Gunwant Jain - @wantguns

I am late again for posting the next weeknote - it's been a mostly-work week and I am struggling to find time to write.

Sans Tech IndiaPost Remember the mail I sent to Parul ?

Sans Tech NiKo finally got his major It finally happened!!

Preface I am an avid selfhoster, and I follow the gitops pattern with ArgoCD for controlling the state of my Kubernetes (k3s) cluster.

A lot has happened in my life since I last wrote.

nixos-anywhere is a cool tool which can be used to installed nixos on: an existing linux installation using kexec a baremetal machine and both of those options remotely using ssh It is a part of the nix-community suite, and works well with nixos-facter for

I am done with setting up darwin machines now, and look forward to expand our nix files to declare state for linux hosts as well.

Lets expand on our flake from before and also make system level changes like KeyInputDelay: This is the new flake.nix: flake.nix { description = "Home Manager configuration of gunwant.jain1"; inputs = { nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-u…

I am going to start hacking nix code on my macbook first.

I have been maintaining a set of cloud servers, for the purpose of selfhosting a ton of software, VPNs, and random experimentation.

Building I hate to use docker for automating VM purposes, but I acknowledge it as an ad-hoc method for this instance.

Building Once again, I hate to use docker for automating VM purposes, but I acknowledge it as an ad-hoc method for this instance.

Preface At FlowDrive, we do not have the luxury of travelling heavy.

Its almost 3 months since I have been officially working with the SharkBait team at Gentoo.

So you've successfully compiled AOSP.

As I progress in my GSoC journey, my next task is to boot System-As-Root based Android in an LXC container inside Gentoo.

As you would know from my previous blog, I couldn't make the UART work for my phone.

This blog is a short sequel to my previous blog where I discussed why I needed to access a serial console on Redmi Note 7 (I'll refer to it using its codename, lavender here onwards).

Presently, SharkBait aims at devices launching with Android version lower than 9.

I am tired of re-installing gentoo (from an chroot approach) on my phone by connecting parts from different resources and so here is the guide to do it all in a go.