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NixOS so I can keep my config in git. I have a single nix config for all my machines (desktop, laptop and server) so I can share configuration between them. I use it to configure both my system and my user config, my dotfiles, with home-manager. Even my neovim config is in nix thanks to nixvim.

I don’t think I could go back now. It can be a bit of a pain from time to time and the learning curve is steep but it has so many advantages. Being able to rollback between config versions (called generations), having a consistent config between my machines, having it all in version control… The repo have so many packages and when there is a module it’s really easy to add a service. Writing new packages (derivations) and modules is also not that hard. It can be as simple as calling nix-init.

Had my main ssd fail on me a few month back and it was very simple to just replay the config and just get everything working as before. I only had to do the partitioning by hand (it can be done by nix but I’ve not gotten around to it yet). That’s why I only backup data and home partitions, not system partitions.

I highly doubt the users could get away with such an excuse but I’m not a lawyer. And the complaint comes from the football ligue rights holders, there is not ethics to be found here.

selling piracy services

That’s exactly the subject here.

France copyright law does not allow full length reproduction, whatever the intent. It does not apply here and it’s not why they are going after the customers here.

Telegram never was the private alternative to anything, unless you took their advertisement at face value. It was always known to not use e2ee by default.

Signal is not a problem, the US gov things were very dumb users issues. It was not caused by Signal itself.

So the goalpost has not moved in years, Signal was and is still good, Telegram is only fine if you do not care about privacy.