My Mac is set up to sync its light/dark mode with the local sunset, so it is in light mode through most of the day, and in dark mode later at night. All my apps sync with the system as well, including my terminal and terminal applications. However, what doesn’t sync is SSH sessions. If I SSH into one of my Mac Minis, and then run a command such as bat (which on my Mac is aliased to bat --theme=$(defaults read -globalDomain AppleInterfaceStyle &> /dev/null && echo Catppuccin-mocha || echo Catppuccin-latte) and thus respects dark mode), it always acts as if it is in dark mode (because the Mac Mini is in dark mode).
As I’ve mentioned before, I have a bunch of Mac Minis running NixOS hosting various services. I have SSH access set up to them all with my SSH key, but I don’t have access to my GPG keys on those machines. And since these are the only NixOS machines that I have, things like updating my flake lockfile become annoyingly complicated:
As I mentioned in the previous post, I have two set-up Mac Minis dual-booting NixOS. Howver, because they’re so old, they’re really, really slow. When I had another service that I wanted to run (details to come), I decided to set up a third. One of NixOS’s strengths is that it’s very easy to deploy an identical machine. I was still getting used to NixOS when I set up my second machine, but now that I’m more comfortable (relatively speaking), I wanted to see how easy it was.