This idea is inspired by nixos-mailserver. It was so easy to spin up the mailserver after changing some DNS records and putting in some settings. I thought it might be a good idea to do the same for services that need public, decentralized infrastructure to support. Some ideas include

• Tor relay, or exit node
• Encrypted messaging nodes. It looks like SimpleX chat relies on SMP servers to relay communication
• Crypto miners (I know, I know, but you understand how it fits the “public contribution” usecase)
• Search engines like searxng (I currently use a public instance)
• Libredirect services, like proxy clients for social media

Maybe federated services, but those require more than just the software running on the public internet. Those require moderation and long term maintenance. Ideally, the services in this config would be ephemeral.

Does this sound like a good idea? Would you spin one of these up on a $10 VPS? I understand that this is the NixOS community, not necessarily the privacy community, but I figured thered be overlap.

What other services do you think would be applicable?

I want to install a package, I lookup for the package here https://search.nixos.org/packages? I can find multiple versions. two that sound right, two sound like rubbish and one is a plugin for something. How do I decide which of the two good sounding packages I should choose? What if the package or even both not work? How do I know that it is up to date? How do I know that it will be updated in a timely manner? Can I update it?

I've tried just about every type of setup I can find for a nix shell with python.

I don't want to purely use nixpkgs for a lack of some packages and broken packages. I'm trying to use pyside6, but not everything in pyside6 is provided by the package, e.g. tools like uic.

Attempting to use a venv as normal leads to a disconnect between the env and system with libstdc++.so.6 unable to be found. There are a various different flakes I've tried to use like the-nix-way/dev-templates#python and others from forum discussions which add stdenv.cc.cc.lib to no avail.

I think the farthest I've gotten is with poetry/poetry2nix, where auto-patchelf warns about missing libQt6 libraries. Running with nix run fails to 'find all the required dependencies' even when adding qt6.qtbase or qt6.full to the packages. This is that flake, taken from the poetry2nix github with an added devshell:

{
  description = "Python application packaged using poetry2nix";

  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
    poetry2nix.url = "github:nix-community/poetry2nix";
  };

  outputs = { self, nixpkgs, poetry2nix }:
    let
      system = "x86_64-linux";  # Adjust for your system
      pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system};
      inherit (poetry2nix.lib.mkPoetry2Nix { inherit pkgs; }) mkPoetryApplication;
    in {
      packages.${system}.default = mkPoetryApplication {
        projectDir = ./.;
      };

      apps.${system}.default = {
        type = "app";
        program = "${self.packages.${system}.default}/bin/app";
      };

      devShells.${system}.default = pkgs.mkShell {
        packages = [ pkgs.poetry ];
        buildInputs = [ pkgs.qt6.qtbase pkgs.qt6.full pkgs.qt6.wrapQtAppsHook ];
      };
    };
}

It seems kind of hopeless to get it working on NixOS. Does anyone have a working setup I could use for inspiration, or any other tips? I love the nix paradigm, but I'm honestly considering distrohopping with all of the trouble.

And others like him that have been ostracized. His mere presence seems to bring out quite negative emotions in people.

Anti Commercial-AI license

cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/1746256

Nix project: ban? What ban?

They invited that guy back. I do have to admit, I admire his inability to read a room.

I'm a beginner/intermediate in NixOS and my flake rebuild takes about 25 seconds to be finished. Most of the time is evaluating derivation for some reason and it's getting kinda frustrating having to wait when I want to add a package to my config. Has anyone the same problem or is it normal that it takes this long in Nix?

I've been trying to achieve a working mail setup on nixos by using simple-nixos-mailserver.

  mailserver = {
    enable = true;
    certificateScheme = "acme-nginx";
    enableManageSieve = true;
    fqdn = "email.teatastic.org";
    domains = ["teatastic.org"];
    mailboxes = {
      Drafts = {
        auto = "subscribe";
        specialUse = "Drafts";
      };
      Junk = {
        auto = "subscribe";
        specialUse = "Junk";
      };
      Sent = {
        auto = "subscribe";
        specialUse = "Sent";
      };
      Trash = {
        auto = "no";
        specialUse = "Trash";
      };
    };

    loginAccounts = {
      "user1@teatastic.org" = {
        hashedPasswordFile = config.sops.secrets.password.path;
        aliases = ["postmaster@teatastic.org"];
      };
    };

    fullTextSearch = {
      enable = false;
      enforced = "body";
      indexAttachments = true;
      memoryLimit = 512;
    };

    enableImap = true;
    enablePop3 = true;
    enableImapSsl = true;
    enablePop3Ssl = true;

