Wipe root on every boot. Basically Tails, but as a daily driver

So there is a really cool linux distro out there – NixOS. It’s basically a whole system configured from a single configuration file (I’m talking bootloader, apps, kernel modules, software configuration, etc.). And some people (with a lot of free time) are making an impermanence setup, which basically means this:

It’s like wiping your browser history on reboot, but for the entire system! (You can explicitly set the stuff you want to keep)

This may actually fall under the “default allow” principle, so, on most systems every change is persisted unless otherwise stated, but here every change is wiped unless otherwise stated. Cool!

Basically it’s tails, but without the “blending in”, “can’t be used as a daily driver” parts

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