Notices by Benjamin Hollon (benjaminhollon@fosstodon.org)

@dmoonfire @joel
I assume you often reference this handy chart, then? xkcd#1205

@joel
I gotchu. xkcd#1934.

@MisterMaker
I'm curious—where in Malaysia? At a guess, one of the Perhentian islands? (I lived in Malaysia for six years until this June; the Perhentians were the islands we went to for vacation that were only accessible by boat.)

@MisterMaker
Haha, a very lucky guess! XD

I can't remember which of the perhentian islands it was that we'd go to. Looks like Redang island is fairly close, though—that's where my senior class in High School went for a retreat.

Any other destinations in Malaysia you have visited or are going to visit?

@10leej
Oh, rats. Should be https://arainlesssky.benjaminhollon.com

*checks the code and sees that the correct link seems to be entered there*

Um… I'll figure out what's going on.

@10leej
Ohhh, this is on the front page. Fixed now, thank you!

Today is my last day in Malaysia for a while. Tomorrow I head back to the US.

@RL_Dane @gordoooo_z @al3x @sotolf

I'd say I'm at a very deep level in (neo)?vim, but I've only been using it since August, so both of you have me by several orders of magnitude in time using vim. I'm just at a stage of high neuroplasticity and have been able to dive very deep very quickly.

@krogers @nicemicro @torvalds

Chiming in—I always use yyyy-mm-dd as well. If nothing else, it sorts files correctly when they’re prepended with dates. :)

Correction, I *thought* I'd solved it. I somehow got it to build a bootable system, but when I boot into that system, builds are still failing whenever I try to rebuild. I may just need to rollback, report the bug, and see what happens.

Okay, I've gone back to 22.11. Anyone know the proper place to report an issue like this? Is https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs the right repo?

Okay, I've figured everything out.

Temporary workaround: running your nixos-rebuild commands with the --install-bootloader flag will make the build succeed.

Long-term solution: there's a PR that's been merged and should fix this, the fix just needs to move from staging to the main channel. You can track the progress here: https://nixpk.gs/pr-tracker.html?pr=235770

(I'm getting a 502 error from the link at the moment, but it worked a couple hours ago and'll probably work again soon)

Is anyone else having problems upgrading to #NixOS 23.05?

The error I'm getting on rebuild: https://haste.benjaminhollon.com/oqacixigut

EDIT: I got it! :D

My best evaluation of what went wrong: there wasn't actually any issue with the built image, it's just that the systemd check failed because it was running from an older version? So I added a flag to force it to keep going anyway and when I rebooted, here I am in 23.05! XD

@batvin3211

Which options did you change? (thanks for the help) That does seem to be where my research is pointing to.

@batvin3211

Very similar to what's in mine (for some reason I get a 403 error when trying to post the relevant config).

Was it commenting out that line that fixed it for you? I'll try that.

@batvin3211
But I think this is on the right track…

@batvin3211

Hmm now I'm getting a different error.

File system "/boot" is not a FAT EFI System Partition (ESP) file system.
systemd-boot not installed in ESP.
No default/fallback boot loader installed in ESP.

@batvin3211

Ha, sleep well. It's 14:00 here, so I'll keep working on it a while. ;)

@batvin3211

I got it! :D

My best evaluation of what went wrong: there wasn't actually any issue with the built image, it's just that the systemd check failed because it was running from an older version? So I added a flag to force it to keep going anyway and when I rebooted, here I am in 23.05! XD

@batvin3211

Wait, I'm still getting errors trying to rebuild once I'm booted into the new version… I may just need to rollback to 22.11, report the bug, and see what happens.