• WereCat@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 hours ago

    This looks quite interesting but I honestly can’t think of any use case where I would find this useful for me. Also this seems like something best to try in VM first. I’ll keep this one in a bookmark though, may become useful later. Thanks!

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      3 hours ago

      impermanence forces you to be intentional with your system, where files are persisted, which is great for: hygiene like feeling like the computer was freshly formatted on each boot; using NixOS as intended by keeping things declarative (in other words, “nixmaxxing”); security also, to a lesser extent tbh, but it’d be protecting against malware nesting at impermanent paths

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        2 hours ago

        I get it but for now I find this to be a bit too overly declarative for my taste. For now I’ll focus on things that actually matter for my use case but as I’ve said. I’m bookmarking this to try later in VM.