import and update Tokodon package from <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/170466 >

this hangs and then segfaults at start. i suppose i should `gdb` it.
2022-10-30 18:23:18 -07:00
168 changed files with 1817 additions and 6737 deletions
--- a/flake.lock
+++ b/flake.lock
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@
        ]
      },
      "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1667907331,
-        "narHash": "sha256-bHkAwkYlBjkupPUFcQjimNS8gxWSWjOTevEuwdnp5m0=",
+        "lastModified": 1665996265,
+        "narHash": "sha256-/k9og6LDBQwT+f/tJ5ClcWiUl8kCX5m6ognhsAxOiCY=",
        "owner": "nix-community",
        "repo": "home-manager",
-        "rev": "6639e3a837fc5deb6f99554072789724997bc8e5",
+        "rev": "b81e128fc053ab3159d7b464d9b7dedc9d6a6891",
        "type": "github"
      },
      "original": {
@@ -38,11 +38,11 @@
    },
    "impermanence": {
      "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1668668915,
-        "narHash": "sha256-QjY4ZZbs9shwO4LaLpvlU2bO9J1juYhO9NtV3nrbnYQ=",
+        "lastModified": 1661933071,
+        "narHash": "sha256-RFgfzldpbCvS+H2qwH+EvNejvqs+NhPVD5j1I7HQQPY=",
        "owner": "nix-community",
        "repo": "impermanence",
-        "rev": "5df9108b346f8a42021bf99e50de89c9caa251c3",
+        "rev": "def994adbdfc28974e87b0e4c949e776207d5557",
        "type": "github"
      },
      "original": {
@@ -54,11 +54,11 @@
    "mobile-nixos": {
      "flake": false,
      "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1670131242,
-        "narHash": "sha256-T/o1/3gffr010fsqgNshs1NJJjsnUYvQnUZgm6hilsY=",
+        "lastModified": 1666573922,
+        "narHash": "sha256-CqB8Y5HajptSFE8Em990dcYZIHJWBiO9zd1us4Mzx8M=",
        "owner": "nixos",
        "repo": "mobile-nixos",
-        "rev": "5ee45cc1f8e43f4af14ee17ccef9156b0db8cd77",
+        "rev": "1351091d2537040454fa232d8b94e745ab0eb5a3",
        "type": "github"
      },
      "original": {
@@ -69,11 +69,11 @@
    },
    "nixpkgs": {
      "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1671722432,
-        "narHash": "sha256-ojcZUekIQeOZkHHzR81st7qxX99dB1Eaaq6PU5MNeKc=",
+        "lastModified": 1666447894,
+        "narHash": "sha256-i9WHX4w/et4qPMzEXd9POmnO0/bthjr7R4cblKNHGms=",
        "owner": "NixOS",
        "repo": "nixpkgs",
-        "rev": "652e92b8064949a11bc193b90b74cb727f2a1405",
+        "rev": "95aeaf83c247b8f5aa561684317ecd860476fcd6",
        "type": "github"
      },
      "original": {
@@ -82,37 +82,37 @@
        "type": "indirect"
      }
    },
-    "nixpkgs-stable": {
+    "nixpkgs-22_05": {
      "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1671883564,
-        "narHash": "sha256-C15oAtyupmLB3coZY7qzEHXjhtUx/+77olVdqVMruAg=",
+        "lastModified": 1666488099,
+        "narHash": "sha256-DANs2epN5QgvxWzH7xF3dzb4WE0lEuMLrMEu/vPmQxw=",
        "owner": "NixOS",
        "repo": "nixpkgs",
-        "rev": "dac57a4eccf1442e8bf4030df6fcbb55883cb682",
+        "rev": "f9115594149ebcb409a42e303bec4956814a8419",
+        "type": "github"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "NixOS",
+        "ref": "release-22.05",
+        "repo": "nixpkgs",
+        "type": "github"
+      }
+    },
+    "nixpkgs-stable": {
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1666401273,
+        "narHash": "sha256-AG3MoIjcWwz1SPjJ2nymWu4NmeVj9P40OpB1lsmxFtg=",
+        "owner": "NixOS",
+        "repo": "nixpkgs",
+        "rev": "3933d8bb9120573c0d8d49dc5e890cb211681490",
        "type": "github"
      },
      "original": {
        "id": "nixpkgs",
-        "ref": "nixos-22.11",
+        "ref": "nixos-22.05",
        "type": "indirect"
      }
    },
-    "nixpkgs-stable_2": {
-      "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1671923641,
-        "narHash": "sha256-flPauiL5UrfRJD+1oAcEefpEIUqTqnyKScWe/UUU+lE=",
-        "owner": "NixOS",
-        "repo": "nixpkgs",
-        "rev": "939c05a176b8485971463c18c44f48e56a7801c9",
-        "type": "github"
-      },
-      "original": {
-        "owner": "NixOS",
-        "ref": "release-22.11",
-        "repo": "nixpkgs",
-        "type": "github"
-      }
-    },
    "root": {
      "inputs": {
        "home-manager": "home-manager",
@@ -120,23 +120,40 @@
        "mobile-nixos": "mobile-nixos",
        "nixpkgs": "nixpkgs",
        "nixpkgs-stable": "nixpkgs-stable",
+        "rycee": "rycee",
        "sops-nix": "sops-nix",
        "uninsane": "uninsane"
      }
    },
+    "rycee": {
+      "flake": false,
+      "locked": {
+        "lastModified": 1666843362,
+        "narHash": "sha256-xn2bW9/MT0u8Ptlk+f323p46Q/ktZkzMp7oj5SlYDxU=",
+        "owner": "rycee",
+        "repo": "nur-expressions",
+        "rev": "43d3a363c126968db46585b88b8eb97dd32634ad",
+        "type": "gitlab"
+      },
+      "original": {
+        "owner": "rycee",
+        "repo": "nur-expressions",
+        "type": "gitlab"
+      }
+    },
    "sops-nix": {
      "inputs": {
        "nixpkgs": [
          "nixpkgs"
        ],
-        "nixpkgs-stable": "nixpkgs-stable_2"
+        "nixpkgs-22_05": "nixpkgs-22_05"
      },
      "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1671937829,
-        "narHash": "sha256-YtaNB+mLw0d67JFYNjRWM+/AL3JCXuD/DGlnTlyX1tY=",
+        "lastModified": 1666499473,
+        "narHash": "sha256-q1eFnBFL0kHgcnUPeKagw3BfbE/5sMJNGL2E2AR+a2M=",
        "owner": "Mic92",
        "repo": "sops-nix",
-        "rev": "855b8d51fc3991bd817978f0f093aa6ae0fae738",
+        "rev": "1b5f9512a265f0c9687dbff47893180f777f4809",
        "type": "github"
      },
      "original": {
@@ -153,11 +170,11 @@
        ]
      },
      "locked": {
-        "lastModified": 1666870107,
-        "narHash": "sha256-b9eXZxSwhzdJI5uQgfrMhu4SY2POrPkinUg7F5gQVYo=",
+        "lastModified": 1665758541,
+        "narHash": "sha256-ibR8bPwHlDjavri5cNVnoo5FmFk1IfNMmQXxat5biqs=",
        "ref": "refs/heads/master",
-        "rev": "80c6ec95bd430e29d231cf745f19279bb76fb382",
-        "revCount": 164,
+        "rev": "4ad1801f6cecd678bbeae5dfe5933448dd7b3360",
+        "revCount": 163,
        "type": "git",
        "url": "https://git.uninsane.org/colin/uninsane"
      },
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@

 {
  inputs = {
-    nixpkgs-stable.url = "nixpkgs/nixos-22.11";
+    nixpkgs-stable.url = "nixpkgs/nixos-22.05";
    nixpkgs.url = "nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
    mobile-nixos = {
      url = "github:nixos/mobile-nixos";
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@
      url = "github:nix-community/home-manager/release-22.05";
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    };
+    rycee = {
+      url = "gitlab:rycee/nur-expressions";
+      flake = false;
+    };
    sops-nix = {
      url = "github:Mic92/sops-nix";
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
@@ -31,6 +35,7 @@
    nixpkgs-stable,
    mobile-nixos,
    home-manager,
+    rycee,
    sops-nix,
    impermanence,
    uninsane
@@ -38,17 +43,14 @@
    patchedPkgs = system: nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system}.applyPatches {
      name = "nixpkgs-patched-uninsane";
      src = nixpkgs;
-      patches = import ./nixpatches/list.nix {
-        inherit (nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system}) fetchpatch;
-        inherit (nixpkgs.lib) fakeHash;
-      };
+      patches = import ./nixpatches/list.nix nixpkgs.legacyPackages.${system}.fetchpatch;
    };
    # return something which behaves like `pkgs`, for the provided system
    # `local` = architecture of builder. `target` = architecture of the system beying deployed to
    nixpkgsFor = local: target: import (patchedPkgs target) { crossSystem = target; localSystem = local; };
    # evaluate ONLY our overlay, for the provided system
    customPackagesFor = local: target: import ./pkgs/overlay.nix (nixpkgsFor local target) (nixpkgsFor local target);
-    decl-host = { name, local, target }:
+    decl-machine = { name, local, target }:
    let
      nixosSystem = import ((patchedPkgs target) + "/nixos/lib/eval-config.nix");
    in (nixosSystem {
@@ -57,13 +59,14 @@
      specialArgs = { inherit mobile-nixos home-manager impermanence; };
      modules = [
        ./modules
-        (import ./hosts/instantiate.nix name)
+        (import ./machines/instantiate.nix name)
        home-manager.nixosModule
        impermanence.nixosModule
        sops-nix.nixosModules.sops
        {
          nixpkgs.overlays = [
            (import "${mobile-nixos}/overlay/overlay.nix")
+            (import "${rycee}/overlay.nix")
            uninsane.overlay
            (import ./pkgs/overlay.nix)
            (next: prev: rec {
@@ -72,23 +75,17 @@
              # the config can explicitly pull such packages from `pkgs.cross` to do more efficient cross-compilation.
              cross = (nixpkgsFor local target) // (customPackagesFor local target);
              stable = import nixpkgs-stable { system = target; };
-
-              # cross-compatible packages
-              # gocryptfs = cross.gocryptfs;
-
              # pinned packages:
-              # 2022/12/13: grpc does not build on aarch64-linux. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/205887
-              grpc = stable.grpc;
-              # depends on grpc, so pinned.
-              duplicity = stable.duplicity;
+              electrum = stable.electrum;  # 2022-10-10: build break
+              sequoia = stable.sequoia;    # 2022-10-13: build break
            })
          ];
        }
      ];
    });

-    decl-bootable-host = { name, local, target }: rec {
-      nixosConfiguration = decl-host { inherit name local target; };
+    decl-bootable-machine = { name, local, target }: rec {
+      nixosConfiguration = decl-machine { inherit name local target; };
      # this produces a EFI-bootable .img file (GPT with a /boot partition and a system (/ or /nix) partition).
      # after building this:
      #   - flash it to a bootable medium (SD card, flash drive, HDD)
@@ -101,41 +98,32 @@
      #   - boot
      #   - if fs wasn't resized automatically, then `sudo btrfs filesystem resize max /`
      #   - checkout this flake into /etc/nixos AND UPDATE THE FS UUIDS.
-      #   - `nixos-rebuild --flake './#<host>' switch`
+      #   - `nixos-rebuild --flake './#<machine>' switch`
      img = nixosConfiguration.config.system.build.img;
    };
-    hosts.servo = decl-bootable-host { name = "servo"; local = "x86_64-linux"; target = "x86_64-linux"; };
-    hosts.desko = decl-bootable-host { name = "desko"; local = "x86_64-linux"; target = "x86_64-linux"; };
-    hosts.lappy = decl-bootable-host { name = "lappy"; local = "x86_64-linux"; target = "x86_64-linux"; };
-    hosts.moby = decl-bootable-host { name = "moby"; local = "aarch64-linux"; target = "aarch64-linux"; };
+    machines.servo = decl-bootable-machine { name = "servo"; local = "aarch64-linux"; target = "aarch64-linux"; };
+    machines.desko = decl-bootable-machine { name = "desko"; local = "x86_64-linux"; target = "x86_64-linux"; };
+    machines.lappy = decl-bootable-machine { name = "lappy"; local = "x86_64-linux"; target = "x86_64-linux"; };
+    machines.moby = decl-bootable-machine { name = "moby"; local = "aarch64-linux"; target = "aarch64-linux"; };
    # special cross-compiled variant, to speed up deploys from an x86 box to the arm target
    # note that these *do* produce different store paths, because the closure for the tools used to cross compile
    # v.s. emulate differ.
-    # so deploying foo-cross and then foo incurs some rebuilding.
-    hosts.moby-cross = decl-bootable-host { name = "moby"; local = "x86_64-linux"; target = "aarch64-linux"; };
-    hosts.rescue = decl-bootable-host { name = "rescue"; local = "x86_64-linux"; target = "x86_64-linux"; };
+    # so deploying moby-cross and then moby incurs some rebuilding.
+    machines.moby-cross = decl-bootable-machine { name = "moby"; local = "x86_64-linux"; target = "aarch64-linux"; };
+    machines.rescue = decl-bootable-machine { name = "rescue"; local = "x86_64-linux"; target = "x86_64-linux"; };
  in {
-    nixosConfigurations = builtins.mapAttrs (name: value: value.nixosConfiguration) hosts;
-    imgs = builtins.mapAttrs (name: value: value.img) hosts;
+    nixosConfigurations = builtins.mapAttrs (name: value: value.nixosConfiguration) machines;
+    imgs = builtins.mapAttrs (name: value: value.img) machines;
    packages = let
      allPkgsFor = sys: (customPackagesFor sys sys) // {
        nixpkgs = nixpkgsFor sys sys;
        uninsane = uninsane.packages."${sys}";
+        rycee = (import "${rycee}/default.nix" { pkgs = nixpkgsFor sys sys; });
      };
    in {
      x86_64-linux = allPkgsFor "x86_64-linux";
      aarch64-linux = allPkgsFor "aarch64-linux";
    };
-    templates = {
-      python-data = {
-        # initialize with:
-        # - `nix flake init -t '/home/colin/dev/nixos/#python-data'`
-        # then enter with:
-        # - `nix develop`
-        path = ./templates/python-data;
-        description = "python environment for data processing";
-      };
-    };
  };
 }

