No :(
smiletolerantly
joined 2 years ago
nixos-rebuild switch
Is there actual REQUIRED upkeep though or could you say fuck it, and go ashore with a tent, row boat and the freshwater and food required for a week?
OK I'm curious. Would I be allowed:
- my blood glucose monitor? (It's dead weight without a device reading it, but it does have a battery and it's glued to/pricked into my arm)
- a stand-alone device reading values from it? (Think esp32 with a shitty 1.4" display)
- since I don't actually own that, my phone for the sole purpose of reading my blood glucose?
Not really... At least not generally. The privacy increase from switching from Android to proper Linux is, to me at least, more important than loosing a locked bootloader.
That's just my threat model. I know that Google & Co are extracting as much info about me as humanly possible, and I have no reason to believe that I am being targeted by someone with the capability to exploit the unlocked bootloader.
Same for my PC btw - secure boot is disabled because it's not worth the hassle. Again. In my threat model.
(But I would wager that this goes for a lot of users.)
Quick! Get this person a series A, B and C funding!
Pretty sure the Bootloader in unlockable (at least they were in the past?) and support(ed) mainline Linux kernel for an actual Linux mobile OS.
Idk, to me that sounds way better than staying on a google device.
Yeah, that's my point. I never got around to putting things in Debian repos or the AUR because shit seemed unnecessarily complicated. Now on NixOS, I happily help maintain a bunch of packages and modules. Because the packaging, build system, and OS are just sane, stable, and a joy to work with!
Sorry, but calling the dumping ground for obsolete and outdated packages an "OS" goes a little too far in my opinion.
"Smaller userbase yet more stable and more and better maintained packages" is not the insult you thought it was, I'm afraid...
(/s, just in case, hope this is all still in good fun!)
I don't how hoch you managed to accidentally type "Debian" while you were obviously trying to type NixOS.
Most correct answer possible.