diff --git a/hosts/common/systemd.nix b/hosts/common/systemd.nix
index 0b74ec26..1ce41917 100644
--- a/hosts/common/systemd.nix
+++ b/hosts/common/systemd.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ pkgs, ... }:
+{ ... }:
 let
   # N.B.: systemd doesn't like to honor its timeout settings.
   # a timeout of 20s is actually closer to 70s,
@@ -12,11 +12,6 @@ in
     DefaultTimeoutStopSec=${builtins.toString haltTimeout}
   '';
 
-  systemd.user.extraConfig = ''
-    # DefaultTimeoutStopSec defaults to 90s, and frequently blocks overall system shutdown.
-    DefaultTimeoutStopSec=${builtins.toString haltTimeout}
-  '';
-
   services.journald.extraConfig = ''
     # docs: `man journald.conf`
     # merged journald config is deployed to /etc/systemd/journald.conf
@@ -25,41 +20,6 @@ in
     Compress=no
   '';
 
-  # decreasing the timeout for the manager itself ("Stop job is running for User Manager for UID 1000").
-  # TimeoutStopSec gets stripped from .override file for `user@`, so can't do it that way:
-  #   systemd.services."user@".serviceConfig.TimeoutStopSec = "20s";
-  # adding just TimeoutStopSec to `user@1000` causes it to lose all the other fields, including `ExecStart`:
-  #   systemd.services."user@1000".serviceConfig.TimeoutStopSec = "20s";
-  # so, just recreate the whole damn service as it appears with `systemd cat 'user@1000'`
-  # and modify the parts i care about.
-  systemd.services."user@1000" = {
-    description = "User Manager for UID %i";
-    documentation = [ "man:user@service(5)" ];
-    after = [
-      "user-runtime-dir@%i.service"
-      "dbus.service"
-      "systemd-oomd.service"
-    ];
-    requires = [ "user-runtime-dir@%i.service" ];
-    unitConfig.IgnoreOnIsolate = true;
-
-    serviceConfig = {
-      User = "%i";
-      PAMName = "systemd-user";
-      Type = "notify-reload";
-      ExecStart = "${pkgs.systemd}/lib/systemd/systemd --user";
-      Slice = "user-%i.slice";
-      KillMode = "mixed";
-      Delegate = [ "pids" "memory" "cpu" ];
-      DelegateSubgroup = "init.scope";
-      TasksMax = "infinity";
-      TimeoutStopSec = "${builtins.toString haltTimeout}s";  #< default: 120s
-      KeyringMode = "inherit";
-      OOMScoreAdjust = 100;
-      MemoryPressureWatch = "skip";
-    };
-  };
-
   # allow ordinary users to `reboot` or `shutdown`.
   # source: <https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Polkit>
   security.polkit.extraConfig = ''