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"How to build a difference engine at home (2026 edition) "
Now you've ended up in the Lego builds part of YouTube.
Knowing my YouTube feed it's most probable that I end up in one of those DIY videos where they tell me how everyone can make thing easily at home and then proceed to use their thousands of dollars worth of professional workshop machinery to show me how to make thing.
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Stop... Just Stop...
How about stop using computers in general
"Stop using computers! Learn here how to go outside"
Have you looked outside? Don't wanna.
Can you imagine taking someone from MacOS and giving them NixOS?
user: Great, June 2026, Upgrade time! What do I click on?
NixFriend: Umm, sorry you're going to need to open your terminal and change your nix-channels to https://channels.nixos.org/nixos-26.06 and you're going to need to do it under sudo.
user: umm, ok, now i'm upgraded?
NixFriend: no, not quite, you need nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade
user: ohh jeeze, ok. umm, i got an error, a couple hundred lines it's kind of vague about a bunch of functions failing
NixFriend: Go back up 70-80 lines and see if it calls out a certain package being a problem, just ignore all the messages about variables not being set.
user: ohh wow, yeah, ok, something about pinentry and specifying ncurses and some messages about name deprecation
NixFriend: ohh yeah ok, that's pretty easy, go edit these text files, change all the names if mentions and either remove pinentry or just make or leave in pinentry-ncurses
user: Ohh ok; Now it's complaing that /boot is full
How'd your 25.11 channel migration go, fellow Nix-enjoyer?
Second-best ever. 25.05 was seamless.
I only needed to screw with mesa, pinentry, vim-full, and unpin my kernel for v4l which is now fixed in OBS
I'm preparing to break out my configurations so that all my machines can share parts of them and maybe see if I can get my home .confgs a little more managed under home manager.
How was yours?
Pretty well. I did have to create an "old-nixpkgs" variable for some of my packages (deadbeef is currently broken in 25.11 and warsow was removed). Rebuilt my configs on my work laptop, gaming desktop, and 1 of my servers without a hitch. Will wait on my DB server until my next offsite backup just in case...
Wow, thank you for this comment! I was pondering maybe setting up a trial for NixOS at work, but now I see we just don't have the manpower to handle that.
Nope. I was thinking of doing an immutable server with it because that would be neat AF.
But the updates are deprecated way too soon. You really need to take the latest milestones really close to when they happen.
I run it myself at work for a couple of years now, but I wouldn't want to support the userland on it, even the technically competent ones.
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lol yeah Nix is definitely not for everyone, but an insane flexible tool when you know how to use it.
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unironically this shit is so prevalent in the programming community that I can't help to laugh and shrug it off
remember: YouTubers are just that, most of them don't even work with the tech they gloat about
and for devlopment tools/frameworks/dependencies the mantra is: boring tech works, just remember that it needs to be currently supported/developed
I think it's just clickbait/being hyperbolic. I imagine the videos themselves are just normal tutorials or intros to the topic.
I see it goes full circle, FreeBSD from MacOS (which has a lot of BSD code)
I was gonna say that’s a long walk to get back to a BSD based system lol
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"2027 edition"
Not loving canonical, I hate snap with a passion, systemd.... Meh, mixed bag
But in general, I'm very happy with Kubuntu, it's been my main os forost of the 25+ years that I've used a Linux desktop. It's very easy to use and has mostly been very reliable, especially the server variant. KDE desktop always has been awesome
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year of the BSD desktop
ah yes the TempleOS zealots are prostyltizing again
Someone is doing a speedrun, I see.
all their videos are like that, they seem pretty cool and they made their own window manager.
The next video is going to be called stop existing.
How is this the first time I hear about mangoWC?
my WC smells more like lemon, I guess it just depends on what you clean it with
I've never heard of mangowc, and I'm scared of falling down another rabbit hole after cycling through so many window managers just to end up with sway again. I will not relapse.
Like Hyprland AND want to try Niri at the same time? BOOM MangoWC. Been using it for months now. Don't ever see myself going back to Hyprland. Completely bypassed the Niri hype too. It has tiling and scrolling modes. You can toggle between them. Just as smooth as Hyprland without all the bloat. Plus whenever someone says something about some window manger or DE you can now respond, 'no thank you, I'll have the Mango.'
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Serious question, what is the use case for bsd? It just seems like Linux but with far worse hardware and software support
I disagree with some approaches of Linux. Thinking of switching to a BSD.
That's the usecase.
Security and difference of design philosophy. I run OpenBSD on one of my machines and I enjoy it. It has better software availability than I expected and it feels like a neater, more minimal system than Linuxes. Definitely falls into the "hobbyist computing" category rather than something I'd recommend for a practical use case, but it's fun.
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Every time you install Linux, Linus clips a penguin’s wings.
Think of the penguins. Stop using Linux.
And careful with those unix systems. Every time someone compiles Minix, Andrew Tanenbaum shaves a raccoon's ass.
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