I am not an Arch-user, but I would say so. At least Nix itself claims that their unstable channel is the largest and most up-to-date package repository currently followed by AUR. So yes, I think you can have best of both worlds - a rock solid base system with the newest software via Nix. It even gets better with Home Manager.

The Mac hardware does limit the choice of distributions a bit. Besides that I can highly recommend Debian 12 as a rock solid base system with Nix as package manager to get latest and greatest software. Actually the nice thing is that you can use Nix package manager on any Linux distribution.

Only had the time to solve part 1, but had a lot of fun with it. Here’s my solution: d03/p1

Is anyone else like me, but it took me longer to understand what I was supposed to do on day 2 than on day 1? However, here is my solution written in Golang: https://github.com/alexruf/adventofcode2023/tree/main/d02

My solution is not pretty at all, but it does the job: Golang

I have been using Firefox ever since. Never really had a reason to switch to something else.

When I had a look on it a while ago they didn’t support Docker Compose. But except this it’s a drop in replacement.

Properly just Process Manager with the icon from macOS Activity Monitor.

Creating a snapshot is not the backup itself. It is basically freezing the current state of your files from this point on and then remembering what has chanced compared to the snapshot. So yes, it is normal that this takes no time since nothing is copied on your hard drive. If you want to backup the snapshot you need to make an actual backup of it. This is possible with btrfs. But since I haven’t done it yet, I can’t tell you the exact command.

Only during the night when I am asleep.

I quickly tried out Fedora and was very surprised how good it is. Just wondering how the fact that RHEL plans to go closed source will impact Fedora in the long term. Do you know?

Absolutely. wezterm is so good.

Germany, yes we do drink water without boiling it directly from the tap. Tap water must in general have drinking water quality across the country. However, even it may not be a health risk, some people don’t like the taste. Where I live, it tastes very good.

Kagi. Very happy with it. Best $5 it recently invested. Gives me much better results than Google and all the others.

Companies are also banning ChatGPT because its unclear from where the code it spits out was stolen and how it’s licensed. Copy and pasting code from AI tools is an enormous legal risk for a software company.

Currently Ubuntu LTS on my server and an old Laptop. On the server I will switch to Debian now soon because I don’t like Snap, and think that does not belong on a server at all. For my Desktop I wanted to try out Arch. Most likely it will be EndeavourOS. EndeavourOS because it’s mostly vanilla ArchOS with a nice installer. I will not use Manjaro because they are much more opinionated and do not have the best reputation (there were multiple issues in the past were they let run out certificates for example).

Same for me. You need the read into the documentation a bit, but once you understand how it works its fairly easy.

Don’t get lost implementing fancy features at the beginning, concentrate on supporting what the Lemmy web UI does and try to provide a smooth and pleasant experience on iOS.

In case you’re looking for inspiration would highly recommend to take a look at the Ice Cubes client for Mastodon. An extremely well made app.

Also been on Reddit for more than 12 years now. But with recent development regarding third party apps, I’ve made my peace with it. As soon as those apps shut down, I’ll abandon my Reddit account. However, I’ll not be going to delete my post and comments, since I don’t see any sense in doing so. Reddit will not care as some kind of protest, and my data should have already been scraped by dozens of search engines and AI-training companies anyway.

Definitely /r/mechanicalkeyboards