On: Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief

[aliasxneo]

There's at least one customer out there who has an RPi with NixOS on it from me. Probably still works to this day. It was the best use of NixOS I think I've ever found.

[Kim_Bruning → aliasxneo]

I've switched up to NUC-ish hardware which WAS cheap until recently. All the components just a bit higher quality than the lowest-bidder you get on the Pi. Run nixos on that and you've got a really solid platform.

[rurban → aliasxneo]

More probably worst use of NixOS. In embedded we care for every single kb, and don't have tolerance for this kind of space waste management system

[voakbasda → rurban]

Embedded means different things. Personally I have a hard time calling anything that runs Linux as embedded, having cut my teeth on microcontrollers.

[hiAndrewQuinn → voakbasda]

If it's a custom Yocto thing or it involved buildroot at any state of provisioning it gets the moniker "quasi-embedded" to me. Doubly so if it never actually connects to the internet, unlike these water controllers, apparently.