nd, it will be available for the whole system. Also, I could use the home.nix for non-nixos systems too. Other than that, I can probably write them the same way either on home.nix or flakes.nix and have the same result on my machine.

PS. On search.nixos.org there is an option to search for flakes. What is this? I am planing to get my packages from the packages tab, but I'm wondering that maybe I should search in the flakes tab instead (though it doesn't seem to have many packages).

PPS. Those are some resources I've found (I've mainly watched the videos and have started reading some of the guides):

• https://github.com/Evertras/simple-homemanager/blob/main/04-explain-outputs-function.md
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a67Sv4Mbxmc
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a67Sv4Mbxmc&list=PLko9chwSoP-15ZtZxu64k_CuTzXrFpxPE
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63sSGuclBn0&list=PLuRxZ95-8LY1mlotZMYGYib5sXJRw1RxW
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGVXJ-TIv3Y
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLwbNhSxLd4
• https://discourse.nixos.org/t/pass-specialargs-to-the-home-manager-module/33068/4
• https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/index.xhtml#ch-usage
• https://www.chrisportela.com/posts/home-manager-flake/
• https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/
• https://discourse.nixos.org/t/practical-nix-flakes-anatomy-a-guided-tour-of-flake-nix/42550/8
• https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/v2xpjm/big_list_of_flakes_tutorials/

Hello everyone! It's been about a month that I'm experimenting Debian on an external disk. For the most time, I've been using Testing. The issue is, that some packages are missing from Testing, while they exist on Stable (or on Unstable). The biggest problem with that is that some packages require dependencies that don't exist on the Testing repo and as such I can't install those apps.

So, I thought about adding the Stable repo, at a lower priority. If something doesn't exist on Testing, it will grab it from Stable.

How bad is that approach? I'm not doing the reverse (using stable and grabbing apps from testing), which might be way worse. Does anyone else do that? I couldn't find anything related online.

PS. I'm a bit tempted to switch to Unstable all together, but I don't know if I'll be careful enough to use it in the long run.

PPS. I might build a home nas at some point (with Debian Stable) and keep regular backups of my laptop so that I'll be kinda safe if I ever switch to Unstable.

Καλημέρα παιδιάα, αυτό είναι ένα post που ήθελα να κάνω εδώ και μήνες, αλλά δεν προλάβαινα🙃

Τι μουσική ακούτε/ακούγατε/σκοπεύτε να ακούσετε; *** Θα κάνω την αρχή (this gonna be long):

• Τι μουσική άκουγα:

Στην αρχή άκουγα κυρίως τα pop του ραδιοφώνου, μέχρι που έφτασα σε ένα σημείο κορερσμού (κυρίως λόγω της περιορισμένης θεματικής των στίχων και της soft μελωδίας) και σιγά σιγά απομακρύνθηκα. Άρχισα με imagine dragons (alt rock-pop) και έφυγα όλο και πιο πολύ προς στην alt rock σκηνή, αλλα και λίγο rap (eminem κυρίως). Άκουγα τα κλασικά γνωστά alt-rock συγκροτήματα κυρίως (πχ. arctic monkeys, starset, muse, thousand foot krutch, all good things, set it off, linkin park, green day κλπ.). Σε ένα σημείο άρχισα να ακούω και metal (πχ. disturbed), μέχρι που βρήκα τους Sabaton. Power-metal was my new thing. Οριακά εντελώς διαφορετική θεματική (κυρίως ιστορικές αναδρομές που με έκαναν να ενδιαφερθώ παραπάνω για την ιστορία) και μελωδίες που άκουγα ~για πρώτη φορα. Οι Sabaton ήταν πρακτικά η 1η μου συναυλία. Μαζί με τους sabaton βρήκα και Powerwolf, Beast in Black κλπ. Παράλληλα καθώς γνώρισα κάποια άτομα κι όλας, βρήκα κι άλλα alt-rock/metalcore(?)/rap/alt-pop/punk/phonk συγκροτήματα όπως falling in reverse, get scared, Palaye Royale (♥), NF, grim salvo, jahriah, tommee proffit, grandson, bring me the horizon, οπότε σε μια φάση άκουγα κυρίως Sabaton, Palaye Royale και NF.

