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  • If you’re curious about FreshRSS please also evaluate miniflux. A fraction of the resource consumption and a better overall experience IMO.

    Miniflux homepage really undersells it.

    by eleventen
  • Personally I prefer ansible plus I can easily manage multiple machines but this is a little but different use case. I have 5 micro PC like orange pi, Raspberry pi, radxa... so I prefer to bootstrap them from I laptop with a single command in am event of failure

    Also everything is running in kubernetes isolation so my OS is immutable and consume much less disk space than NixOS (I don't have too much of it and future is looking bleak in this department)

    by edukite
  • Same here. Reproducible configuration is amazing. Even a moderately complex app like Forgejo is easy to set a Nix module up for, with all the needed nginx/database/backup/etc. config nailed down and easily transferable to another machine if need be.
    by mikl
  • Your title is verbatim how Nix made me feel when I first started years ago. It does so many small things in a pure format that it was hard to immediately come up with the "key ROI" the larger industry expected. Did it just speed up dev envs? Did it just make my builds faster? Back then, a lot of folks barely cared or understood the impact of the deterministic and reproducible foundation using Nix sets. I used to hear a lot of "but that's a day 100 issue", "docker/(insert other tool) solved all of this already". "less afraid" was the easiest way to put it :) Disclosure, fully Nix pilled Ron here from flox.dev and the NixOS foundation.
    by ronef
  • Similar here, but I'm running rootless podman containers in Guix like this:

      (oci-container-configuration
        (environment
         '("CRON_MIN=2,32"
           "LISTEN=0.0.0.0:80"
           "OIDC_ENABLED=0"))
        (image "freshrss/freshrss:edge")
        (log-file (container-log "freshrss"))
        (extra-arguments
         '("--pod=freshrss"))
        (provision "freshrss")
        (respawn? #t)
        (volumes
         '("...")))
    by clircle
  • A lot of folks have been praising the harmony of Claude code + nixOS. For those of you doing this, I would recommend you to ask your agent to switch your config to nix flakes. It's a much better paradigm for working with the versioning than the default channels interface. Additionally, you should ask your agent to look into home manager, if it hasn't done so already.
    by scronkfinkle
  • I don't want to bore my HackerNews fellows, so I'm sorry in advance, but wasn't there a lot of drama in the Nix community? I've read some time ago that a private company was buying parts of its infrastructure (or something like that) and forcing some changes upstream and people were not happy about it.

    I'm interested in NixOS, but I'm at an age where I just want things to stay stable and change only when they really have to. I already have a lot of big mandatory changes from life itself, I don't need more :)

    I'm writing this in good faith. I'm genuinely curious and interested in trying it again.

    by haolez
  • Coming back to Nix (and Linux in general) this year has been an absolute pleasure.

    Not because it's suddenly got better, but because the learning curve has collapsed to a flat line. My problem with linux has always been how un-user friendly it is. Constant tinkering around with config files and googling how to fix problems. Now I just install claude code and tell it what I want my OS to be and how I want it to look.

    by s08148692

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