Although it's not its main topic, I enjoyed Ian Morris' Why the West Rules—For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future, which goes over this in a way that really fascinated me. The book's ideas seem contested but as a layman it was a great tour of many years of humanity.
They hardly refused to talk. See them answering his questions in the full video of the call, if you can still stomach him talking. There was an awkward silence in the middle.
Even so, it's not good to spin this event into something it isn't. The video is misleading and I felt manipulated by it.
As a kid in the 90s I discovered indoor free flight(1). It's a hobby where you build flying machines with balsa wood and carburator paper, and you power them with elastic bands using an old clock mechanism. Then people compete to see which airplane flights for the longest time, some flying for over 30 minutes!
This was magical to me. My "mentor" was able to build tiny butterfly-like contraptions with four flapping wings, and many other flying machines of different kinds.
I just launched Kyaraben, it's an alternative to EmuDeck that autoconfigures Syncthing for your devices.
For those not in in that niche, the goal is to set up a Linux desktop or Steam Deck for retro (and not so retro) video game emulation, so you just drop in your ROMs, open a frontend via Steam, and play your games.
https://fnune.com/waza
A site I made to properly learn judo vocabulary in a way that builds up from basic concepts to form more and more complex technique names.
NixOS rocks, but if there is some software you need to install to comply with company policies (e.g. Vanta) then you may be in for some unexpected tinkering.
I would suggest Home Manager though, which will let you set up your environment just as well and is very portable, while still affording you a mainstream host system of the company's choice.
The website could mention that. Since I did not discover this website's affiliation with OpenAI until I found the GitHub repo, I had assumed that this is purely an informative website, and as such I expected it to mention the agent tool most people I know use (Claude). Even if that mention is "Claude does not support this yet".
Interestingly, the old one mentioned CLAUDE.md and ln -s, but the new one does not. The whole website is just a marketing/partnerships battle, it seems.
I've realized most of my blog post is not really about NixOS, it's just about this particular TUXEDO laptop requiring special tweaks to work properly. I've set up Debian 13 with Nix (plus Home Manager) in a VM to try it out and have realized that on the real laptop I would need to perform the same tweaks: install special drivers, install the TUXEDO Control Center (albeit using a supported .deb), and add those same kernel params. The only "care-free" option would be using TUXEDO OS, which I could explore. I've run NixOS on e.g. an AMD ThinkPad T14 and it was seamless, with no tweaks needed.
I suppose using something other than NixOS would indeed make some things easier (in my case Vanta, `pinentry` programs, Playwright and Cypress) and would perhaps let me live a more hands-off experience. I currently run `nix flake update` on my system way too often... but other than that, NixOS is not really getting in the way, at least as far as using this laptop goes.
A while ago I made a fortune database that draws from Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. I used to have a tmux pane that ran them on my work session boot script :)
I bought a Biostar J4125NHU motherboard and put it in a small case with two 2.5 HDDs and two SSDs and am using it to download shows and movies from a Usenet provider and stream them with Jellyfin.
The motherboard was a huge pain to work with, and I had to return two (!) units; I made the third one work. The first two would not boot in the same configuration.