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I’d like to receive mails at my TLD, which is a premium feature for basically all mail providers I’ve seen. Having access to a (virtual) private server opens up the option to run a private mail server though. This seems like a daunting task because of the many moving parts and security concerns. Luckily there are (external) NixOS modules for that - providing an abstraction layer on top of many packages and their configurations with sensible defaults:

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I own an Xiaomi Mi A1 with LineageOS 15.1 (unofficial) and microG installed. There are three problems: OTA wasn’t working when I installed the ROM, so no easy updates. Encryption had issues when I installed the ROM and there still seem to be some now. Encrypting on stock ROM is recommended. There’s a problem with Whatsapp and microG, when first running it. My aim is to install the official LineageOS 15.

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I’ve been using NixOS for quite a while, but didn’t really commit to it at first. This resulted in Windows taking up most of my disk space and I tried to be clever with partitioning too .. which bit me a lot. And that’s the main reason for reinstalling NixOS this weekend: I need disk space! My root partition has a size of 10G, because that ought to be enough, when I’m saving large stuff like games elsewhere, right?

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I decided to start this blog to share some stuff and perhaps get me motivated to get stuff done to share … let’s see whether that works out.

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