Σιγά σιγά όμως επήλθε πάλι κορεσμός και καθώς πιστεύω απέκτησα πιο στέρεες (πολιτικές) απόψεις, άρχισα να απομακρύνομαι από πολλά απ' αυτά τα συγκροτήματα. Ο τραγουδιστής των falling in reverse φαίνεται να χτυπά την γυναίκα του, να είναι τρανσφοβικός, να παρενοχλεί σεξουαλικά μια φαν και είχε μπει φυλακή επειδή συμμετείχε σε street fight που πέθανε ένας. Οι Sabaton απ' την άλλη είναι πολύ ουδέτεροι το οποίο ελαφρώς με ανησυχεί, επειδή ίσως είτε σημαίνει ότι φοβούνται μην χάσουν κοινό άμα εκφραστούν δημόσια, είτε τείνουν προς την "δεξιά" (και τα δύο αρνητικά για μένα). Επίσης ο τραγουδιστής των disturbed έχει διάφορα θέματα (υπέγραψε πύραυλο του ισραήλ που θα τον έριχναν στην παλαιστίνη), οι thousand foot krutch και μερικοί άλλοι έκαναν christian rock που δεν είναι τόσο του γούστου μου, οι ffdp είναι οριακά ναζί μάλλον και άλλα διάφορα. ***

• Αυτό μας φέρνει στην μουσική που ακόυω σήμερα:

Εξακολουθώ να ακούω alt-rock (σε μικρότερο βαθμό), κυρίως στυλ Palaye Roayle/Maneskin (η 3η μου συναυλία :)), η metal μειώθηκε πολύ (αν θα ακούσω πιθανόν να 'ναι Sabaton/Powerwolf), αυξήθηκε πολύ η ελληνική (αναρχική?) rap/hip-hop και άρχισα να ακούω και ελληνικά έντεχνα λίγο (το τελευταίο κυρίως χάρη στις παρέες μου). Άρχισα με κοινούς θνητούς που είχαν μερικά πολύ ωραία τραγούδια, αλλά δεν έκατσα και πολύ. Κυρίως λόγω των περιορσμένων θεμάτων που (πιθανόν επίτηδες) καλύπτουν. Ένα απ 'τα γνωστότερα τραγούδια τους φαίνεται κάπως μισογυνιστικό (το "Βαλτο να τακους" λέω) και πρακτικά δεν κάνουν άλλες αναφορές στις γυναίκες ή queer άτομα πχ. Οπότε βρήκα τους Taburo Bota που είχαν πιο ευρεία θεματική, αλλά για κάποιο λόγο νομίζω παράγουν ταυτόχρονα και μισογυνιστικά και φεμισιστικά τραγούδια, οπότε τους άφησα. Πέρασα και από Social waste, στοίχημα κλπ., αλλά δεν έμεινα.

Μέχρι που βρήκα τους Rationalistas (αποτελούνται από SXO, TNT, Bayman και DJ Gzas). Inclusive στίχοι με κοινωνική-πολιτική κριτική καθώς και κριτική στις θρησκείες (νομίζω). Πρώτη φορά μάλλον που μου άρεσε ολόκληρο άλμπουμ (το τελευταίο τους). Πρόσφατα βέβαια έβαλα και τα 2 πρώτα τους και δεν ακούγονται, ήταν νομίζω μισογυνιστικά-ομοφοβικά, αλλά φαίνεται να έχουν αλλάξει 180 μοίρες την στάση τους σε αυτά τα θέματα πλέον.

Επίσης βρήκα και άρχισα να ακούω πολύ τους δύο_μηδέν_δύο_μηδέν (αποτελούνται από KK, Ήρωα, Incognito m. και Jaul) που είνα πιο νέοι (άρα πιθανόν να βγάλουν πολλά νέα τραγούδια στο μέλλον) και ασκούν και αυτοί πολιτική-κοινωνική κριτική και κριτική στις θρησκίες, παραμένοντας inclusive και δεν εξυμνούν τα χρήματα ή τα ναρκωτικά (σε αντίθεση με πολλά ονόματα είτε στην rap είτε γενικά). Μέσω αυτών βρήκα μετά πολλά ακόμα ονόματα που κάνουν τέτοιου στυλ μουσική που είναι (χωρίς να έχω εξακριβώσει ακόμα αν όλα τα ονόματα κάνουν μουσική που πληρεί τις προϋποθέσεις μου): Σειρένε 0-100, sponty. (ανατρίχιασσα), Πένθιμος Clown (aka Πεν), Sara ATH (πολύ δυνατή), Βάγγος.Μπεκ, Nos, Σπέιρα, Aeon, Krav Boca (ακραία τα παιδιά 7 έλληνες 7 γάλλοι που κάνουν punk rap θα έλεγα), 211, SaivaJr., Drag Queen Lafert, Unwound818 και Esmeralda. Δεν προλαβαίνω να τα ακούσω όλα τα παιδιά, lol. Χαίρομαι που υπάρχει τέτοια μουσική :)) ***

