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  • I have the exact same little box for my HTPC in my living room.

    It’s possible something went wrong during your install or configuration. I’m running a different distro, but I had to do very little tweaking or configuring of drivers, since the hardware is pretty standard.

    Do you have any display output at all? Dropping into a tty or accessing your machine over ssh after boot at least gives you a starting point to debug.

    Some tools that you can use to gather more info:

    • inxi: prints out helpful summaries of system info for debugging. inxi --graphics should give you some info to work with. My output tells me that I’m using the i915 kernel driver for display output.
    • modinfo: prints out kernel module info. The output is lengthy, so piping to a pager is helpful: modinfo i915 | less
    • system logs: see if there are any useful error messages in your systemd journal with journalctl --this-boot --priority=3, or search for messages related to the i915 kernel module with journalctl --this-boot --grep i915






  • I haven’t seen git update-index --skip-worktree mentioned yet. You can read about the motivation for this feature in the git scm docs.

    I have used it in the past when a professor wanted us to clone repos for assignments that included some opinionated settings for VSCode that I didn’t want to use. Skipping the work tree for that directory allowed me to change or delete the config files without git complaining every time I pushed or pulled or whatever, and the changes I made remained local.

    You could set up a couple git aliases to “freeze” and “thaw” your config files on the second drive.


  • If they have all your info, then it’s possible for someone to get around a credit freeze. But it’s unlikely.

    Scammers will buy a chunk of records from these databases and start opening lines of credit for each. If one doesn’t work because credit is frozen, it’s easier to move on to the next account.




  • It looks like you haven’t passed a package name to nix-search, so it’s just printing the usage info, and fzf is ingesting the lines of that usage info for you to fuzzy search over.

    fzf won’t pass the search query back to whatever program piped in the input. The search query is only used to narrow the results.

    I’m not sure how to go about interactively searching nixpkgs with fzf, but you could start by writing a function that accepts a package name or whatever you want to search for and passes it to nix-search. Then fzf can narrow down the results for you.





  • It’s unfortunately not possible to swap between list and grid views with the gtk file-chooser. It’s a common complaint, but there doesn’t seem to be any movement to allow greater configuration.

    There are some limited configuration options for the file-chooser exposed through dconf. The most accessible way to modify these is with Dconf Editor. You can find file-chooser settings at /org/gtk/settings/file-chooser/ and /org/gtk/gtk4/settings/file-chooser/, but it’s mostly things like whether to show hidden files by default or sort by a certain column by default.

    I’m in the same boat as you; I wish the file-chooser had some more config available, but I just kinda live with it. It does seem like you can replace the gtk file-chooser though. the XDG Desktop Portal framework was originally designed to allow Flatpak applications to use native environment tools like file choosers, but it seems like you can use it to force a different file-chooser.