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Yesterday, my daily driver laptop suddenly died.<\/p>\n\n

The charging lights are on and the keyboard backlights are on, but there's no display on the internal screen or when I plug it into an external monitor.<\/p>\n\n

Today, it's gone into a local computer repair shop so I'm writing this email from a different laptop than normal.<\/p>\n\n

The great thing about using NixOS and Home Manager is that all of my laptop's configuration is saved within my dotfiles repository<\/a> - from the operating system and window manager configuration to the programs I have installed and how they are configured.<\/p>\n\n

I was able to get half a laptop (an old one with a broken lid) working with my external monitor and running with an identical configuration very quickly.<\/p>\n\n

I didn't need to wonder what programs I had installed or how I configured them. It was all available in my dotfiles.<\/p>\n\n

And, because I commit early and often, the code I've been working on recently is all in remote Git repositories and using tools like Nix and Docker, I can get them running again quickly too.<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n

Yesterday, my daily driver laptop suddenly died.<\/p>\n\n

The charging lights are on and the keyboard backlights are on, but there's no display on the internal screen or when I plug it into an external monitor.<\/p>\n\n

Today, it's gone into a local computer repair shop so I'm writing this email from a different laptop than normal.<\/p>\n\n

The great thing about using NixOS and Home Manager is that all of my laptop's configuration is saved within my dotfiles repository<\/a> - from the operating system and window manager configuration to the programs I have installed and how they are configured.<\/p>\n\n

I was able to get half a laptop (an old one with a broken lid) working with my external monitor and running with an identical configuration very quickly.<\/p>\n\n

I didn't need to wonder what programs I had installed or how I configured them. It was all available in my dotfiles.<\/p>\n\n

And, because I commit early and often, the code I've been working on recently is all in remote Git repositories and using tools like Nix and Docker, I can get them running again quickly too.<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ], "feeds_item": [ { "imported": "2025-04-21T01:21:27+00:00", "guid": null, "hash": "a630770a77303507c11aab1e65b36b5e", "target_type": "feeds_feed", "target_uuid": "90c85284-7ca8-4074-9178-97ff8384fe76" } ] }