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I sometimes just spend way too long making tools no one will use, or tweaking my NixOS configuration.

I have a [gpg key]( […]

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Hehe, I win!
Who says a 5 years old laptop doesn't do usb-c power delivery? Sure it does! Well, after some soldering...
A barrel plug soldered to a small usb-c power delivery board. Not perfectly aligned, but good enough to work.
June 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Now this is silly, but fun!

I got #nixos running sway entirely without libX11 in the closure!

It seems the VM rendering pipeline really does not like this, so i had to resort to display out via VNC, but good enough. Red and Blue color channels are […]

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Two console windows and a sway window. One console window is showing logs of `wlvncc`. The other console window is showing dependencies of the VM filtered for `x11`, confirming indeed no `libx11` made it into the VM. The sway window is the display output of that VM, showing it does indeed work.
April 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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I love it when CSS works. Today isn't one of those days.
nist.gov website with broken logos and overlapping text
March 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Today i had more hardening fun on #nixos

I adapted my #zfs setup to no longer mount the root dataset at boot. Instead, / is mounted as a tmpfs, making it completely impermanent on reboot.

I also made the other mounts use `noexec` option.

And the […]

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output of `findmnt` command showing various partitions. / partition is a tmpfs and noexec most partitions except /nix/store and nix build sandbox are mounted noexec.
December 27, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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Nix is not beating the furry allegations with this one! If you want free pats, come to nix :3
search.nixos.org website showing the package named "freepats"
December 18, 2024 at 12:04 PM