| 11 Oct 2025 |
 tavinator | for context - i have seen that by default the installer creates 32 build users... i would like to reduce this to a number like 1 or maybe 2 | 19:46:58 |
 emily | having only 1-2 build users will prevent you from running more than 1-2 builds at once | 20:40:31 |
|  Adam Olczak joined the room. | 21:36:14 |
| tavinator | emily: i'm totally fine with that... do you know if the env var works? i'm not super confident about completely erasing the existing install on my macbook to test this. but i want to have a battle plan for when i try to convince 10-20 devs in my org to install this thing. | 21:48:03 |
| emily | not sure. I don't use the official installer on macOS. | 21:48:37 |
| emily | I believe the Lix and DetSys installers both have a command-line parameter for the number of users. | 21:48:47 |
| emily | out of curiosity, why is the number of users an issue? UID collisions? | 21:48:58 |
| tavinator | being asked by management software whether you really want to execute that sudo command | 21:49:20 |
| tavinator | every single sudo command | 21:49:24 |
| tavinator | also uid collisions but i know how to solve that one | 21:49:56 |
| emily | ah. well if you use one of the other installers it will only do one sudo. | 21:53:50 |
| emily | and also support uninstalls and other things like that. | 21:53:55 |
| emily | the shell script installer is not very good. | 21:54:00 |
| tavinator | okay. i'm gonna try to get one of my people to test drive the Lix installer. someone else test drove the DetSys one and it failed right out of the gate. | 21:54:43 |
 kdn | is there any way to easily deploy to MacOS from NixOS x86 machine? | 22:04:49 |
 niklaskorz | I think clan recently added Darwin support | 22:10:32 |
| niklaskorz | https://clan.lol/blog/macos/ | 22:10:58 |
| kdn | could you TLDR what is clan? | 22:11:26 |
| niklaskorz | NixOS cluster manager basically | 22:12:16 |
| kdn | something like https://github.com/zhaofengli/colmena ? | 22:12:38 |
| kdn | * something like https://github.com/zhaofengli/colmena or nixops? | 22:12:47 |
| kdn | or more like kubernetes for nixos? | 22:14:35 |
| niklaskorz | Yes to both questions | 22:14:48 |
| kdn | this got me curious: I was planning to build out k3s cluster on top of NixOS (got the hardware, but aborted the Talos k8s deployment there due to some hiccups ~year ago) | 22:16:57 |
| kdn | but if I can have ~8 heterogenous machines managed from Nix that sounds great to get started | 22:17:38 |
| kdn | * but if I can have ~8 heterogenous machines managed from Nix that sounds great to get started before (if at all) I build out the k8s | 22:17:56 |
| niklaskorz | I think there was a talk about it at Nixcon 2024, if you prefer a video | 22:18:18 |
| niklaskorz | But otherwise the docs seem good | 22:18:27 |
| niklaskorz | Haven't used it personally but I'm following it with keen interest for now | 22:18:47 |
| kdn | "inventory" and "vars" looks Ansible-inspired ;D | 22:19:04 |
