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Time Has Past

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

NixOS Challenge, pt 1

Sat, 07 Jan 2023 04:00:00 -0700

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.