--- a/hosts/common/bluetooth.nix
+++ b/hosts/common/bluetooth.nix
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, pkgs, ... }:
-
-{
-  # TODO: don't need to depend on binsh if we were to use a nix-style shebang
-  system.activationScripts.linkBluetoothKeys = let
-    unwrapped = ../../scripts/install-bluetooth;
-    install-bluetooth = pkgs.writeShellApplication {
-      name = "install-bluetooth";
-      runtimeInputs = with pkgs; [ coreutils gnused ];
-      text = ''${unwrapped} "$@"'';
-    };
-  in (lib.stringAfter
-    [ "setupSecrets" "binsh" ]
-    ''
-    ${install-bluetooth}/bin/install-bluetooth /run/secrets/bt
-    ''
-  );
-}
--- a/hosts/common/i2p.nix
+++ b/hosts/common/i2p.nix
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-{ ... }:
-{
-  services.i2p.enable = true;
-}
--- a/hosts/common/machine-id.nix
+++ b/hosts/common/machine-id.nix
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-{ ... }:
-{
-  # /etc/machine-id is a globally unique identifier used for:
-  # - systemd-networkd: DHCP lease renewal (instead of keying by the MAC address)
-  # - systemd-journald: to filter logs by host
-  # - chromium (potentially to track re-installations)
-  # - gdbus; system services that might upgrade to AF_LOCAL if both services can confirm they're on the same machine
-  # because of e.g. the chromium use, we *don't want* to persist this.
-  # however, `journalctl` won't show logs from previous boots unless the machine-ids match.
-  # so for now, generate something unique from the host ssh key.
-  # TODO: move this into modules?
-  system.activationScripts.machine-id = {
-    deps = [ "etc" ];
-    text = "sha256sum /etc/ssh/host_keys/ssh_host_ed25519_key | cut -c 1-32 > /etc/machine-id";
-  };
-}
--- a/hosts/common/secrets.nix
+++ b/hosts/common/secrets.nix
@@ -1,124 +0,0 @@
-{ config, ... }:
-
-{
-  # SOPS configuration:
-  #   docs: https://github.com/Mic92/sops-nix
-  #
-  # for each new user you want to edit sops files:
-  # create a private age key from ssh key:
-  #   $ mkdir -p ~/.config/sops/age; ssh-to-age -private-key -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 > ~/.config/sops/age/keys.txt; chmod 600 ~/.config/sops/age/keys.txt
-  #   if the private key was password protected, then first decrypt it:
-  #     $ cp ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 /tmp/id_ed25519
-  #     $ ssh-keygen -p -N "" -f /tmp/id_ed25519
-  #
-  # for each user you want to decrypt secrets:
-  #   $ cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub | ssh-to-age
-  #   add the result to .sops.yaml
-  #   since we specify ssh pubkeys in the nix config, you can just grep for `ssh-ed25519` here and use those instead
-  #
-  # for each host you want to decrypt secrets:
-  #   $ cat /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub | ssh-to-age
-  #   add the result to .sops.yaml
-  #   $ sops updatekeys secrets/example.yaml
-  #
-  # to create a new secret:
-  #   $ sops secrets/example.yaml
-  #   control access below (sops.secret.<x>.owner = ...)
-  #
-  # to read a secret:
-  #   $ cat /run/secrets/example_key
-
-  # sops.age.sshKeyPaths = [ "/home/colin/.ssh/id_ed25519_dec" ];
-  # This will add secrets.yaml to the nix store
-  # You can avoid this by adding a string to the full path instead, i.e.
-  # sops.defaultSopsFile = "/root/.sops/secrets/example.yaml";
-  sops.defaultSopsFile = ../../secrets/universal.yaml;
-  sops.gnupg.sshKeyPaths = [];  # disable RSA key import
-  # This is using an age key that is expected to already be in the filesystem
-  # sops.age.keyFile = "/home/colin/.ssh/age.pub";
-  # sops.age.keyFile = "/var/lib/sops-nix/key.txt";
-  # This will generate a new key if the key specified above does not exist
-  # sops.age.generateKey = true;
-  # This is the actual specification of the secrets.
-  # sops.secrets.example_key = {
-  #   owner = config.users.users.colin.name;
-  # };
-  # sops.secrets."myservice/my_subdir/my_secret" = {};
-
-  ## universal secrets
-  # TODO: glob these?
-
-  sops.secrets."jackett_apikey" = {
-    sopsFile = ../../secrets/universal.yaml;
-    owner = config.users.users.colin.name;
-  };
-  sops.secrets."router_passwd" = {
-    sopsFile = ../../secrets/universal.yaml;
-  };
-  sops.secrets."wg_ovpnd_us_privkey" = {
-    sopsFile = ../../secrets/universal.yaml;
-  };
-  sops.secrets."wg_ovpnd_us-atl_privkey" = {
-    sopsFile = ../../secrets/universal.yaml;
-  };
-  sops.secrets."wg_ovpnd_us-mi_privkey" = {
-    sopsFile = ../../secrets/universal.yaml;
-  };
-  sops.secrets."wg_ovpnd_ukr_privkey" = {
-    sopsFile = ../../secrets/universal.yaml;
-  };
-
-  sops.secrets."snippets" = {
-    sopsFile = ../../secrets/universal/snippets.bin;
-    format = "binary";
-    owner = config.users.users.colin.name;
-  };
-
-  sops.secrets."bt/car" = {
-    sopsFile = ../../secrets/universal/bt/car.bin;
-    format = "binary";
-  };
-  sops.secrets."bt/earbuds" = {
-    sopsFile = ../../secrets/universal/bt/earbuds.bin;
-    format = "binary";
-  };
-  sops.secrets."bt/portable-speaker" = {
-    sopsFile = ../../secrets/universal/bt/portable-speaker.bin;
-    format = "binary";
-  };
-
-  sops.secrets."iwd/community-university.psk" = {
-    sopsFile = ../../secrets/universal/net/community-university.psk.bin;
-    format = "binary";
-  };
-  sops.secrets."iwd/friend-libertarian-dod.psk" = {
-    sopsFile = ../../secrets/universal/net/friend-libertarian-dod.psk.bin;
-    format = "binary";
-  };
-  sops.secrets."iwd/friend-rationalist-empathist.psk" = {
-    sopsFile = ../../secrets/universal/net/friend-rationalist-empathist.psk.bin;
-    format = "binary";
-  };
-  sops.secrets."iwd/home-bedroom.psk" = {
-    sopsFile = ../../secrets/universal/net/home-bedroom.psk.bin;
-    format = "binary";
-  };
-  sops.secrets."iwd/home-shared-24G.psk" = {
-    sopsFile = ../../secrets/universal/net/home-shared-24G.psk.bin;
-    format = "binary";
-  };
-  sops.secrets."iwd/home-shared.psk" = {
-    sopsFile = ../../secrets/universal/net/home-shared.psk.bin;
-    format = "binary";
-  };
-  sops.secrets."iwd/iphone" = {
-    sopsFile = ../../secrets/universal/net/iphone.psk.bin;
-    format = "binary";
-  };
-  sops.secrets."iwd/parents" = {
-    sopsFile = ../../secrets/universal/net/parents.psk.bin;
-    format = "binary";
-  };
-}
-
-
--- a/hosts/common/ssh.nix
+++ b/hosts/common/ssh.nix
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-{ config, lib, ... }:
-{
-  environment.etc."ssh/host_keys".source = "/nix/persist/etc/ssh/host_keys";
-
-  services.openssh.hostKeys = [
-    { type = "rsa"; bits = 4096; path = "/etc/ssh/host_keys/ssh_host_rsa_key"; }
-    { type = "ed25519"; path = "/etc/ssh/host_keys/ssh_host_ed25519_key"; }
-  ];
-
-}
--- a/hosts/common/vpn.nix
+++ b/hosts/common/vpn.nix
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-{ config, lib, ... }:
-
-# to add a new OVPN VPN:
-# - generate a privkey `wg genkey`
-# - add this key to `sops secrets/universal.yaml`
-# - upload pubkey to OVPN.com
-# - generate config @ OVPN.com
-# - copy the Address, PublicKey, Endpoint from OVPN's config
-# N.B.: maximum interface name in Linux is 15 characters.
-let
-  def-ovpn = name: { endpoint, publicKey, address }: {
-    networking.wg-quick.interfaces."ovpnd-${name}" = {
-      inherit address;
-      privateKeyFile = config.sops.secrets."wg_ovpnd_${name}_privkey".path;
-      dns = [
-        "46.227.67.134"
-        "192.165.9.158"
-      ];
-      peers = [
-        {
-          allowedIPs = [
-            "0.0.0.0/0"
-            "::/0"
-          ];
-          inherit endpoint publicKey;
-        }
-      ];
-      # to start: `systemctl start wg-quick-ovpnd-${name}`
-      autostart = false;
-    };
-  };
-in lib.mkMerge [
-  (def-ovpn "us" {
-    endpoint = "vpn31.prd.losangeles.ovpn.com:9929";
-    publicKey = "VW6bEWMOlOneta1bf6YFE25N/oMGh1E1UFBCfyggd0k=";
-    address = [
-      "172.27.237.218/32"
-      "fd00:0000:1337:cafe:1111:1111:ab00:4c8f/128"
-    ];
-  })
-  # NB: us-* share the same wg key and link-local addrs, but distinct public addresses
-  (def-ovpn "us-atl" {
-    endpoint = "vpn18.prd.atlanta.ovpn.com:9929";
-    publicKey = "Dpg/4v5s9u0YbrXukfrMpkA+XQqKIFpf8ZFgyw0IkE0=";
-    address = [
-      "172.21.182.178/32"
-      "fd00:0000:1337:cafe:1111:1111:cfcb:27e3/128"
-    ];
-  })
-  (def-ovpn "us-mi" {
-    endpoint = "vpn34.prd.miami.ovpn.com:9929";
-    publicKey = "VtJz2irbu8mdkIQvzlsYhU+k9d55or9mx4A2a14t0V0=";
-    address = [
-      "172.21.182.178/32"
-      "fd00:0000:1337:cafe:1111:1111:cfcb:27e3/128"
-    ];
-  })
-  (def-ovpn "ukr" {
-    endpoint = "vpn96.prd.kyiv.ovpn.com:9929";
-    publicKey = "CjZcXDxaaKpW8b5As1EcNbI6+42A6BjWahwXDCwfVFg=";
-    address = [
-      "172.18.180.159/32"
-      "fd00:0000:1337:cafe:1111:1111:ec5c:add3/128"
-    ];
-  })
-]
--- a/hosts/instantiate.nix
+++ b/hosts/instantiate.nix
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-# trampoline from flake.nix into the specific host definition, while doing a tiny bit of common setup
-
-hostName: { ... }: {
-  imports = [
-    ./${hostName}
-    ./common
-  ];
-
-  networking.hostName = hostName;
-}
--- a/hosts/servo/fs.nix
+++ b/hosts/servo/fs.nix
@@ -1,89 +0,0 @@
-{ ... }:
-
-{
-  sane.impermanence.root-on-tmpfs = true;
-  # we need a /tmp for building large nix things
-  fileSystems."/tmp" = {
-    device = "none";
-    fsType = "tmpfs";
-    options = [
-      "mode=777"
-      "defaults"
-    ];
-  };
-
-  fileSystems."/nix" = {
-    device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/cc81cca0-3cc7-4d82-a00c-6243af3e7776";
-    fsType = "btrfs";
-    options = [
-      "compress=zstd"
-      "defaults"
-    ];
-  };
-
-  fileSystems."/boot" = {
-    device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/6EE3-4171";
-    fsType = "vfat";
-  };
-
-  # slow, external storage (for archiving, etc)
-  fileSystems."/nix/persist/ext" = {
-    device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/aa272cff-0fcc-498e-a4cb-0d95fb60631b";
-    fsType = "btrfs";
-    options = [
-      "compress=zstd"
-      "defaults"
-    ];
-  };
-
-  sane.impermanence.dirs = [
-    # TODO: this is overly broad; only need media and share directories to be persisted
-    { user = "colin"; group = "users"; directory = "/var/lib/uninsane"; }
-  ];
-  # direct these media directories to external storage
-  environment.persistence."/nix/persist/ext/persist" = {
-    directories = [
-      ({
-        user = "colin";
-        group = "users";
-        mode = "0777";
-        directory = "/var/lib/uninsane/media/Videos";
-      })
-      ({
-        user = "colin";
-        group = "users";
-        mode = "0777";
-        directory = "/var/lib/uninsane/media/freeleech";
-      })
-    ];
-  };
-
-  # in-memory compressed RAM (seems to be dynamically sized)
-  # zramSwap = {
-  #   enable = true;
-  # };
-
-  # btrfs doesn't easily support swapfiles
-  # swapDevices = [
-  #   { device = "/nix/persist/swapfile"; size = 4096; }
-  # ];
-
-  # this can be a partition. create with:
-  #   fdisk <dev>
-  #     n
-  #     <default partno>
-  #     <start>
-  #     <end>
-  #     t
-  #     <partno>
-  #     19  # set part type to Linux swap
-  #     w   # write changes
-  #   mkswap -L swap <part>
-  # swapDevices = [
-  #   {
-  #     label = "swap";
-  #     # TODO: randomEncryption.enable = true;
-  #   }
-  # ];
-}
-
--- a/hosts/servo/net.nix
+++ b/hosts/servo/net.nix
@@ -1,212 +0,0 @@
-{ config, pkgs, ... }:
-
-{
-  networking.domain = "uninsane.org";
-
-  # The global useDHCP flag is deprecated, therefore explicitly set to false here.
-  # Per-interface useDHCP will be mandatory in the future, so this generated config
-  # replicates the default behaviour.
-  networking.useDHCP = false;
-  networking.interfaces.eth0.useDHCP = true;
-  # XXX colin: probably don't need this. wlan0 won't be populated unless i touch a value in networking.interfaces.wlan0
-  networking.wireless.enable = false;
-
-  # networking.firewall.enable = false;
-  networking.firewall.enable = true;
-
-  # this is needed to forward packets from the VPN to the host
-  boot.kernel.sysctl."net.ipv4.ip_forward" = 1;
-
-  # unless we add interface-specific settings for each VPN, we have to define nameservers globally.
-  # networking.nameservers = [
-  #   "1.1.1.1"
-  #   "9.9.9.9"
-  # ];
-
-  # use systemd's stub resolver.
-  # /etc/resolv.conf isn't sophisticated enough to use different servers per net namespace (or link).
-  # instead, running the stub resolver on a known address in the root ns lets us rewrite packets
-  # in the ovnps namespace to use the provider's DNS resolvers.
-  # a weakness is we can only query 1 NS at a time (unless we were to clone the packets?)
-  # there also seems to be some cache somewhere that's shared between the two namespaces.
-  # i think this is a libc thing. might need to leverage proper cgroups to _really_ kill it.
-  # - getent ahostsv4 www.google.com
-  # - try fix: <https://serverfault.com/questions/765989/connect-to-3rd-party-vpn-server-but-dont-use-it-as-the-default-route/766290#766290>
-  services.resolved.enable = true;
-  networking.nameservers = [
-    # use systemd-resolved resolver
-    # full resolver (which understands /etc/hosts) lives on 127.0.0.53
-    # stub resolver (just forwards upstream) lives on 127.0.0.54
-    "127.0.0.53"
-  ];
-
-  # nscd -- the Name Service Caching Daemon -- caches DNS query responses
-  # in a way that's unaware of my VPN routing, so routes are frequently poor against
-  # services which advertise different IPs based on geolocation.
-  # nscd claims to be usable without a cache, but in practice i can't get it to not cache!
-  # nsncd is the Name Service NON-Caching Daemon. it's a drop-in that doesn't cache;
-  # this is OK on the host -- because systemd-resolved caches. it's probably sub-optimal
-  # in the netns and we query upstream DNS more often than needed. hm.
-  # TODO: run a separate recursive resolver in each namespace.
-  services.nscd.enableNsncd = true;
-
-  # services.resolved.extraConfig = ''
-  #   # docs: `man resolved.conf`
-  #   # DNS servers to use via the `wg0` interface.
-  #   #   i hope that from the root ns, these aren't visible.
-  #   DNS=46.227.67.134%wg0 192.165.9.158%wg0
-  #   FallbackDNS=1.1.1.1 9.9.9.9
-  # '';
-
-  # OVPN CONFIG (https://www.ovpn.com):
-  # DOCS: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/WireGuard
-  # if you `systemctl restart wireguard-wg0`, make sure to also restart any other services in `NetworkNamespacePath = .../ovpns`.
-  # TODO: why not create the namespace as a seperate operation (nix config for that?)
-  networking.wireguard.enable = true;
-  networking.wireguard.interfaces.wg0 = let
-    ip = "${pkgs.iproute2}/bin/ip";
-    in-ns = "${ip} netns exec ovpns";
-    iptables = "${pkgs.iptables}/bin/iptables";
-    veth-host-ip = "10.0.1.5";
-    veth-local-ip = "10.0.1.6";
-    vpn-ip = "185.157.162.178";
-    # DNS = 46.227.67.134, 192.165.9.158, 2a07:a880:4601:10f0:cd45::1, 2001:67c:750:1:cafe:cd45::1
-    vpn-dns = "46.227.67.134";
-  in {
-    privateKeyFile = config.sops.secrets.wg_ovpns_privkey.path;
-    # wg is active only in this namespace.
-    # run e.g. ip netns exec ovpns <some command like ping/curl/etc, it'll go through wg>
-    #   sudo ip netns exec ovpns ping www.google.com
-    interfaceNamespace = "ovpns";
-    ips = [
-      "185.157.162.178/32"
-    ];
-    peers = [
-      {
-        publicKey = "SkkEZDCBde22KTs/Hc7FWvDBfdOCQA4YtBEuC3n5KGs=";
-        endpoint = "185.157.162.10:9930";
-        # alternatively: use hostname, but that presents bootstrapping issues (e.g. if host net flakes)
-        # endpoint = "vpn36.prd.amsterdam.ovpn.com:9930";
-        allowedIPs = [ "0.0.0.0/0" ];
-        # nixOS says this is important for keeping NATs active
-        persistentKeepalive = 25;
-        # re-executes wg this often. docs hint that this might help wg notice DNS/hostname changes.
-        # so, maybe that helps if we specify endpoint as a domain name
-        # dynamicEndpointRefreshSeconds = 30;
-        # when refresh fails, try it again after this period instead.
-        # TODO: not avail until nixpkgs upgrade
-        # dynamicEndpointRefreshRestartSeconds = 5;
-      }
-    ];
-    preSetup = "" + ''
-      ${ip} netns add ovpns || echo "ovpns already exists"
-    '';
-    postShutdown = "" + ''
-      ${in-ns} ip link del ovpns-veth-b || echo "couldn't delete ovpns-veth-b"
-      ${ip} link del ovpns-veth-a || echo "couldn't delete ovpns-veth-a"
-      ${ip} netns delete ovpns || echo "couldn't delete ovpns"
-      # restore rules/routes
-      ${ip} rule del from ${veth-host-ip} lookup ovpns pref 50 || echo "couldn't delete init -> ovpns rule"
-      ${ip} route del default via ${veth-local-ip} dev ovpns-veth-a proto kernel src ${veth-host-ip} metric 1002 table ovpns || echo "couldn't delete init -> ovpns route"
-      ${ip} rule add from all lookup local pref 0
-      ${ip} rule del from all lookup local pref 100
-    '';
-    postSetup = "" + ''
-      # DOCS:
-      # - some of this approach is described here: <https://josephmuia.ca/2018-05-16-net-namespaces-veth-nat/>
-      # - iptables primer: <https://danielmiessler.com/study/iptables/>
-      # create veth pair
-      ${ip} link add ovpns-veth-a type veth peer name ovpns-veth-b
-      ${ip} addr add ${veth-host-ip}/24 dev ovpns-veth-a
-      ${ip} link set ovpns-veth-a up
-
-      # mv veth-b into the ovpns namespace
-      ${ip} link set ovpns-veth-b netns ovpns
-      ${in-ns} ip addr add ${veth-local-ip}/24 dev ovpns-veth-b
-      ${in-ns} ip link set ovpns-veth-b up
-
-      # make it so traffic originating from the host side of the veth
-      # is sent over the veth no matter its destination.
-      ${ip} rule add from ${veth-host-ip} lookup ovpns pref 50
-      # for traffic originating at the host veth to the WAN, use the veth as our gateway
-      # not sure if the metric 1002 matters.
-      ${ip} route add default via ${veth-local-ip} dev ovpns-veth-a proto kernel src ${veth-host-ip} metric 1002 table ovpns
-      # give the default route lower priority
-      ${ip} rule add from all lookup local pref 100
-      ${ip} rule del from all lookup local pref 0
-
-      # bridge HTTP traffic:
-      # any external port-80 request sent to the VPN addr will be forwarded to the rootns.
-      # this exists so LetsEncrypt can procure a cert for the MX over http.
-      # TODO: we could use _acme_challence.mx.uninsane.org CNAME to avoid this forwarding
-      # - <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/where-does-letsencrypt-resolve-dns-from/37607/8>
-      ${in-ns} ${iptables} -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp --dport 80 -m iprange --dst-range ${vpn-ip} \
-        -j DNAT --to-destination ${veth-host-ip}:80
-
-      # we also bridge DNS traffic
-      ${in-ns} ${iptables} -A PREROUTING -t nat -p udp --dport 53 -m iprange --dst-range ${vpn-ip} \
-        -j DNAT --to-destination ${veth-host-ip}:53
-      ${in-ns} ${iptables} -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp --dport 53 -m iprange --dst-range ${vpn-ip} \
-        -j DNAT --to-destination ${veth-host-ip}:53
-
-      # in order to access DNS in this netns, we need to route it to the VPN's nameservers
-      # - alternatively, we could fix DNS servers like 1.1.1.1.
-      ${in-ns} ${iptables} -A OUTPUT -t nat -p udp --dport 53 -m iprange --dst-range 127.0.0.53 \
-        -j DNAT --to-destination ${vpn-dns}:53
-    '';
-  };
-
-  # create a new routing table that we can use to proxy traffic out of the root namespace
-  # through the ovpns namespace, and to the WAN via VPN.
-  networking.iproute2.rttablesExtraConfig = ''
-  5 ovpns
-  '';
-  networking.iproute2.enable = true;
-
-  sops.secrets."wg_ovpns_privkey" = {
-    sopsFile = ../../secrets/servo.yaml;
-  };
-
-  # HURRICANE ELECTRIC CONFIG:
-  # networking.sits = {
-  #   hurricane = {
-  #     remote = "216.218.226.238";
-  #     local = "192.168.0.5";
-  #     # local = "10.0.0.5";
-  #     # remote = "10.0.0.1";
-  #     # local = "10.0.0.22";
-  #     dev = "eth0";
-  #     ttl = 255;
-  #   };
-  # };
-  # networking.interfaces."hurricane".ipv6 = {
-  #   addresses = [
-  #     # mx.uninsane.org (publically routed /64)
-  #     {
-  #       address = "2001:470:b:465::1";
-  #       prefixLength = 128;
-  #     }
-  #     # client addr
-  #     # {
-  #     #   address = "2001:470:a:466::2";
-  #     #   prefixLength = 64;
-  #     # }
-  #   ];
-  #   routes = [
-  #     {
-  #       address = "::";
-  #       prefixLength = 0;
-  #       # via = "2001:470:a:466::1";
-  #     }
-  #   ];
-  # };
-
-  # # after configuration, we want the hurricane device to look like this:
-  # # hurricane: flags=209<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP>  mtu 1480
-  # #            inet6 2001:470:a:450::2  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x0<global>
-  # #            inet6 fe80::c0a8:16  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
-  # #            sit  txqueuelen 1000  (IPv6-in-IPv4)
-  # # test with:
-  # #   curl --interface hurricane http://[2607:f8b0:400a:80b::2004]
-  # #   ping 2607:f8b0:400a:80b::2004
-}
--- a/hosts/servo/services/ddns-afraid.nix
+++ b/hosts/servo/services/ddns-afraid.nix
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
-
-# using manual ddns now
-lib.mkIf false
-{
-  systemd.services.ddns-afraid = {
-    description = "update dynamic DNS entries for freedns.afraid.org";
-    serviceConfig = {
-      EnvironmentFile = config.sops.secrets.ddns_afraid.path;
-      # TODO: ProtectSystem = "strict";
-      # TODO: ProtectHome = "full";
-      # TODO: PrivateTmp = true;
-    };
-    script = let
-      curl = "${pkgs.curl}/bin/curl -4";
-    in ''
-      ${curl} "https://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/update.php?$AFRAID_KEY"
-    '';
-  };
-  systemd.timers.ddns-afraid = {
-    wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
-    timerConfig = {
-      OnStartupSec = "2min";
-      OnUnitActiveSec = "10min";
-    };
-  };
-
-  sops.secrets."ddns_afraid" = {
-    sopsFile = ../../../secrets/servo.yaml;
-  };
-}
--- a/hosts/servo/services/ejabberd.nix
+++ b/hosts/servo/services/ejabberd.nix
@@ -1,393 +0,0 @@
-# docs:
-# - <https://docs.ejabberd.im/admin/configuration/basic>
-# example configs:
-# - <https://github.com/vkleen/machines/blob/138a2586ce185d7cf201d4e1fe898c83c4af52eb/hosts/europium/ejabberd.nix>
-# - <https://github.com/Mic92/stockholm/blob/675ef0088624c9de1cb531f318446316884a9d3d/tv/3modules/ejabberd/default.nix>
-# - <https://github.com/buffet/tararice/blob/master/programs/ejabberd.nix>
-#   - enables STUN and TURN
-#   - only over UDP 3478, not firewall-forwarding any TURN port range
-#   - uses stun_disco module (but with no options)
-# - <https://github.com/leo60228/dotfiles/blob/39b3abba3009bdc31413d4757ca2f882a33eec8b/files/ejabberd.yml>
-# - <https://github.com/Mic92/dotfiles/blob/ddf0f4821f554f7667fc803344657367c55fb9e6/nixos/eve/modules/ejabberd.nix>
-# - <nixpkgs:nixos/tests/xmpp/ejabberd.nix>
-# - 2013: <https://github.com/processone/ejabberd/blob/master/ejabberd.yml.example>
-#
-# compliance tests:
-# - <https://compliance.conversations.im/server/uninsane.org/#xep0352>
-{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
-
-# XXX: avatar support works in MUCs but not DMs
-# lib.mkIf false
-{
-  sane.impermanence.dirs = [
-    { user = "ejabberd"; group = "ejabberd"; directory = "/var/lib/ejabberd"; }
-  ];
-  networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [
-    3478  # STUN/TURN
-    5222  # XMPP  client -> server
-    5223  # XMPPS client -> server (XMPP over TLS)
-    5269  # XMPP  server -> server
-    5270  # XMPPS server -> server (XMPP over TLS)
-    5280  # bosh
-    5281  # bosh (https) ??
-    5349  # STUN/TURN (TLS)
-    5443  # web services (file uploads, websockets, admin)
-  ];
-  networking.firewall.allowedUDPPorts = [
-    3478  # STUN/TURN
-  ];
-  networking.firewall.allowedTCPPortRanges = [{
-    from = 49152;  # TURN
-    to = 65535;
-  }];
-  networking.firewall.allowedUDPPortRanges = [{
-    from = 49152;  # TURN
-    to = 65535;
-  }];
-
-  # provide access to certs
-  users.users.ejabberd.extraGroups = [ "nginx" ];
-
-  security.acme.certs."uninsane.org".extraDomainNames = [
-    "xmpp.uninsane.org"
-    "muc.xmpp.uninsane.org"
-    "pubsub.xmpp.uninsane.org"
-    "upload.xmpp.uninsane.org"
-    "vjid.xmpp.uninsane.org"
-  ];
-
-  # exists so the XMPP server's cert can obtain altNames for all its resources
-  services.nginx.virtualHosts."xmpp.uninsane.org" = {
-    useACMEHost = "uninsane.org";
-  };
-  services.nginx.virtualHosts."muc.xmpp.uninsane.org" = {
-    useACMEHost = "uninsane.org";
-  };
-  services.nginx.virtualHosts."pubsub.xmpp.uninsane.org" = {
-    useACMEHost = "uninsane.org";
-  };
-  services.nginx.virtualHosts."upload.xmpp.uninsane.org" = {
-    useACMEHost = "uninsane.org";
-  };
-  services.nginx.virtualHosts."vjid.xmpp.uninsane.org" = {
-    useACMEHost = "uninsane.org";
-  };
-
-  sane.services.trust-dns.zones."uninsane.org".inet = {
-    # XXX: SRV records have to point to something with a A/AAAA record; no CNAMEs
-    A."xmpp" =                [ "%NATIVE%" ];
-    CNAME."muc.xmpp" =        [ "xmpp" ];
-    CNAME."pubsub.xmpp" =     [ "xmpp" ];
-    CNAME."upload.xmpp" =     [ "xmpp" ];
-    CNAME."vjid.xmpp" =       [ "xmpp" ];
-
-    # _Service._Proto.Name    TTL Class SRV    Priority Weight Port Target
-    # - <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0368.html>
-    # something's requesting the SRV records for muc.xmpp, so let's include it
-    # nothing seems to request XMPP SRVs for the other records (except @)
-    # lower numerical priority field tells clients to prefer this method
-    SRV."_xmpps-client._tcp.muc.xmpp" =       [ "3 50 5223 xmpp" ];
-    SRV."_xmpps-server._tcp.muc.xmpp" =       [ "3 50 5270 xmpp" ];
-    SRV."_xmpp-client._tcp.muc.xmpp" =        [ "5 50 5222 xmpp" ];
-    SRV."_xmpp-server._tcp.muc.xmpp" =        [ "5 50 5269 xmpp" ];
-
-    SRV."_xmpps-client._tcp" =                [ "3 50 5223 xmpp" ];
-    SRV."_xmpps-server._tcp" =                [ "3 50 5270 xmpp" ];
-    SRV."_xmpp-client._tcp" =                 [ "5 50 5222 xmpp" ];
-    SRV."_xmpp-server._tcp" =                 [ "5 50 5269 xmpp" ];
-
-    SRV."_stun._udp" =                        [ "5 50 3478 xmpp" ];
-    SRV."_stun._tcp" =                        [ "5 50 3478 xmpp" ];
-    SRV."_stuns._tcp" =                       [ "5 50 5349 xmpp" ];
-    SRV."_turn._udp" =                        [ "5 50 3478 xmpp" ];
-    SRV."_turn._tcp" =                        [ "5 50 3478 xmpp" ];
-    SRV."_turns._tcp" =                       [ "5 50 5349 xmpp" ];
-  };
-
-  # TODO: allocate UIDs/GIDs ?
-  services.ejabberd.enable = true;
-  services.ejabberd.configFile = "/var/lib/ejabberd/ejabberd.yaml";
-  systemd.services.ejabberd.preStart = let
-    config-in = pkgs.writeTextFile {
-      name = "ejabberd.yaml.in";
-      text = ''
-        hosts:
-          - uninsane.org
-
-        # none | emergency | alert | critical | error | warning | notice | info | debug
-        loglevel: debug
-        # loglevel: info
-        # loglevel: notice
-
-        acme:
-          auto: false
-        certfiles:
-        - /var/lib/acme/uninsane.org/full.pem
-        # ca_file: ${pkgs.cacert.unbundled}/etc/ssl/certs/
-        # ca_file: ${pkgs.cacert}/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
-
-        pam_userinfotype: jid
-
-        acl:
-          admin:
-            user:
-              - "colin@uninsane.org"
-          local:
-            user_regexp: ""
-          loopback:
-            ip:
-              - 127.0.0.0/8
-              - ::1/128
-
-        access_rules:
-          local:
-            allow: local
-          c2s_access:
-            allow: all
-          announce:
