pimeys

pimeys , 14 days ago

It was just merged to NixOS. Should be on unstable in a few days...

pimeys , 1 month ago

A classic Monty Python joke from Live at the Hollywood Bowl. Definitely some truth in this... I live in Germany with some of the best lagers in the world, and having a Miller Light for the first time was a really weird experience.

Now when I've visited the US quite a few times, I can say I dislike the expensive craft beers way more compared to the classic american lagers... They are way too hoppy, but the worst thing is how much more expensive they are! Like a pale ale can be over ten dollars, but a pint of PBR is 3.50. Beer should be cheap, and I don't really like how this craft beer culture made the prices go so high.

pimeys , 1 month ago

It is very hard to brew a good lager, like the good Helles style famously brewed in Bavaria. I've been on a mission every time I come to the US to find good Helles, and I found two places that get very close:

This place in Seattle: https://maps.app.goo.gl/czPMtm4xkunkopEc8

And this in Weaverville: https://maps.app.goo.gl/wuNS33EcQ1qC9zfb9

But quite often even if they advertise the beer as German style Helles, it has some quality that makes it very different. Usually it's sweet or even hoppy. I think for an american a special beer should have a special taste, but a good Helles is just very fresh and crisp beer.

Edit: and Becks is one of the worst beers in Germany in my opinion... At least nobody tries to sell overpriced Sternburg here.

pimeys , 1 month ago

Augustiner :3

pimeys , 1 month ago

It is a good shitpost though. Fry holding a German lager on Jimmy Fallon, and a joke about American beer with a typo.

pimeys , 1 month ago

Well... I'm still in the US, and on this trip I mostly just get a Budweiser or Modelo when I want a beer. I feel like I don't need to make a scene about the beer I drink, because a beer is a beer... I also enjoyed Coors Banquet a lot.

Wines are a different matter. In the Oregon vineyards I've had some of the best pinots I've ever tasted, much better than the pinots I've had in France. One of the best things on this trip was our day of tastings in the different wineries.

pimeys , 2 months ago

It is such a beautiful system too. I would love to use it more, but nix and NixOS have kind of ruined every other operating system for me...

pimeys , 2 months ago

If you follow a certain orange website, until very recently there's been a big group of apologists who protect the big and mighty if any bad news surfaced.

This has started to change, but the change is very recent. And in the startup ecosystem using a Mac is a standard and if you do not like them, you are considered weird and the latest social note keeping tool everybody else uses in the company has severe bugs on Linux, if it even works.

pimeys , 2 months ago

I call it Wayland/Linux.

pimeys , 2 months ago

...in US. Pretty rare in the EU where apartments usually come with the cheapest fridge available.

pimeys , 2 months ago

Just a glass full of crushed ice and drink your water like a true American 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

But to be serious, I'd like to have a water filter in my fridge. The water here has a bit too much calc to my taste.

pimeys , 2 months ago

Laughs in NixOS, smiles in btrfs snapshots.

pimeys , 2 months ago

Yeah, also a bit wary of btrfs. I sure hope some day bcachefs can be the true cow filesystem in Linux. There is hope, it is pretty good already.

NixOS definitely solves the issue of rollbacks the best here. And FreeBSD.

pimeys , 2 months ago

It has the best integration with zfs, and has had that for a long time already.

pimeys , 2 months ago

That reminds me I should finally play Donkey Kong on game boy. It is supposedly the best game for the system...

pimeys , 2 months ago

Whew! I think I dodged the bullet. Upgraded today and it boots just fine. Running HAOS in a vm, so that might be the reason...

pimeys , 2 months ago

Used i3 and then sway almost a decade. When Plasma 6 arrived, I just wanted to try it out and it just kind of stuck to me. Lovely desktop.

pimeys , 3 months ago

I run Piped from my homelab, from our home IP. I wonder if they will limit our home too...

pimeys , 3 months ago

Come to Germany, the only country in the EU where paper usage is still going UP.

pimeys , 3 months ago

Nowadays you can get your prescription into your insurance card... Finally. You still need to walk to the doctor's office though. But it is digital.

pimeys , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

In Germany, we have a health insurance card. Let's say your insurer is Techniker Krankenkasse. They provide you a card with your photo and an NFC chip. You show this card in any doctor/hospital you visit, and your expenses are all paid. Today, as a new feature, your prescriptions are also stored to this card. You show the card in the pharmacy, get your medicine and the costs are all paid by the insurance company (minus the co-pay, 10 euros, which you pay by yourself).

