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  1. TIL: nixos-infect does strange things with dbus and systemd that cause problems while booting when deployed #NixOS with #Colmena. At least this gave me a chance to try nixos-anywhere :blobble_bobble:

  2. A month ago I wanted to switch to #Helix and immersed myself in #HomeManager, #Flakes, #sops-nix, and #colmena. Today, after a long redesign of my #NixOS module structure, I successfully applied colmena to the first test node. Twelve more will follow. This OS is wild.

  3. A month ago I wanted to switch to #Helix and immersed myself in #HomeManager, #Flakes, #sops-nix, and #colmena. Today, after a long redesign of my #NixOS module structure, I successfully applied colmena to the first test node. Twelve more will follow. This OS is wild.

  4. A month ago I wanted to switch to #Helix and immersed myself in #HomeManager, #Flakes, #sops-nix, and #colmena. Today, after a long redesign of my #NixOS module structure, I successfully applied colmena to the first test node. Twelve more will follow. This OS is wild.

  5. A month ago I wanted to switch to #Helix and immersed myself in #HomeManager, #Flakes, #sops-nix, and #colmena. Today, after a long redesign of my #NixOS module structure, I successfully applied colmena to the first test node. Twelve more will follow. This OS is wild.

  6. A month ago I wanted to switch to #Helix and immersed myself in #HomeManager, #Flakes, #sops-nix, and #colmena. Today, after a long redesign of my #NixOS module structure, I successfully applied colmena to the first test node. Twelve more will follow. This OS is wild.

  7. @skyfaller I can only speak about my combination of @forgejo deployed via #colmena on @nixos_org and it's been absolutely hassle free from the moment I set it up.

    Upgrades have all been hands off, etc.

    I'm sure this experience is replicable on other tool sets.

  8. @skyfaller I can only speak about my combination of @forgejo deployed via #colmena on @nixos_org and it's been absolutely hassle free from the moment I set it up.

    Upgrades have all been hands off, etc.

    I'm sure this experience is replicable on other tool sets.

  9. @skyfaller I can only speak about my combination of @forgejo deployed via #colmena on @nixos_org and it's been absolutely hassle free from the moment I set it up.

    Upgrades have all been hands off, etc.

    I'm sure this experience is replicable on other tool sets.

  10. @skyfaller I can only speak about my combination of @forgejo deployed via #colmena on @nixos_org and it's been absolutely hassle free from the moment I set it up.

    Upgrades have all been hands off, etc.

    I'm sure this experience is replicable on other tool sets.

  11. @skyfaller I can only speak about my combination of @forgejo deployed via #colmena on @nixos_org and it's been absolutely hassle free from the moment I set it up.

    Upgrades have all been hands off, etc.

    I'm sure this experience is replicable on other tool sets.

  12. @petafloppa hi, I use #colmena colmena.cli.rs/ it works very well, maintaining more than 20 configuration is painless.

  13. @petafloppa hi, I use #colmena colmena.cli.rs/ it works very well, maintaining more than 20 configuration is painless.

  14. After a few nights and weekends of mashing keys, I have figured the right order to bring up a #nixos instance built for #proxmox, provision it with #colmena, shove secrets on it with #sops, bring up a docker container, and get it on my @tailscale #tailnet. I don’t know how many times I nearly gave up, but it paid off, and I’m thrilled.

    Now to do it again.

  15. After a few nights and weekends of mashing keys, I have figured the right order to bring up a #nixos instance built for #proxmox, provision it with #colmena, shove secrets on it with #sops, bring up a docker container, and get it on my @tailscale #tailnet. I don’t know how many times I nearly gave up, but it paid off, and I’m thrilled.

    Now to do it again.

  16. After a few nights and weekends of mashing keys, I have figured the right order to bring up a instance built for , provision it with , shove secrets on it with , bring up a docker container, and get it on my @tailscale . I don’t know how many times I nearly gave up, but it paid off, and I’m thrilled.

    Now to do it again.

