Anonymous
6/15/2025, 9:52:54 PM No.105603831
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to manage your whole homelab with a single flake and home-manager on NixOS. The elegance of the paradigm is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of functional programming and dependency management, most of the configuration will go over a typical sysadmin's head.
There's also the system's inherent statelessness, which is deftly woven into its architecture—its personal philosophy draws heavily from purely functional principles, for instance. The users understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the elegance of a reproducible build, to realise that it's not just stable- it says something deep about COMPUTING.
As a consequence people who dislike NixOS truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the beauty in a garbage collection run that purges gigabytes of old derivations, which itself is a cryptic testament to the purity of a declarative state. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Eelco Dolstra's genius unfolds itself on their SSH terminals after they run home-manager switch.
What fools, forever trapped in their mutable state... how I pity them.
And yes, by the way, I DO have my GPG master key, generated on a purely ephemeral NixOS install. And no, you cannot see the private key. It's for signing my fellow developers' keys only—and even they have to demonstrate that their own flake.nix can evaluate without impurity (preferably with fewer than 5 inputs) beforehand.
There's also the system's inherent statelessness, which is deftly woven into its architecture—its personal philosophy draws heavily from purely functional principles, for instance. The users understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the elegance of a reproducible build, to realise that it's not just stable- it says something deep about COMPUTING.
As a consequence people who dislike NixOS truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the beauty in a garbage collection run that purges gigabytes of old derivations, which itself is a cryptic testament to the purity of a declarative state. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Eelco Dolstra's genius unfolds itself on their SSH terminals after they run home-manager switch.
What fools, forever trapped in their mutable state... how I pity them.
And yes, by the way, I DO have my GPG master key, generated on a purely ephemeral NixOS install. And no, you cannot see the private key. It's for signing my fellow developers' keys only—and even they have to demonstrate that their own flake.nix can evaluate without impurity (preferably with fewer than 5 inputs) beforehand.
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