Comment on Persistent packages on Steam Deck using Nix
filister@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoOne comment though, you are moving the bashrc and bash_profile instead of copying it. So consider fixing it in your instructions.
You could have also run a for loop and ping all the IPs in your subnet. Something like this will work:
for i in {1..254}; do ping -c 1 -W 1 192.168.1.$i &> /dev/null && echo 192.168.1.$i; done
Presuming that your subnet is 192.168.1.0/24. This command will loop through all the IPs in this network and only print the one that are alive.
I didn’t know that Steam have added an exception for /nix which is pretty cool. Thanks for sharing
rikudou@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
The move is intentional, the configuration file I included makes Home Manager manage .bashrc and .bash_profile, the original files are moved for backup.
Ping wouldn’t help that much, there’s around ~30 devices on my network. And it’s very much possible my PC blocks ICMP. And in addition, nmap includes the manufacturer in the output which is what I wanted to base my guess on.
filister@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I am pretty sure your PC doesn’t block ICMP requests and you can get the MAC address of the IP address using the
arpcommand and then check the first three octets against the MAC vendors database.This is all possible in Bash but the script will be slightly more complicated and will involve three different tools, ping, arp, curl.
But I am sure you know how to check your PC IP address anyway.