  17. After a few nights and weekends of mashing keys, I have figured the right order to bring up a #nixos instance built for #proxmox, provision it with #colmena, shove secrets on it with #sops, bring up a docker container, and get it on my @tailscale #tailnet. I don’t know how many times I nearly gave up, but it paid off, and I’m thrilled.

    Now to do it again.

  18. After a few nights and weekends of mashing keys, I have figured the right order to bring up a #nixos instance built for #proxmox, provision it with #colmena, shove secrets on it with #sops, bring up a docker container, and get it on my @tailscale #tailnet. I don’t know how many times I nearly gave up, but it paid off, and I’m thrilled.

    Now to do it again.

  19. Well, day seven of getting my NixOS updated to 24.11. Except for a couple minor annoyances, I think I've finally figured it out.

    The problem came down to my Frankensteined NixOS flake+colmena setup that was done with at a (still) imperfect understanding of Nix. Which is to say, I could understand the written documentation enough to see what I was doing wrong and where I went horribly wrong.

    I still don't understand what I do.

    What I can do is continue to take bits of information from others, a fuckload of random "does this do something different", and lib.debug.traceIf to puzzle out something that will work until the next time something went wrong.

    I also had to update colmena to the unstable version, and refactor to use colmena+nixosConfigurations+flake to get the significant number of nixpkgs.config.permittedInsecurePackages entries updated that came with 24.11 (which is what triggered the whole thing).

    But, about half of my servers are updated. The others build, I just have to figure out where to set up one entry.

    Plus I had to disable Stylix so no pretty background.

    A lot further along, and I can see the end of a tunnel now. It doesn't appear to be a train.

    #NixOS #Colmena

  20. Well, day seven of getting my NixOS updated to 24.11. Except for a couple minor annoyances, I think I've finally figured it out.

    The problem came down to my Frankensteined NixOS flake+colmena setup that was done with at a (still) imperfect understanding of Nix. Which is to say, I could understand the written documentation enough to see what I was doing wrong and where I went horribly wrong.

    I still don't understand what I do.

    What I can do is continue to take bits of information from others, a fuckload of random "does this do something different", and lib.debug.traceIf to puzzle out something that will work until the next time something went wrong.

    I also had to update colmena to the unstable version, and refactor to use colmena+nixosConfigurations+flake to get the significant number of nixpkgs.config.permittedInsecurePackages entries updated that came with 24.11 (which is what triggered the whole thing).

    But, about half of my servers are updated. The others build, I just have to figure out where to set up one entry.

    Plus I had to disable Stylix so no pretty background.

    A lot further along, and I can see the end of a tunnel now. It doesn't appear to be a train.

    #NixOS #Colmena

  21. Well, day seven of getting my NixOS updated to 24.11. Except for a couple minor annoyances, I think I've finally figured it out.

    The problem came down to my Frankensteined NixOS flake+colmena setup that was done with at a (still) imperfect understanding of Nix. Which is to say, I could understand the written documentation enough to see what I was doing wrong and where I went horribly wrong.

    I still don't understand what I do.

    What I can do is continue to take bits of information from others, a fuckload of random "does this do something different", and lib.debug.traceIf to puzzle out something that will work until the next time something went wrong.

    I also had to update colmena to the unstable version, and refactor to use colmena+nixosConfigurations+flake to get the significant number of nixpkgs.config.permittedInsecurePackages entries updated that came with 24.11 (which is what triggered the whole thing).

    But, about half of my servers are updated. The others build, I just have to figure out where to set up one entry.

    Plus I had to disable Stylix so no pretty background.

    A lot further along, and I can see the end of a tunnel now. It doesn't appear to be a train.

    #NixOS #Colmena

  22. Well, day seven of getting my NixOS updated to 24.11. Except for a couple minor annoyances, I think I've finally figured it out.

    The problem came down to my Frankensteined NixOS flake+colmena setup that was done with at a (still) imperfect understanding of Nix. Which is to say, I could understand the written documentation enough to see what I was doing wrong and where I went horribly wrong.

    I still don't understand what I do.

