That’s not even a question, the spirit of radioshack with 2025 technology, that would be awesome !

Thanks, although what I’m looking for is a file that will make a kde plasma desktop with chromium and libreoffice installed Something I can plop on a usb stick and hand to grandma so she can linux up her obsoleted win10 pc without me having to explain what a nixos is.

I understand she probably will not understand the nuance of a immutable filesystem based os but that’s fine. I simply do not have the energy to tailor a file for each individual grandma that I have.

Thanks, that’s exactly what I’m looking for.

Ah I thought it was all one file, and maybe that would just be like, commenting out the system section or something.

But I do mean, which apps are installed, what desktop environment, really the user interface, the end user experience that’s what I was wondering.

So is there such a repository or not ? Is every nixos user making the configuration file from scratch in vim ?

I figured there should be a repository where most user just pick a ready made file and that’s the end of that. Not really having to learn the syntax of that file and writing it down ?

Probably yes !

I meant the file that decides how everything works

I figured if you sent me that file from your system, I’d get your system exactly how you designed it.

I think it would be great to just load random ones of these from other people to see how they like their system.

And then I could pick and choose those aspects that I like while also trying many, radically different ways of doing things as fast as my system can reboot !

You’d be surprised, many humans have simply no backbone, common sense nor self respect so I think they very probably would still, in large numbers. Proof is facebook and palantir.

Because capitalism (and religion before it) told us it would come in the future. As long as we worked as hard as possible in the present.

In the case of religion, this was after you died, until people figured out it was a little too convenient, a little too much of a blank cheque that leaves very little room for recourse if it doesn’t turn out as advertised.

In capitalism, “defferred gratification” is sold as a virtue, a sign of good moral character, you are made responsible for your own happiness in a way that requires continual vigilence.

Yes, I find it baffling that this does not yet exist. I was installing debian the other day and the incessant one-question-at-a-time installation with long delays between the question was aggravating. In particular since none of these questions really needed to be answered at the time.

Proxmox does it better, but still with annoying questions and limitation like having a mandatory static IP address and making your enter an email address notification. This is all actually optional stuff and it could all be dealt with after the install is completed.

All firefox really needed to be once google took over everything, was to be a viable alternative and find a way to metabolize all this cash in a way that doesn’t damage google’s own cash machine or threaten it’s actual dominance.

For google the pitance they give firefox is a very cheap insurance policy against against anti-trust legislation. Just like Intel with AMD, this shows how toothless the liberal anti-trust legislation are, even if they were really being enforced, they cannot handle a token 2nd player. It cannot handle controlled opposition if it’s credible and believable. So an actual thriving ecosystem doesn’t need to exist, we just get duopolies instead of monopolies but in practices we get ducked up the cloaca just the same.

By photo ID, I don’t mean just any photo, I mean “photo id” cryptographically signed by the state, certificates checked, database pinged, identity validated, the whole enchilada

If the rendering data for scraper was really the problem Then the solution is simple, just have downloadable dumps of the publicly available information That would be extremely efficient and cost fractions of pennies in monthly bandwidth Plus the data would be far more usable for whatever they are using it for.

The problem is trying to have freely available data, but for the host to maintain the ability to leverage this data later.

I don’t think we can have both of these.

If you allow my searchxng search scraper then an AI scraper is indistinguishable.

If you mean, “google and duckduckgo are whitelisted” then lemmy will only be searchable there, those specific whitelisted hosts. And google search index is also an AI scraper bot.

For the people with no service and exploitative ratioed service.

I don’t need wifi I have 100 gig of fast data and “unlimited” after that which I never use.

But my brother has 3 gb and then he loses internet access. You do it for him, it’s common courtesy if you’re operating a business which you expect people to hang out at. They are the content that attract your drink-buyers.

I’m specifically aiming at the “a culture that…” bit.

That the same logic with different garbs. It doesn’t become ok because it’s a “culture wink wink”.

It’s the same weapon used the same way with a tiny lil’ tweak to try dodge criticism.

This is transparent and should not be fooling anyone.

Also you must drink a verification can !

It’s a business location and they could be anywhere, this is enough to buy unlimited internet basically everywhere there is unlimited internet to buy. Compared with daily business expenses this is basically free for them.

We’re assuming a business location here. This is the maximum it should cost pretty much anywhere in the world. So, trivial compared with just one day of business expenses. Functionally free

Sounds reasonnable,

Installed should be downloaded by going to grandmasnixos.com On the front page, a single click starts to download a single file, that contains everything It is a tailored rufus executable with the ISO that contains everything to make it to first desktop boot When download ends, no internet connection will be required to make it to grandmasnixos desktop

When the file is clicked and a usb stick has been inserted beforehand, the grandmasnixos ISO is preselected, rufus autochooses the usb stick

User only needs to press “start”

The motherboard version is checked against a lookup table, and the user is told

Reboot computer a press $KEY_TO_USB_BOOT and choose to boot the usb key

Installation is a single screen that says “This will erase everything on this computer, to continue, click the checkbox below” [ ] I understand this will erase everything on my computer buttons below [ ERASE AND INSTALL GRANDMASNIXOS ] or [ CANCEL AND REBOOT] (first button only clickable if the checkbox is checked)

(there is an “Options and settings” button somewhere, it does not have to be clicked to continue)

No further user interaction until it boots into a working desktop

There is no password by default, the desktop auto-logs in, no remote access is possible until a password is set, sudo works passwordless

There should be no updating unless enabled, no telemetry, no call home of any kind, the system should be able to work offline and forever without an internet access and never nag the user.

The desktop environment should be something occasional win10 using grandma will not get lost in

Taskbar at bottom Desktop that you can dump files onto and start stuff by clicking those files systray on the right Large font start menu Start menu includes a single settings panels that does everything a user needs (passwords, wifi, power management, update, timezone, language, locale, host and domain name, remote desktop etc…)

taskbar should have pinned the most important apps file browser, browser, calculator, notepad, word-like and maybe a mail client maybe a zoom? client or something equivalent but open source and usable ?

If updating is turned on, it should be very conservative, updates hand curated by grandmasnixos, basically never uses software that hasn’t been proven rock solid for at least 6 months. Rolling back any update should be one-click-trivial

On first boot there could be an “out of box experience” screen that allows setting up

wifi password region/timezone/locale/language power settings host and domain name password enable updates enable remote desktop and services open easy user guide

So total, from download to desktop it should be 8 clicks total counting press F9 during boot as a “click”

“comes from a culture that lies about everything”

What do you think he meant by that ?

How the logic of his statement works seems very plain to me, we’ve seen that a million times.