I use NixOS on my workstations, and I’m slowly migrating many of my server VMs over to it.

NixOS w/flakes + home-manager + impermanence on zfs + disko w/ nixos-anywhere is amazing and gives an insane amount of declarative control over your system.

That said, the current state of the leadership gives me pause to recommend it to anyone, and I do have a few devil’s advocate responses to some of what you said:

Every package has its own dependencies, so you can install a 7 year old firefox alongside the latest, and have no interference.

Unless the dependency is Qt, then it better all be the same version.

Abandons the HFS, but can still fake it for apps that need it.

Using ldd and nix-alien to patch in dynamic libraries still sucks, and often doesn’t work without a lot of extra effort. If what I want isn’t in nixpkgs, and I can’t get nix-alien to work on the first try, I just end up not using whatever I was trying to run.

That’s been my experience

You can snooze alarms, play/pause/ff/rw media, and mark messages as read

That’s what I use. It’s way more stripped down than a modern smart watch, but it has good battery life, a transflexive LCD, can discretely give me notifications so I can keep my phone on silent, and can show me the weather at a glance.

There are more things it can do, I just find my phone is better for the majority of them.

That sounds great! I’d definitely be interested

As someone who is actively working in this space: yeah, it’s definitely not enough. This is the bare minimum. We need sweeping regulations nationwide. Unfortunately, this is becoming less and less likely. The best we can hope for at this point is for states like Colorado and California to put in the work to measure and regulate this stuff as best as possible and get enough data on Texas and New Mexico to shame them into doing something about it.

I literally bought a used pixel 3a bc of your last post. Really stoked for this!

It does, but for the same reason as what happened to OP, it’s best to separate DNS from domain registrar.

Thanks. I don’t generally listen to audio books, so what I’m really looking for is a self-hosted solution for podcast syncing that works better than gpodder while keeping feature parity with AntennaPod on my phone. It sucks that ABS is so close to that but decided to not go the last 10% of the way. I’m sure they have a good reason.

When I played around with ABS over a year ago, they said there were no plans to add auto-downloading of podcast episodes to your phone or auto-queueing of new episodes, so I dropped it and haven’t tried it since. Is this still the case?