Facial recognition, eye tracking, what you chose, how much it took you to make that choice, were you tempted by the flavours, etc. There’s so much data corporations will pay good money for…

Yeah I’m doing the same, I even tried to import a nonexistent file, and use build like you instead of switch, but I’m only getting the error from above.

What’s your nix version?

nix (Nix) 2.34.6

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I think we’re doing different things, that’s why it’s giving us completely different errors.

I just added files to imports in configuration.nix

I’m guessing you’ve got some manual error checking implemented with assertions?

error:
       … while calling the 'seq' builtin
         at «github:nixos/nixpkgs/4bd9165a9165d7b5e33ae57f3eecbcb28fb231c9?narHash=sha256-l/iNYDZ4bGOAFQY2q8y5OAfBBtrDAaPuRQqWaFHVRXM%3D»/lib/modules.nix:402:18:
          401|         options = checked options;
          402|         config = checked (removeAttrs config [ "_module" ]);
             |                  ^
          403|         _module = checked (config._module);

       … while evaluating a branch condition
         at «github:nixos/nixpkgs/4bd9165a9165d7b5e33ae57f3eecbcb28fb231c9?narHash=sha256-l/iNYDZ4bGOAFQY2q8y5OAfBBtrDAaPuRQqWaFHVRXM%3D»/lib/modules.nix:305:9:
          304|       checkUnmatched =
          305|         if config._module.check && config._module.freeformType == null && merged.unmatchedDefns != [ ] then
             |         ^
          306|           let

       (stack trace truncated; use '--show-trace' to show the full, detailed trace)

       error: Path 'nix/bobo/test.nix' does not exist in Git repository "/home/bobo/dotfiles".
Command 'nix --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' build --print-out-paths '/home/bobo/dotfiles/nix#nixosConfigurations."bobo".config.system.build.nixos-rebuild' --no-link' returned non-zero exit status 1.

I can often only try to guess what’s wrong by reading the stacktrace top-to-bottom, so I’ve somewhat gotten used to doing that.

I’m yet to see any nix error be more readable top to bottom. And I think it’s intentionally designed that way so you don’t need to scroll up.

I actually thought, it said somewhere in there, that the file isn’t staged, but apparently not even that (anymore?).

It’s a different error. To me it looks like you tried to import a file that doesn’t exist. I made the file correctly and imported it, just didn’t git add it. After committing I switched without issues.

Only the modules/terminal/new_file.nix in the second-last line is relevant.

For me that error message was in the same spot. The rest of the trace is what was evaled so you got to that error. It’s the same principle as stack trace in other languages.

You don’t happen to be using Lix or something, do you?

No, unstable nixos + home-manager. The error above was from

sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake ...

For me there was only 1 line beneath that error, it’s more visible than the warning. Maybe they improved it, or you started reading from the top?

I just completely forgot about that error because I have an extremely basic config.

Fortunately, your comment is not relevant at all since I incorrectly posted the warning instead of the explicit error:

error: Path 'path/to/file' in the repository "/path/to/repo" is not tracked by Git.

It even gives you

To make it visible to Nix, run:

git -C "/path/to/repo" add "path/to/file"

random pile of unclear errors

warning: Git tree ‘/path/to/repo’ is dirty

No candles, but I do light up a torch wink wink

A bit offtopic, but it’s relevant.

My first attempt to learn to code was more than a decade ago with python. I went through the basics, and decided to start a small project to practice. At the time python didn’t really have too many applications apart from automating tasks (before Hugo, flask, etc), so what did I think up? To make an automated propositional logic theorem prover. You input a formula, it tells you whether it’s a tautology or not.

Great idea, there are some relatively simple algorithms we’ve learned for pen and paper, it doesn’t seem too hard, etc. After a month I learned that it’s an extremely complex problem with billions invested in solving it because it’s directly relevant to PCB manufacturing.

That attempt failed horribly, and it took me a few more years and attempts before I found a good method. Web dev was actually crucial because I had direct feedback on simple logic.

So if you’re anything like me, make a blog from scratch or something else that’s actually simple, but gives you immediate visual feedback. And just to be clear, I ended up absolutely hating frontend, but it was a great stepping stone.

Don’t forget how they patent trolled the entire Linux community for more than a decade and that Novell-Suse helped them.

No, the NATO allies all work together to catch each other’s dissidents

Ah yes, well known dissidents like

checks notes

Angela Merkel and other EU officials

Meanwhile in Denmark

In August 2020, Trine Bramsen who was recently appointed Danish minister of defence in June of the previous year was told of the operation, following which agency head Lars Findsen and three other officials were suspended.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dunhammer

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Isn’t it public info that the USA has backdoors in every CPU (IME for example), or that NSA collects literally every piece of data going to and from USA, or that the USA illegally spies on its allies in the NATO by tapping phones and transcontinental internet cables? Or that trump literally called for Snowden to be executed for making all of that public?

If it’s burbling, you fucked up.

So use an external PM like flatpak or nix

Meanwhile in 16th century Ottoman Egypt:

You spin me kebab right round, right round,

With a steam engine baby right round round round

A distro that had such great ideas in the past like including Amazon ads inside the desktop or silently symlinking apt commands to snap have to do a better job to regain community trust, instead they reject efforts like Flatpak or AppImage and build partial closed-source.

Don’t forget outright selling user data to amazon, the fact that each snap slows down boot times, or the various claims that they’re illegally harvesting user data through Azure Ubuntu images to send promotional material.

The only community they care about are the micro soft execs…

Girl is her name, her gender is hacker, her pronouns are death to MATA

Thundermail seems cool at least

Thunder* is developed by a separate corporation, they’re just both subsidiaries of the mozilla foundation. Also mzla is pretty much financially independent due to individual donations.

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/state-of-the-bird-2024-25/

as an encrypted email service.

You can send e2ee emails with thunderbird.