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I've been trying nixos recently and after watching a bunch of tutorials from various people, I have managed to enable home-manager and flakes.

My question is: where should I write the packages I want to install? In home.nix? In flakes.nix? In configuration.nix (probably not)? I'm probably only gonna have a single user on this machine.

So far, I think the only difference between writing the packages in home.nix compared to flakes.nix is that in the 1st senario, the apps will only be available for the user, while in the 2nd, it will be available for the whole system. Also, I could use the home.nix for non-nixos systems too. Other than that, I can probably write them the same way either on home.nix or flakes.nix and have the same result on my machine.

PS. On search.nixos.org there is an option to search for flakes. What is this? I am planing to get my packages from the packages tab, but I'm wondering that maybe I should search in the flakes tab instead (though it doesn't seem to have many packages).

PPS. Those are some resources I've found (I've mainly watched the videos and have started reading some of the guides):

• https://github.com/Evertras/simple-homemanager/blob/main/04-explain-outputs-function.md
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a67Sv4Mbxmc
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a67Sv4Mbxmc&list=PLko9chwSoP-15ZtZxu64k_CuTzXrFpxPE
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63sSGuclBn0&list=PLuRxZ95-8LY1mlotZMYGYib5sXJRw1RxW
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGVXJ-TIv3Y
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLwbNhSxLd4
• https://discourse.nixos.org/t/pass-specialargs-to-the-home-manager-module/33068/4
• https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/index.xhtml#ch-usage
• https://www.chrisportela.com/posts/home-manager-flake/
• https://nixos-and-flakes.thiscute.world/
• https://discourse.nixos.org/t/practical-nix-flakes-anatomy-a-guided-tour-of-flake-nix/42550/8
• https://old.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/v2xpjm/big_list_of_flakes_tutorials/

Hello everyone! It's been about a month that I'm experimenting Debian on an external disk. For the most time, I've been using Testing. The issue is, that some packages are missing from Testing, while they exist on Stable (or on Unstable). The biggest problem with that is that some packages require dependencies that don't exist on the Testing repo and as such I can't install those apps.

So, I thought about adding the Stable repo, at a lower priority. If something doesn't exist on Testing, it will grab it from Stable.

How bad is that approach? I'm not doing the reverse (using stable and grabbing apps from testing), which might be way worse. Does anyone else do that? I couldn't find anything related online.

PS. I'm a bit tempted to switch to Unstable all together, but I don't know if I'll be careful enough to use it in the long run.

PPS. I might build a home nas at some point (with Debian Stable) and keep regular backups of my laptop so that I'll be kinda safe if I ever switch to Unstable.

Context:

I'm currently running Debian 12.7 on VirtualBox, trying out linux before I become experienced enough to fully switch my drive to linux. I have an i5 cpu and an amd radeon gpu on my laptop. I run kde-plasma with wayland.

I have sorted out some basic stuff, but my current problem is how to play the few games I have on linux ("Counter-strike 1.6", "Hades I", "MGR: Revengeance", "Minecraft" (t-launcher) and "Outer-Wilds"). I want ro move their game data too, but I think that's a simple copy paste on the appropriate paths. I also want to run a few other programs, possibly Notepad++ and mp3tag, but I think I can figure those if I fugre the games.

I know about the existance of Wine, Winetricks (though not very good at using it), Proton, Lutris, Bottles and Heroic (and PlayOnLinux which I haven't installed).

I have installed Lutris (flatpak), Bottles (flatpak) and Heroic (Appimage).

I have successfully manually installed Notepad++ in Bottles using soda-9.0.1 and semi-successfully manually installed Counter-strike 1.6 on Lutris using wine-ge-8-26-x86_64. The issues with that (among others?) is that I cant look around with the mouse and there is no audio. Apparently some dependencies are missing.

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So, this comes to my question:

How do I figure what dependencies to use on my wineprefixes?

Lutris, bottles and heroic theoritically allow you to edit the dependencies, in case something goes wrong. Lutris also is supposed to have some installation scripts on their database.

