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Can you tell more? Which apps?

Sorry for the late question, I'm very interested in your experience with FoundationDB.

In just one sentence or two, how would you describe it?

> Yep, police can simply ask anyone for their passwords and if you don't give it up they can put you in jail.

This is precisely the reason why I don't want to visit the US at the moment.

The USA immigration officers can ask me to forfeit my phone's password and look at all my photos, documents, messages, call logs etc, WITHOUT SUSPICION.

Some of that data can even stay on their servers for decades, and who knows if it ends up on a CIA/NSA server.

Of course, I can always refuse, but non-cooperation with CBP means immediate denial of entry and risks of lifelong headaches with future immigration checks.

The name, the logo, the values and many important strategic decisions seems to have already been decided, before a public channel of communication has been created.

Was this created by just you, or is there already a team?

As much as I think they overreacted when banning you, it also feels like an overreaction to fork that soon.

I hope a compromise will be found, and that you'll be back on NixOS as soon as possible!

Yeah, automation in Nixpkgs is crazy and goes far beyond any other distros (that I know of).

Why spend manual time when it can be automated?

> Is nixpkgs really a monorepo as usually discussed? It's got packages, os modules, and some supporting scripts. Nix itself lives in a different place, so does the RFC planning, system artwork and a few other things. I would expect it all together to become a monorepo.

I think we can say it's a monorepo of packages in this context. Not everything from the Nix ecosystem is there. It could also bundle the website, wiki, doc etc but I don't think it matter too much.

> Debian has ~1.5k contributors, nixpkgs lists >3.5k maintainers. (Although that list is not pruned over time)

Thanks for the info, I heard that a long time ago and never checked myself! It's probably less as you say but still probably bigger than Debian.

I guess it makes sense because it's so much easier to contribute there than to Debian.

But you can use `envfs` to "restore" that compatibility ;)

Or something heavier like `steam-run`

I allocate all my SSD space to one ZFS pool and then:

- I can easily create new subvolumes (filesystems or block devices), for different mount points, containers, other distributions, VM disks...

- The free space is shared between all of them, no need to anticipate a partitioning layout

- I have a service that automatically snapshots some of them, others not

- I love the ZFS tools, I'm very happy to use them on all my machines

- I use NixOS everywhere and so it's also easier to share the same conf on all my machines

- I can send volumes easily from one machine to the other (zfs send)

I probably miss other things, but I also love consistency ;)

I have been using ZFS as root FS since the first release of ZFS on Linux (2013) on all my machines (laptops, NAS, server) and I can't imagine going back.

Why shouldn't it be a valid opinion to not like cryptocurrencies?

And to not want to contribute?

Why is not ok to prefer money regulated by the rule of law?

Moreover, I have no idea how I could help with the problem of recovering stolen cryptocurrency/NFTs or lost private keys.