Edit: To be clear, we don't have public hospitals or doctors. They're all private. But the insurance can be public, and the doctors and hospitals accept your public insurance and you don't need to pay for them.

pimeys , 3 months ago

Hey, no insulting gays!

pimeys , 3 months ago

But finding the actual great German beer, the blessed helles, is not super easy in US. People seem to think all these bocks are super common in Germany, but it's actually helles what everybody drinks (and pils in the north). Helles is extremely hard to brew correctly, it requires a very specific temperature and pure ingredients.

I spent most of my vacation in US last year finding a good helles from a bar. I found one after many tries, and the closest I could get to a bavarian helles was in Weaverville, in Leveller Brewing Co. I went to thank the owner for this great beer, and he told me he studied brewing in Bavaria and brewing that beer took a lot of trial and error.

Edit: somebody soon comes to tell how easy it is to find helles in US. Yes, but it often doesn't taste how it should. Or you get some old bottled stock of Augustiner that is not a same thing as fresh Augustiner in Munich.

pimeys , 3 months ago

You can also very easily run the bridges yourself if you don't trust them. I do so in my homelab, it was 10 minutes of work setting it all up. Super stable, and e2e from my side.

For me their value proposition is their new beta android app which is the best Android matrix client, and their quite fast matrix server. That might change in the future when conduit is fast enough...

pimeys , 3 months ago

They finally accepted the web as the platform after all these years...

pimeys , 4 months ago

The mandatory comment to any printer discussion. Buy a brother laser. Nothing else. Preferably used.

pimeys , 4 months ago

Yes. We've had one Brother for ten years now. Still prints and scans just fine :D

pimeys , 4 months ago

This is my nix config for our brother scanner. Just run any Linux scanner utility and it just works:

https://git.sr.ht/~pimeys/nixos/tree/main/item/core/home-services.nix#L10

pimeys , 4 months ago

Having eleven kings in one poker hand.

pimeys , 4 months ago

Arch together with btrfs or zfs (or in a few years, bcachefs) and snapshots is the way to go. You can just boot to a previous snapshot if something fails.

The end game here is of course NixOS, where the operating system itself provides a way to boot to an old configuration by default.

pimeys , 5 months ago

Is that Luanne?

pimeys , 5 months ago

The follow-up discussion was informative and the original commiter learned something. We all learned something when we read the discussion.

pimeys , 5 months ago

R.I.P. Bram.

Also, vim just extended vi that invented modal editing.

pimeys , 5 months ago

I stand (or sit to be honest) corrected.

pimeys , 7 months ago

I'm a dev and I mainly see issues with removed... Every update breaks some tools the cli tools are ancient, homebrew is slow as hell and breaks quite often, docker is really slow and costs money if you don't know how to avoid that, it's very expensive to get to a certain amount of RAM that costs nothing on PC and so on.

pimeys , 7 months ago

I guess the only right thing to do is to buy used Brother laser printers until they all break... Such warhorses.

pimeys , 8 months ago

Wait until they put cameras, microphones, location sensors and sim cards to a car and report everything to the corporation. Oh wait...

pimeys , 8 months ago

I also like how you can make your whole house change color with the lights during the day. Blue and bright at noon, red and dim in the evening.

Or how the lights dim when I turn on the TV. Or how the curtains can be opened by just yelling open the curtains. Node Red is super nice with Home Assistant, if you want to do something more complex with the automation.

pimeys , 8 months ago

Ummm to see something? It's winter and dark...

pimeys , 10 months ago

Best of all you do not need to click the link, load the website, enable JavaScript because there is nothing without it and then tap the cookie banner away disabling all of the cookies first.

pimeys , 10 months ago

A bot that would send us the content as email, which we'd read using Emacs. I can see that happening.

pimeys , 11 months ago

Sweet popcorn, what kind of world is this?