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This week we dig into "Nixbook", a Linux distro designed to make old laptops into Chromebooks. Noah fell down the Nix rabbit hole, and of course we answer your questions.

-- During The Show --
00:50 Generosity
  • Experiencing generosity
  • A bunch of computers about to flood the market
    • 03:50 Mike Kelly (Olympia Mike)
    • Used laptop during Covid19
    • Became known for used laptops
    • Company gifts used laptops
    • Closing the technical divide
    • Updates
    • Package Confusion
    • NixOS
    • Olympia Mike's nixbook
    • How to help out
    • Powerwashing
      • 13:15 Noah's Nixbook Experience
      • Give Noah a toy and remove distractions for 5+ hours
      • Throw out everything you know
      • Where NixOS fits
      • Rollback functionality
      • Going to drive Nixbook till hitting a roadblock
      • Can't live in a flatpak world
      • Ansible is the hammer that hits the most nails
      • How long to get up and running on Nix
      • Have to adopt the "nix way"
      • NixOS Flakes
      • Nix Language
        • 31:25 News Wire

        • Nginx 1.28.0 - unit.nginx.org

        • GCC 15.1 - devclass.com

        • Cosmic Alpha.7 - blog.system76.com

        • QEMU 10.0 - qemu.org

        • Chainguard $356M Raised - bankinfosecurity.com

        • Open Source 5G/6G Software - breakingdefense.com

        • Crux 3.8 - crux.nu

        • Archcraft Prime ISO - wiki.archcraft.io

        • 4mLinux 48.0 Stable - 4mlinux.com

        • Openmandriva 6.0 - wiki.openmandriva.org

        • Kali Linux Warning - bleepingcomputer.com

        • Attack of the Vsock - gbhackers.com

        • ARES Robot Data Platform - a16z.com

        • Qwen3 - venturebeat.com

          • 33:00 Community
          • How your self branding and its effects
          • Noah's experience with a young man
          • Noah's negative experience
          • People remember how you make them feel and that reflects on communities
          • There is what is said and what is received
          • How to deliver messages
          • Dinner example
            • 41:20 OsmAnd - Richard
            • Garmin Device
            • Waze
            • OsmAnd
            • Fdroid OsmAnd
              • 45:28 Drive Rotation Off site backup - Kevin
              • The back up plan you understand is the best
              • Not doing anything un-usual
              • A few concerns
              • Hardware cycling
              • HDD destruction
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