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   Kate Temkin ????❤️ (ktemkin@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 21:52:44 JST Kate Temkin ????❤️

   folks tend to think that NixOS users spend a lot of time fighting their configuration — but the truth is, often we’re doing something that boils down to “fighting some app’s personalized configuration format so one never has to worry about configuring it again”

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 21:52:43 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @ktemkin then they completely overhaul it in the next major version (released twice a year)

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     Kate Temkin ????❤️ (ktemkin@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 21:52:49 JST Kate Temkin ????❤️

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     • ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     @whitequark yep; and the real danger of environments that make your system reproducible is they remove all the urgency from upgrading your per-app configs

     I can just hang on to that olde version for a few more years, right? >.>

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-May-2024 21:52:52 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     @ktemkin I already do this by using *checks notes* Debian oldoldstable

     no upgrades mean no config upgrades!

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