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Linux Mobile/Desktop enthusiast, Wayland enjoyer, Flatpak fan. I will post about Mobile Linux (mostly PostmarketOS) and other Linux desktop shenanigans. Also expect commentary on programming languages and technology in general.

Technology is political and I am as well. Expect my personal opinions. My opinion is not set in stone, please discuss with me and help me see the other side where I am wrong.

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Please do not talk to me about LLMs.
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Knievel @ Home neocat_floof_cute @knievelcat@amazonawaws.com
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@ExiledKing My original issue was xdg-portal-kde not working and me being unable to open files because of that
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Knievel @ Home neocat_floof_cute @knievelcat@amazonawaws.com
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rant, nixos, nothing personal @ExiledKing I've been using NixOS for 2 years now at least. I'm at a point where I want a Linux distro that just works which I won't have to fix every 3 weeks because something broke. NixOS is amazing on servers and I will continue to use it on mine but on desktop it is just too much.

When I had this problem on unstable a few months ago I switched to stable thinking it would help. It did help a little bit but in the end stuff still breaks left and right.

Other things that annoy me about NixOS:
- System updates take ages because one small change in a dependency of a package will cause the whole dependency tree to be re-downloaded (don't quote me on this but otherwise I can't explain why an update on stable 3 days after the last update downloads 1000+ packages)
- If there's something broken you need to remember to look in the distro-specific paths like /run/current-system/sw/ and ask yourself, hmm realpath $(which examplebin) am I running again.
- Also software development is fucking annoying on nix since I fork a lot of projects and do not want to setup a flake.nix for every single one and if I do I gotta keep it in the fucking git repository but need to make sure to not commit (because it's another person's project and I don't want to force nix on them) it while at the same time being unable to .gitignore it since then the flake won't work anymore.
- Because of the above annoyance I now have a huge fat flake.nix in my ~/bin folder which I use for other people's projects. In that flake there's every dependency any of those projects need. This leads to weird issues like my systems helix editor not starting because the libc in the flake is different from the system one, great!

All of these issues just pile up and while I love configuring my system with nix and having my preferences in a declarative language, if the end result is a pain to use because of the issues I mentioned before I'm just going to stop.
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Knievel @ Home neocat_floof_cute @knievelcat@amazonawaws.com
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@ExiledKing Stable. Now after above toot I switched to unstable and my specific bug (xdg-desktop-portal-kde not working) was fixed. Wondering how long until I hit the next issue
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Knievel @ Home neocat_floof_cute @knievelcat@amazonawaws.com
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The most stable Desktop experience I've had so far was with VoidLinux because it was such a simple system. Maybe I ought to go back to that.
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Why is NixOS so broken on Desktop? I really gotta switch to a stable system. Maybe it's time to also put Nura on my Desktop.
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Knievel @ Home neocat_floof_cute @knievelcat@amazonawaws.com
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@allpurposemat @flamingradian Sadly it doesn't work on the lockscreen so if you have a password that's not a pin you won't be able to enter it. I've already created an issue for this and it can be fixed but it has not been implemented yet
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Knievel @ Home neocat_floof_cute @knievelcat@amazonawaws.com
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@kmohrf Tja weiß ich nicht. Kann sein, dass man stress bekommt weil die das Handy nicht mit Cellebrite unlocken können. (Was aber eher daran liegt, dass das OS zu nieschig ist und nicht daran, dass es so sicher ist)
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Knievel @ Home neocat_floof_cute @knievelcat@amazonawaws.com
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The number of people I've influenced to get a Linux phone with Nura has just increased by one! neocat_floof_happy

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Knievel @ Home neocat_floof_cute @knievelcat@amazonawaws.com
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Noise Cancelling Headphones, Advise Wanted @Quz I have Soundcore Q45. These cost ~150€ when I got them but may be cheaper now. At this pricepoint they're probably the best. I've had them for 3 1/2 years now and they're still going strong.
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Knievel @ Home neocat_floof_cute @knievelcat@amazonawaws.com
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food (vegan) Expired packet of nuts and raisins that's been sitting at the bottom of my backpack for half a year coming in clutch rn. Only half hour train ride left now
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Knievel @ Home neocat_floof_cute @knievelcat@amazonawaws.com
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looks like I also have Zoomania 2. Sadly I do not have the time to watch this anymore on this train ride
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Knievel @ Home neocat_floof_cute @knievelcat@amazonawaws.com
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The Wifi on this train sucks ass. Luckily I've found this copy of the Minecraft movie which i downloaded off a FTP server at 39c3 legally obtained.

Good watch
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Knievel @ Home neocat_floof_cute @knievelcat@amazonawaws.com
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Yay! I'm featured in this weeks news!

linmob.net/weekly-update-39-2026/
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Knievel @ Home neocat_floof_cute @knievelcat@amazonawaws.com
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Oh god why did I have to buy a framework. My laptop now randomly reboots after going to sleep neocat_yeet
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Knievel @ Home neocat_floof_cute @knievelcat@amazonawaws.com
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I love giving up responsibility. I'm currently traveling from Aachen to Dresden by train and I have a train nerd with me that does all the navigating so I don't have to worry about it which is super nice :3
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Knievel @ Home neocat_floof_cute @knievelcat@amazonawaws.com
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Is there a thing that can read a devicetree and generate a kconfig that includes all the drivers for the device?
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Knievel @ Home neocat_floof_cute @knievelcat@amazonawaws.com
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:boost_requested: PSA, QueerFem-Tag (lokales Event C3D2 Dresden), Samstag 26.09. @fugi Danke. Hab ich definitiv :>
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Knievel @ Home neocat_floof_cute @knievelcat@amazonawaws.com
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:boost_requested: PSA, QueerFem-Tag (lokales Event C3D2 Dresden), Samstag 26.09. @fugi Ich wünsche allen Teilnehmenden einen schönen QueerFem-Tag! Leider kann ich diesmal nicht teilnehmen, weil ich zurzeit in Aachen bin.
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Knievel @ Home neocat_floof_cute @knievelcat@amazonawaws.com
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Self OH, silly bad pickup line, minecraft @fugi
A meme. Caption: Friend: "You can't trigger sadness over the internet with 12 glowstone blocks and a bucket of water" Me: Image is a aether portal in vanilla minecraft that doesn't work
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Knievel @ Home neocat_floof_cute @knievelcat@amazonawaws.com
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@star :>>> Does it have SVG cursors too?
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