Is there any way I can find any configuration in text form? How can I then use this text to pick the dependencies myself?

I'm thinking of a list with the recommended changes:

Counter-strike 1.6 installation script:

Install Windows fonts

Install cmd

Install vcrun2013

Do X changes on registry

etc.

Is there such a thing? Is there any other way to figure this out (other than painfully and randomly trying setup combinations)?

I want to start eating more frequently plant-based foods, especially oats, lentils, chickpeas, etc. which are high on fiber. The thing is, I'm kinda hesitant to do so, because almost every time I eat them, soon enough I get the side effects for the rest of the day and the fact that I might spend a lot of time outside without going home doesn't help me.. (One solution would be to change some social norms around gas or feel less insecure.. I try to help others who are in my place to feel comfortable, but I don't know if others would do that for me🤷)

What could I do to help this situation? Is it possible for my body to digest it properly or will always cause extra gas?

Ideas I have read/thought so far (with some questions):

1. Soaking them in water for 12+hours and throwing the water. How many nutriens do I lose that way? How does it work? (I read somewhere that it simply takes away some sugars which cause digestion issues.) Does it work for all grains and seeds?

2. Putting them in a blender. That's kinda my idea, but would essentially cutting them in a finer and liquid state make them easier to digest? (Probably won't work at all for insoluble fiber though.)

3. Boiling/heating them up. Does this work? Does it degrade any nutrients?

4. Eating more. I've read that the gut adapts and digests them better over time. (Though I don't know how much improvement I should notice.)

I'd just like to minimize-eliminate the side-effects without ruining their nutrients if possible :)

Edit: Thank you everyone for your help! I see the main point here is to just eat more of high fibre food. Thank you for your time!😊

[The guide isn't mine and I'm not affiliated with it, I'm just sharing a mind-blown moment for me.]

Over the years, I have gathered many notebooks that admittedly not all contain very important information and take up a lot of space (possibly a cubic meter or more). But being kind of a (data)hoarder, I dont want to just throw them away. It's work that took years.

My solution: scanning them. My phone has a built-in camera scanner that does a suprisingly good job (it helps that the camera is kinda good too), so I have scanned thousands of pages so far. But the process is slow and takes a lot of manual labor (flipping pages, aligning pages, retaking bad photos, creating pds etc.). A typical notebook (~120pages) may take me 15minutes or more.

So I thought that maybe I could speed up the process (partially at least) by either buying a scanner or paying someone to scan them (I don't have a proper scanner, yet). Removing the pages without damaging them is a challenge though. That's where the guide in the link comes in: it turns out it's very easy to remove the spiral spring from the notebooks! I was gonna pull the pages until I found that guide. I suppose it's also very easy to remove the staples from staple-bound notebooks too. I might just have "won" many hours of my life with this idea.

The video in the guide that helped me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfMUVpwLZGM

(For the record, my xiaomi 10 phone can scan items by creating ~20MP images which translates to typical-to-high resolutions if I scan A4 or A5 pages. Fortunately, many scanners can reach that quality. I just need them not to apply any weird effects or compression to the scanned document.)

Yesterday, after this conversation with Wild Bill, we concluded that Deemix can't download songs from spotify playlists. It does recognize the songs in the playlists, but somehow it fails to download them and reports cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'flac') (on Bill's pc it only reports cannot read properties of undefined). If you hover the cursor over the error, a tooltip comes up with more info:

TypeError Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'flac')
at f (C:\Program Files\deemix-gui\resources\app.asar\server\dist\app.js:2:94278)
at z (C:\Program Files\deemix-gui\resources\app.asar\server\dist\app.js:2:94979)
at process.processTicks.AndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
at async Downloader.download (C:\Program Files\deemix-gui\resources\app.asar\server\dist\app.js:2:97603)
at async Downloader.downloadWrapper (C:\Program Files\deemix-gui\resources\app.asar\server\dist\app.js:2:102154)
at async C:\Program Files\deemix-gui\resources\app.asar\server\dist\app.js:2:96320

You can't just paste the spotify playlists link in the search bar and download the playlist.

