#nixosconfiguration — Public Fediverse posts

Does anyone have a recommendation for a hardware build and flake for a powerful server type machine (e.g. headless, with remote KVM built in or via dongle) that allows my lower/under powered nixos-driven machines at home to use via LAN as an external build computer when they update and build their configuration? Thanks ! #NixOS #nixosconfiguration #flakes #homelab #remotebuilds

@ocramius @gianarb Just to be clear, this allows me to locally spawn a KVM based VM just by doing `nix build .#nixosConfiguration.<name>.config.formats.vm`

I can test stuff before going into production like that.

Fun fact:

You could use the full text of 1984 as a attribute name in a #Nix attribute set.

Why not name your #nixosConfiguration `${''It was a bright cold day in April, and ... <the whole text wont fit in a mastodon post unfortunately> ... He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.''}`?

When I roll back #nixos to an earlier build I not only do not have a #firefox #crash problem but also problems with #authy and #bitwarden apps seem to go away. Problem is I do not want to roll back my configuration.nix - that would lose software installs, right?? #newbie question: is the #nixosconfiguration in configuration.nix preserved (latest version kept) when on rolls back ? Or do I reinstall #nixos from image (boot from usb image) and use the latest backup of my configuration.nix file?

Is there a detailed step-by-step tutorial showing how to build into a #nixos configuration.nix an open source uncompiled code/package/program/app from #github so that the said code/package/program/app can run following rebuild? I do not care what the code/package/program/app is nor what language it is in! (Could be a hello world gui in BASIC for all I care...) Just an example of the process from open configuration.nix to run. Without this #nixos seems not accessible for me. #nixosconfiguration

#protonvpn #protonvpncli #nixos To make #proton #vpn start the last used vpn connection automatically under nixos after #boot when the user logs on thereafter, try the setup as lines 160-179 of my #nixosconfiguration #nixosConfigurations https://pastebin.com/R3Hz05MZ Uses the command line interface #cli of the protonvpn-cli package.
Cannot say I understand it, but learnt a lot after a lot of dead-ends on the way. The #systemd #service in the configuratoin.nix file is not listed by #systemctl Why?