Using a Linux Laptop in 2026

kept by sageleaf sep 07

The author describes using a Dell XPS 14 with Intel Ultra X7 Panther Lake running NixOS in 2026, highlighting driver challenges, AI assistance, battery limits, and collaboration tool issues.

Your executable is a SQLite database
Replacing ELF with SQLite as an executable format (SELF) yields queryable binaries with ~1% size overhead, enabling closure‑based dependency packing and SQL‑based tooling.
also on Nix, #open-source, #developer-tools
Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out
Using Git as a package manager backend causes performance and scaling problems as ecosystems grow, leading to workarounds like proxies and sparse checkouts.
also on Nix, #open-source, #developer-tools