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  • Same for me, I stopped distro-hoping 2 years ago when I moved to NixOS.

    It was tough at first, setting it up took a while and i genuinely felt stupid like i haven’t felt for a while; but now I love having the same config on my two laptops. I have one that stays at work and another one for traveling. With one word/line added into my config I can as a software, configure the VPN, change the wallpaper on both my laptop, or not. Some stuff like gaming goes only on the traveling laptop.

    Also, another big thing for me is the feeling of having a cleanly built system all the time. I haven’t felt the urge to do a clean reinstall since I started with NixOS.




  • So far I used SweetHome3D, Onshape and Qelectrotech (for electrical) for the renovation of my house.

    However if you are planning to do some heavy renovations in your house I would advise you to get an architect to do a proper blueprint of your house and a blueprint of what your house would look like after renovation.

    It’s not necessary, it might feel like it’s extra money up front that you don’t use directly for renovation but in a big project you save so much in the long term. This is what we did and there is so many (expensive) mistakes that we avoided because we had an expert eye at the beginning of the project.



  • I think Nixos and a nas would for your need.

    This is what I’m doing, I have two laptop, one for work at my office and one at home for work/hobbies.

    I have a nixos config synced on github with all my of is configuration, package list extensions …Some of the config is specific to each laptop like the part related to the hardware and steam, games stuff only on my home computer. The rest is the config is shared and all my files synced on my NAS.

    So whenever I change something on one the change is reflected in the other. I really enjoy this setup and I’m thinking of adding my server in it too.




  • You should find a startup incubator of whatever is the equivalent around you.

    You have a product idea, it’s great but is just the start. I’m sure 10 other people got up this morning with the same idea. What matters is what you do with this idea.

    Now you need to learn how to refine this idea and turn it into a business and for that you need help. This is exactly what startup incubators are here for.










  • As others have said, there is no right answer but here are my thoughts based on my experience.

    Mortgage

    The apartment is under your name so I would expect you to pay the mortgage.

    One thing you could do is that your girlfriend puts a share of the mortgage cost into a savings account under her name. It could be the equivalent of what she’s paying now for her rent of the equivalent of your mortgage minus 30%.

    This way if you stay together and decide to buy a new home you can both contribute to it with a nice down payment and if you split up you both get your marbles back.

    It also levels your salaries and you are contributing equally to the housing cost so there is no resentment being built on your side.

    Utilities and groceries

    What I did with my girlfriend (now wife) is that we were doing a pro rata monthly contribution to a bank account that was used for everyday life. In your case you are earning 30% more then you can contribute 30% more to this account. Then everything like electricity, groceries, restaurants together … Was deducted from this account.

    It’s quite easy to get a free bank account with two cards so we used that (we used N26 at the time but there are plenty of options, the bank account was technically a single person account with two cards but it did not really matter since we were not keeping a lot of money in it). We started by keeping track of all our expenses on an app like Tricount and regularly balancing our contribution, it’s easy to set up but it requires to keep track of all our expenses and was quite annoying to do on the long term.