Yeah this is a good use case for it, if I remember right you can also trivially generate a live installer iso from the same nix configuration you'd use to run any usual updates. So you can make a custom installer for your exact configuration and copy that onto a flash drive to bootstrap you into a working environment. I think the live installer would generate something like a hardware-configuration.nix too.
Beach House might be close to this? You could try the songs "Myth" or "Silver Soul"
Other suggestions:
Pink Bullets - The Shins
Taro - Alt-J
My Warm Blood - The Microphones
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I just downloaded it real quick, here it is in a fresh profile. The different color wikipedia tabs are different profiles to show how the color scheme works. It makes me wish it worked like the tree-style tabs add-on.
To be honest, the animalmaxxing theory was just to amuse myself, it's not a real thing as far as I know. But you ever look at a cat just staring at a wall and think, how is the cat not bored?! It must be because it feels good
If I understand what you mean, I might have experienced something like it. I think I noticed it more when I was a kid, especially while sitting in my desk at school when I'm done with work, any time I could daydream a bit. It's a nice connected feeling to my surroundings, almost feeling like the world is alive but not really.
That's how I interpret this poem When Traveling I Used to See - someone who felt this kind of feeling and experiences/daydreams it as girls watching him. I take it like anthropomorphized version of the feeling you describe.
I suppose it's some kind of mild meditative state, and probably also related to your body being relaxed in general.
Or, alternate theory, maybe you're just animalmaxxing. I mean, you ever look at a goat or something and think how they're so content to just stand there and do fucking nothing for hours? Maybe it feels really damn good to do that for goats. Humans are animals too, maybe you just got to that part of the brain.
I've got a similar use case and went with an X13 Thinkpad (AMD). It's good for hardware support, but if you want a good experience for watching videos, I'd look somewhere else. The display and audio are not that good.
The comments on the Instagram post of this video are wild, it's full of "I am a Venezuelan and I yearn for freedom, US send your best coup attempts"
I don't know if this is possible or even advisable, but theoretically maybe the NIC could be hardware passed through to a linux VM, and then configure the host to use the guest VM as a gateway? It'd be kind of a nuts solution but it'd get points for creativity. Guest VM takes hardware control of the NIC and the host connects to the VM like it's a separate device on the same network.
Something like the question posed here
You'd have to solve a few separate problems that might not be worth it, unfortunately I don't have these answers:
It's the same concept as running a mastodon server but turning off registration. No more or less secure.
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That's sweet, I didn't think about using nixos-anywhere for this purpose (just simplifying the install process on a new machine). I used it to great success to install NixOS on a VPS that only had a few OS options like Debian.