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A collection of resources for setting up Nix on macOS with nix-darwin and home-manager. The nix-darwin-kickstarter repository is a good starting point for macOS. Run programs without installing them with nix-shell -p cowsay. Remote Deployment: nixos-rebuild announcement Example configurations: jdheyburn/nixos-configs Great examples for: Caddy web server FreshRSS deploy-rs Tailscale integration wimpysworld/nix-config - Production-ready configuration Remote installation with nixos-anywhere: nixos-anywhere uses kexec. If kexec doesn’t work, boot with NixOS ISO instead. Wireless in initrd: Unlocking encrypted drives over WiFi ...

Some monitors don’t properly report their capabilities (EDID - Extended Display Identification Data) to Linux systems during early boot, causing incorrect resolutions or no video output. You can fix this by incorporating custom EDID data into the initrd image. First, extract the EDID from a working system. Install the required tools: 1 sudo apt install read-edid edid-decode Extract and verify the EDID: 1 2 sudo get-edid > desktop_edid.bin edid-decode desktop_edid.bin Transfer the file to your target system and copy it to the firmware directory: ...

To access an encrypted Btrfs Arch Linux system from a live USB, you need to unlock the LUKS partition and mount each Btrfs subvolume before chrooting: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 # Unlock the encrypted partition cryptsetup open /dev/nvme0n1 cryptlvm # Mount the root subvolume mount -o subvol=@ /dev/mapper/cryptlvm /mnt # Mount the home subvolume mount -o subvol=@home /dev/mapper/cryptlvm /mnt/home # Mount the log subvolume with nodatacow option mount -o nodatacow,subvol=@var_log /dev/mapper/cryptlvm /mnt/var/log # Chroot into the system sudo arch-chroot /mnt The cryptsetup open command unlocks the encrypted partition and maps it to /dev/mapper/cryptlvm. Each Btrfs subvolume needs to be mounted separately. The nodatacow option on /var/log prevents copy-on-write for log files. The arch-chroot command automatically handles mounting /proc, /sys, and /dev.