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 How many people know what Nix is?

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 NixOS is a very basic language.

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 Well, Nix is a language and NixOS makes use of it.

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 And all you do is describe your computer in basic ways.

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 Like I want Firefox installed, or

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 I want this behavior when the system boots up.

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 And then it just goes ahead and does it.

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 And you can apply that, it turns out, to mobile devices.

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 So what is mobile NixOS?

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 You can find out about it at mobile.nixos.org.

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 And the author of this is Samuel Dior.

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 I didn't make it, I just use it.

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 So this is what it looks like.

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 I was gonna try and show you it here, but

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 I guess that's not gonna work out because it's too small of a

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 screen and it's too bright.

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 But you can hook it up to the monitor.

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 You can put a USB hub into it.

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 And you can have fun using your normal computer because

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 phones are never going to be the same again,

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 when people realize this.

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 So you can use it like this, or you can use it like this.

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 And this is the amount of code that I need to write, and

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 I appreciate that it's not a good environment to show it often.

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 But it's a very small diff.

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 It looks like one, two, three, four, it looks like ten lines of code.

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 I can make a NixOS configuration that already exists work on

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 my phone instead of on my laptop.

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 Now the work that made the kernel, the Linux kernel,

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 work on this device has been done by Caleb Connolly.

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 And they may be at this camp, I don't know if they're here, but

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 they've done amazing work over the past two years, all spare time.

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 And a lot of work is inherited from post market OS.

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 I'm using a window manager called SXMO, which makes use of Sway,

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 which is a tiling window manager.

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 And it turns it into a sort of mobile operating system.

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 By the way, you can also run Windows 10 on the phone if you

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 want via this UEFI implementation.

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 And by the way, we can run Android as well.

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 So if you want to just escape to Android for a second, you can.

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 You click one button and you've got Weidroid.

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 And then you swipe to the left and you're back in full Linux.

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 And how do we do that?

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 It's that single line of code right there.

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 So if anyone is skeptical of Nix and NixOS, you should check it out.

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 And by the way, we can emulate x86 programs.

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 So if we just run like Bitwig Studio or

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 some program that runs under Windows, under Wine,

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 it will just run on the device, just with this one line of code.

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 And you can do local speech processing on the device.

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 It doesn't take much time.

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 Potential future, well, maybe we'll get USB-C and

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 display ports everywhere.

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 The demo I showed you of making it work on a monitor,

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 that's just a hack because it works over USB.

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 This doesn't have display port mode out of the USB socket.

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 And by the way, everything's kind of insecure because there's no

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 secure boot implementation, but in the future that could change.

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 There's nothing stopping us from implementing secure boots on

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 this device because it has a trusted platform module, etc.

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 Phones that are worth using are rare.

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 This is one in a million because this is a OnePlus 6.

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 It's got 10 gigs of RAM.

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 It cost $100.

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 Maybe you should all go buy one, but then the price won't be $100

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 anymore.

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 Yeah, and this is kind of like the only phone that works this

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 well at this time.

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 Your phone is a computer.

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 If we can get USB-C on every device, maybe we can get an open

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 bootloader on every device as well.

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 And the European Commission reckons that the USB-C

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 connector saves a lot of money.

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 How much money could this save?

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 Because this isn't just a connector.

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 This allows you to run any piece of software you want on your

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 mobile device, and everyone's phone is probably enough

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 computation for them.

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 And that's it.

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 That's my talk.

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 Oh, actually, Stardust XR, it's a VR display thing.

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 It allows you to pick windows up with your fingers and stuff

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 like this.

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 You could use it with these glasses.

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 I've been using the phone with these glasses.

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 If you think the display is too small, don't, because you can

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 just put it on these glasses, and you can have a big monitor

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 or a world of monitors around you.

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 And many other disaster setups have been made by me that I

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 can't show off because I don't have any time.

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 Oh, yeah, the head computer.

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 Thank you.

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 Cool.

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 Oh, one last thing.

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 If you want to see more about this, come to the Nixos tent

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 next to Seabase, and you can hang out with me.

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 And I'll be doing a talk about this tomorrow, if you're

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 interested.

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 Thank you very much.

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