    virusScanning = false;
  };
  services.roundcube = {
    enable = true;
    package = pkgs.roundcube.withPlugins (
      plugins: [
        plugins.carddav
        plugins.contextmenu
        plugins.custom_from
        plugins.persistent_login
        plugins.thunderbird_labels
      ]
    );
    plugins = [
      "attachment_reminder" # Roundcube internal plugin
      "carddav"
      "contextmenu"
      "custom_from"
      "managesieve" # Roundcube internal plugin
      "newmail_notifier" # Roundcube internal plugin
      "persistent_login"
      "thunderbird_labels"
      "zipdownload" # Roundcube internal plugin
    ];
    #dicts = with pkgs.aspellDicts; [en];
    hostName = config.mailserver.fqdn;
    maxAttachmentSize = 100;
    extraConfig = ''
      $config['smtp_server'] = "tls://${config.mailserver.fqdn}";
      $config['smtp_user'] = "%u";
      $config['smtp_pass'] = "%p";
    '';
  };

  security.acme = {
    acceptTerms = true;
    defaults.email = "user1@teatastic.org";
  };

    firewall = {
      enable = true;
      allowedTCPPorts = [
        25 587 143 993 110 995 # Email
        80 # Nginx
      ];
    };

I'm logging in through roundcube, which works as expected. However, when I get to the point of composing an email to somebody, it just starts a "Sending message..." loop without actually sending anything.

I've forwarded the aforementioned ports on my router, yet it fails.

https://github.com/NixNeovim/NixNeovim

I'm getting back into my setup after dualbooting and not touching it for a while. Flakes, home-manager, all that jazz. I was in the middle of messing around with my neovim config, bouncing between nixvim and nixneovim. Can't really remember why I was landing on nixneovim, but I think it had to do with having more 1-to-1 vim options through nix and more available plugins.

Part of this post is just to see what everyone's using, but I also can't copy to the system clipboard for the life of me! No ctrl-shift-v or anything. Oddly enough, ctrl-click-drag will copy a cut-off box of text. In nixneovim there's an option for clipboard, but that's just a string like 'unnamed' or 'unnamedplus', straight from the vim options. Nixvim has the option abstracted in a way that has the register and a provider for the functionality like wl-copy. I don't remember it not working with nixneovim before. That was months ago, though. Hoping someone would have an insight as I've been too deep in the weeds.

Edit: sooooo I just needed xclip in home.packages. I had tried installing it in a nix shell, but maybe that wasn't the right way to test. Doesn't seem to work with wl-clipboard, but I think neovim looks for xclip by default and nixneovim doesn't seem to have a way to give a different provider.

But still, how's everyone doing their neovim shenanigans?

I updated my NixOS on WSL starter template for NixOS 24.05 and created a fresh walkthrough video.

WSL is how I first got started with NixOS (and now I use it to manage more servers and machines than I can keep track of!) and I'm a big proponent of being able to quickly spin up a simple flake with a relatively flat structure where people can play around with settings to come up with something they feel comfortable applying to a bare metal machine at a later point in time.

I recently tried switching from Arch to NixOS and the experience I had can best be described as apalling. I have not had a new user experience this bad since my first dip into Ubuntu dependency hell back in 2016. I'd like to preface this by saying I've been a Linux user in one form or another for almost half my life at this point, and in that time this may well be the most I've struggled to get things to work.

Apparently they have this thing called home-manager which looks pretty cool. I'd like to give that a shot. Apparently I have to enable a new Nix channel before I can install it. I'm guessing that's the equivalent of a PPA? Well, alright. nix-channel --add ..., nix-channel --update (oh, so it waits until now to tell me I typo'd the URL. Alright), and now to run the installation command and... couldn't find home-manager? Huh?? I just installed it. I google the error message and apparently you have to reboot after adding a new nix-channel and doing nix-channel --update before it will actually take effect, and the home-manager guide didn't tell me that. Ah well, at least it works now.

I didn't want to wait for KDE and its 6 morbillion dependencies to download, so I opted for Weston. It wasn't a thing in configuration.nix (programs.weston.enable=true; threw an error and there was no page for it on the NixOS wiki), but it was available in nix-env (side note: why does nix-env -i take upwards of 30 seconds just to locate a package?), so I installed it, tried to run it, and promptly got an inscrutable "Permission denied" error with one Google result that had gone unresolved. Oh well, that's alright, I guess that's not supported just yet -- I'll install Sway instead. Great, now I have a GUI and all I need is a browser. nix-env -i firefox gave me the firefox-beta binary which displayed the crash reporter before even opening a browser window. Okay, note to self: always use configuration.nix. One programs.firefox.enable=true; and one nixos-rebuild switch later, I'm off to the races. Browser is up and running. Success! Now I'd like to install a Rust development environment so I can get back to work. According to NixOS wiki, I can copy paste this incantation into a shell.nix file and have rustup in there. Cool. After resolving a few minor hangups regarding compiler version, manually telling rustc where the linker is, and telling nix-shell that I also need cmake (which was thankfully pretty easy), I'm met with a "missing pkg-config file for openssl" error that I have absolutely no idea how to begin to resolve.

