Recovering from accidentally deleting my main user on NixOS
That time I locked myself out of NixOS the night before I was supposed to deploy a project, and fumbled back in.
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Installing Lazyvim and Oh-My-Zsh on NixOS without Home Manager or flakes
After 2 days of on-and-off teeth-gnashing, I FINALLY got it working.