Episode 439

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April 29th, 2025

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About this Episode

This week we dig into "Nixbook", a Linux distro designed to make old laptops into Chromebooks. Noah fell down the Nix rabbit hole, and of course we answer your questions.

-- During The Show --

00:50 Generosity

  • Experiencing generosity
  • A bunch of computers about to flood the market

03:50 Mike Kelly (Olympia Mike)

  • Used laptop during Covid19
  • Became known for used laptops
  • Company gifts used laptops
  • Closing the technical divide
  • Updates
  • Package Confusion
  • NixOS
  • Olympia Mike's nixbook
  • How to help out
  • Powerwashing

13:15 Noah's Nixbook Experience

  • Give Noah a toy and remove distractions for 5+ hours
  • Throw out everything you know
  • Where NixOS fits
  • Rollback functionality
  • Going to drive Nixbook till hitting a roadblock
  • Can't live in a flatpak world
  • Ansible is the hammer that hits the most nails
  • How long to get up and running on Nix
  • Have to adopt the "nix way"
  • NixOS Flakes
  • Nix Language

31:25 News Wire

33:00 Community

  • How your self branding and its effects
  • Noah's experience with a young man
  • Noah's negative experience
  • People remember how you make them feel and that reflects on communities
  • There is what is said and what is received
  • How to deliver messages
  • Dinner example

41:20 OsmAnd - Richard

45:28 Drive Rotation Off site backup - Kevin

  • The back up plan you understand is the best
  • Not doing anything un-usual
  • A few concerns
  • Hardware cycling
  • HDD destruction

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