-            allow: admin
-          configure:
-            allow: admin
-          muc_create:
-            allow: local
-          pubsub_createnode_access:
-            allow: all
-          trusted_network:
-            allow: loopback
-
-        # docs: <https://docs.ejabberd.im/admin/configuration/basic/#shaper-rules>
-        shaper_rules:
-          # setting this to above 1 may break outgoing messages
-          # - maybe some servers rate limit? or just don't understand simultaneous connections?
-          max_s2s_connections: 1
-          max_user_sessions: 10
-          max_user_offline_messages: 5000
-          c2s_shaper:
-            fast: all
-          s2s_shaper:
-            med: all
-
-        # docs: <https://docs.ejabberd.im/admin/configuration/basic/#shapers>
-        # this limits the bytes/sec.
-        # for example, burst: 3_000_000 and rate: 100_000 means:
-        # - each client has a BW budget that accumulates 100kB/sec and is capped at 3 MB
-        shaper:
-          fast: 1000000
-          med:   500000
-        #   fast:
-        #     - rate:        1000000
-        #     - burst_size: 10000000
-        #   med:
-        #     - rate:         500000
-        #     - burst_size:  5000000
-
-        # see: <https://docs.ejabberd.im/admin/configuration/listen/>
-        # s2s_use_starttls: true
-        s2s_use_starttls: optional
-        # lessens 504: remote-server-timeout errors
-        # see: <https://github.com/processone/ejabberd/issues/3105#issuecomment-562182967>
-        negotiation_timeout: 60
-
-        listen:
-          -
-            port: 5222
-            module: ejabberd_c2s
-            shaper: c2s_shaper
-            starttls: true
-            access: c2s_access
-          -
-            port: 5223
-            module: ejabberd_c2s
-            shaper: c2s_shaper
-            tls: true
-            access: c2s_access
-          -
-            port: 5269
-            module: ejabberd_s2s_in
-            shaper: s2s_shaper
-          -
-            port: 5270
-            module: ejabberd_s2s_in
-            shaper: s2s_shaper
-            tls: true
-          -
-            port: 5443
-            module: ejabberd_http
-            tls: true
-            request_handlers:
-              /admin: ejabberd_web_admin  # TODO: ensure this actually works
-              /api: mod_http_api  # ejabberd API endpoint (to control server)
-              /bosh: mod_bosh
-              /upload: mod_http_upload
-              /ws: ejabberd_http_ws
-              # /.well-known/host-meta: mod_host_meta
-              # /.well-known/host-meta.json: mod_host_meta
-          -
-            # STUN+TURN TCP
-            # note that the full port range should be forwarded ("not NAT'd")
-            # `use_turn=true` enables both TURN *and* STUN
-            port: 3478
-            module: ejabberd_stun
-            transport: tcp
-            use_turn: true
-            turn_min_port: 49152
-            turn_max_port: 65535
-            turn_ipv4_address: %NATIVE%
-          -
-            # STUN+TURN UDP
-            port: 3478
-            module: ejabberd_stun
-            transport: udp
-            use_turn: true
-            turn_min_port: 49152
-            turn_max_port: 65535
-            turn_ipv4_address: %NATIVE%
-          -
-            # STUN+TURN TLS over TCP
-            port: 5349
-            module: ejabberd_stun
-            transport: tcp
-            tls: true
-            certfile: /var/lib/acme/uninsane.org/full.pem
-            use_turn: true
-            turn_min_port: 49152
-            turn_max_port: 65535
-            turn_ipv4_address: %NATIVE%
-
-        # TODO: enable mod_fail2ban
-        # TODO(low): look into mod_http_fileserver for serving macros?
-        modules:
-          # mod_adhoc: {}
-          # mod_announce:
-          #   access: admin
-          # allows users to set avatars in vCard
-          # - <https://docs.ejabberd.im/admin/configuration/modules/#mod-avatar>
-          mod_avatar: {}
-          mod_caps: {}  # for mod_pubsub
-          mod_carboncopy: {}  # allows multiple clients to receive a user's message
-          # queues messages when recipient is offline, including PEP and presence messages.
-          # compliance test suggests this be enabled
-          mod_client_state: {}
-          # mod_conversejs: TODO: enable once on 21.12
-          # allows clients like Dino to discover where to upload files
-          mod_disco:
-            server_info:
-              -
-                modules: all
-                name: abuse-addresses
-                urls:
-                  - "mailto:admin.xmpp@uninsane.org"
-                  - "xmpp:colin@uninsane.org"
-              -
-                modules: all
-                name: admin-addresses
-                urls:
-                  - "mailto:admin.xmpp@uninsane.org"
-                  - "xmpp:colin@uninsane.org"
-          mod_http_upload:
-            host: upload.xmpp.uninsane.org
-            hosts:
-              - upload.xmpp.uninsane.org
-            put_url: "https://@HOST@:5443/upload"
-            dir_mode: "0750"
-            file_mode: "0750"
-            rm_on_unregister: false
-          # allow discoverability of BOSH and websocket endpoints
-          # TODO: enable once on ejabberd 22.05  (presently 21.04)
-          # mod_host_meta: {}
-          mod_jidprep: {}  # probably not needed: lets clients normalize jids
-          mod_last: {}  # allow other users to know when i was last online
-          mod_mam:
-            # Mnesia is limited to 2GB, better to use an SQL backend
-            # For small servers SQLite is a good fit and is very easy
-            # to configure. Uncomment this when you have SQL configured:
-            # db_type: sql
-            assume_mam_usage: true
-            default: always
-          mod_muc:
-            access:
-              - allow
-            access_admin:
-              - allow: admin
-            access_create: muc_create
-            access_persistent: muc_create
-            access_mam:
-              - allow
-            history_size: 100  # messages to show new participants
-            host: muc.xmpp.uninsane.org
-            hosts:
-              - muc.xmpp.uninsane.org
-            default_room_options:
-              anonymous: false
-              lang: en
-              persistent: true
-              mam: true
-          mod_muc_admin: {}
-          mod_offline:  # store messages for a user when they're offline (TODO: understand multi-client workflow?)
-            access_max_user_messages: max_user_offline_messages
-            store_groupchat: true
-          mod_ping: {}
-          mod_privacy: {}  # deprecated, but required for `ejabberctl export_piefxis`
-          mod_private: {}  # allow local clients to persist arbitrary data on my server
-          # push notifications to services integrated with e.g. Apple/Android.
-          # default is for a maximum amount of PII to be withheld, since these push notifs
-          # generally traverse 3rd party services. can opt to include message body, etc, though.
-          mod_push: {}
-          # i don't fully understand what this does, but it seems aimed at making push notifs more reliable.
-          mod_push_keepalive: {}
-          mod_roster:
-            versioning: true
-          # docs: <https://docs.ejabberd.im/admin/configuration/modules/#mod-s2s-dialback>
-          # s2s dialback to verify inbound messages
-          # unclear to what degree the XMPP network requires this
-          mod_s2s_dialback: {}
-          mod_shared_roster: {}  # creates groups for @all, @online, and anything manually administered?
-          mod_stream_mgmt:
-            resend_on_timeout: if_offline  # resend undelivered messages if the origin client is offline
-          # fallback for when DNS-based STUN discovery is unsupported.
-          # - see: <https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0215.html>
-          # docs: <https://docs.ejabberd.im/admin/configuration/modules/#mod-stun-disco>
-          # people say to just keep this defaulted (i guess ejabberd knows to return its `host` option of uninsane.org?)
-          mod_stun_disco: {}
-          # docs: <https://docs.ejabberd.im/admin/configuration/modules/#mod-vcard>
-          mod_vcard:
-            allow_return_all: true  # all users are discoverable (?)
-            host: vjid.xmpp.uninsane.org
-            hosts:
-              - vjid.xmpp.uninsane.org
-            search: true
-          mod_vcard_xupdate: {}  # needed for avatars
-          # docs: <https://docs.ejabberd.im/admin/configuration/modules/#mod-pubsub>
-          mod_pubsub:  # needed for avatars
-            access_createnode: pubsub_createnode_access
-            host: pubsub.xmpp.uninsane.org
-            hosts:
-              - pubsub.xmpp.uninsane.org
-            ignore_pep_from_offline: false
-            last_item_cache: true
-            plugins:
-              - pep
-              - flat
-            force_node_config:
-              # ensure client bookmarks are private
-              storage:bookmarks:
-                access_model: whitelist
-              urn:xmpp:avatar:data:
-                access_model: open
-              urn:xmpp:avatar:metadata:
-                access_model: open
-          mod_version: {}
-      '';
-    };
-    sed = "${pkgs.gnused}/bin/sed";
-  in ''
-    ip=$(cat '${config.sane.services.dyn-dns.ipPath}')
-    # config is 444 (not 644), so we want to write out-of-place and then atomically move
-    # TODO: factor this out into `sane-woop` helper?
-    rm -f /var/lib/ejabberd/ejabberd.yaml.new
-    ${sed} "s/%NATIVE%/$ip/" ${config-in} > /var/lib/ejabberd/ejabberd.yaml.new
-    mv /var/lib/ejabberd/ejabberd.yaml{.new,}
-  '';
-
-  sane.services.dyn-dns.restartOnChange = [ "ejabberd.service" ];
-}
--- a/hosts/servo/services/jellyfin.nix
+++ b/hosts/servo/services/jellyfin.nix
@@ -1,69 +0,0 @@
-{ config, lib, ... }:
-
-# TODO: re-enable after migrating media dir to /var/lib/uninsane/media
-# else it's too spammy
-lib.mkIf false
-{
-  networking.firewall.allowedUDPPorts = [
-    1900 7359 # DLNA: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/index.html
-  ];
-  sane.impermanence.dirs = [
-    # TODO: mode? could be more granular
-    { user = "jellyfin"; group = "jellyfin"; directory = "/var/lib/jellyfin"; }
-  ];
-
-  # Jellyfin multimedia server
-  # this is mostly taken from the official jellfin.org docs
-  services.nginx.virtualHosts."jelly.uninsane.org" = {
-    addSSL = true;
-    enableACME = true;
-    # inherit kTLS;
-
-    locations."/" = {
-      proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:8096";
-      extraConfig = ''
-        proxy_set_header Host $host;
-        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
-        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
-        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
-        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Protocol $scheme;
-        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $http_host;
-
-        # Disable buffering when the nginx proxy gets very resource heavy upon streaming
-        proxy_buffering off;
-      '';
-    };
-    # locations."/web/" = {
-    #   proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:8096/web/index.html";
-    #   extraConfig = ''
-    #     proxy_set_header Host $host;
-    #     proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
-    #     proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
-    #     proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
-    #     proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Protocol $scheme;
-    #     proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $http_host;
-    #   '';
-    # };
-    locations."/socket" = {
-      proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:8096";
-      extraConfig = ''
-        proxy_http_version 1.1;
-        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
-        proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
-
-        proxy_set_header Host $host;
-        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
-        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
-        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
-        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Protocol $scheme;
-        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $http_host;
-      '';
-    };
-  };
-
-  sane.services.trust-dns.zones."uninsane.org".inet.CNAME."jelly" = [ "native" ];
-
-  # users.users.jellyfin.uid = config.sane.allocations.jellyfin-uid;
-  # users.groups.jellyfin.gid = config.sane.allocations.jellyfin-gid;
-  services.jellyfin.enable = true;
-}
--- a/hosts/servo/services/kiwix-serve.nix
+++ b/hosts/servo/services/kiwix-serve.nix
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-{ ... }:
-{
-  sane.services.kiwix-serve = {
-    enable = true;
-    port = 8013;
-    zimPaths = [ "/var/lib/uninsane/www-archive/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2022-05.zim" ];
-  };
-
-  services.nginx.virtualHosts."w.uninsane.org" = {
-    forceSSL = true;
-    enableACME = true;
-    # inherit kTLS;
-    locations."/".proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:8013";
-  };
-
-  sane.services.trust-dns.zones."uninsane.org".inet.CNAME."w" = [ "native" ];
-}
--- a/hosts/servo/services/nginx.nix
+++ b/hosts/servo/services/nginx.nix
@@ -1,168 +0,0 @@
-# docs: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nginx
-{ config, pkgs, ... }:
-
-let
-  # make the logs for this host "public" so that they show up in e.g. metrics
-  publog = vhost: vhost // {
-    extraConfig = (vhost.extraConfig or "") + ''
-      access_log /var/log/nginx/public.log vcombined;
-    '';
-  };
-
-  # kTLS = true;  # in-kernel TLS for better perf
-in
-{
-
-  networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ 80 443 ];
-
-  services.nginx.enable = true;
-  services.nginx.appendConfig = ''
-    # use 1 process per core.
-    # may want to increase worker_connections too, but `ulimit -n` must be increased first.
-    worker_processes auto;
-  '';
-
-  # this is the standard `combined` log format, with the addition of $host
-  # so that we have the virtualHost in the log.
-  # KEEP IN SYNC WITH GOACCESS
-  # goaccess calls this VCOMBINED:
-  # - <https://gist.github.com/jyap808/10570005>
-  services.nginx.commonHttpConfig = ''
-    log_format vcombined '$host:$server_port $remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" $status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referrer" "$http_user_agent"';
-    access_log /var/log/nginx/private.log vcombined;
-  '';
-  # sets gzip_comp_level = 5
-  services.nginx.recommendedGzipSettings = true;
-  # enables OCSP stapling (so clients don't need contact the OCSP server -- i do instead)
-  # - doesn't seem to, actually: <https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=uninsane.org>
-  # caches TLS sessions for 10m
-  services.nginx.recommendedTlsSettings = true;
-  # enables sendfile, tcp_nopush, tcp_nodelay, keepalive_timeout 65
-  services.nginx.recommendedOptimisation = true;
-
-  # web blog/personal site
-  services.nginx.virtualHosts."uninsane.org" = publog {
-    root = "${pkgs.uninsane-dot-org}/share/uninsane-dot-org";
-    # a lot of places hardcode https://uninsane.org,
-    # and then when we mix http + non-https, we get CORS violations
-    # and things don't look right. so force SSL.
-    forceSSL = true;
-    enableACME = true;
-    # inherit kTLS;
-    # for OCSP stapling
-    sslTrustedCertificate = "${pkgs.cacert}/etc/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt";
-
-    # uninsane.org/share/foo => /var/lib/uninsane/root/share/foo.
-    # yes, nginx does not strip the prefix when evaluating against the root.
-    locations."/share".root = "/var/lib/uninsane/root";
-
-    # allow matrix users to discover that @user:uninsane.org is reachable via matrix.uninsane.org
-    locations."= /.well-known/matrix/server".extraConfig =
-      let
-        # use 443 instead of the default 8448 port to unite
-        # the client-server and server-server port for simplicity
-        server = { "m.server" = "matrix.uninsane.org:443"; };
-      in ''
-        add_header Content-Type application/json;
-        return 200 '${builtins.toJSON server}';
-      '';
-    locations."= /.well-known/matrix/client".extraConfig =
-      let
-        client = {
-          "m.homeserver" =  { "base_url" = "https://matrix.uninsane.org"; };
-          "m.identity_server" =  { "base_url" = "https://vector.im"; };
-        };
-      # ACAO required to allow element-web on any URL to request this json file
-      in ''
-        add_header Content-Type application/json;
-        add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;
-        return 200 '${builtins.toJSON client}';
-      '';
-
-    # static URLs might not be aware of .well-known (e.g. registration confirmation URLs),
-    # so hack around that.
-    locations."/_matrix" = {
-      proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:8008";
-    };
-    locations."/_synapse" = {
-      proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:8008";
-    };
-
-    # allow ActivityPub clients to discover how to reach @user@uninsane.org
-    # TODO: waiting on https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/-/merge_requests/3361/
-    # locations."/.well-known/nodeinfo" = {
-    #   proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:4000";
-    #   extraConfig = pleromaExtraConfig;
-    # };
-  };
-
-
-  # serve any site not listed above, if it's static.
-  # because we define it dynamically, SSL isn't trivial. support only http
-  # documented <https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#server_name>
-  services.nginx.virtualHosts."~^(?<domain>.+)$" = {
-    default = true;
-    addSSL = true;
-    enableACME = false;
-    sslCertificate = "/var/www/certs/wildcard/cert.pem";
-    sslCertificateKey = "/var/www/certs/wildcard/key.pem";
-    # sslCertificate = "/var/lib/acme/.minica/cert.pem";
-    # sslCertificateKey = "/var/lib/acme/.minica/key.pem";
-    # serverName = null;
-    locations."/" = {
-      # somehow this doesn't escape -- i get error 400 if i:
-      # curl 'http://..' --resolve '..:80:127.0.0.1'
-      root = "/var/www/sites/$domain";
-      # tryFiles = "$domain/$uri $domain/$uri/ =404";
-    };
-  };
-
-  security.acme.acceptTerms = true;
-  security.acme.defaults.email = "admin.acme@uninsane.org";
-
-  users.users.acme.uid = config.sane.allocations.acme-uid;
-  users.groups.acme.gid = config.sane.allocations.acme-gid;
-  sane.impermanence.dirs = [
-    # TODO: mode?
-    { user = "acme"; group = "acme"; directory = "/var/lib/acme"; }
-    { user = "colin"; group = "users"; directory = "/var/www/sites"; }
-  ];
-
-  # let's encrypt default chain looks like:
-  # - End-entity certificate ← R3 ← ISRG Root X1 ← DST Root CA X3
-  # - <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/production-chain-changes/150739>
-  # DST Root CA X3 expired in 2021 (?)
-  # the alternative chain is:
-  # - End-entity certificate ← R3 ← ISRG Root X1 (self-signed)
-  # using this alternative chain grants more compatibility for services like ejabberd
-  # but might decrease compatibility with very old clients that don't get updates (e.g. old android, iphone <= 4).
-  # security.acme.defaults.extraLegoFlags = [
-  security.acme.certs."uninsane.org" = rec {
-    # ISRG Root X1 results in lets encrypt sending the same chain as default,
-    # just without the final ISRG Root X1 ← DST Root CA X3 link.
-    # i.e. we could alternative clip the last item and achieve the exact same thing.
-    extraLegoRunFlags = [
-      "--preferred-chain" "ISRG Root X1"
-    ];
-    extraLegoRenewFlags = extraLegoRunFlags;
-  };
-  # TODO: alternatively, we could clip the last cert IF it's expired,
-  # optionally outputting that to a new cert file.
-  # security.acme.defaults.postRun = "";
-
-  # create a self-signed SSL certificate for use with literally any domain.
-  # browsers will reject this, but proxies and local testing tools can be configured
-  # to accept it.
-  system.activationScripts.generate-x509-self-signed.text = ''
-    mkdir -p /var/www/certs/wildcard
-    test -f /var/www/certs/wildcard/key.pem || ${pkgs.openssl}/bin/openssl \
-      req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 \
-      -keyout /var/www/certs/wildcard/key.pem \
-      -out /var/www/certs/wildcard/cert.pem \
-      -sha256 -nodes -days 3650 \
-      -addext 'subjectAltName=DNS:*' \
-      -subj '/CN=self-signed'
-    chmod 640 /var/www/certs/wildcard/{key,cert}.pem
-    chown root:nginx /var/www/certs/wildcard /var/www/certs/wildcard/{key,cert}.pem
-  '';
-}
--- a/hosts/servo/services/nixserve.nix
+++ b/hosts/servo/services/nixserve.nix
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-{ config, ... }:
-
-{
-  services.nginx.virtualHosts."nixcache.uninsane.org" = {
-    addSSL = true;
-    enableACME = true;
-    # inherit kTLS;
-    # serverAliases = [ "nixcache" ];
-    locations."/".extraConfig = ''
-      proxy_pass http://localhost:${toString config.services.nix-serve.port};
-      proxy_set_header Host $host;
-      proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
-      proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
-    '';
-  };
-
-  sane.services.trust-dns.zones."uninsane.org".inet.CNAME."nixcache" = [ "native" ];
-
-  sane.services.nixserve.enable = true;
-  sane.services.nixserve.sopsFile = ../../../secrets/servo.yaml;
-}
--- a/hosts/servo/services/prosody.nix
+++ b/hosts/servo/services/prosody.nix
@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
-# example configs:
-# - <https://github.com/kittywitch/nixfiles/blob/main/services/prosody.nix>
-# create users with:
-# - `sudo -u prosody prosodyctl adduser colin@uninsane.org`
-
-{ lib, ... }:
-
-# XXX disabled: doesn't send messages to nixnet.social (only receives them).
-# nixnet runs ejabberd, so revisiting that.
-lib.mkIf false
-{
-  sane.impermanence.dirs = [
-    { user = "prosody"; group = "prosody"; directory = "/var/lib/prosody"; }
-  ];
-  networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [
-    5222  # XMPP client -> server
-    5269  # XMPP server -> server
-    5280  # bosh
-    5281  # Prosody HTTPS port  (necessary?)
-  ];
-
-  # provide access to certs
-  users.users.prosody.extraGroups = [ "nginx" ];
-
-  security.acme.certs."uninsane.org".extraDomainNames = [
-    "conference.xmpp.uninsane.org"
-    "upload.xmpp.uninsane.org"
-  ];
-
-  services.prosody = {
-    enable = true;
-    admins = [ "colin@uninsane.org" ];
-    # allowRegistration = false;
-    # extraConfig = ''
-    #   s2s_require_encryption = true
-    #   c2s_require_encryption = true
-    # '';
-
-    extraModules = [ "private" "vcard" "privacy" "compression" "component" "muc" "pep" "adhoc" "lastactivity" "admin_adhoc" "blocklist"];
-
-    ssl.cert = "/var/lib/acme/uninsane.org/fullchain.pem";
-    ssl.key = "/var/lib/acme/uninsane.org/key.pem";
-
-    muc = [
-      {
-        domain = "conference.xmpp.uninsane.org";
-      }
-    ];
-    uploadHttp.domain = "upload.xmpp.uninsane.org";
-
-    virtualHosts = {
-      localhost = {
-        domain = "localhost";
-        enabled = true;
-      };
-      "xmpp.uninsane.org" = {
-        domain = "uninsane.org";
-        enabled = true;
-        ssl.cert = "/var/lib/acme/uninsane.org/fullchain.pem";
-        ssl.key = "/var/lib/acme/uninsane.org/key.pem";
-      }; 
-    };
-  };
-}
--- a/hosts/servo/services/trust-dns.nix
+++ b/hosts/servo/services/trust-dns.nix
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-{ config, pkgs, ... }:
-
-{
-  sane.services.trust-dns.enable = true;
-
-  sane.services.trust-dns.listenAddrsIPv4 = [
-    # specify each address explicitly, instead of using "*".
-    # this ensures responses are sent from the address at which the request was received.
-    "192.168.0.5"
-    "10.0.1.5"
-  ];
-
-  sane.services.trust-dns.zones."uninsane.org".TTL = 900;
-
-  # SOA record structure: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOA_record#Structure>
-  # SOA MNAME RNAME (... rest)
-  # MNAME = Master name server for this zone. this is where update requests should be sent.
-  # RNAME = admin contact (encoded email address)
-  # Serial = YYYYMMDDNN, where N is incremented every time this file changes, to trigger secondary NS to re-fetch it.
-  # Refresh = how frequently secondary NS should query master
-  # Retry = how long secondary NS should wait until re-querying master after a failure (must be < Refresh)
-  # Expire = how long secondary NS should continue to reply to queries after master fails (> Refresh + Retry)
-  sane.services.trust-dns.zones."uninsane.org".inet = {
-    SOA."@" = [''
-      ns1.uninsane.org. admin-dns.uninsane.org. (
-                                      2022122101 ; Serial
-                                      4h         ; Refresh
-                                      30m        ; Retry
-                                      7d         ; Expire
-                                      5m)        ; Negative response TTL
-    ''];
-    TXT."rev" = [ "2022122101" ];
-
-    # XXX NS records must also not be CNAME
-    # it's best that we keep this identical, or a superset of, what org. lists as our NS.
-    # so, org. can specify ns2/ns3 as being to the VPN, with no mention of ns1. we provide ns1 here.
-    A."ns1" = [ "%NATIVE%" ];
-    A."ns2" = [ "185.157.162.178" ];
-    A."ns3" = [ "185.157.162.178" ];
-    A."ovpns" = [ "185.157.162.178" ];
-    A."native" = [ "%NATIVE%" ];
-    A."@" = [ "%NATIVE%" ];
-    NS."@" = [
-      "ns1.uninsane.org."
-      "ns2.uninsane.org."
-      "ns3.uninsane.org."
-    ];
-  };
-
-  sane.services.trust-dns.zones."uninsane.org".file =
-    "/var/lib/trust-dns/uninsane.org.zone";
-
-  systemd.services.trust-dns.preStart = let
-    sed = "${pkgs.gnused}/bin/sed";
-    zone-dir = "/var/lib/trust-dns";
-    zone-out = "${zone-dir}/uninsane.org.zone";
-    zone-template = pkgs.writeText "uninsane.org.zone.in" config.sane.services.trust-dns.generatedZones."uninsane.org";
-  in ''
-    # make WAN records available to trust-dns
-    mkdir -p ${zone-dir}
-    ip=$(cat '${config.sane.services.dyn-dns.ipPath}')
-    ${sed} s/%NATIVE%/$ip/ ${zone-template} > ${zone-out}
-  '';
-
-  sane.services.dyn-dns.restartOnChange = [ "trust-dns.service" ];
-}
--- a/hosts/servo/services/wikipedia.nix
+++ b/hosts/servo/services/wikipedia.nix
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-# docs: <https://nixos.wiki/wiki/MediaWiki>
-{ config, lib, ... }:
-
-# XXX: working to host wikipedia with kiwix instead of mediawiki
-# mediawiki does more than i need and isn't obviously superior in any way
-# except that the dumps are more frequent/up-to-date.
-lib.mkIf false
-{
-  sops.secrets."mediawiki_pw" = {
-    owner = config.users.users.mediawiki.name;
-    sopsFile = ../../../secrets/servo.yaml;
-  };
-
-  users.users.mediawiki.uid = config.sane.allocations.mediawiki-uid;
-
-  services.mediawiki.enable = true;
-  services.mediawiki.name = "Uninsane Wiki";
-  services.mediawiki.passwordFile = config.sops.secrets.mediawiki_pw.path;
-  services.mediawiki.extraConfig = ''
-    # Disable anonymous editing
-    $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
-  '';
-  services.mediawiki.virtualHost.listen = [
-    {
-      ip = "127.0.0.1";
-      port = 8013;
-      ssl = false;
-    }
-  ];
-  services.mediawiki.virtualHost.hostName = "w.uninsane.org";
-  services.mediawiki.virtualHost.adminAddr = "admin+mediawiki@uninsane.org";
-  # services.mediawiki.extensions = TODO: wikipedia sync extension?
-}
--- a/machines/desko/default.nix
+++ b/machines/desko/default.nix
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
    ./fs.nix
  ];

