You get 2 or maybe 3 years of updates and then the device is trash.

Yeah, I’ve noticed this as well…

… which is why I was surprised when I read that Nothing Phone 3 will get 5 years of updates + 2 years of security updates.

https://www.androidauthority.com/nothing-phone-3-software-updates-3568533/

Nothing’s Co-Founder and Head of Marketing, Akis Evangelidis, has confirmed that the upcoming Nothing Phone 3 will ship with a “5+7” software update promise. …likely means the phone will get five years of Android version updates and seven years of security patches…

Although, you can’t install GrapheneOS on Nothing phones… so, 🤷

Many of them don’t even allow it to be a hidden file—they just require a fully unhidden “tool.yml” file sitting right there in the root of your project.

I love this. I hate when tools only allow hidden config files. I want to know where the config is—my teammates should be aware of where the config is. I don’t want to be tricked into thinking there isn’t a config file in a directory.

I actually have alias ls='ls -A' in my bashrc so I see everything.

I’ve been enjoying Guix for the last 8 days. You declare your OS and home config in a file and you can check them into source control. It was originally a fork of NixOS, but has diverged a lot.

The CLIs and APIs are pretty nice. They have a concept of “channels”, which are git repos you can download software from. The default official channel only hosts FOSS software, but you can trivially add non-FOSS channels and they work just as well as the first-party channels.

Each channel update and package install, removal, update get put on a log, which you can trivially jump between. guix package --switch-genereation=28 and boom you’re at that generation (it’s like a git commit). The software and config changes get saved in the generation so the jump is clean and atomic. I actually bisected my OS yesterday to track a bug! That was cool. You can also create and share isolated, reproducible environments.

Guix works with Flatpak and distrobox as well, in case some software isn’t available in existing channels. I got HiDPI, Zoom, Logseq, Syncthing, and Tailscale working.

The biggest drawback for me so far is that it doesn’t use systemd. Not sure if it’s a dealbreaker for me yet. Systemd does way more than just manage system services, so GNU Shepherd (which Guix uses) isn’t a real replacement.

‘MechaHitler’ incident

Government: Shut up and take my money!

I use Emacs on the daily, and I just can’t get into Scheme.

Do you find that Elisp and Scheme are too different? I don’t know either, so they look almost the same to me.

Ah, I need images in my documents…

which apparently neovim supports?? https://github.com/3rd/image.nvim

I had to check C-h k that keybinding because it looks legit… 😄

I understand this now! 😂

Almost! I haven’t reached Emacs config bankruptcy yet! 😄

Something different. Just plain org mode with org-super-links. I didn’t use/understand the daily journal workflow in Logseq. 😅

other contributors will not even note you are using it.

Ooooh, that’s interesting.

I didn’t do it!

A privacy-focused operating system may seem more trouble than it’s worth. But when I replaced Google’s Pixel OS with GrapheneOS, I found it to be a transformative experience. For one, the installation was painless, and I didn’t lose any modern software features. Installing aftermarket operating systems used to equal a compromised smartphone experience, but I didn’t find that to be true in the case of GrapheneOS.

Case in point: even though GrapheneOS doesn’t include any Google services, I was surprised to find that you can install the Play Store with relative ease and almost all apps work flawlessly — even most banking ones.

Oh, nice. This sounds promising! I’m adding it to my list: [guix, emacs, graphene]

share with him guix manifest

Aaaah: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Writing-Manifests.html

# Write a manifest for the packages specified on the command line.
guix shell --export-manifest gcc-toolchain make git > manifest.scm

Heck yeah!

Uh, sorry. I don’t follow. Is there a way to tell all programs to write to one file in Guix?

I’m in Guix Linux land right now and I miss journald. I’m supposed to wade through all the log files in /var/log myself??

So while I almost exclusively use the command line, I do it all from within the Emacs GUI.

That’s good to hear. Normally, I have a bunch of file and terminal buffers open in Vim and work across all of them—and stay in Vim the whole time. (Well, unless I need something like a browser.)

Sounds like this is definitely possible in Emacs. Good! I was scared for a moment because I thought I would have to… gasps alt-tab between Emacs and my terminal.

Btw, here’s how you configure HiDPI for GNOME. Unfortunately, my laptop has a hydeepeeay display, so it’s not fully compatible with Linux. (It’s 3840x2160, so at least 2x scaling is possible, hypothetically.)

Commands from the Arch Wiki, but also adds cursor scaling:

$ gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides "[{'Gdk/WindowScalingFactor', <2>}, {'Gtk/CursorThemeSize', <48>}]"
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor 2

The default GNOME configuration is some how missing that. I didn’t have to do that in Arch, but I do in Guix. IDK. Anyway, if you don’t run those commands certain apps will be tiny, including a tiny mouse cursor.

I just learned about this! https://midwest.social/comment/18549462

🤦

Oooooh, ok. Thanks for breaking that down.

What about Emacs GUI vs Emacs TUI? Do people run Emacs as a terminal app? Or is the typical way of running Emacs as a GUI app? How’s the shell integration with the GUI app? Normally, I like staying in the terminal.