Im glad you are not over ambitious with your schedule. An episode every three weeks / month is a great way to keep going. I remember when privacy guides said they were going to do a "this week in privacy" which unfortunately lasted about 6 weeks. I wish you best of luck!

Me and one other tech friend who appeased me. We tried simplex first, but sometimes their background service would be off and they wouldnt get messages. So we switch to Molly.

I've had an amazing time remoting into friends and families windows machines from my linux box, and they were able to install rustdesk very easily. It's incredibly streamlined and has been so helpful when I need it.

Most compiled output of NixOS configuration (besides packages, perhaps) is just systemd units anyway. I found out quickly when learning nix that my lack of systemd prowess was going to cap how well I could understand NixOS.

I use a tool called ouch so I never have to remember the tar flags ever again.

I think the photo gives the wrong impression. Its completely unrelated to the question.

https://appflowy.com/ is another possibility.

I dont think the criticism of installing apps is valid. Windows also has many ways of installing things. He criticizes the app center as if you can install everything from the microsoft store. On windows you still install stuff from a website, and you can use a package manager too it just isn't a requirement.

Theres three things at play here: nix, nixpkgs, and NixOS.

Nix is a programming language. Its designed as its primary purpose to configure, build, and install software.

Nixpkgs is a collections of mamy bundles of premade nix code called derivations. These derivations include the build instructions for applications and the configuration options for those applications. This part is most equivalent to a package repository, but it does not contain prebuilt packages. It only contains the instructions for building it.

Nix has a wide variety of tools for managing these derivations. This includes downloading derivations from nixpkgs and building them locally on your machine (or finding prebuilt packages from a cache). Nix shell is one of those tools that downloads a package temporarily, and makes it available in your shell. You wouldnt use nix shell for installing things permanently.

The OS built with nix as the primary package manager is NixOS. It allows you to define your entire system state as a derivation: your systemd units, installed packages, user configuration, graphical environment, etc.

The best part of NixOS is that it takes the OS and represents the state of the computer as a single repository of code. If you look up someones nixos configuration on GitHub, you'll see a single collection of files (filled with derivations!) that completely and totally define the state of the system.

There are many devices for making single or double cups of coffee. I think the aeropress and v60 are great options.

Web app might be best. I'd start with one built into a search engine. Try duckduckgo or brave search.

Yeah, you're totally right.

All image processing happens locally.

And then it mentions that you can just open the index.html directly, which means it uses clientside javascript or wasm and runs on the browser. You are correct!

On the topic of word choice, you might be right. Save or open might be better.