-  # sane.packages.enableDevPkgs = true;
-
  sane.gui.sway.enable = true;
  sane.services.duplicity.enable = true;
  sane.services.nixserve.enable = true;
@@ -25,9 +23,6 @@
    neededForUsers = true;
  };

-  # don't enable wifi by default: it messes with connectivity.
-  systemd.services.iwd.enable = false;
-
  # default config: https://man.archlinux.org/man/snapper-configs.5
  # defaults to something like:
  #   - hourly snapshots
--- a/machines/desko/fs.nix
+++ b/machines/desko/fs.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,16 @@
 { ... }:

 {
-  sane.impermanence.root-on-tmpfs = true;
+  # root is a tmpfs so that we have an ephemeral system ("impermanence" handles the state)
+  fileSystems."/" = {
+    device = "none";
+    fsType = "tmpfs";
+    options = [
+      "mode=755"
+      "size=1G"
+      "defaults"
+    ];
+  };
  # we need a /tmp for building large nix things.
  # a cross-compiled kernel, particularly, will easily use 30+GB of tmp
  fileSystems."/tmp" = {
--- a/machines/instantiate.nix
+++ b/machines/instantiate.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# trampoline from flake.nix into the specific machine definition, while doing a tiny bit of common setup
+
+hostName: { ... }: {
+  imports = [
+    ./${hostName}
+  ];
+
+  networking.hostName = hostName;
+
+  nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
+}
--- a/machines/lappy/default.nix
+++ b/machines/lappy/default.nix
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
    ./fs.nix
  ];

-  # sane.packages.enableDevPkgs = true;
-
  # sane.users.guest.enable = true;
  sane.gui.sway.enable = true;
  sane.impermanence.enable = true;
--- a/machines/lappy/fs.nix
+++ b/machines/lappy/fs.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,16 @@
 { ... }:

