Mit Nix wäre das nicht passiert!

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Cake day: July 29th, 2026

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  • Really, it’s a question that’s too sad for me to answer: I don’t know. I’d probably panic, like anyone would. Also, it depends whether there is anything after the apocalypse. If the world is ending and explodes, I am not in a position to preserve things anymore. (I probably wouldn’t be if it didn’t, either.) If it’s just a setback in civilization, and I have a chance of survival, maybe a few of my favorite media on various types of storage. Ideally, maybe hints to check Svalbard once civilization has been rebuilt. (The World Seed Archive and Arctic Code Vault are there.) But, if we want to joke about it: I’ll check if anyone’s live from Harmageddon.





  • Nevertheless, you regularly should run nix flake update --commit-lock-file in your configuration directory (by default, /etc/nixos), and then rebuild, as flakes never auto-update. Think of these commands as apt update and apt full-upgrade. The stable vs unstable channel only differ in when major updates are released. In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with running unstable, at least on a desktop, and I even use it on my server. You shouldn’t see it as unstable as on Debian, but as rolling, like Debian testing, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, or Arch.