I'm trying to stick with it, I really am -- I love the idea that I can just copy my entire configuration to a brand new install by copying one file and the contents of my home directory and have it be effectively the same machine -- but I'm really struggling here. Surely people wouldn't rave about NixOS as much as they do if it was really this bad? What am I doing wrong?

Also unrelated but am I correct in assuming that I cannot install KDE without also installing the X server?

Open spaces for 11am (as of 10:30am) for #PyConUS

Room 308: @micropython
Room 309: @nix
Room 315: #Python and #Cuda
Room 316: Data Engineering Patterns for Healthcare
Room 318: High Schoolers
Room 320: Learning @rust
Room 321: Data Science Meetup

#PyCon #PyConUS2024 #PyConUSOpenSpaces

Power on my dell laptop is getting wonky so I'm pulling the thinkpad x201 out of retirement. Hadn't booted it since 2019! For some reason the wifi wasn't working so connected it to wired ethernet.

Updated the channel to 23.11 and did nixos-rebuild switch. Had to fix a few things where packages no longer exist or options have changed. Rebooted and wifi is working now!

What other OS could you upgrade like that?

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/14020506

The product of a chat with @QuazarOmega@lemy.lol

You can change the color theme of your whole desktop with a single line of code.

Currently supported adapters:

• Adwaita (GTK3, GTK4)
• Alacritty
• dunst
• Firefox (hijacking the default theme with userchrome.css)
• GTK2
• Rofi
• swaylock
• Wezterm

repo: https://gitlab.com/vfosnar/nix-colors-adapters / https://github.com/vfosnar/nix-colors-adapters

Release Notes

I'm very, very new to nix and nixOS both - I come from imperative workflows and very very rarely anything determinative, so this is all brand new to me.

As an example of the kind of thing I don't understand how to do, let's take an example repo I've been bouncing off: https://github.com/GideonWolfe/Chameleon

On a "normal" system, I can get pip and python ready, and then make install and I'm off to the races.

With NixOS, I've got as far as adding python3 and gnumake to my configuration.nix packages. (I have also discovered that putting python in my system packages was the wrong move, so some advice on how better to go about this would be cool too.)

I can't for the life of me wrap my head around what I'm supposed to do, and so many people online are using flakes but I'm on stable 23.11 (and quite daunted by flakes) so I'd prefer if this was from that POV.

Can anyone speak to any of these points? I've tried reading the docs but it's very confusing for some reason.

Yes I know that there are workarounds for them to set to use the flake inputs but still.. I have set nixpkgs version to 23.11 stable release and that's good, but if I try to use nix shell, nix profile or even nix-env, they all seem to use the latest master/unstable branch to install the packages by default.

Just want to know why aren't they just default to use whatever is defined in flake.nix file? will it be implemented to use it by default in the near future?

Reason as to why I am asking -> This is what I am using to match nix shell and flake inputs, but as you can see they are just workarounds, plus seem to cause more errors and whatnot, plus by ideology one shouldn't need to specially define it to use some version when everything is already defined.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/13537798

Exciting Partnership Announcement: Framework Community & NixOS Communities Join Forces!

See I use wofi-emoji but this issue #308357 is haunting me. So I just wanted to know what my fellow users use cuz I guess not a lot of people use wofi-emoji.

I know that if using flakes nix shell is the right command. But I just want to know that is it normal for legacy commands to not work like that one? nix-env works tho.

• Dotfiles

• One thing to note is that, what I am doing temporarily is running it using this

nix shell nixpkgs#nix-info
nix-info

• And the output value is this

 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.1.86, NixOS, 23.11 (Tapir), 23.11.20240417.e402c3e`
 - multi-user?: `no`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.18.1`
 - nixpkgs: `not found`

• Notice the nixpkgs: not found, This is also weird to me.

• logs ->

error:
       … while calling anonymous lambda

         at «string»:1:1:

            1| {...}@args: with import <nixpkgs> args; (pkgs.runCommandCC or pkgs.runCommand) "shell" { buildInputs = [ (nix-info) ]; } ""
             | ^

       error: file 'nixpkgs' was not found in the Nix search path (add it using $NIX_PATH or -I)

       at «none»:0: (source not available)

Eelco has agreed to step down from the NixOS foundation board. Over the next two weeks, a constitutional assembly will be appointed to draft a constitution to democratically govern Nix/NixOS.

Discussion here: https://lemmy.ml/post/15045719

I just saw the news of the soft fork announcement over on the IceShrimp instance and thought I should share here

Background Context for Anyone Out of the Loop

(newest to oldest news - top to bottom):

• NixOS Fork Announced by Jake Hamilton -
• Reddit post - 15 contributors left Nixpkgs maintenance
• Programming.dev post - Jon Ringer's suspension

As mentioned (by u/steventrouble in the previous post here):

• the moderator on the NixOS Discourse forum made a post to directly address the reasons for Jon Ringer's suspension