Good for whom?

I like to exchange my economy points for things

Yup. Use their flawed methodologies to your advantage.

Or it leads the way in producing the most useless, misleading bullshit more efficiently. We’ll see.

If your title is system administrator, maybe you don’t get paid as much with the same responsibilities as a DevOps Engineer, System Reliability Engineer, Cloud Computing Engineer etc. Don’t get caught up in titles, sell the value of your skills.

Check out Linux Upskill Challenge there’s a community on programming.dev [relative link]

It’s a bit askew from what you’re asking about but very related and a nice onramp to certification options that have some value in the job market.

As a more direct answer, a bit more of a formal approach to learning networking can be persued by following the networking recommendations at Teach Yourself CS

I’ve just been using the mobile web UI.

I really like Sync but I’ve found myself just using my mobile browser to interact with instances when on my phone. Also, if you want open source, Sync ain’t it.

I think that Nix flakes have some considerable benefits, such as:

Convenient pinning of evaluation-time dependencies

Eliminating pointless rebuilds of code by only including tracked files in builds

Making Nix code, on average, much more reproducible by pervasive pinning

Allegedly caching evaluation

Possibly making Nix easier to learn by reducing the amount of poking at strange attribute sets and general NIX_PATH brokenness

However, at the same time, there are a few things that one might be led to think about flakes that are not the most effective way of doing things. I personally use flakes relatively extensively in my own work, but there are several ways I use them that are not standard, with reason.

Flakes are optional, and as much as some people whose salary depends on it might say otherwise, they are not the (only) future of Nix: they are simply a special entry point for Nix code with a built in pinning system, nothing more, nothing less.

Nix continues to gather a reputation for bad documentation, in part because the official documentation for nixpkgs and NixOS is de facto not allowed to talk about flakes, as a policy. This situation is certainly partially due to a divide between Nix developers and nixpkgs developers, which are groups with surprisingly little overlap.

Flakes also are a symptom or cause of much intra-community strife between “pro-flakes” and “anti-flakes” factions, but this situation is at some level a sign of broken consensus processes and various actors trying to sidestep them, an assumption by many people that the docs are “outdated” for not using flakes, and the bizarre proliferation of flakes everywhere in blog posts or tutorials leading to a belief that they are required for everything.

This post is about how to architect Nix projects in general, with a special eye on how to do so with flakes while avoiding their limitations. It tries to dispel misconceptions that can develop in such a monoculture.

Read all of Flakes aren’t real and cannot hurt you: a guide to using Nix flakes the non-flake way

The heavy accent and general lack of presentation skills of the presenter made me really appreciate his in-depth written articles on the topic even more so. Like, How Many Lines of C it Takes to Execute a + b in Python?. I hope the author continues to write out more of these in depth articles.

@throwawayish@lemmy.ml

A nice grid lined notebook and a mechanical pencil is still my favorite.

I like to use Google Keep for certain things, but I have a hard time explaining how those things are better for Google Keep.

I’m looking at giving Neorg a try.

People will definitely listen if the experience is better because of the extensions.

Possibly, if you and others interested bring it to the attention of those that organize such things. Did you post on the Nix Discourse forum?

Sorry to break it to you, but there will never be a North America NixCon in the UK.

But seriously, you should make a post on the linked Discourse Forum as that is the official forum of the organization that plans such things.

Most people aren’t going to know or care, but getting the word out that Firefox allows better, more useful extensions due to recent changes by Alphabet will make a difference.

Can’t wait until the ability to block instances is introduced.

nearly every person that creates a lemmy account, is active

This is false. There’s about a 10:1 ratio of Lemmy accounts registered to lemmy accounts posting comments.

Active accounts on Lemmy instances is in the tens of thousands. I like it for the most part, but it’s not really a significant part of the 1.5 million in the graphic.

1.5 million is almost entirely Mastodon users which have no clue how Lemmy’s commenting culture works so rarely contribute in a way that makes sense to both the Mastodon commenter and the Lemmy comenter/poster at the same time.

Lemmy has ~20k ish actively commenting accounts.

I plan to proceed without considering its significance.