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Vivekanandan KS (vivek)
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Nix and NixOS Geek Love Linux, FOSS, Devops etc❤️🙌 Exploring, Learning and Implementations quench my curiosity than anything else A passionate Linux and Nix guy😁 Love to solve problems Bassist on Hiatus Love Music, Anime, Good stories etc Basically a being who admires and love to be creative #nix #nixos #linux #FOSS #tamil #devops #tech #computer #desktop #freelance #anime #opensource
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vivekanandanks 3 months ago
Hi All Guide me please 😅 I'm using GitHub all these days to store files. I plan to move my files to open source platforms like codeberg,gitea etc. But I want a mirror of my codeberg like repo in GitHub etc, just as a backup. 2 ways I can think of: 1) Pushing to 2 remotes from my local 2) Mirroring one repo completely in another platform Want ur opinion on these or any other methods I'm unaware of. #git #jujutsu #jj #github #gitea #codeberg #forgejo #vcs #dvcs #repo
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vivekanandanks 3 months ago
Hi All I'm taking a workshop about Nix shells on July 24th. Nix is one of the most impactful ecosystem in the history of software industry. No hype, these words won't even justify how the paradigm is fundamentally a game changer for tons of things from DevOps, system Administration, System state management, project management, IT devices management, clusters of devices, kubernetes, containers etc etc The best way to start with this ecosystem of cool paradigm is nix shells. #nix #nixshell image
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vivekanandanks 3 months ago
Registrations are now OPEN for TOSSConf26! Are you passionate about Open Source Software, Linux, Al, Cloud, DevOps, Cybersecurity, Web Development, Embedded Systems, or the FOSS ecosystem? Then TOSSConf26 is the place to be TOSSConf26 (Tamil Open Source Software Conference 2026) is a community driven event that brings together students, developers, educators, industry professionals, and open source enthusiasts to learn, collaborate, and contribute to the Free & Open Source Software ecosystem. image
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vivekanandanks 3 months ago
I installed #NixOS with #KDE in my spouse's laptop some time ago along with her #windows installation. Now when windows messed up something and didn't boot, she tried KDE for the first time. She : How do I turn on bluetooth? Me: Just start the #krunner (Alt+Space) & type bluetooth She: what? I have to type to just get bluetooth on? Me: No. But believe me, it's faster than clicks She: I wanna set dark mode. Me: just type dark She: power saver mode Me: type it #linux #kdeplasma #desktoplinux
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vivekanandanks 4 months ago
Just tried difftastic and it's really cool. The diffs are really helpful to be honest. A small but impactful improvement in workflow. In my jj config, I used difftastic as the default diff tool. Thanks to home manager I already got an option to just to my jj config🙂. #difftastic #nix #homemanager #jj #config #diff #tool #git Any such tool recommendations are welcome 😊 Thanks in advance
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vivekanandanks 4 months ago
Hi Tamil FOSS ethusiats, TossConf26 is happening on July 23 to 25 filled with hackathon, workshops, talks, stalls. My workshop proposal got approved. Title: Adopting Nix from Day 1 through Nix Shells for Absolute Beginners Always happy to help people learn new stuff. Feel free to say hi to me and let's talk about literally anything related to computers😁 Here's my proposal in the forum: #tossconf26 #tossconf #tamil #FOSS #conference #Nix #shell #workshop
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vivekanandanks 5 months ago
Bots are dead set on their goals 😂 Not even AI, just same order of automated messages. And really sad to see many fall for this scam. Especially by leveraging unemployment fear, job security fear etc etc and using the word HR and meant to recruit. Leveraging someone's #FOMO for their selfish reasons angers me to be honest 😑 image
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vivekanandanks 6 months ago
Was just checking out some tvix talks, the tvix-store is certainly attractive with even the replit blog mentioning about 90% storage reduction in cache storage. Even devenv switched to tvix. But I couldn't see any docs on how can I start using it in my nixos or atleast for nix shells, etc Am I missing out something or any views on this would help me #nix #tvix #cache #devenv #replit
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vivekanandanks 6 months ago
