Play Factorio on NixOS with Secrix!

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Quinn is gong to be doing some Nixos related live twitch streams.

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Enjoy!

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do you have a link to the final result? (for those who missed the stream)

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Enjoy!

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I don’t understand what is Secrix (and I can’t use grep on the audio / video :sweat_smile: )

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Ah, i see, you can find more about it here.

Enjoy…

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I was looking for a link to the final repo/project but thanks

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Did you know? You can actually play Factorio on NixOS without secrix!

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Did they in fact play Factorio at some point? I didn’t find it while skimming the preview.

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Hi, just saw that Lee posted this! we ended up using secrix to config my hercules agent, since I looked up factorio on the wiki and couldn’t find the override that I had remembered being there.

It turns out, I later noticed, that the override is in the error message when you try NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE=1 nix-shell -p factorio:

{
  packageOverrides = pkgs: {
    factorio = pkgs.factorio.override {
      username = "FactorioPlayer1654";
      token = "d5ad5a8971267c895c0da598688761";
    };
  };
}

so installing factorio is indeed a usecase for declarative secrets management.

The point of the stream was to learn about declarative secrets (specifically in secrix, which is an age wrapper for nixos in beta), so I pivoted to another task when I didn’t see the override on the wiki.

I can do nixos gaming streams if there’s interest, I know a thing or two about lutris and battlenet but most of that has more to do with intel than with nixos (the os stuff is the easy part). I can also do another stream where we actually put the override into my infra repo (with secrix) then boot the game and talk about nixos while I play, maybe eventually a version of that with a private server. I’m open to different things, can post nixos related streams in this thread.

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Here’s what hercules secrets dir looks like in secrix https://github.com/quinn-dougherty/declare/blob/7344165e40c562a202da51bf6c081e2f9681275e/modules/secrets/default.nix and here’s the full hercules module https://github.com/quinn-dougherty/declare/blob/7344165e40c562a202da51bf6c081e2f9681275e/modules/hercules.nix

Could be git-crypt, agenix, sops-nix, etc. I haven’t played factorio since I made my whole personal infra repo public, though, cuz I’ve been procrastinating on declarative secrets (had been doing it all by imperatively patching it in to a given machine)

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So… I’m not the only person playing actual games on nixOS :scream:

(no, “messing with your flake” doesn’t count as a game)

On a serious note, never thought about making the gaming side this much declarative.
Guess it would be a good idea fiddling with steam and epic authentication like that too.

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Yeah, it works!

I’ve had super success with stream, proton and some heavy weight games…

in fact it feels kinda of unreal in some sense.

You got anything in particular your playing??

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I’ve had success with steam (and proton) and epic inside lutris. Played some Oxygen Not Included, GTA V Online, Borderlands 2, Saints Row The Third (epic games remastered edition)… lots of random stuff from the steam lib actually.

But I saw some $HOME pollution from some tools/games (steam itself may be the biggest offender) and I never got into custom proton runtimes (maybe I should’ve made a flake to build and plug glorious egg releases into a home-manager config?).

But now that I think about the auth case, given 2-step is mostly forced, not sure if we could make use of secret management here. I mean we could but it wouldn’t eliminate the interactive login step.