From their terms of service:

They (private repos) are also allowed for really small & personal stuff like your journal, config files, ideas or notes, but explicitly not as a personal cloud or media storage.

I’d guess that most private git repositories are small enough to fall under this category (unless you track large non-text files in git). This also seems like a very reasonable policy, considering that they’re a non-profit and they want to focus on supporting open source projects.

Das Problem der Betriebskosten löst man mit dezentralen Messengern aber auch nicht. Pro Nutzer werden die Betriebskosten da tendenziell noch höher sein und viele Leute spenden wahrscheinlich auch eher an eine bekannte Organisation wie die Signal Foundation als an einen kleinen unabhängigen Serverbetreiber.

The problem seems to be that home.stateVersion is not set because you commented out both the declaration in flake.nix as well as the line that imports home.nix. It’s a bit difficult to see whether the config is otherwise fine since there is a lot of visual clutter due to all the commented-out lines.

First, you need to pass the plasma-manager input to your home-manager config in some way. I use the NixOS module for home-manager which I declare like this in my flake.nix (if you have a different setup, this might not be necessary or you have to do it in a slightly different way):

homeManagerModule = {
  imports = [home-manager.nixosModules.home-manager];
  home-manager.users.myusername = import ./home.nix;
  # This will give us access to the inputs in the home-manager config
  home-manager.extraSpecialArgs = {inherit inputs};
};

Now the home-manager config (in my case home.nix) can look like this:

{
  inputs,
  ...
}: {
  imports = [inputs.plasma-manager.homeManagerModules.plasma-manager];
  programs.plasma = {
    enable = true;
    # ...
}

You probably forgot to import the plasma-manager module into home-manager. If you want to have a cleaner setup, I’d also recommend against just copying the complete output of rc2nix into your config since it tends to contain a lot of unnecessary stuff. What I usually do is:

1. Store the current config in a file, i.e. rc2nix > old-config.nix
2. Make whatever changes I want in Plasma in the graphical settings app
3. Store the updated config in a new file, i.e. rc2nix > new-config.nix
4. Get the difference, i.e. diff old-config.nix new-config.nix and add what I want to my actual plasma-manager config.

This of course only works if you’re starting from a relatively unmodified installation of KDE, but in that case it’s worth the effort imo.

Selbst bei einer Dividende von 2.500 Euro ändert sich für die untere Hälfte der Bevölkerung nichts am Vermögen. Arme Menschen würden das Geld der Simulation zufolge für bislang ungestillte Konsumbedürfnisse ausgeben, anstatt es zu sparen. Ihr Vermögen wüchse also nicht, der Wohlstand aber schon.

Was ist denn das für ein Argument? Es geht ja nicht darum, dass alle Menschen am Ende möglichst viel Geld in ihrem Bankkonto anhäufen, sondern dass ihr Lebensstandard sich langfristig verbessert. Abgesehen von den (vermutlich nicht allzu vielen) Leuten, die um ein Unternehmen zu gründen oder eine extrem teure Ausbildung zu bezahlen viel Geld auf einmal brauchen, ist eine einmalige Geldspritze dafür ja vermutlich nicht das effektivste Mittel.

Honestly, instead of trying to remove Snap from Ubuntu, I’d just install another distro (PopOS for example is mostly like Ubuntu but with Flatpak instead of Snap)

In my experience, a good way to get a polished desktop with a tiling workflow is to use KDE / GNOME with a few extensions & i3 shortcuts. Unless you really care about customizing every part of your DE, the work of configuring i3 to match a proper DE in terms of polish might not be worth it.

I previously used GNOME with the Forge extension and a few simple extensions for a workspace indicator, disabling the workspace switch animation, etc. This worked quite well but since GNOME is not very configurable, you have to do a lot of that through extensions (e.g. disabling the workspace switch animation & popup). This is particularly annoying since GNOME updates tend to break extensions.

For that reason, I recently switched to KDE. Polonium is a very nice tiling plugin for it. Since KDE is pretty customizable, I didn’t really need a lot of other extensions to support my workflow. It’s mainly a matter of configuring keyboard shortcuts and a few other settings. I haven’t used KDE long enough to say how stable everything is under updates, but from what I’ve heard it should be a lot better than GNOME.

I personally use NixOS and Home Manager with the Plasma Manager module for KDE. It’s a steep learning curve but if you have fun learning new stuff it is worth it in my opinion.

Otherwise, a GNOME / KDE tiling setup will probably also be mostly reproducible if you just track your dot files. There’s always a bit of manual configuration but it’s also difficult to completely avoid that with NixOS (although probably possible).