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I did it, I distro hopped

I told myself I wasn’t gonna do it anytime soon but I distro hopped from Endeavour OS to Arch with Hyprland in the span of 3 days. Nothing against endeavour. I just tried to customize, broke some stuff and decided to try Hyprland again. I’m quite liking it. It takes awhile to get used to it but it’s fun. I cloned a repo...

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Yeah Void is fantastic. I just switched back and I doubt I’ll be moving to anything else.

I only switched away in the first place because I had gotten so comfortable I wanted to try something new (Guix, also amazing!).

But there’s something so comfy about Void once you grok it, just lots of little good decisions which add up to a great experience.

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I’ve never used Arch or Nix, but I switched from Void -> Guix and have been very happy with it. It’s such a huge peace of mind to be able to have your whole system declaratively configured, package changes being atomic and generational (rollbacks so no worries about breakage), Guix shell for messing about, and being able to make your system do anything you can write in Scheme.

That’s my daily driver. On servers so far I’ve gone with Debian Stable + Guix.

Also Void is still a fantastic distro, and is what I would use if not for Guix/Nix.

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FOSSILIZATION! This is easily in my top 5 most anticipated releases of the year. Both their EP He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten and the split they did with Ritual Necromancy were some of my favorite death metal releases of the past couple years.

This track sounds a bit more like Dead Congregation (and less like Krypts) than I hoped, but still recognizably Fossilization and very solid.

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Any word on new dead congregation?

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Any word on new dead congregation?

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what would you be stealing?

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diSEMBOWELMENT - Transcendence into the Peripheral

HMs:

  • Yob - Clearing the Path to Ascend
  • Winter - Into Darkness
  • Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (opening track alone)
  • Rippikoulu - Musta Seremonia
  • Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
  • Lurker of Chalice - Lurker of Chalice
  • Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
  • Bongripper - Hippie Killer
  • Asphyx - Last One on Earth
  • Ahab - The Call of the Wretched Sea
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Damn IVPN has always been a solid provider. No public missteps and supported XMR earlier than all (reputable) others including mullvad.

Time to switch to i2p and usenet at least until the next p2p protocol comes about.

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Great to see the progress, this is a very import project for monero and I really hope to see it succeed!

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There are many apps in their infancy. Somebody made a post with a list of most of them, but I don’t have the link.

I’ve been using Memmy (testflight) and its been working very well. One of the earlier ones and already has a good amount of features and polish (clearly still beta though).

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I’ve been loving the activity here! Feels like its rapidly becoming a solid go-to place for metal things. Death Metal has been great too.

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Seconding ivpn. Have accepted monero for a very long time and check just about every VPN box you could hope for (including port forwarding).

Though if this is for e.g. torrenting rather than geohopping or clearnet obscurity, consider I2P instead of a VPN, especially if cost is a factor (NEVER use a “free” VPN).

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Yes as far as I’m aware you can only leech via i2p what is seeded to i2p. Maybe one day the outproxy system will be more like tor exit nodes and allow leeching clearnet torrents from i2p.

But you can seed to both. So if you’re already seeding in the clear (or via vpn) and your bittorrent client supports it then you might as well also seed to i2p.

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Memmy has been working very well for me. Lots of updates very quickly and feeling good.

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also very annoying lemmy issue of not properly syncing comments between servers…

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Been really enjoying Memmy. Has been getting updates at a super fast pace and already feels pretty good and featureful. More to go but the dev work has impressed me.

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Alternatively if price is an issue (NEVER use a “free” VPN) you could torrent over I2P, which is free and very safe (at least as safe as tor, if not moreso).

Also the next release of qbittorrent is about to have built in I2P support (but also standard I2P comes with its own torrenting software).

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Glad to hear it! Feel free to message me if you have any questions, though I'm not a Guix expert by any means, so the IRC channel on libera.chat is probably your best bet.

btw: you can also install guix as a standalone package manager on top of any other GNU/Linux distribution just like nix, and it can also use the nonguix channel.

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I have never used nix or nixos. I liked their shared idea (functional, atomic, reproducible systems), and so when I looked at their differences they seemed to all be pros for guix:

  1. Clearer, more robust, more centralized documentation
  2. GNU Project
  3. Guile Scheme (Lisp) as opposed to Nix DSL
  4. Unparalleled emacs integration

The only bittersweet aspect of guix compared to nix was the foss only stuff, as I do need some proprietary drivers, but nonguix is so easy it hasn’t been a practical issue. And of course I am big advocate of free software so I like that guix is pushing that forward.

There’s also a theoretical issue that guix has less packages, but the standard channel + nonguix has had everyhing I use.

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It's a source-based distribution like Arch so packages are as up to date as the package maintainers keep them. Of course anybody can go in and submit a newer version of a package if the original packager has been slacking on updating. You can also use your own custom version of the package by just copying the package definition, bumping up the version number, and then installing it with guix package -f my-custom-package.scm

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