I don’t really follow X, Bluesky, Instagram, TikTok, etc. so I basically live under a rock. Sometimes I ask dumb questions to try to understand people a little better. Apologies if my questions inadvertently offend anyone. I mean no harm.

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Cake day: May 3rd, 2025

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  • I decided to try Cursor today (first time using any coding assistant) to refactor my sloppy NixOS config, and I’m really impressed to far. My config is so much cleaner and very well documented. It even has automated backups, a README.md, and CHANGELOG.md now!

    The cost has been ~$20 so far (I’m still tinkering with it).

    ETA: I also use Arch NixOS btw


    Edit 2: I asked it “how might I streamline my deployments a little?” It wrote some nicely polished scripts that use deploy-rs, and wrote some nice documentation for it.

    The script didn’t work on first run, so I added the console output to the context and asked “what went wrong here?” It debugged and fixed the script, and updated the docs.

    I think this has been the most frictionless NixOS experience I’ve had so far


  • Nah it was a while back. IIRC there were multiple sources, but I don’t remember any of them 🙃

    Though, I don’t really remember the details either. Maybe it was OS specific? I know there was a dodgy FUSE implementation out there for macOS at some point, and Cryptomator depends mounts its local drive with FUSE. I use macOS and NixOS, so it coulda been that.










  • thats not what they said did they?

    Is it not? They said they’re “more concerned” with American companies harvesting data. Doesn’t that mean that, given the choice between the US and China harvesting their data, they’d choose China because it concerns them less? Did I misunderstand it?

    they said they are more concerned about American companies harvesting their data as they live in Europe and don’t have as much affinity to China.

    Actually, they didn’t say this part:

    and don’t have as much affinity to China.

    They answered my question with a more specific explanation though, and now I understand. In their position, I’d probably choose China too.