(1/2) Hi All I'm happy to announce that I'm a speaker in the Chennai FOSS 2026 conference happening on April 18th 2026 @fossunitedchennai@mas.to Title: The era of Declarative Linux via NixOS My proposal link: I am gonna talk about why NixOS is truly exceptional linux and not yet another distro. I'll also talk about how it achieves immutability unlike other distros. How it's way more powerful than tools like ansible, chef, pupper, saltstack etc #nixos
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vivekanandanks 6 months ago
A simple analogy for anyone to understand how #nix is different from tools like #ansible etc Ansible(convergent) is like carving a wood, where u have some existing state like plain wood which u tinker continuously until u achieve the expected state Nix(congruent) is like 3d printing, where the exact expected state is created from the start🔥 #nix #nixos #nixpkgs #nix #DevOps Edit: img attribution: Found the source🤝 image
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vivekanandanks 7 months ago
Hi All Though too much procrastination, I'm again feeling like to start a video content creations in peertube, odysee, youtube etc The contents would be on nix for beginners. These days I see more content creations than last year for nix, but still nix is something many misunderstand as hard to begin with. I plan to ease the initial friction. Ant tips/suggestions for the platforms are welcome preferably open source ones #contentcreation #peertube #odysee #video #nix #nixos
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vivekanandanks 7 months ago
🥹Why YouTube Just why 🥹 #Meme #memes #youtube #rating image
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vivekanandanks 7 months ago
My imagination:🙊 In future, any terminal, browser, terminal multiplexers, window managers all will have a common UX pattern like 1) Vertical or horizontal tabs 2) tiling, scrollable tiling(like niri) etc etc for a similar UX for easier engagement and management. Taking the features of one from the other will bring this soon❤️ #uiux #uxdesign #Browser #terminal #Terminalmultiplexer #windowmanager #tilingwm #tiling
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vivekanandanks 7 months ago
Discord honestly is a good UI/UX for multi level chat organisations. I thought why we couldn't have something like that for matrix. Then I discovered cinny, which is really cool. And now after using it for a while honestly it just clicked me that matrix way of organising really have true potential coz the method is better than discord. In matrix everything is a room, so with that as building block we can have any type. #matrix #cinny #messaging #chat #management
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vivekanandanks 7 months ago
I really wish all the fediverse instances bring support for reactions😄. Coz now it's just a favourite button and iirc some instances like misskey etc have reactions support. I love reactions, coz of the versatile ways to react to a toot with emojis. 😅 I see some clients like trunks, fedilab have reaction feature 🤔 so if I recat to some mastodon toots will others see the reaction? @trunksapp@mastodon.social @apps@toot.fedilab.app #mastodon #fediverse #reactions #feature #expression #fedilab #trunks
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vivekanandanks 8 months ago
I still am figuring out how to manage time(ahem procrastination). Certain things makes me stay awake at night when I'm so much into them, but many doesn't. I guess the problem of my procrastination is because I'm afraid of a #project being a #failure or any type of failure/ imperfect outcome. The self doubt is hindering my everyday life. How are u all overcoming #procrastination or similar fail-to-action thoughts? 😭😭😭 #timemanagement #action #selfdoubt
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vivekanandanks 8 months ago
#Tailscale vs #Netbird vs #Pangolin vs anything which is from #wireguard What do u all suggest to use for a batteries included aproach. I want something which is very easy to setup and run from my local machine or a #VPS using #NixOS. Initially I don't wanna self host, so a managed service is also okay for me. Want to create Highly Available, Load balancers included,& let me expose the service to the public. I tried tailscale & it's really cool. But seeing netbird etc, I want ur opinions 😅
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vivekanandanks 9 months ago
#Homemanager is seriously one of the most awesome projects in the nix ecosystem. It's just too cool to be true. When u create an option in Home Manager all those using it in any Linux #distro, NixOS, Mac gets the benefit. Because of the nature of Nix's #reproducibility if there's an issue for someone the fix solves it for everyone else instead of a manual debugging steps everyone have to do. Even thinking about this give me tons of adrenaline. Seriously love this approach. #nix #nixos #linux
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vivekanandanks 9 months ago
LoL😂 Searched for NixOS in google maps. Didn't expect this🤣 #nixos #nix #funny #maps #googlemaps image
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