A little background for context. I’m gamer and professional software developer. I’ve been dual booting windows 11 and pop os for awhile. Windows for games and pop os for everything else… Over the weekend I switched to NixOS. This came with a learning curve which I spent a day or so learning. I’ve been getting the hang of it now and I love it so much. I definitely recommend it. I managed to get steam working without much fiddling and my emulators. It’s been great! The benefits for programming are obvious. Allowing me to basically stop using docker dev containers.

I completely removed windows from my computer and I’m very happy.

Totally agree! Everyone is doing a great job and I like it here. I have contributed a couple PRs to Lemmy. Time and honestly mental energy makes it hard to consistently contribute to the code base.

That’s great to know! I’m contributing to the project but spent a whole night after work trying to find a working combination of branches for the ui and server. Their contributing docs for local development are poor. Which I should probably do something about besides complain… lol

the back end is Rusty the front end is inferno which is very similar to react. Uses JSX.

lol dark souls 3?

Yeah but that requires even less effort to automate than manually turning it off and on. But the point is why put in the effort at all to do this? I mean rhetorically because I know everyone just wants to push the homeless to “anywhere but here”

Nobody said it’s hot AND fresh

Why not? It cost them next to nothing to leave it on. It actually is more work to turn off and on the router every day. I don’t see why not being to check out books had to do with internet. Why does it have to be all or nothing?

I love it so much that I started contributing to the project on GitHub

I feel like a whole new world has opened its doors to me. I’m using this tomorrow at work.

Also shoutout to Logseq, love this app. Open Source and privacy focused. https://logseq.com/

The rust backend, Postgres Db and UI are all available as docker images. The rust “lemmy” repo has a docker compose file (if you are familiar with the concept) allowing you to spin up the whole stack locally pretty easily if you already have docker installed.