 {
-  sane.impermanence.root-on-tmpfs = true;
+  # root is a tmpfs so that we have an ephemeral system ("impermanence" handles the state)
+  fileSystems."/" = {
+    device = "none";
+    fsType = "tmpfs";
+    options = [
+      "mode=755"
+      "size=1G"
+      "defaults"
+    ];
+  };
  # we need a /tmp of default size (half RAM) for building large nix things
  fileSystems."/tmp" = {
    device = "none";
--- a/machines/moby/default.nix
+++ b/machines/moby/default.nix
@@ -25,12 +25,11 @@

  # usability compromises
  sane.impermanence.home-dirs = [
-    config.sane.web-browser.dotDir
-    ".config/pulse"  # persist pulseaudio volume
+    ".librewolf"
  ];

-  # sane.packages.enableGuiPkgs = false;  # XXX faster builds/imaging for debugging
-  sane.packages.extraUserPkgs = [
+  # sane.home-packages.enableGuiPkgs = false;  # XXX faster builds/imaging for debugging
+  sane.home-manager.extraPackages = [
    pkgs.plasma5Packages.konsole  # terminal
  ];

@@ -40,9 +39,7 @@

  boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = false;
  # /boot space is at a premium. default was 20.
-  # even 10 can be too much
-  # TODO: compress moby kernels!
-  boot.loader.generic-extlinux-compatible.configurationLimit = 8;
+  boot.loader.generic-extlinux-compatible.configurationLimit = 10;
  # mobile.bootloader.enable = false;
  # mobile.boot.stage-1.enable = false;
  # boot.initrd.systemd.enable = false;
--- a/machines/moby/firmware.nix
+++ b/machines/moby/firmware.nix
--- a/machines/moby/fs.nix
+++ b/machines/moby/fs.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,17 @@
 { ... }:

 {
-  sane.impermanence.root-on-tmpfs = true;
+  # root is a tmpfs so that we have an ephemeral system ("impermanence" handles the state)
+  fileSystems."/" = {
+    device = "none";
+    fsType = "tmpfs";
+    options = [
+      "mode=755"
+      "size=1G"
+      "defaults"
+    ];
+  };
+
  fileSystems."/nix" = {
    device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/1f1271f8-53ce-4081-8a29-60a4a6b5d6f9";
    fsType = "btrfs";
--- a/machines/moby/kernel.nix
+++ b/machines/moby/kernel.nix
--- a/machines/moby/ucm2/PinePhone/HiFi.conf
+++ b/machines/moby/ucm2/PinePhone/HiFi.conf
--- a/machines/moby/ucm2/PinePhone/PinePhone.conf
+++ b/machines/moby/ucm2/PinePhone/PinePhone.conf
--- a/machines/moby/ucm2/PinePhone/VoiceCall.conf
+++ b/machines/moby/ucm2/PinePhone/VoiceCall.conf
--- a/machines/moby/ucm2/ucm.conf
+++ b/machines/moby/ucm2/ucm.conf
--- a/machines/rescue/default.nix
+++ b/machines/rescue/default.nix
--- a/machines/rescue/fs.nix
+++ b/machines/rescue/fs.nix
--- a/machines/servo/default.nix
+++ b/machines/servo/default.nix
@@ -3,22 +3,27 @@
 {
  imports = [
    ./fs.nix
+    ./hardware.nix
    ./net.nix
    ./users.nix
    ./services
  ];

-  sane.packages.extraUserPkgs = [
+  sane.home-manager.extraPackages = [
    # for administering services
    pkgs.matrix-synapse
    pkgs.freshrss
+    pkgs.goaccess
  ];
  sane.impermanence.enable = true;
-  sane.services.dyn-dns.enable = true;
-  # sane.services.duplicity.enable = true;  # TODO: re-enable after HW upgrade
+  sane.services.duplicity.enable = true;
+  sane.services.nixserve.enable = true;

+  # TODO: look into the EFI stuff
+  boot.loader.grub.enable = false;
+  boot.loader.generic-extlinux-compatible.enable = true;
  boot.loader.efi.canTouchEfiVariables = false;
-  sane.image.extraBootFiles = [ pkgs.bootpart-uefi-x86_64 ];
+  sane.image.extraBootFiles = [ pkgs.bootpart-u-boot-rpi-aarch64 ];

  sops.secrets.duplicity_passphrase = {
    sopsFile = ../../secrets/servo.yaml;
@@ -27,7 +32,7 @@
  # both transmission and ipfs try to set different net defaults.
  # we just use the most aggressive of the two here:
  boot.kernel.sysctl = {
-    "net.core.rmem_max" = 4194304;  # 4MB
+    "net.core.rmem_max" = "4194304";  # 4MB
  };

  # This value determines the NixOS release from which the default
@@ -36,6 +41,6 @@
  # this value at the release version of the first install of this system.
  # Before changing this value read the documentation for this option
  # (e.g. man configuration.nix or on https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html).
-  system.stateVersion = "21.11";
+  system.stateVersion = "21.11"; # Did you read the comment?
 }

--- a/machines/servo/fs.nix
+++ b/machines/servo/fs.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+{ ... }:
+
+{
+  # root is a tmpfs so that we have an ephemeral system ("impermanence" handles the state)
+  fileSystems."/" = {
+    device = "none";
+    fsType = "tmpfs";
+    options = [
+      "mode=755"
+      "size=1G"
+      "defaults"
+    ];
+  };
+  # we need a /tmp for building large nix things
+  fileSystems."/tmp" = {
+    device = "none";
+    fsType = "tmpfs";
+    options = [
+      "size=40G"
+      "mode=777"
+      "defaults"
+    ];
+  };
+
+  fileSystems."/nix" = {
+    device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/aa272cff-0fcc-498e-a4cb-0d95fb60631b";
+    fsType = "btrfs";
+  };
+
+  fileSystems."/boot" = {
+    device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/31D3-40CB";
+    fsType = "vfat";
+  };
+
+
+  # fileSystems."/var/lib/pleroma" = {
+  #   device = "/opt/pleroma";
+  #   options = [ "bind" ];
+  # };
+
+  # in-memory compressed RAM (seems to be dynamically sized)
+  zramSwap = {
+    enable = true;
+  };
+
+  # btrfs doesn't easily support swapfiles
+  # swapDevices = [
+  #   { device = "/nix/persist/swapfile"; size = 4096; }
+  # ];
+
+  # this can be a partition. create with:
+  #   fdisk <dev>
+  #     n
+  #     <default partno>
+  #     <start>
+  #     <end>
+  #     t
+  #     <partno>
+  #     19  # set part type to Linux swap
+  #     w   # write changes
+  #   mkswap -L swap <part>
+  swapDevices = [
+    {
+      label = "swap";
+      # TODO: randomEncryption.enable = true;
+    }
+  ];
+}
+
--- a/machines/servo/hardware.nix
+++ b/machines/servo/hardware.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+# this file originates from ‘nixos-generate-config’
+# but has been heavily modified
+{ pkgs, ... }:
+
+{
+  # i changed this becuse linux 5.10 didn't have rpi-400 device tree blob.
+  # nixos-22.05 linux 5.15 DOES have these now.
+  # it should be possible to remove this if desired, but i'm not sure how the rpi-specific kernel differs.
+  # see: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux
+  boot.kernelPackages = pkgs.linuxPackages_rpi4;
+
+  # raspberryPi boot loader creates extlinux.conf.
+  #   otherwise, enable the generic-extlinux-compatible loader below.
+  # note: THESE ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE. generic-extlinux-compatible causes uboot to not be built
+
+  boot.initrd.availableKernelModules = [
+    "bcm2711_thermal"
+    "bcm_phy_lib"
+    "brcmfmac"
+    "brcmutil"
+    "broadcom"
+    "clk_raspberrypi"
+    "drm"  # Direct Render Manager
+    "enclosure"  # SCSI ?
+    "fuse"
+    "mdio_bcm_unimac"
+    "pcie_brcmstb"
+    "raspberrypi_cpufreq"
+    "raspberrypi_hwmon"
+    "ses"  # SCSI Enclosure Services
+    "uas"  # USB attached storage
+    "uio"  # userspace IO
+    "uio_pdrv_genirq"
+    "xhci_pci"
+    "xhci_pci_renesas"
+  ];
+  # boot.initrd.compressor = "gzip";  # defaults to zstd
+
+  # ondemand power scaling keeps the cpu at low frequency when idle, and sets to max frequency
+  # when load is detected. (v.s. the "performance" default, which always uses the max frequency)
+  powerManagement.cpuFreqGovernor = "ondemand";
+
+  # XXX colin: this allows one to `systemctl halt` and then not remove power until the HDD has spun down.
+  # however, it doesn't work with reboot because systemd will spin the drive up again to read its reboot bin.
+  # a better solution would be to put the drive behind a powered USB hub (or get a SSD).
+  # systemd.services.diskguard = {
+  #   description = "Safely power off spinning media";
+  #   before = [ "shutdown.target" ];
+  #   wantedBy = [ "sysinit.target" ];
+  #   # old (creates dep loop, but works)
+  #   # before = [ "systemd-remount-fs.service" "shutdown.target" ];
+  #   # wantedBy = [ "systemd-remount-fs.service" ];
+  #   serviceConfig = {
+  #     Type = "oneshot";
+  #     RemainAfterExit = true;
+  #     ExecStart = "${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/true";
+  #     ExecStop = with pkgs; writeScript "diskguard" ''
+  #       #!${bash}/bin/bash
+  #       if ${procps}/bin/pgrep nixos-rebuild ;
+  #       then
+  #         exit 0  # don't halt drives unless we're actually shutting down. maybe better way to do this (check script args?)
+  #       fi
+  #       # ${coreutils}/bin/sync
+  #       # ${util-linux}/bin/mount -o remount,ro /nix/store
+  #       # ${util-linux}/bin/mount -o remount,ro /
+  #       # -S 1 retracts the spindle after 5 seconds of idle
+  #       # -B 1 spins down the drive after <vendor specific duration>
+  #       ${hdparm}/sbin/hdparm -S 1 -B 1 /dev/sda
+  #       # TODO: monitor smartmonctl until disk is idle? or try hdparm -Y
+  #       # ${coreutils}/bin/sleep 20
+  #       # exec ${util-linux}/bin/umount --all -t ext4,vfat,ext2
+  #     '';
+  #   };
+  # };
+}
--- a/machines/servo/net.nix
+++ b/machines/servo/net.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,139 @@
+{ config, pkgs, ... }:
+
+{
+  networking.domain = "uninsane.org";
+
+  # The global useDHCP flag is deprecated, therefore explicitly set to false here.
+  # Per-interface useDHCP will be mandatory in the future, so this generated config
+  # replicates the default behaviour.
+  networking.useDHCP = false;
+  networking.interfaces.eth0.useDHCP = true;
+  # XXX colin: probably don't need this. wlan0 won't be populated unless i touch a value in networking.interfaces.wlan0
+  networking.wireless.enable = false;
+
+  # networking.firewall.enable = false;
+  networking.firewall.enable = true;
+  networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [
+    25   # SMTP
+    80   # HTTP
+    143  # IMAP
+    443  # HTTPS
+    465  # SMTPS
+    587  # SMTPS/submission
+    993  # IMAPS
+    4001 # IPFS
+  ];
+  networking.firewall.allowedUDPPorts = [
+    1900 7359 # DLNA: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/index.html
+    4001      # IPFS
+  ];
+
+  # we need to use externally-visible nameservers in order for VPNs to be able to resolve hosts.
+  networking.nameservers = [
+    "1.1.1.1"
+    "9.9.9.9"
+  ];
+
+  # OVPN CONFIG (https://www.ovpn.com):
+  # DOCS: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/WireGuard
+  networking.wireguard.enable = true;
+  networking.wireguard.interfaces.wg0 = {
+    privateKeyFile = config.sops.secrets.wg_ovpns_privkey.path;
+    # wg is active only in this namespace.
+    # run e.g. ip netns exec ovpns <some command like ping/curl/etc, it'll go through wg>
+    #   sudo ip netns exec ovpns ping www.google.com
+    # note: without the namespace, you'll need to add a specific route through eth0 for the peer (185.157.162.178/32)
+    interfaceNamespace = "ovpns";
+    preSetup = "${pkgs.iproute2}/bin/ip netns add ovpns || true";
+    postShutdown = "${pkgs.iproute2}/bin/ip netns delete ovpns";
+    ips = [
+      "185.157.162.178/32"
+    ];
+    peers = [
+      {
+        publicKey = "SkkEZDCBde22KTs/Hc7FWvDBfdOCQA4YtBEuC3n5KGs=";
+        endpoint = "vpn36.prd.amsterdam.ovpn.com:9930";
+        allowedIPs = [ "0.0.0.0/0" ];
+        # nixOS says this is important for keeping NATs active
+        persistentKeepalive = 25;
+      }
+    ];
+  };
+
+  systemd.services.wg0veth = {
+    description = "veth pair to allow communication between host and wg0 netns";
+    after = [ "wireguard-wg0.service" ];
+    wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
+    serviceConfig = {
+      Type = "oneshot";
+      RemainAfterExit = true;
+
+      ExecStart = with pkgs; writeScript "wg0veth-start" ''
+        #!${bash}/bin/bash
+        # create veth pair
+        ${iproute2}/bin/ip link add ovpns-veth-a type veth peer name ovpns-veth-b
+        ${iproute2}/bin/ip addr add 10.0.1.5/24 dev ovpns-veth-a
+        ${iproute2}/bin/ip link set ovpns-veth-a up
+        # mv veth-b into the ovpns namespace
+        ${iproute2}/bin/ip link set ovpns-veth-b netns ovpns
+        ${iproute2}/bin/ip -n ovpns addr add 10.0.1.6/24 dev ovpns-veth-b
+        ${iproute2}/bin/ip -n ovpns link set ovpns-veth-b up
+        # forward HTTP traffic, which we need for letsencrypt to work
+        ${iproute2}/bin/ip netns exec ovpns ${socat}/bin/socat TCP4-LISTEN:80,reuseaddr,fork,su=nobody TCP4:10.0.1.5:80 &
+      '';
+
+      ExecStop = with pkgs; writeScript "wg0veth-stop" ''
+        #!${bash}/bin/bash
+        ${iproute2}/bin/ip -n wg0 link del ovpns-veth-b
+        ${iproute2}/bin/ip link del ovpns-veth-a
+      '';
+    };
+  };
+
+  sops.secrets."wg_ovpns_privkey" = {
+    sopsFile = ../../secrets/servo.yaml;
+  };
+
+  # HURRICANE ELECTRIC CONFIG:
+  # networking.sits = {
+  #   hurricane = {
+  #     remote = "216.218.226.238";
+  #     local = "192.168.0.5";
+  #     # local = "10.0.0.5";
+  #     # remote = "10.0.0.1";
+  #     # local = "10.0.0.22";
+  #     dev = "eth0";
+  #     ttl = 255;
+  #   };
+  # };
+  # networking.interfaces."hurricane".ipv6 = {
+  #   addresses = [
+  #     # mx.uninsane.org (publically routed /64)
+  #     {
+  #       address = "2001:470:b:465::1";
+  #       prefixLength = 128;
+  #     }
+  #     # client addr
+  #     # {
+  #     #   address = "2001:470:a:466::2";
+  #     #   prefixLength = 64;
+  #     # }
+  #   ];
+  #   routes = [
+  #     {
+  #       address = "::";
+  #       prefixLength = 0;
+  #       # via = "2001:470:a:466::1";
+  #     }
+  #   ];
+  # };
+
+  # # after configuration, we want the hurricane device to look like this:
+  # # hurricane: flags=209<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP>  mtu 1480
+  # #            inet6 2001:470:a:450::2  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x0<global>
+  # #            inet6 fe80::c0a8:16  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
+  # #            sit  txqueuelen 1000  (IPv6-in-IPv4)
+  # # test with:
+  # #   curl --interface hurricane http://[2607:f8b0:400a:80b::2004]
+  # #   ping 2607:f8b0:400a:80b::2004
+}
--- a/machines/servo/services/ddns-he.nix
+++ b/machines/servo/services/ddns-he.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
-{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
+{ config, pkgs, ... }:

-# we use manual DDNS now
-lib.mkIf false
 {
  systemd.services.ddns-he = {
    description = "update dynamic DNS entries for HurricaneElectric";
--- a/machines/servo/services/default.nix
+++ b/machines/servo/services/default.nix
@@ -1,26 +1,19 @@
 { ... }:
 {
  imports = [
-    ./ddns-afraid.nix
    ./ddns-he.nix
-    ./ejabberd.nix
    ./freshrss.nix
    ./gitea.nix
    ./goaccess.nix
    ./ipfs.nix
    ./jackett.nix
    ./jellyfin.nix
-    ./kiwix-serve.nix
    ./matrix
    ./navidrome.nix
-    ./nixserve.nix
    ./nginx.nix
    ./pleroma.nix
    ./postfix.nix
    ./postgres.nix
-    ./prosody.nix
    ./transmission.nix
-    ./trust-dns.nix
-    ./wikipedia.nix
  ];
 }
--- a/machines/servo/services/freshrss.nix
+++ b/machines/servo/services/freshrss.nix
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
    owner = config.users.users.freshrss.name;
    mode = "400";
  };
-  sane.impermanence.dirs = [
+  sane.impermanence.service-dirs = [
    { user = "freshrss"; group = "freshrss"; directory = "/var/lib/freshrss"; }
  ];

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
  systemd.services.freshrss-import-feeds =
  let
    fresh = config.systemd.services.freshrss-config;
-    feeds = import ../../../modules/home-manager/feeds.nix { inherit lib; };
+    feeds = import ../../../modules/universal/home-manager/feeds.nix { inherit lib; };
    opml = pkgs.writeText "sane-freshrss.opml" (feeds.feedsToOpml feeds.all);
  in {
    inherit (fresh) wantedBy environment;
@@ -45,17 +45,4 @@
      ${pkgs.freshrss}/cli/import-for-user.php --user admin --filename ${opml}
    '';
  };
-
-  # the default ("*:0/5") is to run every 5 minutes.
-  # `systemctl list-timers` to show
-  systemd.services.freshrss-updater.startAt = lib.mkForce "*:3/30";
-
-  services.nginx.virtualHosts."rss.uninsane.org" = {
-    addSSL = true;
-    enableACME = true;
-    # inherit kTLS;
-    # the routing is handled by services.freshrss.virtualHost
-  };
-
-  sane.services.trust-dns.zones."uninsane.org".inet.CNAME."rss" = [ "native" ];
 }
--- a/machines/servo/services/gitea.nix
+++ b/machines/servo/services/gitea.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 { config, pkgs, lib, ... }:

