NixOS support for CM4

uConsole
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  If you need a wireless connection, type
  `systemctl start wpa_supplicant` and configure a
  network using `wpa_cli`. See the NixOS manual for details.

https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-installation-manual-networking

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just a quick community vote, since I build the “base” image (only the required packages to boot the system):

should I build the image with i.e. gnome desktop with the default account like “uconsole”?

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@johndoe thanks again for building the image for all of us. Can I recommend Hyprland? They go well like fine wine and cheese

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Not a NixOS user here. But I’ve read enough to know what’s going on.

Nix prides itself of reproducible environments. So, instead of soliciting advice on what environment to include with your image, I recommend you devise a user-friendly script that sets up the configuration file. That way, you preserve freedom of choice and save others the hassle of uninstalling stuff they don’t like.

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I really want to try Nix, but I can’t connect to the NixOS mirror sources, especially the GitHub mirrors, in my country. It’s so painful.

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it’s a easy as … adding some enable = true or false to the configuration.nix… i.e. for gnome:

services.xserver.enable = true;
services.xserver.displayManager.gdm.enable = true;
services.xserver.desktopManager.gnome.enable = true;

of course, there are less or more “options”: see the GNOME - NixOS Wiki or NixOS Search ((-;

someone can make the templates for the configuration.nix (as modules) and a script to enable/disable “imports”… unfortunately it is almost the last item on my own “todo list” ((-;

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@EarthlyCookie try connect to https://cache.nixos.org using your browser?

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would be nice to have at least nm-cli :))

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Just wandering if anyone tried to reflash keyboard on NixOS.

There is a good QMK firmware available for uConcole keyboard but it depends on some upload tools (mostly scripts).

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@johndoe are you still hosting the binary cache, I’ve tried to compile an image ahead of parts arriving based off of your oom-hardware repository but it cross compiles the kernel on it’s own and takes more than an hour (I needed my computer back and didn’t let it finish). Do I have a problem on my end or have you stopped providing it and I simply need to eat that compile time

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did you change the public-keys for the binary cache as in the comment:

however, I have uploaded the latest binaries to cache

nixpkgs-unstable sha256-rgwUZJZVztaNYPTsf6MIqirPL5r2JTMMyHuzk1ezyYk=
oom-hardware sha256-5WMuYsMdXs4qcjeryIQpvt/3iQ+3Fv5NiztOWnch+tU=
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It works now, I don’t know if something changed on your end but I am pulling from the binary cache now, thank you

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It’s stopped working again, do I need to pin to the matching nixpkgs-unstable? If so, I don’t see how I can get which version from just the hash? I apologize if these are dumb questions, I haven’t had to get into the roots of building and caching nix stuff in a while.