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I did a refactor of my nix config following a pattern I learned from reading Davis' setup. My two main uses right now for Nix/home-manager are to install and configure programs. Some of these programs have nix modules that allow for the configuration to be written in Nix. Others don't, but you can...
I've spend almost a week, on and off, trying to install ollama using Nix in such a way that ollama serve will be run and managed automatically in the background. Initially, I had tried to install ollama via home-manager. This was straightforward, but finding a way to have ollama serve run...
I've been meaning to try out Simon's llm package for a while now. From reading the docs and following the development, it's a modular, meet-you-where-you-are CLI for running LLM inference locally or using almost any API out there. In the past, I might have installed this with brew, but we run nix...
After playing around with home-manager for a bit, I realized what I really wanted was to have nix-darwin manage my system and use my home-manager config as a module. It took a bit of trial and error and searching to figure out how to make this work, but I did eventually find a way. With nix-darwin,...
I pivoted to using home-manager using the standalone installation. It seems to provide a reasonable starting point and a found a fair bit of prior art when searching Github, so my hope was there would be good examples to model off of. It took me a frustrating time to realize after running...