 {
-  sane.impermanence.dirs = [
+  sane.impermanence.service-dirs = [
    # TODO: mode? could be more granular
    { user = "git"; group = "gitea"; directory = "/var/lib/gitea"; }
  ];
@@ -72,18 +72,4 @@
      "/var/lib/gitea"
    ];
  };
-
-  # hosted git (web view and for `git <cmd>` use
-  # TODO: enable publog?
-  services.nginx.virtualHosts."git.uninsane.org" = {
-    forceSSL = true;  # gitea complains if served over a different protocol than its config file says
-    enableACME = true;
-    # inherit kTLS;
-
-    locations."/" = {
-      proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:3000";
-    };
-  };
-
-  sane.services.trust-dns.zones."uninsane.org".inet.CNAME."git" = [ "native" ];
 }
--- a/machines/servo/services/goaccess.nix
+++ b/machines/servo/services/goaccess.nix
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
          -f /var/log/nginx/public.log \
          --log-format=VCOMBINED \
          --real-time-html \
-          --html-refresh=30 \
          --no-query-string \
          --anonymize-ip \
          --ignore-panel=HOSTS \
@@ -25,7 +24,6 @@
      ExecReload = "${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID";
      Type = "simple";
      Restart = "on-failure";
-      RestartSec = "10s";

      # hardening
      WorkingDirectory = "/tmp";
@@ -43,26 +41,4 @@
    after = [ "network.target" ];
    wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
  };
-
-  # server statistics
-  services.nginx.virtualHosts."sink.uninsane.org" = {
-    addSSL = true;
-    enableACME = true;
-    # inherit kTLS;
-    root = "/var/lib/uninsane/sink";
-
-    locations."/ws" = {
-      proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:7890";
-      # XXX not sure how much of this is necessary
-      extraConfig = ''
-        proxy_http_version 1.1;
-        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
-        proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
-        proxy_buffering off;
-        proxy_read_timeout 7d;
-      '';
-    };
-  };
-
-  sane.services.trust-dns.zones."uninsane.org".inet.CNAME."sink" = [ "native" ];
 }
--- a/machines/servo/services/ipfs.nix
+++ b/machines/servo/services/ipfs.nix
@@ -6,50 +6,26 @@
 # - number of open peer connections:
 #   - sudo -u ipfs -g ipfs ipfs -c /var/lib/ipfs/ swarm peers | wc -l

-{ lib, ... }:
-
-lib.mkIf false # i don't actively use ipfs anymore
+{ ... }:
 {
-  sane.impermanence.dirs = [
+  sane.impermanence.service-dirs = [
    # TODO: mode? could be more granular
    { user = "261"; group = "261"; directory = "/var/lib/ipfs"; }
  ];
-
-  networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ 4001 ];
-  networking.firewall.allowedUDPPorts = [ 4001 ];
-
-  services.nginx.virtualHosts."ipfs.uninsane.org" = {
-    # don't default to ssl upgrades, since this may be dnslink'd from a different domain.
-    # ideally we'd disable ssl entirely, but some places assume it?
-    addSSL = true;
-    enableACME = true;
-    # inherit kTLS;
-
-    locations."/" = {
-      proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:8080";
-      extraConfig = ''
-        proxy_set_header Host $host;
-        proxy_set_header X-Ipfs-Gateway-Prefix "";
-      '';
-    };
-  };
-
-  sane.services.trust-dns.zones."uninsane.org".inet.CNAME."ipfs" = [ "native" ];
-
  # services.ipfs.enable = true;
  services.kubo.localDiscovery = true;
-  services.kubo.settings = {
+  services.kubo.swarmAddress = [
+    # "/dns4/ipfs.uninsane.org/tcp/4001"
+    # "/ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/4001"
+    "/dns4/ipfs.uninsane.org/udp/4001/quic"
+    "/ip4/0.0.0.0/udp/4001/quic"
+  ];
+  services.kubo.extraConfig = {
    Addresses = {
      Announce = [
        # "/dns4/ipfs.uninsane.org/tcp/4001"
        "/dns4/ipfs.uninsane.org/udp/4001/quic"
      ];
-      Swarm = [
-        # "/dns4/ipfs.uninsane.org/tcp/4001"
-        # "/ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/4001"
-        "/dns4/ipfs.uninsane.org/udp/4001/quic"
-        "/ip4/0.0.0.0/udp/4001/quic"
-      ];
    };
    Gateway = {
      # the gateway can only be used to serve content already replicated on this host
--- a/machines/servo/services/jackett.nix
+++ b/machines/servo/services/jackett.nix
@@ -1,32 +1,18 @@
 { ... }:

 {
-  sane.impermanence.dirs = [
+  sane.impermanence.service-dirs = [
    # TODO: mode? we only need this to save Indexer creds ==> migrate to config?
    { user = "root"; group = "root"; directory = "/var/lib/jackett"; }
  ];
  services.jackett.enable = true;

-  systemd.services.jackett.after = [ "wireguard-wg0.service" ];
-  systemd.services.jackett.partOf = [ "wireguard-wg0.service" ];
+  systemd.services.jackett.after = ["wg0veth.service"];
  systemd.services.jackett.serviceConfig = {
    # run this behind the OVPN static VPN
    NetworkNamespacePath = "/run/netns/ovpns";
    # patch jackett to listen on the public interfaces
    # ExecStart = lib.mkForce "${pkgs.jackett}/bin/Jackett --NoUpdates --DataFolder /var/lib/jackett/.config/Jackett --ListenPublic";
  };
-
-  # jackett torrent search
-  services.nginx.virtualHosts."jackett.uninsane.org" = {
-    forceSSL = true;
-    enableACME = true;
-    # inherit kTLS;
-    locations."/" = {
-      # proxyPass = "http://ovpns.uninsane.org:9117";
-      proxyPass = "http://10.0.1.6:9117";
-    };
-  };
-
-  sane.services.trust-dns.zones."uninsane.org".inet.CNAME."jackett" = [ "native" ];
 }

--- a/machines/servo/services/jellyfin.nix
+++ b/machines/servo/services/jellyfin.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+{ config, ... }:
+
+{
+  sane.impermanence.service-dirs = [
+    # TODO: mode? could be more granular
+    { user = "jellyfin"; group = "jellyfin"; directory = "/var/lib/jellyfin"; }
+  ];
+
+  # users.users.jellyfin.uid = config.sane.allocations.jellyfin-uid;
+  # users.groups.jellyfin.gid = config.sane.allocations.jellyfin-gid;
+  # TODO: re-enable after migrating media dir to /var/lib/uninsane/media
+  # else it's too spammy
+  # services.jellyfin.enable = true;
+}
--- a/machines/servo/services/matrix/default.nix
+++ b/machines/servo/services/matrix/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # docs: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Matrix
 # docs: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/index.html#module-services-matrix-synapse
-{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
+{ config, lib, ... }:

 {
  imports = [
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
    # ./irc.nix
  ];

-  sane.impermanence.dirs = [
+  sane.impermanence.service-dirs = [
    { user = "matrix-synapse"; group = "matrix-synapse"; directory = "/var/lib/matrix-synapse"; }
  ];
  services.matrix-synapse.enable = true;
@@ -77,55 +77,6 @@
  # create a token with limited uses:
  #   curl -d '{ "uses_allowed": 1 }' --header "Authorization: Bearer <my_token>" localhost:8008/_synapse/admin/v1/registration_tokens/new

-  # matrix chat server
-  # TODO: was `publog`
-  services.nginx.virtualHosts."matrix.uninsane.org" = {
-    addSSL = true;
-    enableACME = true;
-    # inherit kTLS;
-
-    # TODO colin: replace this with something helpful to the viewer
-    # locations."/".extraConfig = ''
-    #   return 404;
-    # '';
-
-    locations."/" = {
-      proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:8008";
-    };
-    # redirect browsers to the web client.
-    # i don't think native matrix clients ever fetch the root.
-    # ideally this would be put behind some user-agent test though.
-    locations."= /" = {
-      return = "301 https://web.matrix.uninsane.org";
-    };
-
-    # locations."/_matrix" = {
-    #   proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:8008";
-    # };
-  };
-
-  # matrix web client
-  # docs: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/index.html#module-services-matrix-element-web
-  services.nginx.virtualHosts."web.matrix.uninsane.org" = {
-    forceSSL = true;
-    enableACME = true;
-    # inherit kTLS;
-
-    root = pkgs.element-web.override {
-      conf = {
-        default_server_config."m.homeserver" = {
-          "base_url" = "https://matrix.uninsane.org";
-          "server_name" = "uninsane.org";
-        };
-      };
-    };
-  };
-
-  sane.services.trust-dns.zones."uninsane.org".inet = {
-    CNAME."matrix" = [ "native" ];
-    CNAME."web.matrix" = [ "native" ];
-  };
-

  sops.secrets.matrix_synapse_secrets = {
    sopsFile = ../../../../secrets/servo.yaml;
--- a/machines/servo/services/matrix/discord-puppet.nix
+++ b/machines/servo/services/matrix/discord-puppet.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 { lib, ... }:
 {
-  sane.impermanence.dirs = [
+  sane.impermanence.service-dirs = [
    { user = "matrix-synapse"; group = "matrix-synapse"; directory = "/var/lib/mx-puppet-discord"; }
  ];

--- a/machines/servo/services/matrix/irc.nix
+++ b/machines/servo/services/matrix/irc.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 { config, lib, ... }:

 {
-  sane.impermanence.dirs = [
+  sane.impermanence.service-dirs = [
    # TODO: mode?
    # user and group are both "matrix-appservice-irc"
    { user = "993"; group = "992"; directory = "/var/lib/matrix-appservice-irc"; }
--- a/machines/servo/services/matrix/synapse-log_level.yaml
+++ b/machines/servo/services/matrix/synapse-log_level.yaml
--- a/machines/servo/services/navidrome.nix
+++ b/machines/servo/services/navidrome.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 { ... }:

 {
-  sane.impermanence.dirs = [
+  sane.impermanence.service-dirs = [
    { user = "navidrome"; group = "navidrome"; directory = "/var/lib/private/navidrome"; }
  ];
  services.navidrome.enable = true;
@@ -14,13 +14,4 @@
    AutoImportPlaylists = false;
    ScanSchedule = "@every 1h";
  };
-
-  services.nginx.virtualHosts."music.uninsane.org" = {
-    forceSSL = true;
-    enableACME = true;
-    # inherit kTLS;
-    locations."/".proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:4533";
-  };
-
-  sane.services.trust-dns.zones."uninsane.org".inet.CNAME."music" = [ "native" ];
 }
--- a/machines/servo/services/nginx.nix
+++ b/machines/servo/services/nginx.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,320 @@
+# docs: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nginx
+{ config, pkgs, ... }:
+
+let
+  # make the logs for this host "public" so that they show up in e.g. metrics
+  publog = vhost: vhost // {
+    extraConfig = (vhost.extraConfig or "") + ''
+      access_log /var/log/nginx/public.log vcombined;
+    '';
+  };
+in
+{
+  services.nginx.enable = true;
+
+  # this is the standard `combined` log format, with the addition of $host
+  # so that we have the virtualHost in the log.
+  # KEEP IN SYNC WITH GOACCESS
+  # goaccess calls this VCOMBINED:
+  # - <https://gist.github.com/jyap808/10570005>
+  services.nginx.commonHttpConfig = ''
+    log_format vcombined '$host:$server_port $remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" $status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referrer" "$http_user_agent"';
+    access_log /var/log/nginx/private.log vcombined;
+  '';
+
+  # web blog/personal site
+  services.nginx.virtualHosts."uninsane.org" = publog {
+    root = "${pkgs.uninsane-dot-org}/share/uninsane-dot-org";
+    # a lot of places hardcode https://uninsane.org,
+    # and then when we mix http + non-https, we get CORS violations
+    # and things don't look right. so force SSL.
+    forceSSL = true;
+    enableACME = true;
+
+    # uninsane.org/share/foo => /var/lib/uninsane/root/share/foo.
+    # yes, nginx does not strip the prefix when evaluating against the root.
+    locations."/share".root = "/var/lib/uninsane/root";
+
+    # allow matrix users to discover that @user:uninsane.org is reachable via matrix.uninsane.org
+    locations."= /.well-known/matrix/server".extraConfig =
+      let
+        # use 443 instead of the default 8448 port to unite
+        # the client-server and server-server port for simplicity
+        server = { "m.server" = "matrix.uninsane.org:443"; };
+      in ''
+        add_header Content-Type application/json;
+        return 200 '${builtins.toJSON server}';
+      '';
+    locations."= /.well-known/matrix/client".extraConfig =
+      let
+        client = {
+          "m.homeserver" =  { "base_url" = "https://matrix.uninsane.org"; };
+          "m.identity_server" =  { "base_url" = "https://vector.im"; };
+        };
+      # ACAO required to allow element-web on any URL to request this json file
+      in ''
+        add_header Content-Type application/json;
+        add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;
+        return 200 '${builtins.toJSON client}';
+      '';
+
+    # static URLs might not be aware of .well-known (e.g. registration confirmation URLs),
+    # so hack around that.
+    locations."/_matrix" = {
+      proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:8008";
+    };
+    locations."/_synapse" = {
+      proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:8008";
+    };
+
+    # allow ActivityPub clients to discover how to reach @user@uninsane.org
+    # TODO: waiting on https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/-/merge_requests/3361/
+    # locations."/.well-known/nodeinfo" = {
+    #   proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:4000";
+    #   extraConfig = pleromaExtraConfig;
+    # };
+  };
+
+  # server statistics
+  services.nginx.virtualHosts."sink.uninsane.org" = {
+    addSSL = true;
+    enableACME = true;
+    root = "/var/lib/uninsane/sink";
+
+    locations."/ws" = {
+      proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:7890";
+      # XXX not sure how much of this is necessary
+      extraConfig = ''
+        proxy_http_version 1.1;
+        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
+        proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
+        proxy_buffering off;
+        proxy_read_timeout 7d;
+      '';
+    };
+
+  };
+
+  # Pleroma server and web interface
+  services.nginx.virtualHosts."fed.uninsane.org" = publog {
+    addSSL = true;
+    enableACME = true;
+    locations."/" = {
+      proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:4000";
+      # documented: https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/-/blob/develop/installation/pleroma.nginx
+      extraConfig = ''
+        # XXX colin: this block is in the nixos examples: i don't understand all of it
+        add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*' always;
+        add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'POST, PUT, DELETE, GET, PATCH, OPTIONS' always;
+        add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'Authorization, Content-Type, Idempotency-Key' always;
+        add_header 'Access-Control-Expose-Headers' 'Link, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-Request-Id' always;
+        if ($request_method = OPTIONS) {
+            return 204;
+        }
+
+        add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
+        add_header X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies none;
+        add_header X-Frame-Options DENY;
+        add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
+        add_header Referrer-Policy same-origin;
+        add_header X-Download-Options noopen;
+
+        proxy_http_version 1.1;
+        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
+        proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
+        # proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
+        proxy_set_header Host $host;
+        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
+
+        # colin: added this due to Pleroma complaining in its logs
+        # proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
+        # proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
+
+        client_max_body_size 16m;
+      '';
+    };
+  };
+
+  # transmission web client
+  services.nginx.virtualHosts."bt.uninsane.org" = {
+    # basicAuth is literally cleartext user/pw, so FORCE this to happen over SSL
+    forceSSL = true;
+    enableACME = true;
+    locations."/" = {
+      # proxyPass = "http://ovpns.uninsane.org:9091";
+      proxyPass = "http://10.0.1.6:9091";
+    };
+  };
+
+  # jackett torrent search
+  services.nginx.virtualHosts."jackett.uninsane.org" = {
+    forceSSL = true;
+    enableACME = true;
+    locations."/" = {
+      # proxyPass = "http://ovpns.uninsane.org:9117";
+      proxyPass = "http://10.0.1.6:9117";
+    };
+  };
+
+  # matrix chat server
+  services.nginx.virtualHosts."matrix.uninsane.org" = publog {
+    addSSL = true;
+    enableACME = true;
+
+    # TODO colin: replace this with something helpful to the viewer
+    # locations."/".extraConfig = ''
+    #   return 404;
+    # '';
+
+    locations."/" = {
+      proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:8008";
+    };
+    # redirect browsers to the web client.
+    # i don't think native matrix clients ever fetch the root.
+    # ideally this would be put behind some user-agent test though.
+    locations."= /" = {
+      return = "301 https://web.matrix.uninsane.org";
+    };
+
+    # locations."/_matrix" = {
+    #   proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:8008";
+    # };
+  };
+
+  # matrix web client
+  # docs: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/index.html#module-services-matrix-element-web
+  services.nginx.virtualHosts."web.matrix.uninsane.org" = {
+    forceSSL = true;
+    enableACME = true;
+
+    root = pkgs.element-web.override {
+      conf = {
+        default_server_config."m.homeserver" = {
+          "base_url" = "https://matrix.uninsane.org";
+          "server_name" = "uninsane.org";
+        };
+      };
+    };
+  };
+
+  # hosted git (web view and for `git <cmd>` use
+  services.nginx.virtualHosts."git.uninsane.org" = publog {
+    addSSL = true;
+    enableACME = true;
+
+    locations."/" = {
+      proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:3000";
+    };
+  };
+
+  # Jellyfin multimedia server
+  # this is mostly taken from the official jellfin.org docs
+  services.nginx.virtualHosts."jelly.uninsane.org" = {
+    addSSL = true;
+    enableACME = true;
+
+    locations."/" = {
+      proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:8096";
+      extraConfig = ''
+        proxy_set_header Host $host;
+        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
+        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
+        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
+        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Protocol $scheme;
+        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $http_host;
+
+        # Disable buffering when the nginx proxy gets very resource heavy upon streaming
+        proxy_buffering off;
+      '';
+    };
+    # locations."/web/" = {
+    #   proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:8096/web/index.html";
+    #   extraConfig = ''
+    #     proxy_set_header Host $host;
+    #     proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
+    #     proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
+    #     proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
+    #     proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Protocol $scheme;
+    #     proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $http_host;
+    #   '';
+    # };
+    locations."/socket" = {
+      proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:8096";
+      extraConfig = ''
+        proxy_http_version 1.1;
+        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
+        proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
+
+        proxy_set_header Host $host;
+        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
+        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
+        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
+        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Protocol $scheme;
+        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $http_host;
+      '';
+    };
+  };
+
+  services.nginx.virtualHosts."music.uninsane.org" = {
+    forceSSL = true;
+    enableACME = true;
+    locations."/".proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:4533";
+  };
+
+  services.nginx.virtualHosts."rss.uninsane.org" = {
+    addSSL = true;
+    enableACME = true;
+    # the routing is handled by freshrss.nix
+  };
+
+  services.nginx.virtualHosts."ipfs.uninsane.org" = {
+    # don't default to ssl upgrades, since this may be dnslink'd from a different domain.
+    # ideally we'd disable ssl entirely, but some places assume it?
+    addSSL = true;
+    enableACME = true;
+
+    default = true;
+
+    locations."/" = {
+      proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:8080";
+      extraConfig = ''
+        proxy_set_header Host $host;
+        proxy_set_header X-Ipfs-Gateway-Prefix "";
+      '';
+    };
+  };
+
+  # exists only to manage certs for dovecot
+  services.nginx.virtualHosts."imap.uninsane.org" = {
+    forceSSL = true;
+    enableACME = true;
+  };
+  # exists only to manage certs for Postfix
+  services.nginx.virtualHosts."mx.uninsane.org" = {
+    forceSSL = true;
+    enableACME = true;
+  };
+  services.nginx.virtualHosts."nixcache.uninsane.org" = {
+    addSSL = true;
+    enableACME = true;
+    # serverAliases = [ "nixcache" ];
+    locations."/".extraConfig = ''
+      proxy_pass http://localhost:${toString config.services.nix-serve.port};
+      proxy_set_header Host $host;
+      proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
+      proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
+    '';
+  };
+
+  security.acme.acceptTerms = true;
+  security.acme.defaults.email = "admin.acme@uninsane.org";
+
+  users.users.acme.uid = config.sane.allocations.acme-uid;
+  users.groups.acme.gid = config.sane.allocations.acme-gid;
+  sane.impermanence.service-dirs = [
+    # TODO: mode?
+    { user = "acme"; group = "acme"; directory = "/var/lib/acme"; }
+    # TODO: this is overly broad; only need media and share directories to be persisted
+    { user = "colin"; group = "users"; directory = "/var/lib/uninsane"; }
+  ];
+}
--- a/machines/servo/services/pleroma.nix
+++ b/machines/servo/services/pleroma.nix
@@ -1,12 +1,10 @@
-# docs:
-# - https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/networking/pleroma.nix
-# - https://docs.pleroma.social/backend/configuration/cheatsheet/
+# docs: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/networking/pleroma.nix
 #
 # to run it in a oci-container: https://github.com/barrucadu/nixfiles/blob/master/services/pleroma.nix
 { config, pkgs, ... }:

