I'm not the author, but I agree it feels nice on mobile, and the dark and light mode is a nice touch. I think it takes a hint from the browser system settings too.
Wireless ear buds come to mind. Plus the charging case, that could be three separate batteries per headset audio device. I don't like the idea of wireless earbuds personally, but they are admittedly prevalent in the consumer market. The thumbnail should have depicted those.
Agreed, much prefer running apps via nix. Although I did have to fall back to flatpak install the bottles, but that is a bit of a special case where the software explicitly requires itself to be sandboxed or behaves less as expected otherwise.
I really appreciate the comma command.
I only have 3 installs of NixOS already, two for work (a server and laptop), and a third for a personal use (desktop). I largely started out by copying a public config from the community. Now I just copy a few kilobytes between the three from time to time via git repo to keep all my kernels, kernel modules, patches, net config, package versions, and system users/groups permissions in sync via lock files. And my user dot files too, but you don't need nix for that last one.
If I have to do something multiple times, like copying a distro across even a few systems more than once, then I figured I'd just revision control it via lockfiles like any other software project.
That all said, NixOS is a hell of a rabbit hole; great for lazy admins and hobby tinkering alike:
The top graph reflects my stable work install for robot software development,
but the bottom graph is my personal install for hobbies and home lab.
Moving nixpkgs development from GitHub would be ambitious, as that repo already pushes their infrastructure limits with enterprise level support.
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixpkgs-core-team-update-2026-01-22/74585
I suspect the Nix org would need to garner many more sponsors to fund the hosting expenditures for an equivalent forge with matching CI/CD, PR automation, and geo redundancy. Would be nice to see.
Wow, hello fellow Rose alum! Class of 2013 here, so don't I remember if IT was advertising an Eduroam SSID back then, but the standard issued corporate HP laptops had decent Linux support, or at least someone in the class cohort would find and disseminate a workaround by the time the next LTS kennel rolled around.
Definitely agree on seeking out a local LUG on campus. As originally an EE while at RHIT, I didn't know about LUGs until I continued on to grad school for CS at GT, which had a very active LUG with invited guest speakers and even senior student led lectures.
Looks like the hosting for lugatgt.org is now down, hope they're still going, or perhaps merged with ALE of Atlanta.
The article veers off about Flox, but I'm unsure what Flox adds over stock Nix?
I never want to go back to an OS I can't diff or track under revision control. I just love being able to solve an issue once and move on without worrying about if I'll forget all the minutiae of changes I made to my customized system when it eventually comes to migrating workstations or replicating across my computers.
Congrats on solving your issue, and thanks for updated the post with the solution! It's really slick how NixOS makes adding a kernel patch to your config no more complex than it would take patching any dot file. Hope the up streaming of your device info goes smoothly.
Encountered an odd Bluetooth issue last week with a motherboard that had a combined Bluetooth and Wi-Fi radio chip set. Wi-Fi worked, but the Bluetooth hardware wasn't even detected. This was after migrating from a Windows install with known working Bluetooth drivers on the same motherboard.
Found a solved thread for the same motherboard SKU where power cycling after disconnecting the desktop power supply from AC for 30 sec resolved it. Didn't believe it, but tried it anyway and it worked. Guessing the Windows driver must have put the Bluetooth transceiver in a funny state that the mainline Linux kernel couldn't recover, but resting the chipset with a through power cycle with internal voltage supplies zeroed made the difference in re-initializing the hardware.
Just a wild suggestion...
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There have been an influx of them in my RSS feeds, I wonder if there's been a You Tube or Tick Tock video that went viral about Nix some time earlier.