What about manual pre-provisioning? I just found out a few days ago that you can't pre-provision wifi via placing wpa_supplicant.conf in /boot any more, you now need to use that GUI provisioner.
I appreciate that RPi is trying to make the ecosystem more accessible for newcomers - but not at the cost of power users, please!
Raspberry Pi seems to have been on a tear of good stuff this year. Lots of activity on both the hardware accessory and software side. I've been following their secure boot provisioning work in particular.
Conveniently for me, they keep releasing things right as I start to have an interest in using that thing.
They let you produce SD-card images with custom NixOS'es.
Very useful when you want an exact software layout, and exact system settings, like what user accounts and SSH keys to include, what systemd services should run, what directories should be tmpfs, and how to interact with the local network using avahi.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 24.3 ms ] threadRaspberry Pi continues to show that its real value is in continuous software and community support.
Even if their hardware isn't the greatest value, the software always shines.
I appreciate that RPi is trying to make the ecosystem more accessible for newcomers - but not at the cost of power users, please!
Conveniently for me, they keep releasing things right as I start to have an interest in using that thing.
https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-generators
They let you produce SD-card images with custom NixOS'es.
Very useful when you want an exact software layout, and exact system settings, like what user accounts and SSH keys to include, what systemd services should run, what directories should be tmpfs, and how to interact with the local network using avahi.