Apparently, Spotify or Deezer or somethibg else changed their api or something and is giving Deemix a hard time.

Notes:

• It worked for me about half a year ago (I have downloaded around 3k songs that way).

• I can download individual songs from spotify with their link.

• The tracking parameter spotify adds in the end doesnt seem to play any role, as the playlists dont get downloaded whether I remove the parameter or not and individual songs get downloaded whether I remove the parameter or not.

• I tried creating a new "app" in spotify developer dashboard and use its iIDs, but it didnt help.

• I also tried adding the "Web Playback SDK" kit in the spotify app, but it didnt help (I have the "Web API" on at all times btw). Spotify shows in the dashboard that I have indeed made calls to their api by downloding songs.

• I'm using the latest deemix-gui version (I think): 2022.12.14-r222.5d447b6035.

• I'm using it on windows 10.

• If you want to see my settings, it's under the Deemix settings section in this guide I made https://mander.xyz/post/13720820

• I use a hifi account (from a random arl). I also tried another account, still didnt help.

• The same issue occurs when downloading mp3, not just flac

• I tried downloading playlists which deemix had successfully downloaded in the past, it failed. I even tried creating new playlists for deemix to download, it failed again.

I tried searching the error online, ~nothing related to deemix came up. This is the deemix gitlab repository, in case it helps anyone with finding more info.

Plz halp.

So my main language is Greek and I read english and greek books. Depending on the book/author I may have 2-5 words per page that I may not understand (or at least I want to understand them better). Thus, many times after I finish a page, I use aard2 and either search the word in the english-to-english dictionary or (rarer) in the greek wiktionary for a translation. (For context, I'm reading ~mainly fantasy, sci-fi or dystopian books of the 20th and 21th century and currently I'm on "Croocked kingdom". I haven't dared to try reading a classic book in english.)

The issue is that this effectively slows me down by an extra ~50% time per page and I'm not even very sure that those words are remembered. I could simply keep reading without searching the words up and just use the context to get a vague sense of their meaning (or simply ignore them as they ~usually aren't necessary to the plot), but I think I'd miss on the whole experience by doing this and it doesn't address the underlying issue (being that I don't know english extremely well even if I have C2 and scored high on vocabulary), which will perpetuate the problem. I'd like to note that I have made searching words almost as efficient as it gets by using downloaded dictionaries, so I don't think I can reduce the time I spend looking up words by anything more, at least on paper books.

I'd like to ask anyone who searches up words like me:

Did you eventually reach a point where you learnt enough words this way, that it wasn't that much necessary to use dictionaries anymore? (I'd be kinda satisfied if I could reduce the frequnecy of unknown words to 1 per two pages or something.)

Go to your uploads on your profile and delete anything you don't want. Very helpful in case you upload anything sentitive by mistake (I remember an issue on github about this).

Happens about 20mins after I wake up.

Image transcription:

Random npc spongebob fish character looking miserable holding a cup during a sunset and another overlayed image of the same guy on the left with the same look.

It is captioned with:

When you already checked your usual 5 apps and don't know what else to do with your day:

After all these recent upgrades, updates and improvements, things are going veeert smoothly and fast!🔥 I think this comment I made about a week ago about experiencing slow responses is no longer valid!

Sal and anyone else who helped, you did a great job! Thank you!☺️

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/14452579

Hello people

Im trying to find music that aligns with my views and opinions, so that I can listen to it guilt-free and simply enjoy it. I have some prerequisites/requirements and some preferences. I want to ask you if you can share any artist/band (or songs if you dont know any artists) that matches all the prerequisites and if possible any of the preferences.

