| 13 Jan 2026 |
 Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | well | 18:29:57 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | proxmox-nix then | 18:30:00 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | * i dont know what would be the most sensible configuration for this:
3x6tb drives
2x1tb drives
I could try ceph? or would zfs be better for this? lvms?
| 18:30:12 |
 K900 | Honestly it depends on what you're trying to do | 18:30:15 |
| K900 | But you probably just want nixos-containers | 18:30:22 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | yeah, I would like the web interface of proxmox tho | 18:30:47 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | but I guess I can just use graphana | 18:30:57 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | and prometheus | 18:31:02 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | does it plug into graphana/prometheus? | 18:32:05 |
| K900 | I mean | 18:32:40 |
| K900 | It's just containers | 18:32:42 |
| K900 | You can use whatever monitoring tools you want | 18:32:47 |
| K900 | Depends on what you're trying to do | 18:32:53 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | yeah | 18:34:09 |
 jappie | unless you're a hyperscaler / need to provision tens of thousands of VMs, you probably don't need / want openstack | 18:48:56 |
 KFears (they/them) | I think you don't want it even then... | 18:51:15 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | you dont know what I am /s | 19:09:55 |
 Blastboom Strice | In reply to @sofiedotcafe:matrix.org
and prometheus Hey thats what I want to do | 19:14:57 |
| Blastboom Strice | Prometheus nodes in each nixos-container (and the main machine) and on one nixos-container will have graphana to collect all of the stats and display them | 19:16:02 |
| 14 Jan 2026 |
|  @wyndon:envs.net changed their display name from wyndon to wyndon | moved to @wyndon:metropolis.nexus. | 00:58:20 |
| @wyndon:envs.net left the room. | 01:10:50 |
 neobrain | Is it possible (and/or advisable) to spawn a lix shell with nix installed? I tried nix shell nixpkgs#nix, but nix --version still says it's lix D: | 07:06:33 |
| neobrain | Ah, I guess adding the store path to the front of PATH manually will just work? | 07:12:37 |
| K900 | nix shell nixpkgs#nix should work | 07:12:53 |
| K900 | Though the daemon will stay Lix | 07:13:01 |
| K900 | If that's something you care about | 07:13:06 |
| neobrain | Yeah I found the problem is that /nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin is at the start of PATH, so lix will still be preferred. But patching PATH up manually is fine for me given the esoteric use case | 07:16:20 |
| neobrain | The daemon speaks basically the same protocol in either case, right? I don't rely on any internals here, just stdout/stderr tool output and --json parts (hence the need to test both lix and nix) | 07:17:20 |
| neobrain | * The daemon speaks basically the same protocol in either case, right? I don't rely on any internals here, just stdout/stderr tool output and --json parts (hence the need to test with both lix and nix) | 07:17:25 |
 Acid Bong | In reply to @neobrain:matrix.org
Yeah I found the problem is that /nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin is at the start of PATH, so lix will still be preferred. But patching PATH up manually is fine for me given the esoteric use case normally nix-shell, nix shell and nix develop all prepend the temporary paths and only them | 07:35:40 |
