An unordered list of hidden gems inside NixOS

One of things that I hate the most about the fact that we are all using wireless earbuds instead of wired earphones is the latency: it is bad, getting up to seconds(!) depending on your particular combination of OS/earbuds/device. There is a solution though: Bluetooth LE Audio, that is supposed to fix multiple issues with the original design for...

Have you ever run a nix build command and had this prompt? $ nix run .#darwinActivations/Sekai-MacBook-Pro do you want to allow configuration setting 'extra-substituters' to be set to 'https://nix-community.cachix.org https://thiagokokada-nix-configs.cachix.org' (y/N)? y do you want to permanently mark this value as trusted (y/N)? y And realise...

I don't want to talk about AI. AI fatigue is real, with (garbage) AI content everywhere you go. However, I like to talk about tools, and AIs, or more specifically, Large Language Models (LLM), can be really useful tools. Maybe someday we will have our AI overlords dominating everything (including my job), but right now I don't feel particularly...

So one thing that I realise after starting writing this blog is that I care more about it than some of my other projects. For some reason or another I want to make sure that this blog will continue with me for a long time. This is one of the reasons why I use GitHub as mirror blog and why I created a bunch of automation to make sure I never...

After using NixOS for the last 5+ years as my main OS, I end up with a configuration with many things that are interesting for one reason or another, but it is not listed anywhere (well, except if you are the kind of person that reads man 5 configuration.nix or the release notes in every release). So kind in the same spirit as my list of things...