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The prerequisites about the artists(/songs):

1. They have leftist (and anti-capitalist) opinions

2. They have feminist (and anti-patriarchist) opinions

3. They are friendly towards all the queer community (including non-binary and trans people)

4. They have atheistic/agnostic opinions

5. They have anti-racist opinions (I forgot to add this, I took it as granted, provided all the previous requirements were passed😅. I'm editing my post to add it.)

The preferences about the artists(/songs):

a) They dont promote self-destructive behaviours (like substance/alcohol abuse). I dont have any issue with them singing about such behaviours, but I want to see them trying to help people get out of this situation. (This one could be a prerequisite too, but then there would almost no artist that would pass my requirements..)

b) They express their opinions in the songs by singing about social issues and such

c) Their genre is rap/metal/rock (generally I tend to prefer songs that have some anger/that are powerful)

d) They sing mainly in either English or Greek (the languages I know well so that I can understand them😅). I also know some German, so that could be a good option too. And I'd like to learn Spanish some time. (If you know artists/songs that sing in other languages, you're welcome to share them)

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Please, I would like anything you share to pass my prerequisites and to mention any of my preferences that it matches (in case it doesn't pass any of the prerequistes at least mention it). I have them all in order to make it easier for you.

So for example, the band "Rationalistas" (a greek rap band) passes the prerequistes and seems to match b), c) and d) preferences (I listen to them almost exclusively this week, lol).

Another artist that seem pass my requirements seems to be Macklemore (as seen on "Hinds hall") and matches c) and d) of my preferences (and in some songs I think he matches a) and b) too).

Demi Lovato in her HOLY FVCK album seems to pass my requirements (though not sure about the 1.) and probably matches all of my preferences.

Jesse Welles seems to pass my requirements as well and matches at least b) and d) of my preferences.

Lemmy seems to opinions similar to what my requirements are, so I kinda hope I might get good recommendations here.

Here I’m gonna list ~anything you and I suggest:

List of artists/bands (and album/song picks)

Against Me! (Their politics have become a bit more "softer" over time, but were left-anarchists at first. Feminist and the singer is a trans woman. Picks:"Reinventing Axl Rose" and "As the Eternal Cowboy")

AJJ (Andrew Jackson Jihad) (Folk punk.)

Bad Religion (Punk/Rock.)

Bands that publish under libre/free licences, they are often leftist, feminist and they are political by design.

Billy Bragg (Folk/Rock/Protest. Left wing. Picks: "Red flag")

Bloc Party (Indie Rock)

Bomb the Music Industry! (Lefty ska-punk.)

Circus Marcus (Piano/Emotional music.)

Crass (Anarcho Punk. The logo was designed to look "fascist" to draw in youth that, at the time, were drawn to fascism through the iconography. The hope was to expose these fascist at risk youth to Crass' version of radical politics involving anti-racism, anti-sexism, anarchist socialism. Picks: "Best before 1984")

Dad Bods (Rock. Their youtube page because it's hard to find them: https://www.youtube.com/@dadbods1328 Picks: "System")

Danger Dan - (German Rap. Unfortunately Antideutsche. Picks: "Sand in die Augen")

David Rovics (Folk/Ballads. Picks: "Who Would Jesus Bomb")

Dead Prez (Rap.)

Defiance (Folk punk.)

DJ Spooky (Electronic/Hip-Hop.)

eta (Punk Rock/Grunge. Their discogs page because it's hard to find them: https://www.discogs.com/artist/7205-ETA)

G.L.O.S.S. (Anti-capitalist, anti-fascist punk rock made by trans women.)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor (Post Rock.)

grandson (Rap/Rock Picks: "Blood in the water")

grim104 (German Rap. Picks: "2. Mai")

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKByGkH3_rqBVE7gvYaL3rQQDWOKbUcuL (Very angry anti-fascist Youtube playlist. Mostly metal and rap. The artist themselves may not all be leftist but I picked songs that work. Immortal Technique don't pass the feminism and queer friendliness requirements. The songs in the playlist should be unoffensive on that front though. Used when the only way to get through the day is with pure rage at the injustice of the world.)