    What I can do is continue to take bits of information from others, a fuckload of random "does this do something different", and lib.debug.traceIf to puzzle out something that will work until the next time something went wrong.

    I also had to update colmena to the unstable version, and refactor to use colmena+nixosConfigurations+flake to get the significant number of nixpkgs.config.permittedInsecurePackages entries updated that came with 24.11 (which is what triggered the whole thing).

    But, about half of my servers are updated. The others build, I just have to figure out where to set up one entry.

    Plus I had to disable Stylix so no pretty background.

    A lot further along, and I can see the end of a tunnel now. It doesn't appear to be a train.

    #NixOS #Colmena

  23. Well, day seven of getting my NixOS updated to 24.11. Except for a couple minor annoyances, I think I've finally figured it out.

    The problem came down to my Frankensteined NixOS flake+colmena setup that was done with at a (still) imperfect understanding of Nix. Which is to say, I could understand the written documentation enough to see what I was doing wrong and where I went horribly wrong.

    I still don't understand what I do.

    What I can do is continue to take bits of information from others, a fuckload of random "does this do something different", and lib.debug.traceIf to puzzle out something that will work until the next time something went wrong.

    I also had to update colmena to the unstable version, and refactor to use colmena+nixosConfigurations+flake to get the significant number of nixpkgs.config.permittedInsecurePackages entries updated that came with 24.11 (which is what triggered the whole thing).

    But, about half of my servers are updated. The others build, I just have to figure out where to set up one entry.

    Plus I had to disable Stylix so no pretty background.

    A lot further along, and I can see the end of a tunnel now. It doesn't appear to be a train.

    #NixOS #Colmena

  24. My journey progressed again today. After installing NixOS on my desktop, I was able to remotely push new config to it with and a flake. Since my endgame is to do that for VMs, this is a big step forward.

  25. My #nixos journey progressed again today. After installing NixOS on my desktop, I was able to remotely push new config to it with #colmena and a flake. Since my endgame is to do that for VMs, this is a big step forward.

  26. @craige first time hearing of #colmena. Is it [this one](github.com/zhaofengli/colmena)? Could you elaborate on your use case? I'm failing to see what is colmena doing here. Is it something like Ansible but more focused on #Nix and #NixOS?

  27. @craige first time hearing of #colmena. Is it [this one](github.com/zhaofengli/colmena)? Could you elaborate on your use case? I'm failing to see what is colmena doing here. Is it something like Ansible but more focused on #Nix and #NixOS?

  28. @craige first time hearing of #colmena. Is it [this one](github.com/zhaofengli/colmena)? Could you elaborate on your use case? I'm failing to see what is colmena doing here. Is it something like Ansible but more focused on #Nix and #NixOS?

  29. @craige first time hearing of #colmena. Is it [this one](github.com/zhaofengli/colmena)? Could you elaborate on your use case? I'm failing to see what is colmena doing here. Is it something like Ansible but more focused on #Nix and #NixOS?

  30. @craige first time hearing of #colmena. Is it [this one](github.com/zhaofengli/colmena)? Could you elaborate on your use case? I'm failing to see what is colmena doing here. Is it something like Ansible but more focused on #Nix and #NixOS?

  31. It's Sunday night, I'm try to get a few hours work in today to work less tomorrow when I find myself trying to get "${pkgs.system}" to filter down from a let in my #nixOS flake outputs into my #colmena configs when, after a few minutes of blank staring I realise:

    "you know what? an early night looks really attractive right now"

  32. It's Sunday night, I'm try to get a few hours work in today to work less tomorrow when I find myself trying to get "${pkgs.system}" to filter down from a let in my #nixOS flake outputs into my #colmena configs when, after a few minutes of blank staring I realise:

    "you know what? an early night looks really attractive right now"

  33. It's Sunday night, I'm try to get a few hours work in today to work less tomorrow when I find myself trying to get "${pkgs.system}" to filter down from a let in my #nixOS flake outputs into my #colmena configs when, after a few minutes of blank staring I realise:

    "you know what? an early night looks really attractive right now"

