For it to contribute to the public, I would also want some sort of way to help the admin notify the oublic about it. I was even thinking that this would come with its own cli tool to check that the instance was visible on the open internet, and the present in public instance lists like searx.space. In this case, building and configuration is alrwady handled by NixOS, which is nice. I havent looked into others.

I’m pretty ignorant on crypto, I just knew that it was important to have many mining to increase transaction times, decrease transactions costs, decentralize proof of work, etc. And practically you’re right, might be a good way to absolutely ruin the performance of the server.

There’s two ways to create a dev-environment, which is how you should start. Don’t worry about building a project with nix until you get a dev shell with all your (runtime) dependencies. You can do this by creating a shell.nix or use flakes and have an output for devShells.default. You can use mkShell to accomplish this. I would give you a reference config, but I can’t do that at the moment. If you need help with this later reach out and I’ll get something together.

After that you can work on building it. This involves making a derivation that contains the runtime dependencies of your code, as well as the source itself. If its python, this would include, likely, the entirety of your project. This could be a little tricky, but a lot of people package python code, so there’s things in nixpkgs meant for packages python projects. This article might be helpful, or out-dated: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Python but it should point to some useful things in nixpkgs to build python projects.

Then, you can focus on containerization, if you really need it. I don’t know how much you know about nix, but building in nix inherently isolates dependencies away from one another, so if you get the process above working you know it is reproducible. But unlike a container, the above build structure only works on a machine with nix. So if you want to distribute your project as a container, while utiltizing your nix build process, you can look into something like dockerTools from nixpkgs: https://nix.dev/tutorials/nixos/building-and-running-docker-images.html

Let me know if you have more questions.

I’ve been tempted to try hyprland. Theres limited wayland based tiling window managers. How easy was it configure? Do you enjoy using it? And in general, do you have problems with running applications?

How exactly do you simulate die rolls? Do you actually use a random number a bunch of times and average? Because its 2d6, it has a known distribution. You could iterate over all combinations and use the probably distribution to weight each result. How did you accomplish this?

This need came from a project I’ve been working on, to wrap the wasm4 retro console in a flake https://github.com/rutrum/wasm4-nix . I’ve been having an absolute bear of a time, weeks of work without success. Without knowing I had an option to install it easily, it has prevented me from actually using the software for other projects. I agree, this solution is really intended for that particular 1% of the time.

I think thats the best way too, and it doing that ends up cateloguing all my immutable packages in one place.

Looks like you have a good start. Being to manage existing files with home.file makes it so easy go jump on board. I also love being able to define my own file structure and home manager takes care of the rest. Keep me updated on how this progresses!

What are the advantages/disadvantages of building all my services as nixos modules and running with nixos than just dropping every service in a docker container, managing instead with docker compose and Dockerfiles for each service?

This is one of those times I would throw my hands up and look at virtualization instead. Containerization with docker/podman is an option. I recall some time ago there was a utility that sort of embeded different distributions within your own, and you could run commands natively on the host machine but in the environment of the VM. I might also be confusing that with VanillaOS or BlendOS features that have that built in to the OS. APX is VanillaOS’s package manager that might be another option, although its getting messy at this point.

This is certainly an option, just wondering whats done most in practice. Right now this is what my own flakes do.

I’m only just now looking at publishing on flakehub. It does look like many users can point at individual repositories that just package external software. It looks like this encourages a repository for each application. Thanks for suggesting.

I’ve thought about submitting to the source but I imagine that dumping two files in the root directory for a build tool that the devs don’t use or even know about is a hard PR to get merged. But maybe that’s not even the optimal way to distribute flakes, and it ought to be in a different place altogether, like nixpkgs or flakehub.

I build my 5x5 but didnt add some of the vertical slats in. Its a little warped since we took out too many but having a 2-wide whole fits our wide games.

I run my nextcloud using docker, which could be another option. I’ve also heard of Nextcloud All in One (AIO) which might be useful as well. Neither are nix solutions, but could be as convenient as the snap.

I’ve also been working on making a flake for the WASM-4 retro console . They had a game jam some time ago that I made a game for, and I thought it’d be cool to package the game with nix. Of course, I first had to wrap the build tool in a flake, and now I’m working on a devshell to build my game. I suspect I’ll have to expand more packages on the wasm4 flake, since theres runtimes and other binaries too.

I’ve been slowly expanding my home manager configuration to consume more and more of my existing dotfiles and programs. Whats awesome is how short it’s taken me to say, convert my neovim config over. It was small anyway, since I never jumped into nvim configuration. But since nix made it so easy to add on plugins, I’ve been having a lot of fun and it’s been easy to iterate upon.

Eventually I’m going to have to break out my config between my two systems, since I’m starting to install some beefier creative GUI utilities (gimp, blender, inkscape) on my laptop, which I don’t do (or want to do) that creative work on.

I think I’ve played Lords of Waterdeep more than anything else. I like playing with two players a lot, and it’s got such an easy learning curve. It fits most game nights and I play it frequently.

Have you ever found yourself installing something at the OS level, then realizing you’d want to customize it and moved it to your home manager installation?

I hadn’t considered configuration. When I browse through the home manager options it’s obvious just how many more settings can be set and tweaked. Thanks