orzklv

How to migrate from Homebrew to Nix

#homebrew #brew #nix #nixos

I'll be honest with ya'll, you don't wanna get away from Homebrew completely, yes, I'll explain!

I've been using Nix package manager in all my MacOS machines about 3-4 months and I always kept Homebrew installed. You see, Nix is a very good package manager and with its home-manager, it becomes a good config farm as well. However, installing & managing GUI & unfree apps via Nix has been a quite painful experience for me. Sometimes, it wouldn't run properly, crash or wouldn't even start. Also, Nix doesn't have most of GUI packages that Homebrew has. Therefore, I keep homebrew and use it only for its "casks" registry to install GUI & unfree apps whereas having nix to manage dot file configurations and cli apps.

ohld

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        t.me/danokhlopkov
       x.com/danokhlopkov
  github.com/danokhlopkov
  
  Strategy:
  1. get chats / groups you're in
  2. iterate over participants and find ones with stories
  3. watch them

magnetikonline

Creating a 'run once' systemd unit

Systemd unit template which calls a script exactly once upon startup and keeps unit status active after script finishes.

Unit file placed in /etc/systemd/system and enabled with:

$ sudo systemctl enable runonce.service
$ sudo systemctl start runonce.service

joemaffia

git rm -r --cached .
git add .
git commit -m 'git cache cleared'
git push