I’m a huge fan of nixos. I have my whole home lab using it now. I learned everything I know from reading other’s configurations. I also use the nix search site for finding configuration options.
Here is my config and others I’ve used as inspiration:
I think another reason OpenAI talks about how scary LLMs are is that they fear the open source models surpassing them. I didn’t see it mentioned in the article, but both Google and OpenAI have called for regulation and I think that they only want that because they have no moat.
You can take this to the extreme too by erasing your root partition each boot: https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/
Using that method you isolate all important state on the system for backup with zfs send.