 {
-  sane.impermanence.dirs = [
+  sane.impermanence.service-dirs = [
    # TODO: mode? could be more granular
    { user = "pleroma"; group = "pleroma"; directory = "/var/lib/pleroma"; }
  ];
@@ -50,19 +48,16 @@
      redirect_on_failure: true
      #base_url: "https://cache.pleroma.social"

-    # see for reference:
-    # - `force_custom_plan`: <https://docs.pleroma.social/backend/configuration/postgresql/#disable-generic-query-plans>
    config :pleroma, Pleroma.Repo,
      adapter: Ecto.Adapters.Postgres,
      username: "pleroma",
      database: "pleroma",
      hostname: "localhost",
      pool_size: 10,
+      prepare: :named,
      parameters: [
          plan_cache_mode: "force_custom_plan"
      ]
-    # XXX: prepare: :named is needed only for PG <= 12
-    #   prepare: :named,
    #   password: "{secrets.pleroma.db_password}",

    # Configure web push notifications
@@ -115,9 +110,9 @@

  systemd.services.pleroma.path = [ 
    # something inside pleroma invokes `sh` w/o specifying it by path, so this is needed to allow pleroma to start
-    pkgs.bash
+    pkgs.bash 
    # used by Pleroma to strip geo tags from uploads
-    pkgs.exiftool
+    pkgs.exiftool 
    # i saw some errors when pleroma was shutting down about it not being able to find `awk`. probably not critical
    pkgs.gawk
    # needed for email operations like password reset
@@ -127,7 +122,6 @@
  systemd.services.pleroma.serviceConfig = {
    # postgres can be slow to service early requests, preventing pleroma from starting on the first try
    Restart = "on-failure";
-    RestartSec = "10s";
  };

  # systemd.services.pleroma.serviceConfig = {
@@ -137,50 +131,6 @@
  #   CapabilityBoundingSet = lib.mkForce "~";
  # };

-  # Pleroma server and web interface
-  # TODO: enable publog?
-  services.nginx.virtualHosts."fed.uninsane.org" = {
-    forceSSL = true;  # pleroma redirects to https anyway
-    enableACME = true;
-    # inherit kTLS;
-    locations."/" = {
-      proxyPass = "http://127.0.0.1:4000";
-      # documented: https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/-/blob/develop/installation/pleroma.nginx
-      extraConfig = ''
-        # XXX colin: this block is in the nixos examples: i don't understand all of it
-        add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*' always;
-        add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'POST, PUT, DELETE, GET, PATCH, OPTIONS' always;
-        add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'Authorization, Content-Type, Idempotency-Key' always;
-        add_header 'Access-Control-Expose-Headers' 'Link, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-Request-Id' always;
-        if ($request_method = OPTIONS) {
-            return 204;
-        }
-
-        add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
-        add_header X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies none;
-        add_header X-Frame-Options DENY;
-        add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
-        add_header Referrer-Policy same-origin;
-        add_header X-Download-Options noopen;
-
-        proxy_http_version 1.1;
-        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
-        proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
-        # proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
-        proxy_set_header Host $host;
-        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
-
-        # colin: added this due to Pleroma complaining in its logs
-        # proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
-        # proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
-
-        client_max_body_size 16m;
-      '';
-    };
-  };
-
-  sane.services.trust-dns.zones."uninsane.org".inet.CNAME."fed" = [ "native" ];
-
  sops.secrets.pleroma_secrets = {
    sopsFile = ../../../secrets/servo.yaml;
    owner = config.users.users.pleroma.name;
--- a/machines/servo/services/postfix.nix
+++ b/machines/servo/services/postfix.nix
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ let
  };
 in
 {
-  sane.impermanence.dirs = [
+  sane.impermanence.service-dirs = [
    # TODO: mode? could be more granular
    { user = "opendkim"; group = "opendkim"; directory = "/var/lib/opendkim"; }
    { user = "root"; group = "root"; directory = "/var/lib/postfix"; }
@@ -25,61 +25,6 @@ in
    # "/var/lib/dhparams"          # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/security/dhparams.nix
    # "/var/lib/dovecot"
  ];
-
-  networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [
-    25   # SMTP
-    143  # IMAP
-    465  # SMTPS
-    587  # SMTPS/submission
-    993  # IMAPS
-  ];
-
-  # exists only to manage certs for dovecot
-  services.nginx.virtualHosts."imap.uninsane.org" = {
-    enableACME = true;
-  };
-  # exists only to manage certs for Postfix
-  services.nginx.virtualHosts."mx.uninsane.org" = {
-    enableACME = true;
-  };
-
-
-  sane.services.trust-dns.zones."uninsane.org".inet = {
-    MX."@" = [ "10 mx.uninsane.org." ];
-    # XXX: RFC's specify that the MX record CANNOT BE A CNAME
-    A."mx" = [ "185.157.162.178" ];
-    CNAME."imap" = [ "native" ];
-
-    # Sender Policy Framework:
-    #   +mx     => mail passes if it originated from the MX
-    #   +a      => mail passes if it originated from the A address of this domain
-    #   +ip4:.. => mail passes if it originated from this IP
-    #   -all    => mail fails if none of these conditions were met
-    TXT."@" = [ "v=spf1 a mx -all" ];
-
-    # DKIM public key:
-    TXT."mx._domainkey" = [
-      "v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCkSyMufc2KrRx3j17e/LyB+3eYSBRuEFT8PUka8EDX04QzCwDPdkwgnj3GNDvnB5Ktb05Cf2SJ/S1OLqNsINxJRWtkVfZd/C339KNh9wrukMKRKNELL9HLUw0bczOI4gKKFqyrRE9qm+4csCMAR79Te9FCjGV/jVnrkLdPT0GtFwIDAQAB"
-    ];
-
-    # DMARC fields <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7489>:
-    #   p=none|quarantine|reject: what to do with failures
-    #   sp = p but for subdomains
-    #   rua = where to send aggregrate reports
-    #   ruf = where to send individual failure reports
-    #   fo=0|1|d|s  controls WHEN to send failure reports
-    #     (1=on bad alignment; d=on DKIM failure; s=on SPF failure);
-    # Additionally:
-    #   adkim=r|s  (is DKIM relaxed [default] or strict)
-    #   aspf=r|s   (is SPF relaxed [default] or strict)
-    #   pct = sampling ratio for punishing failures (default 100 for 100%)
-    #   rf = report format
-    #   ri = report interval
-    TXT."_dmarc" = [
-      "v=DMARC1;p=quarantine;sp=reject;rua=mailto:admin+mail@uninsane.org;ruf=mailto:admin+mail@uninsane.org;fo=1:d:s"
-    ];
-  };
-
  services.postfix.enable = true;
  services.postfix.hostname = "mx.uninsane.org";
  services.postfix.origin = "uninsane.org";
@@ -110,8 +55,7 @@ in
  services.postfix.enableSubmissions = true;
  services.postfix.submissionsOptions = submissionOptions;

-  systemd.services.postfix.after = [ "wireguard-wg0.service" ];
-  systemd.services.postfix.partOf = [ "wireguard-wg0.service" ];
+  systemd.services.postfix.after = [ "wg0veth.service" ];
  systemd.services.postfix.serviceConfig = {
    # run this behind the OVPN static VPN
    NetworkNamespacePath = "/run/netns/ovpns";
@@ -132,8 +76,7 @@ in
  # keeping this the same as the hostname seems simplest
  services.opendkim.selector = "mx";

-  systemd.services.opendkim.after = [ "wireguard-wg0.service" ];
-  systemd.services.opendkim.partOf = [ "wireguard-wg0.service" ];
+  systemd.services.opendkim.after = [ "wg0veth.service" ];
  systemd.services.opendkim.serviceConfig = {
    # run this behind the OVPN static VPN
    NetworkNamespacePath = "/run/netns/ovpns";
--- a/machines/servo/services/postgres.nix
+++ b/machines/servo/services/postgres.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 { ... }:

 {
-  sane.impermanence.dirs = [
+  sane.impermanence.service-dirs = [
    # TODO: mode?
    { user = "postgres"; group = "postgres"; directory = "/var/lib/postgresql"; }
  ];
@@ -17,11 +17,6 @@
  #     LC_CTYPE = "C";
  # '';

-  # TODO: perf tuning
-  # - for recommended values see: <https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/>
-  # - for official docs (sparse), see: <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/config-setting.html#CONFIG-SETTING-CONFIGURATION-FILE>
-  # services.postgresql.settings = { ... }
-
  # daily backups to /var/backup
  services.postgresqlBackup.enable = true;

--- a/machines/servo/services/transmission.nix
+++ b/machines/servo/services/transmission.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-{ pkgs, ... }:
+{ ... }:

 {
-  sane.impermanence.dirs = [
+  sane.impermanence.service-dirs = [
    # TODO: mode? we need this specifically for the stats tracking in .config/
    { user = "transmission"; group = "transmission"; directory = "/var/lib/transmission"; }
  ];
@@ -40,41 +40,11 @@
  # transmission will by default not allow the world to read its files.
  services.transmission.downloadDirPermissions = "775";

-  systemd.services.transmission.after = [ "wireguard-wg0.service" ];
-  systemd.services.transmission.partOf = [ "wireguard-wg0.service" ];
+  systemd.services.transmission.after = ["wg0veth.service"];
  systemd.services.transmission.serviceConfig = {
    # run this behind the OVPN static VPN
    NetworkNamespacePath = "/run/netns/ovpns";
    LogLevelMax = "warning";
  };
-
-  # service to automatically backup torrents i add to transmission
-  systemd.services.backup-torrents = {
-    description = "archive torrents to storage not owned by transmission";
-    script = ''
-      ${pkgs.rsync}/bin/rsync -arv /var/lib/transmission/.config/transmission-daemon/torrents/ /var/backup/torrents/
-    '';
-  };
-  systemd.timers.backup-torrents = {
-    wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
-    timerConfig = {
-      OnStartupSec = "11min";
-      OnUnitActiveSec = "240min";
-    };
-  };
-
-  # transmission web client
-  services.nginx.virtualHosts."bt.uninsane.org" = {
-    # basicAuth is literally cleartext user/pw, so FORCE this to happen over SSL
-    forceSSL = true;
-    enableACME = true;
-    # inherit kTLS;
-    locations."/" = {
-      # proxyPass = "http://ovpns.uninsane.org:9091";
-      proxyPass = "http://10.0.1.6:9091";
-    };
-  };
-
-  sane.services.trust-dns.zones."uninsane.org".inet.CNAME."bt" = ["native"];
 }

--- a/machines/servo/users.nix
+++ b/machines/servo/users.nix
--- a/modules/default.nix
+++ b/modules/default.nix
@@ -2,13 +2,12 @@

 {
  imports = [
-    ./allocations.nix
    ./gui
-    ./home-manager
-    ./packages.nix
+    ./hardware
    ./image.nix
-    ./impermanence
+    ./impermanence.nix
    ./nixcache.nix
    ./services
+    ./universal
  ];
 }
--- a/modules/gui/default.nix
+++ b/modules/gui/default.nix
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ in
  imports = [
    ./gnome.nix
    ./phosh.nix
-    ./plasma.nix
    ./plasma-mobile.nix
    ./sway.nix
  ];
@@ -22,7 +21,7 @@ in
  };

  config = lib.mkIf cfg.enable {
-    sane.packages.enableGuiPkgs = lib.mkDefault true;
+    sane.home-packages.enableGuiPkgs = lib.mkDefault true;
    # all GUIs use network manager?
    users.users.nm-iodine.uid = config.sane.allocations.nm-iodine-uid;
  };
--- a/modules/gui/phosh.nix
+++ b/modules/gui/phosh.nix
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ in
        NIXOS_OZONE_WL = "1";
      };

-      sane.packages.extraUserPkgs = with pkgs; [
+      sane.home-manager.extraPackages = with pkgs; [
        phosh-mobile-settings

        # TODO: see about removing this if the in-built gnome-settings bluetooth manager can work
@@ -89,16 +89,19 @@ in
      services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.extraSeatDefaults = ''
        user-session = phosh
      '';
-      # services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.greeters.gtk.enable = false;  # gtk greeter overrides our own?
-      # services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.greeter = {
-      #   enable = true;
-      #   package = pkgs.lightdm-mobile-greeter.xgreeters;
-      #   name = "lightdm-mobile-greeter";
-      # };
-      # # services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.enable = true;
-
-      services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.enable = true;
-      services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.greeters.mobile.enable = true;
+      services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.greeters.gtk.enable = false;  # gtk greeter overrides our own?
+      services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.greeter = {
+        enable = true;
+        package = pkgs.lightdm-mobile-greeter.xgreeters;
+        name = "lightdm-mobile-greeter";
+      };
+      # services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.enable = true;
+      # # services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.greeters.enso.enable = true;  # tried (with reboot); got a mouse then died. next time was black
+      # # services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.greeters.gtk.enable = true;  # tried (with reboot); unusable without OSK
+      # # services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.greeters.mini.enable = true;  # tried (with reboot); unusable without OSK
+      # # services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.greeters.pantheon.enable = true; # tried (no reboot); unusable without OSK
+      # services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.greeters.slick.enable = true;  # tried; unusable without OSK (a11y -> OSK doesn't work)
+      # # services.xserver.displayManager.lightdm.greeters.tiny.enable = true;  # tried; block screen

      systemd.services.phosh.wantedBy = lib.mkForce [];  # disable auto-start
    })
--- a/modules/gui/plasma.nix
+++ b/modules/gui/plasma.nix
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, config, ... }:
-
-with lib;
-let
-  cfg = config.sane.gui.plasma;
-in
-{
-  options = {
-    sane.gui.plasma.enable = mkOption {
-      default = false;
-      type = types.bool;
-    };
-  };
-
-  config = mkIf cfg.enable {
-    sane.gui.enable = true;
-
-    # start plasma on boot
-    services.xserver.enable = true;
-    services.xserver.desktopManager.plasma5.enable = true;
-    services.xserver.displayManager.sddm.enable = true;
-
-    # gnome does networking stuff with networkmanager
-    networking.useDHCP = false;
-    networking.networkmanager.enable = true;
-    networking.wireless.enable = lib.mkForce false;
-  };
-}
--- a/modules/gui/snippets.txt
+++ b/modules/gui/snippets.txt
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=unstable&query=
-https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=unstable&query=
-https://nixos.wiki/index.php?go=Go&search=
-https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/pulls?q=
-https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/options.html
-https://w.uninsane.org/viewer#search?books.name=wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2022-05&pattern=
-https://jackett.uninsane.org/UI/Dashboard#search=
-https://fed.uninsane.org
-https://bt.uninsane.org
-https://sci-hub.se
-https://news.ycombinator.com
--- a/modules/gui/sway.nix
+++ b/modules/gui/sway.nix
@@ -81,29 +81,8 @@ in
    sane.home-manager.windowManager.sway = {
      enable = true;
      wrapperFeatures.gtk = true;
-      config = let
-        fuzzel = "${pkgs.fuzzel}/bin/fuzzel";
-        sed = "${pkgs.gnused}/bin/sed";
-        wtype = "${pkgs.wtype}/bin/wtype";
-        kitty = "${pkgs.kitty}/bin/kitty";
-        lock-cmd = "${pkgs.swaylock}/bin/swaylock --indicator-idle-visible --indicator-radius 100 --indicator-thickness 30";
-        vol-up-cmd = "${pkgs.pulsemixer}/bin/pulsemixer --change-volume +5";
-        vol-down-cmd = "${pkgs.pulsemixer}/bin/pulsemixer --change-volume -5";
-        mute-cmd = "${pkgs.pulsemixer}/bin/pulsemixer --toggle-mute";
-        brightness-up-cmd = "${pkgs.brightnessctl}/bin/brightnessctl set +2%";
-        brightness-down-cmd = "${pkgs.brightnessctl}/bin/brightnessctl set 2%-";
-        screenshot-cmd = "${pkgs.sway-contrib.grimshot}/bin/grimshot copy area";
-        # "bookmarking"/snippets inspired by Luke Smith:
-        # - <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_11QaTlf1I>
-        snip-file = ./snippets.txt;
-        # TODO: querying sops here breaks encapsulation
-        list-snips = "cat ${snip-file} ${config.sops.secrets.snippets.path}";
-        strip-comments = "${sed} 's/ #.*$//'";
-        snip-cmd = "${wtype} $(${list-snips} | ${fuzzel} -d -i -w 60 | ${strip-comments})";
-        # TODO: next splatmoji release should allow `-s none` to disable skin tones
-        emoji-cmd = "${pkgs.splatmoji}/bin/splatmoji -s medium-light type";
-      in rec {
-        terminal = kitty;
+      config = rec {
+        terminal = "${pkgs.kitty}/bin/kitty";
        window = {
          border = 3; # pixel boundary between windows
          hideEdgeBorders = "smart"; # don't show border if only window on workspace
@@ -124,7 +103,7 @@ in
        modifier = "Mod1";
        # list of launchers: https://www.reddit.com/r/swaywm/comments/v39hxa/your_favorite_launcher/
        # menu = "${pkgs.dmenu}/bin/dmenu_path";
-        menu = fuzzel;
+        menu = "${pkgs.fuzzel}/bin/fuzzel";
        # menu = "${pkgs.albert}/bin/albert";
        left = "h";
        down = "j";
@@ -135,9 +114,7 @@ in
          "${modifier}+Return" = "exec ${terminal}";
          "${modifier}+Shift+q" = "kill";
          "${modifier}+d" = "exec ${menu}";
-          "${modifier}+s" = "exec ${snip-cmd}";
-          "${modifier}+l" = "exec ${lock-cmd}";
-          "${modifier}+slash" = "exec ${emoji-cmd}";
+          "${modifier}+l" = "exec ${pkgs.swaylock}/bin/swaylock --indicator-idle-visible --indicator-radius 100 --indicator-thickness 30";

