Yeah, that paragraph is where I stopped reading lol

Blog post aside, NixOS is fantastic. Once you get the Nix DSL down, it makes everything so smooth once you know how to configure your system. The learning curve for me came not from the packages, but learning how to set up system/program configurations using configuration.nix, instead of the standard config files. But once you get that down, you can rebuild essentially the exact same system from a single file. I use it for my worker nodes on my server cluster, and it makes setup of new nodes a dream. Definitely recommend.

Guix is such a cool idea, but Nix accomplishes essentially the same thing, and the syntax is much more accessible in a post-JavaScript world. Most programmers nowadays aren’t that familiar with Lisp-like syntax, for better or worse.

Another Hong Minhee banger

As mentioned elsewhere, this is appropriate for anyone doing database administration, because DB writes should always be a trans action.

It’s always Dennis

To completely deflate the joke, it looks like the text output was stripped of its new lines, spaces/tabs, and backticks, because I think the code would be valid if allowed those elements in a Markdown context, e.g.:

```python

def reverse_linked_list(l):
    # …
    return prev

\```

(backslash included to show triple backtick)

Xe Iaso my beloved

“Your computer looks bloated…”

leans in seductively

“…I can fix that.”

That’s a great story lmao So it’s DRY… unless you’re getting paid to do it? 😂

This has been solved since 1999. Read the manual.

The deeper I get into Linux, the more I feel exactly this about most software in general. We just love reinventing the wheel, don’t we?

100% ethically-sourced, organic code

Yes—whichever one was hosting that pile of digital trash!

What do you think of this Python project? It’s called aurman, and it’s used by Arch Linux users to pull in packages from Arch User Repository (AUR), the unofficial package repo for Arch. It works as a wrapper around pacman, the standard Arch package manager.

I think it already has some tests written for it, (possibly short of a full suite), so you’ll be able to contrast your tests with the existing ones as an exercise, but also provide more within the same framework.

Never used it to write my code. Others have given great reasons, which resonate with me, but the biggest one for me is that I enjoy writing code and designing programs. Why would I outsource one of the things I love to do? It’s really that simple for me.

I have to echo what others have said, and tell you exposing your router’s login to the public internet is very risky (if you’re referring to the WiFi router in your home). I would strongly recommend some other solution to whatever broader problem you’re trying to solve with this—why do you need to access your router login from outside your home? Can the logging in (and presumably tinkering) be done at home? Definitely things to think through before proceeding.

You probably know this, but Mint is kind of just Debian with extra stuff (some might call it bloat, but that’s a matter of use case). So a switch to Debian from Mint should be very straightforward, if not seamless. The package manager is the same, and that’s usually the biggest part of switching distros. Debian is also ideal for hosting specifically; many, many production servers run on Debian. It’s also arguably the best-supported distro out there, so whatever question you have had probably already been answered.

TL;DR you should totally try Debian out (especially a headless version). It mostly like won’t be an issue.