IDLES (Punk Rock. Picks: "Samaritans:")

Irie Revoltes (German Punk/Reggae/Hip-Hop)

Johnny Hobo & the Freight Trains, Wingnut Dishwashers Union (Projects from Pat the Bunny. Folk punk. A lot of his music deals with substance abuse but not in a glamorizing way. They mark his stages of recovery in a way that is very interesting.)

K.I.Z. (German Hip-Hop. Warning: Wikipedia says "Characteristic for the group are sexist, provocative lyrics containing black humour, irony, sarcasm and cynicism." I don't know enough German to tell how "ok" are their lyrics. Yet they were recommended to me, so I put them in the list. Picks: "Görlitzer Park")

Krav Boca (French/Greek Rap.)

Laibach (Industrial.)

Lupe Fiasco (Leftist Rapper. Picks: "Mural" and "American Terrorist")

Michael Franti and Spearhead (Hip-Hop/Reggae.)

Modest Mouse (Their real strengths come out in their more reflective songs. Picks: "Lonesome Crowded West")

NT (Picks: https://ntband.bandcamp.com/album/present-recover-past)

Ohio (Folk punk.)

Osiris Saline (Classical/Gothic/Symphonic/Progressive Punk)

Pablo Hasel (Catalan Rapper)

Plagiat (French Rock. Songs in some kind of bizarre French. Their bandcamp page because it's hard to find them: https://plagiatbros.bandcamp.com/)

Propagandhi (Conventional punk. Picks: "Less Talk, More Rock")

Punk bands. folk punk.Try checking out smaller punk bands on Bandcamp.

Rage Against the Machine (Rap/Metal/Rock)

Refused (Swedish Hardcore band with leftist themed music. Their singer Dennis Lyxzén is an outspoken socialist and vegan. They broke up for about 15 years after TSoPtC, but reunited and have been releasing new albums and playing shows since 2015. Picks: "The Shape of Punk to Come"

Rise Against (Melodic Hardcore/Punk Rock. Picks: "Make it stop(September children)"

Sebkha-Chott (French Metal/Jazz/Fusion. Old band from Plagiat members.)

Stray From The Path (Hardcore Punk. Picks: "Goodnight Alt Right", "Guillotine" and "Euthanasia".)

Streetlight Manifesto (Lefty ska-punk.)

System of a Down (Nu Metal. You probably know them already.)

The Clash (OG Leftist Punk.)

The Residents (Art Rock.)

The Warning (Rock. Band comprised of 3 Mexican women.)

Ton Steine Scherben (Oldschool German Rock)

Utah Philips (Folk music.)

Vandalismus (German Rap. Picks: "Maskulina")

Zugezogen Maskulin (German Rap. Picks: "Alle gegen Alle")

spoiler List of unreviewed Artists/Bands that I don't know if they pass my prerequisites, using suggestions from this comment thread https://mander.xyz/post/14380057/11458375 Ashenspire

boundries

Brkovi (Balkan Punk.)

Chat Pile

Clarion Knell (Marxist band)

crust

Destrage (Italian metalcore band)

Dubioza Kolektiv(Balkan Punk.)

dying (pro-palestine before it was cool)

Feminazgul (RABM (Red/Anarchist Black Metal) band)

foreign hands

Incendiary

Iskra (RABM (Red/Anarchist Black Metal)

king gizzard and the lizard wizard

kittie

Knocked Loose (Metalcore band)

Kultur Shock (Balkan Punk.)

Maximum the Hormone

Misery Index

nothingface

Panopticon

Protest the Hero

Realm and Ritual (RABM/Dungeon Synth tape label)

S.A.R.S (Balkan Punk.)

Sankara (Marxist band)

seeyouspacecowboy

sepultura

soulfly

stick to your guns (melodic heavy hardcore)

unearth (anti-fascist, eco-anarchist, closer to traditional metal then metalcore)

Wolves in the Throne Room (not political but spoke out against fascists)

Yellow Eyes (not political but spoke out against fascists) :::