I'm personally working on this problem. It sucks, and the politics are frustrating as hell, but the people working at the State of CO to reign in oil and gas are making every penny of funding work as hard as it can.
thejevans
joined 2 years ago
And the Luddites were right
Futo's and Rossman's responses don't make their goals any clearer to me. Sure, they've avoided the issue by not using "open source" now, but why all this mess in the first place?
They're worried about developers of open-source software not getting paid? Then pay them to develop it (looks like they're doing that already, so great!). So why then keep bringing up that developers need to be paid, if they're paying them? Royalties?
Annoyed that big tech is taking open-source code and not giving back? Why not use a copyleft license? You can always dual license. Problem solved. Why make a new Frankenstein license that tries to do both, but just looks like it sucks at everything?
Fitting a 100W battery in the 13 inch chassis while keeping everything easily serviceable would be impossible
My plan to handle this is to switch my VMs to NixOS, set up NixOS with impermanence using a btrfs or zfs volume that gets backed up and wiped at every startup with another that holds persistent data that also gets backed up, and just reboot once per day.
I'm currently learning how to do impermanence in all the different ways, so this is a long goal, but Nix config + backups should handle everything.
I use a Ryzen 5900x, RTX 3080, 2x 10Gbit sfp+ NIC, 128GB ECC RAM, and only 2x 20TB drives at the moment.
For my gateway, I have an Intel N6005 box, I have a managed 2.5/10Gbit switch, and I have a wifi AP.
I have a ton of Proxmox VMs and containers.
All that hovers between 140W to 180W
For me the reasons were:
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I have a desktop gaming PC, a framework laptop, and a 2014 macbook air. Having one config that I can share between them makes maintaining all the systems that much easier.
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Using Arch I would either be in two states, and NixOS works great for both:
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I'm not using any specific computer very often and I just want it to work when I turn it on, and I need to not worry that if I go too long without updates I'll break something.
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I'm playing around with some brand new software which usually means installing unstable dependencies from the AUR, and rolling back or containing those changes is difficult, so I end up breaking something, and then updates become a huge pain until I need to just wipe everything and reinstall
- I never really liked GNU Stow or other dotfile management systems, and having NixOS + home-manager solves that, too. You can run Nix and home-manager in whatever OS, but having EVERYTHING in one repository is much more convenient to me.
I basically went straight to using flakes when I switched from Arch to NixOS, so I can't speak to channels.
I use home-manager as a NixOS module. It's a bit clunky, but it works well.
I was told when I started to basically never use nix-env, so I don't.
For development environments (I do both rust and python), I use https://github.com/the-nix-way/dev-templates
My config is here if you want something to work from https://github.com/thejevans/nix-config
I will continue to work to regulate oil and gas from within the government (my job), and I will do my best at that, but it is definitely not enough.
It's important to take the easy wins where we can that will potentially slow the climate crisis while fighting for more. There is no reason we can't do both.
To make life easier for yourself, I'd highly recommend running Linux on a separate drive. The Linux distribution installers I've used will install the bootloader on whatever drive you choose to install on, but the windows installer will use the storage controller's port ordering to choose which drive to install on.
Your best bet is to simply disconnect the Windows drive when installing Linux and to disconnect the Linux drive when installing Windows, then just use the BIOS boot selection screen to choose which OS to boot into.
You can add your Windows drive to Grub and you might be able to add your Linux distro to your Windows bootloader, but keeping them entirely separate is probably best.
I preordered the new screen for my 2nd-gen. This is all great news!
I honestly don't really know. I know that The Environmental Defense Fund and The Clean Air Task Force have a strong presence in the state, so it may be worth donating or volunteering for them.