Hum…it has been almost 6 months since I last posted here, And only two total last year. Not very good record on my part.
The ${JOB} has not change, still building Linux stuff for a large bank. The family is still doing well. And the weather sucks. It is currently 27F (-2C) with a windchill nocking it even colder. This time, it supposed to only be 36-48 hours, unlike two years ago
My NixOS Challenge documenting my start into NixOS was supposed to be me keeping track of what I am testing there, but the experiment is going great. I have not loaded a different OS on my XPS13. In fact,everything I documented as not working back then is now working, and the XPS is my primary machine. I have since installed it on my HP and my x260.
I also got a PineTab2 this past year, and it is also running NixOS. My next two goals are to change my public web server over, and to unify my NixOS config across all my machines, including the PineTab2.
I have been working on my P52 (post a photo a week for 52 weeks) for a bit over 5 years now. Every so often, I want to post more, so here are some photos from the past 7 or so days:
I was talking with a friend of mine who is into all sorts of things vintage (he is a trained archaeologist), and I mentioned that I had an old Kodak Brownie Starflex sitting around. He happened to have some extra expired color 160 film which the Brownie takes and offered it to me. While, I used to shoot lots of 35mm, I have never done any medium format photography. So, I figured out how to load the film, and I went to a local park to test the camera out. The following are the photos which I did not mess up (mainly, too close to the subject):
This prompted me to pull out my old 35mm gear. I have a pair of Minolta cameras, and X-7 and a STR-202.
The X-7 was the first SLR I ever bought. The STR-202 has a reputation of being solidly built, and I found many examples of it still being heavily used today, even though it was built between 1976 and 1980.
This set was from a roll of Kodak Color film I found in my STR-202 which I forgot to finish up about 10 years ago:
My keeper rate was much higher. :) I have bought two new rolls of film, one color and one black-and-white. I am not too worried about not seeing the results as soon as I take a picture, but there are no easy places for me to get the film developed any more, so I have found a lab in California to use, but it takes about 10-14 days to turn around a roll due to shipping.
So, I had a bit of free time between Christmas and New Years, so I decided to blow away my Dell XPS13 install of ArchLinux which has been on the for a long time now and install NixOS. I have been playing with it for a bit on some other computers, so I started with a mainly working config.
I was able to complete a week of work on the new OS just fine. In fact, the only two issues I currently have is that the version of darktable is behind (4.0 vs. just released 4.2) and my qutebrowser is not playing any DRM protected content like Netflix or Amazon streaming. I am not sure if that is NixOS or qutebrowser. I should look into it more, but for now I am just using firefox when I need to access that suff.
I am pretty immpressed that I have not had to change any of my workflows yet, just edit some scripts and install a few things. But, the nice thing is that I can now reproduce my main workstation on a spare laptop in very short order now.