  34. It's Sunday night, I'm try to get a few hours work in today to work less tomorrow when I find myself trying to get "${pkgs.system}" to filter down from a let in my #nixOS flake outputs into my #colmena configs when, after a few minutes of blank staring I realise:

    "you know what? an early night looks really attractive right now"

  35. It's Sunday night, I'm try to get a few hours work in today to work less tomorrow when I find myself trying to get "${pkgs.system}" to filter down from a let in my #nixOS flake outputs into my #colmena configs when, after a few minutes of blank staring I realise:

    "you know what? an early night looks really attractive right now"

  36. supongo que esto es algún tipo de flor que me espera
    abierta
    como el surco de mi frente
    vomitando abejas en lugar de llamarlas
    gritando escucha no es para tanto
    todas las vidas tienen
    una colmena

    #poesía #literatura #abejas #colmena

  37. supongo que esto es algún tipo de flor que me espera
    abierta
    como el surco de mi frente
    vomitando abejas en lugar de llamarlas
    gritando escucha no es para tanto
    todas las vidas tienen
    una colmena

    #poesía #literatura #abejas #colmena

  38. Holy fuck, a huge journey just ended today:

    My final, my largest, most active personal repo was finally converted to flakes & #colmena for managing #nixOS hosts.

    My Git oracles informed me that I first started trying to convert this repo on the 8th April 2021 😳

    It had become such a massive chore to have one repo still stuck in the #nixops swamp, that I finally set aside a day on the weekend and JFDI.

    Being a personal repo, previous attempts had suffered from "bah, I don't have time for this"

  39. ¿Que hacen las #abejas cuando llueve? 🤔 🐝
    Las abejas realizan otras actividades en la #colmena durante los días lluviosos ☔

    👉Aprende más aquí 👇

    soloabejas.com/blog/que-hacen-

  40. ¿Que hacen las #abejas cuando llueve? 🤔 🐝
    Las abejas realizan otras actividades en la #colmena durante los días lluviosos ☔

    👉Aprende más aquí 👇

    soloabejas.com/blog/que-hacen-

  41. ¿Que hacen las #abejas cuando llueve? 🤔 🐝
    Las abejas realizan otras actividades en la #colmena durante los días lluviosos ☔

    👉Aprende más aquí 👇

    soloabejas.com/blog/que-hacen-

  42. ¿Que hacen las #abejas cuando llueve? 🤔 🐝
    Las abejas realizan otras actividades en la #colmena durante los días lluviosos ☔

    👉Aprende más aquí 👇

    soloabejas.com/blog/que-hacen-

  43. ¿Que hacen las #abejas cuando llueve? 🤔 🐝
    Las abejas realizan otras actividades en la #colmena durante los días lluviosos ☔

    👉Aprende más aquí 👇

    soloabejas.com/blog/que-hacen-

  44. @nobodyinperson maybe use a tool like #Colmena or #DeployRS to do the heavy-lifting on another node, so all the store objects will be pushed remotely to the Pi's store and all that's left to do for it is to run the activation script?

    #NixOS #RaspberryPi

  45. @nobodyinperson maybe use a tool like #Colmena or #DeployRS to do the heavy-lifting on another node, so all the store objects will be pushed remotely to the Pi's store and all that's left to do for it is to run the activation script?

    #NixOS #RaspberryPi

  46. @nobodyinperson maybe use a tool like #Colmena or #DeployRS to do the heavy-lifting on another node, so all the store objects will be pushed remotely to the Pi's store and all that's left to do for it is to run the activation script?

    #NixOS #RaspberryPi

  47. @nobodyinperson maybe use a tool like #Colmena or #DeployRS to do the heavy-lifting on another node, so all the store objects will be pushed remotely to the Pi's store and all that's left to do for it is to run the activation script?

    #NixOS #RaspberryPi

  48. @nobodyinperson maybe use a tool like #Colmena or #DeployRS to do the heavy-lifting on another node, so all the store objects will be pushed remotely to the Pi's store and all that's left to do for it is to run the activation script?

    #NixOS #RaspberryPi