Configuring new services in NixOS is like wrestling with docker container configurations without a sufficiently large amd mentally-normative forum community to help figure out the 47 different problems you will encounter.
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The anaemic amount of discussions about nix/nixOS also mean that AI is just going to start making shit up the minute you scratch the surface beyond the atom-thin coating of basic tutorials.
I’ve been wanting to try to so many things but knowing it’d be pain I just put it off.
I run my node with nix-bitcoin, and everytime I see some cool new thing, I'm like "Yeah that project will be abandoned before it ever gets a nix package". And the prospect of learning some autistic functional hieroglyphics language just to learn how to make a package myself that like maybe 7 people on the world will appreciate makes me go nah brah.
You guys know containers are good for fucking around regardless of the host OS, right?
Exaaaactly.