A few years ago I wrote a post on installing NixOS on encrypted btrfs. I recently went trough that guide to install NixOS once more. It is good, but it has some issues:

1. btrfs: Which I no longer use due to performance concerns.
2. git: This requires some special attention, but …

A client had a Citrix environment running. To debug the deployment of a machine, I copied the Citrix environment locally in VirtualBox. Note that the server doesn’t run any machines inside citrix, but it does get the XenCenter operational. It appears that in nixos you can just setup a …

This is a post of things I wanted to do in nixos but isn’t described anywhere. I had to read source code to figure these things out. By explaining here what is going on I make things easier for other people.

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It’s possible to bypass …

Nixos is heroin for tinkerers. Paradise can be tinkered together and be freely shared among peers because it’s fully reproducible! Jappie wanted more, he wanted a secure disk and a BTRFS. There used to be no guides for this, now there is.

The bullet was bitten, BTRFS was made …