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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • This looks exciting. I hope the transition goes well.

    I would say to get automated backups running on the first few before you do them all. Thats a luxury we get “for free” with cloud services.

    Note on firefly iii. I use it because I’ve been using it, but after using it for 4ish years, I dont really recommend it. The way I use it anyway, I think inserting data could be easier (I do it manually on purpose) and the graphs/visualizations I also wish were better. My experience with search functionality is also sub par. I would look at other alternatives as well, but I think its still better than not tracking finances at all. But I wonder if using a database client to insert data and python scripts or grafana to analyze the data would be better for me…YMMV

    Good luck!




  • I replaced my tabbyml code assistant this week with ollama+continue.dev. But I’m having issues with speed. I think this is because I switched from code qwen 2.5B (ish) to Deepeek Coder 9B (ish) and I think I’m pushing the limits of my GPU. Maybe I’ll spend today sorting out which models I want to use and which computers I want to use them on so I dont run into this issue (I’ve got ollama on 2 computers with 3 GPUs shared between them, for a total of 24GB VRAM)






  • When you do finally get into an installation (dual boot or live usb) just remember that this a whole new OS. And things that you thought about how “computers” worked was actually how “windows” worked. I just want to make sure you set expectations, because you could easily frustrate yourself when you start expecting things to behave a certain way.

    Hopefully, you learn a lot from this experience. I’m excited for you!




  • Start ny NOT jumping into nixos. Start using home manager on whatever distro you currently use. Then slowly move whatever programs or dots you currently have over to it, uninstall the aur/apt packages as you define them in nix. At first you’ll have a clear goal: emulate your user environment. Once you’ve got your user environment defined, the jump to nixos would be easy (if you even want to) because you can use your home-manager config as the starting point. And depending on how you use your computer, home-manager may end up being most of what you care about.









  • If you use functions that return result (like your main, but with a different error) you could remove some of the if let blocks with let num = part2.to_string().parse::()?;. That might obfuscate some of the conditionals so the statements are one after another.

    Cool project, let us know about the next iteration.