CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Me: "I want the nix package manager"
Mom: "we have nix package manager at home"
nix package manager at home:

(using pkgset from @solene@bsd.network )

@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk @obj@bsd.cafe
i use zsh on my OpenBSD boxes:
this is what i came up with:

if command -v bat &> /dev/null; then
    zsh-defer eval $(bat --completion zsh)
    export BAT_THEME=ansi
    alias cat="bat -pp"
    alias bat="bat -p"
    # colored manpages
    function man {
        sh -c "man '$@' | col -bx | \bat -pl man"
    }
    # colored -h and --help
    alias -g -- -h='-h 2>&1 | \bat -pl help'
    alias -g -- --help='--help 2>&1 | \bat -pl help'
    # help command
    function help {
        sh -c "'$@' --help 2>&1 | \bat -pl help"
    }
fi

the if command -v bat bit is nice to have in case bat for whatever reason isn't on your system.

my partner is on Pop!_OS currently. The one with the new COSMIC desktop. the only issue he has with it is that when he connects bluetooth headphones, pipewire doesn't set them as the default sink. thats it. its pretty easy just to go into the audio settings and click a drop down to switch, anyways. i hope the pop!_os people figure that one out, cos its kind of annoying tbh. I personally don't use bluetooth headphones, but my partner relies on them. he works as a job counselor for physically and mentally disabled people so he has to use his laptop quite a bit to make client notes and keep tabs with his team on microsoft teams. things work pretty good for him. I would have put him on mint, but he's got really bad eyesight cos of a rare eye disease and needs fractional scaling to work correctly. he was running fedora kinoite before but the fast release cycle overwhelmed him. though when he was at work and had down time, he was trying to get the pipewire thing working with his bluetooth headphones and he managed to read the bluetoothctl man page (i mentioned to him how to find and read manual pages pretty early on), and figured out how to pair his headphones without using the gui. didn't solve his issue, but he certainly can troubleshoot on his own. iirc he thought the issue was that his laptop wasn't pairing to his headphones cos cosmic didn't give good visual feedback on what happened when he connected his headphones, which is totally fair to be confused by. all in all, cosmic needs a twinge of polish, but its pretty good for i think most people.