• Τι σκοπέυω να ακούσω:

Πέρα από τα ονόματα που έγραψα πιο πάνω, θέλω να ακούσω και πολλά ξένα (alt-)rock, metal και rap/hip-hop που όμως να έχουν περίπου τις ιδεολογίες των ατόμων πιο πάνω. Έχω ήδη μια λίστα με δεκάδες ονόματα (είχα κάνει κάποια σχετικά posts πριν κάτι μήνες) και απλά δεν προλαβαίνω να τα ακούσω. Είμαι κάπως ενθουσιασμένος για το τι θα βρω. Επίσης πολύ πρόσφατα (χθες-προχθές), άρχισε να με ελκύει η trance μουσική, οπότε ίσως το ψάκω και αυτό. Πιστεύω μετά από ένα σημείο θα έχω ένα τεράστιο playlist με τραγούδια που θα μπορώ να ακούω (περίπου) guilt-free. *** Αυτά από μένα. Βλέπετε ίσως πως κυρίως τείνω να ακούω τραγούδια που έχουν μια μίξη μεγάλης ενέργειας, θυμού και θλίψης :) (έτσι νομίζω τουλάχιστον).

(Ίσως το παράκανα με την ανάλυση/ιστορική αναδρομή, lol.)

Περιμένω να ακούσω τα δικά σας🔥 :))))

He bacc.

Αυτο το κομμα διασπαστηκε τοσο πολυ τελευταια οποτε λιγο χαιρομαι που εστω για μια φορα εκανε το αντιθετο (αν και δεν εχω ακριβως γνωμη για το προσωπο αυτο ωστε να ξερω αν ειναι θετικο ή οχι).

(Πιο πολυ στελνω αυτο το αρθρο επειδη θελω γνωμες για αυτην την εφημεριδα, ειδα διαφημιση της στον δρομο και μου κινησε το ενδιαφερον😆

Edit: πηρα τις απαντησεις μου κατω απο αυτο το σχολιο, thanks παιδια😄)

I want to start eating more frequently plant-based foods, especially oats, lentils, chickpeas, etc. which are high on fiber. The thing is, I'm kinda hesitant to do so, because almost every time I eat them, soon enough I get the side effects for the rest of the day and the fact that I might spend a lot of time outside without going home doesn't help me.. (One solution would be to change some social norms around gas or feel less insecure.. I try to help others who are in my place to feel comfortable, but I don't know if others would do that for me🤷)

What could I do to help this situation? Is it possible for my body to digest it properly or will always cause extra gas?

Ideas I have read/thought so far (with some questions):

1. Soaking them in water for 12+hours and throwing the water. How many nutriens do I lose that way? How does it work? (I read somewhere that it simply takes away some sugars which cause digestion issues.) Does it work for all grains and seeds?

2. Putting them in a blender. That's kinda my idea, but would essentially cutting them in a finer and liquid state make them easier to digest? (Probably won't work at all for insoluble fiber though.)

3. Boiling/heating them up. Does this work? Does it degrade any nutrients?

4. Eating more. I've read that the gut adapts and digests them better over time. (Though I don't know how much improvement I should notice.)

I'd just like to minimize-eliminate the side-effects without ruining their nutrients if possible :)

Edit: Thank you everyone for your help! I see the main point here is to just eat more of high fibre food. Thank you for your time!😊

[The guide isn't mine and I'm not affiliated with it, I'm just sharing a mind-blown moment for me.]

Over the years, I have gathered many notebooks that admittedly not all contain very important information and take up a lot of space (possibly a cubic meter or more). But being kind of a (data)hoarder, I dont want to just throw them away. It's work that took years.

My solution: scanning them. My phone has a built-in camera scanner that does a suprisingly good job (it helps that the camera is kinda good too), so I have scanned thousands of pages so far. But the process is slow and takes a lot of manual labor (flipping pages, aligning pages, retaking bad photos, creating pds etc.). A typical notebook (~120pages) may take me 15minutes or more.

So I thought that maybe I could speed up the process (partially at least) by either buying a scanner or paying someone to scan them (I don't have a proper scanner, yet). Removing the pages without damaging them is a challenge though. That's where the guide in the link comes in: it turns out it's very easy to remove the spiral spring from the notebooks! I was gonna pull the pages until I found that guide. I suppose it's also very easy to remove the staples from staple-bound notebooks too. I might just have "won" many hours of my life with this idea.

