A collection of shorter thoughts, quick updates, and things I’ve learned that don’t warrant a full blog post.
Nix remote builds are run through the daemon (obviously) so they are executed as root on the host delegating builds. To prevent issues, nix store ping needs to be run as root first to verify the host key before Nix can start using the remote host to do builds.
pw-cli list-objects | rg node.name will give you a full list of all connected audio inputs and outputs on a PipeWire system.
Enabling fetch.pruneTags causes my Nixpkgs Git checkout to constantly delete and fetch tags, since my fork is missing most tags that upstream has so they keep getting pruned when updating from origin and get re-created when fetching upstream. One solution suggested for this was setting remotes.<name>.tagOpt = "--no-tags" but that didn’t do the job for me. The thing that worked for me was to conditionally disable pruneTags for just the origin remote so it would not try to clear out the tags pulled from upstream. Achieved by running git config --local remotes.origin.pruneTags false.
In Minecraft it is imperative that there are exactly 4 villagers in a breeder, if there are more than 4 beds it makes them mad and stop producing babies.
Nix’s builtins.toString doesn’t stringify a Boolean directly but instead returns an empty string for false and "1" for true. The reason for this is apparently that the result is optimized for use in shell pipelines, so the result is expected to go into a [ -z $result ] on the result of calling the function. Lost entirely too much time to this.
Apple maintains a repository of resources for password managers GitHub
Prism Launcher’s OAuth flow is not triggered properly when I log into Microsoft/Xbox with the usual GitHub way, I need to explicitly log in using my password to make it work.
Nixpkgs has a pkgs.mkBinaryCache helper that lets you create a flat-file binary cache suitable for moving around without needing a server component.
Reddit exposes RSS feeds for subreddits and users such as https://reddit.com/r/HermitCraft/.rss
To remove a Git submodule go through these annoying steps: git submodule deinit -f path/to/module rm -rf .git/modules/path/to/module git config -f .gitmodules --remove-section submodule.path/to/module git add .gitmodules git rm --cached path/to/module
