smiletolerantly

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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 39 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Mallory Archer?

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 18 points 3 months ago

Universal Android Debloater.

It's a community-rating systems for apps, and you can remove/permanently (even through os updates) disable them through ADB, without actually needing to know anything about ADB because uad comes in a nice GUI package.

I think I removed ~200 apps (most of them invisible, background ads stuff) from my phone. Much better experience.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Really? Which ones? I didn't notice any

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Idk. With Arch I felt like I constantly had to be on top of things. With nix, everything is rock solid and stable, and if I want to change or add something, I do that, once, and then it's also rock solid until all eternity and across all my machines.

In total I might have spent more time interacting with nix already, but it feels less like "work" than with arch. Higher setup burden, almost zero maintenance burden and zero mental overhead.

Happy holidays btw

Edit: forgot to include the context. For the Thunderbird example, I have spent 1-2 hours once, 2 years ago, converting all the Thunderbird config options to nix, and adding my mail accounts through nix. I have not had to go into the Thunderbird settings since, and after doing a fresh install on a new machine, my accounts are already THERE on first boot. A lot of things are tedious in nix, but you do them ONCE.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

FWIW, I've been using Music Assistant with my Sonos speakers without issue.

HOWEVER, I'm using MA as part of Home Assistant, and have the speakers configured through HA, not MA. MA just sees the speakers as HA Media Players. That works really well.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 14 points 3 months ago

Not the person you replied to, but I also switched to Librewolf a couple of months ago, also greatly enjoy it. Here's a link to my nix config where Librewolf gets made to behave a little closer to default Firefox in terms of usability. Honestly not too bad!

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 50 points 3 months ago (11 children)

The first time I heard about Star Citizen and S42, I was a teen and wasn't able to save up enough allowance to buy even the cheapest ship/the game.

Now I'm looking to build a house with the love of my life.

I'll probably have grandkids by the time this actually comes out. I have zero interest left.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago

Never heard of it but will check it out, thanks!

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Interesting. To me, the calendar app is one of the most important apps I have (it's fully FOSS though. Connected through DavX5 with a Caldav server to sync to my desktop/Thunderbird, no Google involvement)

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Nah, both ways are fine. The first one just installs the package, the second one enables the module, which installs the package + does a bunch of additional setup and gives you super convenient configuration options (like setting up mail accounts declaratively from nix)

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Don't you mean

home.programs.thunderbird.enable = true;

?

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