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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 11:58:16 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   both of these things are lists. they do completely unrelated things

   nixos is great

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 12:02:04 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     spot ten differences

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 12:03:15 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • ari :prideified:

     @ar *opens third can of monster today*

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     ari :prideified: (ar@is-a.cat)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 12:03:16 JST ari :prideified:

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     @whitequark and then there's networking.useNetworkd = true;, which translates the "old" style networking setup into this.

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     dram🎀 (dramforever@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 12:40:16 JST dram🎀

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     @whitequark Apparently this is "just" how the config works, see https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.network.html

     > [Network] Section Options
     > ...
     > Address=
     > A static IPv4 or IPv6 address and its prefix length [...]. **This is a short-hand for an [Address] section only containing an Address key (see below).** [...]

     And nobody questioned it a decade ago, so it's here unless someone cleans it up. (1/2)

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     dan (dan@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 13:09:02 JST dan

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     @whitequark this encapsulates my whole experience with NixOS. Just a whole lot of searching GitHub for examples, hoping someone did exactly what I’m trying to do

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 13:09:02 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • dan

     @dan i just read the source code tbh

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     Ramin Honary (ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Monday, 22-Dec-2025 13:54:15 JST Ramin Honary

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     • dan
     > "i just read the source code tbh"
     
     @whitequark that is how most people I know who use Nix make their configs. Either search for a blog post on how to do it, or figure it out yourself by reading the Nix Packages source code.
     
     
     At some point I did a simple cost-benefit analysis and asked myself, "do I really need reproducible builds on my daily driver if it takes that much work to make such tiny changes?"
     
     I switched back to Debian.
     
     
     @dan