The video in the guide that helped me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfMUVpwLZGM

(For the record, my xiaomi 10 phone can scan items by creating ~20MP images which translates to typical-to-high resolutions if I scan A4 or A5 pages. Fortunately, many scanners can reach that quality. I just need them not to apply any weird effects or compression to the scanned document.)

So my main language is Greek and I read english and greek books. Depending on the book/author I may have 2-5 words per page that I may not understand (or at least I want to understand them better). Thus, many times after I finish a page, I use aard2 and either search the word in the english-to-english dictionary or (rarer) in the greek wiktionary for a translation. (For context, I'm reading ~mainly fantasy, sci-fi or dystopian books of the 20th and 21th century and currently I'm on "Croocked kingdom". I haven't dared to try reading a classic book in english.)

The issue is that this effectively slows me down by an extra ~50% time per page and I'm not even very sure that those words are remembered. I could simply keep reading without searching the words up and just use the context to get a vague sense of their meaning (or simply ignore them as they ~usually aren't necessary to the plot), but I think I'd miss on the whole experience by doing this and it doesn't address the underlying issue (being that I don't know english extremely well even if I have C2 and scored high on vocabulary), which will perpetuate the problem. I'd like to note that I have made searching words almost as efficient as it gets by using downloaded dictionaries, so I don't think I can reduce the time I spend looking up words by anything more, at least on paper books.

I'd like to ask anyone who searches up words like me:

Did you eventually reach a point where you learnt enough words this way, that it wasn't that much necessary to use dictionaries anymore? (I'd be kinda satisfied if I could reduce the frequnecy of unknown words to 1 per two pages or something.)

Χαιρετε παιδια, εχουν περασει περιπου 2 μηνες απο τοτε που το kbin.social εχει πεσει και πλεον δεν υπαρχει ενεργη ελληνικη κοινοτητα (μου χουν λειψει καπως τα posts των pgetsos και beneath_the_storm). Υπαρχουν πλανα να ανοιξουμε ή να χρησιμοποιησουμε καποια αλλη κοινοτητα καπου αλλου;

Καθως πολλα ατομα στην προηγουμενη κοινοτητα ηταν απτο kbin, δεν μπορω να τα βρω ολα τωρα, αλλα θα κανω tag κανα 3 ατομα για να συντονιστουμε λιγο.

@[email protected]

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@[email protected]

Go to your uploads on your profile and delete anything you don't want. Very helpful in case you upload anything sentitive by mistake (I remember an issue on github about this).

Happens about 20mins after I wake up.

After all these recent upgrades, updates and improvements, things are going veeert smoothly and fast!🔥 I think this comment I made about a week ago about experiencing slow responses is no longer valid!

Sal and anyone else who helped, you did a great job! Thank you!☺️

Hello people

Im trying to find music that aligns with my views and opinions, so that I can listen to it guilt-free and simply enjoy it. I have some prerequisites/requirements and some preferences. I want to ask you if you can share any artist/band (or songs if you dont know any artists) that matches all the prerequisites and if possible any of the preferences.

***

The prerequisites about the artists(/songs):

1. They have leftist (and anti-capitalist) opinions

2. They have feminist (and anti-patriarchist) opinions

3. They are friendly towards all the queer community (including non-binary and trans people)

4. They have atheistic/agnostic opinions

5. They have anti-racist opinions (I forgot to add this, I took it as granted, provided all the previous requirements were passed😅. I'm editing my post to add it.)

The preferences about the artists(/songs):

a) They dont promote self-destructive behaviours (like substance/alcohol abuse). I dont have any issue with them singing about such behaviours, but I want to see them trying to help people get out of this situation. (This one could be a prerequisite too, but then there would almost no artist that would pass my requirements..)

b) They express their opinions in the songs by singing about social issues and such

c) Their genre is rap/metal/rock (generally I tend to prefer songs that have some anger/that are powerful)

d) They sing mainly in either English or Greek (the languages I know well so that I can understand them😅). I also know some German, so that could be a good option too. And I'd like to learn Spanish some time. (If you know artists/songs that sing in other languages, you're welcome to share them)

***

Please, I would like anything you share to pass my prerequisites and to mention any of my preferences that it matches (in case it doesn't pass any of the prerequistes at least mention it). I have them all in order to make it easier for you.

So for example, the band "Rationalistas" (a greek rap band) passes the prerequistes and seems to match b), c) and d) preferences (I listen to them almost exclusively this week, lol).

Another artist that seem pass my requirements seems to be Macklemore (as seen on "Hinds hall") and matches c) and d) of my preferences (and in some songs I think he matches a) and b) too).

