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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • I haven’t tried to be honest, since it defeats the entire purpose of fucking around with Guix. I made a few posts on this, but I just fuck around with VMs when I haven’t done a “technical” activity to avoid feeling like a useless jackass, and one of the distros I wanted to learn about is Guix.

    If I want to run guix install lxqt I can. But why would I want to use Guix to have a user with a certain desktop environment? I want to be able to set up machines at the drop of a hat that are all the same all the time, and I want the machine to be all the same, not the user.






  • That’s the fine details of personal situation and preference. I think we have a disagreement on perspective, and I’m glad you pointed out that specific detail, so that others reading our discussion can make a well informed decision.

    I still disagree, but not because of a technical level, from my perspective, it’s still roughly the same, we just see “most recent hardware” as being applicable to different people.

    And I hope you can feel that you can agree with the idea that it’s a social disagreement and not a technical one.


  • can you teach me how to make a config file that only has lxqt? I tried the thing below replacing XFCE with LXQT and failed loads, I’m tired of wasting gigs and hours trying to make it work when I’m sleepy.

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    ;; This is an operating system configuration generated
    ;; by the graphical installer.
    ;;
    ;; Once installation is complete, you can learn and modify
    ;; this file to tweak the system configuration, and pass it
    ;; to the 'guix system reconfigure' command to effect your
    ;; changes.
    
    
    ;; Indicate which modules to import to access the variables
    ;; used in this configuration.
    (use-modules (gnu))
    (use-service-modules cups desktop networking ssh xorg wm)
    
    (operating-system
      (locale "en_GB.utf8")
      (timezone "America/place")
      (keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout "gb"))
      (host-name "pc")
    
      ;; The list of user accounts ('root' is implicit).
      (users (cons* (user-account
                      (name "name")
                      (comment "name")
                      (group "users")
                      (home-directory "/home/name")
                      (supplementary-groups '("wheel" "netdev" "audio" "video")))
                    %base-user-accounts))
    
      ;; Packages installed system-wide.  Users can also install packages
      ;; under their own account: use 'guix search KEYWORD' to search
      ;; for packages and 'guix install PACKAGE' to install a package.
      (packages (append (list
                              (specification->package "xterm")) %base-packages))
    
      ;; Below is the list of system services.  To search for available
      ;; services, run 'guix system search KEYWORD' in a terminal.
      (services
       (append (list (service xfce-desktop-service-type) ;; I replaced this with  lxqt-desktop-service-type and it didn't "start" the DE properly when I logged in, I just got a blank screen, or worse, it failed to install properly with different "rest of the file"
    
                     ;; To configure OpenSSH, pass an 'openssh-configuration'
                     ;; record as a second argument to 'service' below.
                     (service openssh-service-type)
                     (set-xorg-configuration
                      (xorg-configuration (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout))))
    
               ;; This is the default list of services we
               ;; are appending to.
               %desktop-services))
      (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
                    (bootloader grub-bootloader)
                    (targets (list "/dev/vda"))
                    (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))
      (swap-devices (list (swap-space
                            (target (uuid
                                     "666id")))))
    
      ;; The list of file systems that get "mounted".  The unique
      ;; file system identifiers there ("UUIDs") can be obtained
      ;; by running 'blkid' in a terminal.
      (file-systems (cons* (file-system
                             (mount-point "/")
                             (device (uuid
                                      "666id"
                                      'ext4))
                             (type "ext4")) %base-file-systems)))
    
    

    This is just to run in a VM in Virtual Machine Manager


  • As a turk this was so fucking disappointing. Like really. This was our THIRD world cup, and every fucking time we fail to qualify because we are a mid tier team and in groups with giants, then face titans in the playoffs and get blown out.

    The one time we make it, get placed into a group with other mid teams , then proceed to fail hard against places with barely any football history.

    Fucking two out of USA, Australia and Paraguay should have been easy wins for fucks sake. Australia has so many other sports that people go for instead, USA has the same, and Paraguay aren’t that good in the first place.