Notices by Jonathan Frederickson (jfred@jawns.club)

@cwebber If you hadn't already seen this, you might like to know that there's now a Guix Home service for git-annex assistant as of last month! https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/pulls/7148

I just stumbled upon this browsing through the manual and it's gonna be super useful for me

@slowfallinward @cwebber Very true, though also keep in mind that bikes and trains can work well together! You can practically get much further from a station on a bike than on foot

Especially if you don't actually have to take the bike on the train and can rent another one cheaply and easily on the other end (e.g. https://www.ns.nl/en/door-to-door/ov-fiets)

@cwebber @dthompson @mntmn Looking forward to seeing how it goes!

I would like to try and learn Blender at some point but never enough time in the day ^^;

@cwebber This is why we desperately need ocap phone calls

New blog post about something I realized this morning re: potential chat apps that could let you pass around capabilities: https://www.terracrypt.net/posts/structured-messaging.html

In summary: I think message contents should also be treated as structured data rather than just as strings! Feels like something I should have realized sooner, but it's funny how the brain doesn't always make connections that seem obvious in retrospect

#ocap #spritely

@cwebber Eheheh, thanks for looking into that one. If I'm thinking of the same one it's why I have tests disabled for guile-goblins in my profile right now. I was perplexed when I tried reproducing it outside Guix and I couldn't

Not sure if you've seen this but I was having different unit tests fail at different times too!

@cwebber That capability oriented plugin system does sound interesting though...

@freya @cwebber I think especially in that case it should always be possible for the user to choose where to upload data to though. Both for privacy reasons (you can choose a provider you trust, or run your own if you're able to) and so your glasses don't stop working when the manufacturer decides to stop supporting them

@cwebber This is basically where I'm at too. I'd like to keep using the Pocket Reform in some incarnation for as long as I can - with some tweaks and upgrades along the way, to be sure, but with the same chassis. (We'll see how that goes as I get older and my vision gets worse but I can always chassis swap)

Of course I feel a bit hypocritical saying that while continuing to buy each new MNT thing, but I can afford it and I want to support them. It's only partly an excuse I tell myself 😅

@cwebber @theesm Ooh! :D

@cwebber @vagrantc That's kexec, yeah. It's usable from a technical standpoint, though I think it can be a bit fiddly to set up. That's what Heads uses to load the OS kernel: https://github.com/linuxboot/heads/blob/master/initrd/bin/kexec-boot

(...and it's used sometimes for faster reboots as well: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kexec)

@cwebber @vagrantc Oh yeah that bit me years ago too when I was booting a Guix machine off of Heads (which likewise doesn't use grub). In that case though I could manually decrypt from the recovery shell, which isn't possible on the Reforms yet due to the lack of graphics in early boot

That might be a sticking point for Guix on MNT hardware too, since rolling back to previous generations from the boot menu is one of the nicer features of Guix

@cwebber Saaaaame. I'll let you know if I get anywhere on that - I think before I can daily drive it I need to find a good way to use bits of a community config for the hardware-specific stuff rather than trying to bundle it all into my own config. Gotta share the load somehow!

@cwebber Daydreaming about a Wayland WM designed after StumpWM but written in Guile

@chirpbirb @cwebber I'm using the rk3588 module on my big Reform rather than my Pocket, but since it's the same module: works great! It's more than powerful enough for YouTube

@cwebber The eternal struggle of niche open hardware projects. They're hackable, but sometimes they *need* some (potentially involved) hacking to get to where you need it to be.

The Pocket Reform with more polish (around suspend, battery life, etc) would be pretty much my ideal machine for personal use. In its current state it definitely requires some compromises. But I buy these things in part because I want to see them succeed :)

@phantasus @cwebber Re: "The Pocket Reform has the advantage to be that quirky small computer thingy which would be carried around in movies like Hackers or any cyberpunk-esque story" - this is basically how I use mine 😆

I should probably put together a blog post on my setup at some point

Short one about my #DecemberAdventure progress so far on guile-horton: https://www.terracrypt.net/posts/decadv-horton-persist-debugging.html

Haven't gotten as far with this as I would have liked, because I've gotten myself a bit stuck in troubleshooting mode. Knew this could happen though; this is an old project (relatively speaking) that I figured might be difficult to bring up to date. Getting there though, slowly but surely!

#spritely #ocap #guile

@cwebber A bit more in this update from a while back: https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2025-04-14-april-update.html

@cwebber Tablet device for Reform modules: https://nlnet.nl/project/MNT-Reform-Touch/

I'm not sure that's super far along yet with Reform Next still on the way, but it's planned at least!