Demi Lovato in her HOLY FVCK album seems to pass my requirements (though not sure about the 1.) and probably matches all of my preferences.

Jesse Welles seems to pass my requirements as well and matches at least b) and d) of my preferences.

Lemmy seems to opinions similar to what my requirements are, so I kinda hope I might get good recommendations here.

(For even greater coverage, I've cross-posted this on the ~equally active music community on hexbear https://mander.xyz/post/14452658. Sharing the link in case you want to find extra material, I might combine all the recommendations eventually in a list or a playlist.)

Here I'm gonna list ~anything you and I suggest:

Hello everyone!

About 2 weeks ago, kbin.social went down due to maintenance issues, but it seems like federation hasn't been restored on this instance.

Specifically, I am subscribed to https://kbin.social/m/greece which federates with lemmy.world, but on this instance posts since 2 weeks ago and later dont seem to be federating.

Could you please check it and maybe re-enable it in the future?

(I know that currently there's a migration happening and we'll soon(?) update to 0.19.4, so this issue I'm pointing may have to wait till all these finish first (or updating may fix it without any extra work)).

Thank you for maintaining this instance! :)

Αισθανομαι πως βαδιζουμε σε πολυ λαθος δρομο...

Χαιρομαι τουλαχιστον που ενεργοποιηθηκε τοσος κοσμος με τις δρασεις κατα του νομοσχεδιου και ισως πλεον ειμαστε πιο ενεργα ως ατομα στην πολιτικη.

Και εδειξαν τον πραγματικο τους χαρακτηρα αρκετα ατομα (ανερξαρτητως ποια πλευρα υποστηριξαν).

I just checked the github page of lsposed and saw that it is now archived :/

I found a short thread on xda mentioning it as well.

The official announcement is on telegram.

This is sad...

Due to the nature of fediverse, you can't just do a "site:lemmy" search as you'd do with reddit (site:reddit.com). I was searching for ways to do it on my firefox browsers and I came to a solution that searches 21 different instances simultaneously, which I consider to be a big part of lemmy (I also include kbin instances). I am using firefox with DDGO (which has a 500-character limit per search query).

There's gonna be a text you will have to copy, I'll just write it once here hidden inside the spoiler:

Replace it when I ask you to write the "URL string".

There are different processes, depending on the type of device/OS (computer, mobile/android etc.). I will list some of them and you can pick the one you want:

• Firefox Android: Go to search settings->manage alternative search engines->add search engine. Pick a name you want (eg. Lemmy) and on the search string URL paste the "URL string" I've written above. Now next time you want to search Lemmy, just select "Lemmy" as your search engine.

• Firefox Computer V1: Create a bookmark with a name you want (eg. Lemmy search). In the URL field paste the "URL string" I've written above. In the keyword field add a keyword to use as a prefix to your searches (eg. @l). Now to search Lemmy, you can type @l "random search" in the address bar.

• Firefox Computer V2: Open a new tab and type about:config in the address bar. In the search box type: browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh Click on the little + symbol on the right. Go to firefox Settings->Search or enter this in the address bar: about:preferences#search In the "Search Shortcuts" section you should notice a new "Add" button. Just like on android, press "Add", insert a name (eg. Lemmy), add the "URL string" from above and once you're done you can add a keyword (eg. @lemmy). If you want, you can now go back and disable browser.urlbar.update2.engineAliasRefresh (press the trash can icon) (I don't know if this will crash anything).

I really wanted to search lemmy, but not being able to do a simple site:lemmy detered me from doing so.

So there you have it! The added text is 412 characters which leaves 88 characters for your searches. You can change the url to add/remove instances you want. If anyone can improve it please (like shrinking the url or if you manage to search all instances) it will be appreciated.

Credits:

• The idea came from this site (which I found on lemmy): https://fedi-search.com/ I asked it to search lemmy on ddgo and gave me a similar string to the one I have above, only limited to fewer instances.

• I found the biggest instances I wanted to include in the search using the csv from this github page: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances/blob/main/awesome-lemmy-instances.csv

• Lastly, I found the computer process from 2 answers on this stackoverflow question: https://superuser.com/questions/7327/how-to-add-a-custom-search-engine-to-firefox

I've been casually browsing lemmy for about 5 months and so far I've gathered 1251 memes (or pics generally) on my phone which I almost never bother to share with anyone (I also don't think they are funny enough to share them with my people) and I barely ever see my collection.

I just keep saving images of mainly weird humor (like from this community).🤷

Sending a random image for anyone else who's on the hunt for random images as well as me.