| 18 Dec 2025 |
 Rutile (Commentator2.0) feel free to ping | if i read things correclty, one could use \r instead of a space too | 10:46:28 |
 helle (just a stray cat girl) | I've been more shocked at erm, some of the quality libraries we are using | 10:46:46 |
 Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | oo :3 | 13:03:15 |
| Rutile (Commentator2.0) feel free to ping | what does nix-build --temp-dir some/path do? | 15:19:44 |
| Rutile (Commentator2.0) feel free to ping | it seems to be documented absolutely nowhere | 15:20:17 |
 kloenk | The question of do I want to know the probably cursed detail or better not read the chat :p | 15:20:42 |
 rosssmyth | If I had to guess, it set the build dir to the path specified rather than whatever it is by default (something like /nix/var/nix/blah/blah/blah iirc) | 16:15:28 |
| rosssmyth | does not seem to be the answer | 16:16:54 |
| rosssmyth | (tried with nix build --temp-dir ~/tempdir --keep-failed --rebuild with a derivation I knows) | 16:17:31 |
| rosssmyth | * (tried with nix build --temp-dir ~/tempdir --keep-failed --rebuild with a derivation I know fails) | 16:17:42 |
 Marie | what the heck is error: lock file contains mutable lock '{"path":"contrib/nix/dev","type":"path"}'
is this a cppnix divergence? | 16:41:21 |
 K900 | Yes | 17:03:46 |
| K900 | Something about subflake paths | 17:03:50 |
 guiniol | Does anyone have experience running NixOS on tight eMMC spaces? I am considering a Zimaboard as a remote backup option (it would only run ssh+tailscale and receive ZFS snapshots), and I am worried about the limited 32GB of eMMC that the system needs to fit on. Builds would have to be remote but that shouldn't be an issue since I have a powerful enough server running NixOS already. | 19:21:27 |
| K900 | Would maybe look into something like a CM3588 NAS KIT though | 19:22:56 |
| K900 | Gets you mostly the same form factor at like a third of the cost | 19:23:06 |
| guiniol | K900: I was looking at this one https://shop.zimaspace.com/collections/festive-tech-treasures/products/zimablade-single-board-server-for-cyber-native, so with even with the 2 HDD bracket and 16Gb of RAM, it comes out to $110 with the current sales (which feels insanely cheap) | 19:25:37 |
| guiniol | But I didn't know about the CM3588 and that has 64GB of eMMC, but only half the RAM. Trade-offs will have to be made :D | 19:26:17 |
| K900 | I'm not sure why you need RAM on a NAS really | 19:26:31 |
| K900 | And also the CM3588 does notably come with uhhhhh 4 times the cores | 19:26:42 |
| K900 | And 2.5G networking | 19:27:25 |
| guiniol | just ZFS things? Though, as a receiver of snapshots of unmounted pools, it shouldn't need too much | 19:27:38 |
| guiniol | oh, 2.5G would be nice | 19:27:49 |
| guiniol | and yes, I am worried about the zimaboard being a little on the wimpy side | 19:27:59 |
| guiniol | My main remark wasn't to bring down the CM3588, just to note that the zimaboard option was very cheap | 19:28:32 |
| guiniol | The NAS kit is the larger board with the 4 NVMe slots? | 19:30:01 |
| K900 | The CM3588 is the SoM | 19:30:15 |
| K900 | The "NAS KIT" is the carrier board | 19:30:21 |
| guiniol | Ack, I was wondering if it was some sort of enclosure | 19:31:36 |
| K900 | There is also an enclosure that you can buy | 19:32:56 |
