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Brew is great. I’ve switched to using Nix as much as I could but most “Apps” aren’t supported yet where `brew install —cask` has it right away. Always nice to
by 0xCMP 6y ago
Brew is great. I’ve switched to using Nix as much as I could but most “Apps” aren’t supported yet where `brew install —cask` has it right away.
Always nice to know Brew will always have the latest version around. The only problem with that ends up being that if you use brew for development dependencies like Node or Python you can’t manage multiple versions. Nix being the most powerful in this area.
- sneak 6y agoI've switched to Nix and never looked back, thanks to Homebrew embedding spyware into the package manager. I keep my non-system apps in ~/Applications and back them up with the rest of my files.
- Hackbraten 6y ago> spyware Please.
- sneak 6y agoApps that silently transmit your activity without consent are spyware. It's an objective evaluation.
- Hackbraten 6y agoWhat makes you think it happens silently or without your consent?
- sneak 6y agoSilently: it does not print any indication it is transmitting activity data when it does so. Without consent: it does so automatically, without prompting the user to opt-in to such spying.
- Hackbraten 6y agoThere is a prompt. It’s impossible to miss.
- sneak 6y agoIt is not a prompt; I encourage you to review it. It proceeds automatically. It also only occurs once, on install, and is silent thereafter on each data exfiltration.
- Hackbraten 6y ago> It is not a prompt; I encourage you to review it. It proceeds automatically. It won’t start telemetry until the next invocation. It also clearly tells you the options you have. That’s as prompt-y as it gets.
- 0xCMP 6y agoRecently made my first PR to nixpkgs. Definitely looking to see what it takes to manage more *.apps using only Nix. Luckily this is much less of an issue on my NixOS desktop or EC2 instances.