          # "${modifier}+${left}" = "focus left";
          # "${modifier}+${down}" = "focus down";
@@ -164,7 +141,7 @@ in
          "${modifier}+f" = "fullscreen toggle";
          "${modifier}+a" = "focus parent";

-          # "${modifier}+s" = "layout stacking";
+          "${modifier}+s" = "layout stacking";
          "${modifier}+w" = "layout tabbed";
          "${modifier}+e" = "layout toggle split";

@@ -208,20 +185,19 @@ in
            "exec swaynag -t warning -m 'You pressed the exit shortcut. Do you really want to exit sway? This will end your Wayland session.' -b 'Yes, exit sway' 'swaymsg exit'";

          "${modifier}+r" = "mode resize";
-
+        } // {
          # media keys
-          XF86MonBrightnessDown = "exec ${brightness-down-cmd}";
-          XF86MonBrightnessUp = "exec ${brightness-up-cmd}";
+          XF86MonBrightnessDown = ''exec "${pkgs.brightnessctl}/bin/brightnessctl set 2%-"'';
+          XF86MonBrightnessUp = ''exec "${pkgs.brightnessctl}/bin/brightnessctl set +2%"'';

-          # TODO: hook into a visual prompt to display volume?
-          XF86AudioRaiseVolume = "exec ${vol-up-cmd}";
-          XF86AudioLowerVolume = "exec ${vol-down-cmd}";
-          XF86AudioMute = "exec ${mute-cmd}";
+          XF86AudioRaiseVolume = "exec '${pkgs.pulsemixer}/bin/pulsemixer --change-volume +5'";
+          XF86AudioLowerVolume = "exec '${pkgs.pulsemixer}/bin/pulsemixer --change-volume -5'";
+          XF86AudioMute = "exec '${pkgs.pulsemixer}/bin/pulsemixer --toggle-mute'";

-          "${modifier}+Page_Up" = "exec ${vol-up-cmd}";
-          "${modifier}+Page_Down" = "exec ${vol-down-cmd}";
+          "${modifier}+Page_Up" = "exec '${pkgs.pulsemixer}/bin/pulsemixer --change-volume +5'";
+          "${modifier}+Page_Down" = "exec '${pkgs.pulsemixer}/bin/pulsemixer --change-volume -5'";

-          "${modifier}+Print" = "exec ${screenshot-cmd}";
+          "${modifier}+Print" = "exec '${pkgs.sway-contrib.grimshot}/bin/grimshot copy area'";
        };

        # mostly defaults:
@@ -621,7 +597,7 @@ in
      #   }
      # '';
    };
-    sane.packages.extraUserPkgs = with pkgs; [
+    sane.home-manager.extraPackages = with pkgs; [
      swaylock
      swayidle  # (unused)
      wl-clipboard
--- a/hosts/common/hardware/all.nix
+++ b/hosts/common/hardware/all.nix
--- a/hosts/common/hardware/default.nix
+++ b/hosts/common/hardware/default.nix
--- a/hosts/common/hardware/x86_64.nix
+++ b/hosts/common/hardware/x86_64.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@

 with lib;
 {
-  config = mkIf (pkgs.system == "x86_64-linux") {
+  config = mkIf (pkgs.system == "x86_64-linux") { 
    boot.initrd.availableKernelModules = [
      "xhci_pci" "ahci" "sd_mod" "sdhci_pci"  # nixos-generate-config defaults
      "usb_storage"   # rpi needed this to boot from usb storage, i think.
--- a/modules/home-manager/firefox.nix
+++ b/modules/home-manager/firefox.nix
@@ -1,145 +0,0 @@
-# common settings to toggle (at runtime, in about:config):
-#   > security.ssl.require_safe_negotiation
-
-# librewolf is a forked firefox which patches firefox to allow more things
-# (like default search engines) to be configurable at runtime.
-# many of the settings below won't have effect without those patches.
-# see: https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/settings/-/blob/master/distribution/policies.json
-
-{ config, lib, pkgs, ...}:
-with lib;
-let
-  cfg = config.sane.web-browser;
-  # allow easy switching between firefox and librewolf with `defaultSettings`, below
-  librewolfSettings = {
-    browser = pkgs.librewolf-unwrapped;
-    # browser = pkgs.librewolf-unwrapped.overrideAttrs (drv: {
-    #   # this allows side-loading unsigned addons
-    #   MOZ_REQUIRE_SIGNING = false;
-    # });
-    libName = "librewolf";
-    dotDir = ".librewolf";
-    desktop = "librewolf.desktop";
-  };
-  firefoxSettings = {
-    browser = pkgs.firefox-esr-unwrapped;
-    libName = "firefox";
-    dotDir = ".mozilla/firefox";
-    desktop = "firefox.desktop";
-  };
-  defaultSettings = firefoxSettings;
-  # defaultSettings = librewolfSettings;
-
-  package = pkgs.wrapFirefox cfg.browser {
-    # inherit the default librewolf.cfg
-    # it can be further customized via ~/.librewolf/librewolf.overrides.cfg
-    inherit (pkgs.librewolf-unwrapped) extraPrefsFiles;
-    inherit (cfg) libName;
-
-    extraNativeMessagingHosts = [ pkgs.browserpass ];
-    # extraNativeMessagingHosts = [ pkgs.gopass-native-messaging-host ];
-
-    nixExtensions = let
-      addon = name: extid: hash: pkgs.fetchFirefoxAddon {
-        inherit name hash;
-        url = "https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/${name}/latest.xpi";
-        # extid can be found by unar'ing the above xpi, and copying browser_specific_settings.gecko.id field
-        fixedExtid = extid;
-      };
-      localAddon = pkg: pkgs.fetchFirefoxAddon {
-        inherit (pkg) name;
-        src = "${pkg}/share/mozilla/extensions/\\{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384\\}/${pkg.extid}.xpi";
-        fixedExtid = pkg.extid;
-      };
-    in [
-      # get names from:
-      # - ~/ref/nix-community/nur-combined/repos/rycee/pkgs/firefox-addons/generated-firefox-addons.nix
-      # `wget ...xpi`; `unar ...xpi`; `cat */manifest.json | jq '.browser_specific_settings.gecko.id'`
-      (addon "ublock-origin" "uBlock0@raymondhill.net" "sha256-+xc4lcdsOwXxMsr4enFsdePbIb6GHq0bFLpqvH5xXos=")
-      (addon "sponsorblock" "sponsorBlocker@ajay.app" "sha256-30F8oDIgshXVY7YKgnfoc1tUTHfgeFbzXISJuVJs0AM=")
-      (addon "bypass-paywalls-clean" "{d133e097-46d9-4ecc-9903-fa6a722a6e0e}" "sha256-7ZDkG8O1rEYdh/La0PLi9tp92JxYeQvaOFt/BmnDv3U=")
-      (addon "sidebery" "{3c078156-979c-498b-8990-85f7987dd929}" "sha256-YONfK/rIjlsrTgRHIt3km07Q7KnpIW89Z9r92ZSCc6w=")
-      (addon "ether-metamask" "webextension@metamask.io" "sha256-G+MwJDOcsaxYSUXjahHJmkWnjLeQ0Wven8DU/lGeMzA=")
-      (addon "ublacklist" "@ublacklist" "sha256-vHe/7EYOzcKeAbTElmt0Rb4E2rX0f3JgXThJaUmaz+M=")
-      (addon "i2p-in-private-browsing" "i2ppb@eyedeekay.github.io" "sha256-dJcJ3jxeAeAkRvhODeIVrCflvX+S4E0wT/PyYzQBQWs=")
-      # (addon "browserpass-ce" "browserpass@maximbaz.com" "sha256-sXgUBbRvMnRpeIW1MTkmTcoqtW/8RDXAkxAq1evFkpc=")
-      (localAddon pkgs.browserpass-extension)
-    ];
-
-    extraPolicies = {
-      NoDefaultBookmarks = true;
-      SearchEngines = {
-        Default = "DuckDuckGo";
-      };
-      AppUpdateURL = "https://localhost";
-      DisableAppUpdate = true;
-      OverrideFirstRunPage = "";
-      OverridePostUpdatePage = "";
-      DisableSystemAddonUpdate = true;
-      DisableFirefoxStudies = true;
-      DisableTelemetry = true;
-      DisableFeedbackCommands = true;
-      DisablePocket = true;
-      DisableSetDesktopBackground = false;
-
-      # remove many default search providers
-      # XXX this seems to prevent the `nixExtensions` from taking effect
-      # Extensions.Uninstall = [
-      #   "google@search.mozilla.org"
-      #   "bing@search.mozilla.org"
-      #   "amazondotcom@search.mozilla.org"
-      #   "ebay@search.mozilla.org"
-      #   "twitter@search.mozilla.org"
-      # ];
-      # XXX doesn't seem to have any effect...
-      # docs: https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates#homepage
-      # Homepage = {
-      #   HomepageURL = "https://uninsane.org/";
-      #   StartPage = "homepage";
-      # };
-      # NewTabPage = true;
-    };
-  };
-in
-{
-  options = {
-    sane.web-browser = mkOption {
-      default = defaultSettings;
-      type = types.attrs;
-    };
-  };
-  config = lib.mkIf config.sane.home-manager.enable {
-    # XXX: although home-manager calls this option `firefox`, we can use other browsers and it still mostly works.
-    home-manager.users.colin = lib.mkIf (config.sane.gui.enable) {
-      programs.firefox = {
-        enable = true;
-        inherit package;
-      };
-
-      # uBlock filter list configuration.
-      # specifically, enable the GDPR cookie prompt blocker.
-      # data.toOverwrite.filterLists is additive (i.e. it supplements the default filters)
-      # this configuration method is documented here:
-      # - <https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/2986#issuecomment-364035002>
-      # the specific attribute path is found via scraping ublock code here:
-      # - <https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/src/js/storage.js>
-      # - <https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/assets/assets.json>
-      home.file."${cfg.dotDir}/managed-storage/uBlock0@raymondhill.net.json".text = ''
-        {
-         "name": "uBlock0@raymondhill.net",
-         "description": "ignored",
-         "type": "storage",
-         "data": {
-            "toOverwrite": "{\"filterLists\": [\"fanboy-cookiemonster\"]}"
-         }
-        }
-      '';
-      home.file."${cfg.dotDir}/${cfg.libName}.overrides.cfg".text = ''
-        // if we can't query the revocation status of a SSL cert because the issuer is offline,
-        // treat it as unrevoked.
-        // see: <https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#im-getting-sec_error_ocsp_server_error-what-can-i-do>
-        defaultPref("security.OCSP.require", false);
-      '';
-    };
-  };
-}
--- a/modules/home-manager/splatmoji.nix
+++ b/modules/home-manager/splatmoji.nix
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-# borrows from:
-# - default config: <https://github.com/cspeterson/splatmoji/blob/master/splatmoji.config>
-# - wayland: <https://github.com/cspeterson/splatmoji/issues/32#issuecomment-830862566>
-{ pkgs, ... }:
-
-{
-  home-manager.users.colin = {
-    xdg.configFile."splatmoji/splatmoji.config".text = ''
-      history_file=/home/colin/.local/state/splatmoji/history
-      history_length=5
-      # TODO: wayland equiv
-      paste_command=xdotool key ctrl+v
-      # rofi_command=${pkgs.wofi}/bin/wofi --dmenu --insensitive --cache-file /dev/null
-      rofi_command=${pkgs.fuzzel}/bin/fuzzel -d -i -w 60
-      xdotool_command=${pkgs.wtype}/bin/wtype
-      # TODO: wayland equiv
-      xsel_command=xsel -b -i
-    '';
-  };
-}
--- a/modules/home-manager/zsh/default.nix
+++ b/modules/home-manager/zsh/default.nix
@@ -1,108 +0,0 @@
-{ config, lib, ... }:
-
-lib.mkIf config.sane.home-manager.enable
-{
-  sane.impermanence.home-dirs = [
-    # we don't need to full zsh dir -- just the history file --
-    # but zsh will sometimes backup the history file and we get fewer errors if we do proper mounts instead of symlinks.
-    # TODO: should be private?
-    ".local/share/zsh"
-    # cache gitstatus otherwise p10k fetched it from the net EVERY BOOT
-    ".cache/gitstatus"
-  ];
-
-  home-manager.users.colin.programs.zsh = {
-    enable = true;
-    enableSyntaxHighlighting = true;
-    enableVteIntegration = true;
-    history.ignorePatterns = [ "rm *" ];
-    dotDir = ".config/zsh";
-    history.path = "/home/colin/.local/share/zsh/history";
-
-    # defaultKeymap = "vicmd"; # vim normal mode (cmd mode)
-
-    # powerlevel10k prompt config
-    # p10k.zsh is the auto-generated config, and i overwrite those defaults here, below.
-    initExtraBeforeCompInit = (builtins.readFile ./p10k.zsh) + ''
-      # powerlevel10k launches a gitstatusd daemon to accelerate git prompt queries.
-      # this keeps open file handles for any git repo i touch for 60 minutes (by default).
-      # that prevents unmounting whatever device the git repo is on -- particularly problematic for ~/private.
-      # i can disable gitstatusd and get slower fallback git queries:
-      # - either universally
-      # - or selectively by path
-      # see: <https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k/issues/246>
-      typeset -g POWERLEVEL9K_VCS_DISABLED_DIR_PATTERN='(/home/colin/private/*|/home/colin/knowledge/*)'
-      # typeset -g POWERLEVEL9K_DISABLE_GITSTATUS=true
-
-      # show user@host also when logged into the current machine.
-      # default behavior is to show it only over ssh.
-      typeset -g POWERLEVEL9K_CONTEXT_{DEFAULT,SUDO}_CONTENT_EXPANSION='$P9K_CONTENT'
-    '';
-
-    initExtra = ''
-      # zmv is a way to do rich moves/renames, with pattern matching/substitution.
-      # see for an example: <https://filipe.kiss.ink/zmv-zsh-rename/>
-      autoload -Uz zmv
-
-      # disable `rm *` confirmations
-      setopt rmstarsilent
-
-      function nd() {
-        mkdir -p "$1";
-        pushd "$1";
-      }
-    '';
-
-    # prezto = oh-my-zsh fork; controls prompt, auto-completion, etc.
-    # see: https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto
-    prezto = {
-      enable = true;
-      pmodules = [
-        # configures jobs to persist after shell exit; other basic niceties
-        "environment"
-        # auto-titles terminal (e.g. based on cwd)
-        "terminal"
-        # configures shortcuts like Ctrl+U=undo, Ctrl+L=clear
-        "editor"
-        # adds `history-stat` alias, setopts for good history defaults
-        "history"
-        # sets AUTO_CD, adds `d` alias to list directory stack, and `1`-`9` to cd that far back the stack
-        "directory"
-        # helpers for term colors and styling. used by prompts? might be unnecessary
-        "spectrum"
-        # configures aliases like `ll`, `la`, disables globbing for things like rsync
-        # adds aliases like `get` to fetch a file. also adds `http-serve` alias??
-        "utility"
-        # tab completion. requires `utility` module prior to loading
-        # TODO: enable AUTO_PARAM_SLASH
-        "completion"
-        "prompt"
-        # TODO: enable syntax-highlighting ?
-      ];
-      prompt.theme = "powerlevel10k";
-      utility.safeOps = false;  # disable `mv` confirmation (and supposedly `rm`, too)
-      # editor.keymap = "vi";
-    };
-
-    dirHashes = {
-      # convenient `cd`-isms
-      "3rd" = "/home/colin/dev/3rd";
-      "dev" = "/home/colin/dev";
-      "knowledge" = "/home/colin/knowledge";
-      "nixos" = "/home/colin/nixos";
-      "nixpkgs" = "/home/colin/dev/3rd/nixpkgs";
-      "ref" = "/home/colin/ref";
-      "secrets" = "/home/colin/knowledge/secrets";
-      "tmp" = "/home/colin/tmp";
-      "uninsane" = "/home/colin/dev/uninsane";
-      "Videos" = "/home/colin/Videos";
-    };
-  };
-
-  home-manager.users.colin.home.shellAliases = {
-    ":q" = "exit";
-    # common typos
-    "cd.." = "cd ..";
-    "cd../" = "cd ../";
-  };
-}
--- a/modules/home-manager/zsh/p10k.zsh
+++ b/modules/home-manager/zsh/p10k.zsh
--- a/modules/image.nix
+++ b/modules/image.nix
@@ -6,11 +6,6 @@ let
 in
 {
  options = {
-    sane.image.enable = mkOption {
-      default = true;
-      type = types.bool;
-      description = "whether to enable image targets. this doesn't mean they'll be built unless you specifically reference the target.";
-    };
    # packages whose contents should be copied directly into the /boot partition.
    # e.g. EFI loaders, u-boot bootloader, etc.
    sane.image.extraBootFiles = mkOption {
--- a/modules/impermanence.nix
+++ b/modules/impermanence.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+# borrows from:
+#   https://xeiaso.net/blog/paranoid-nixos-2021-07-18
+#   https://elis.nu/blog/2020/05/nixos-tmpfs-as-root/
+#   https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence
+{ lib, config, impermanence, ... }:
+
+with lib;
+let
+  cfg = config.sane.impermanence;
+  # taken from sops-nix code: checks if any secrets are needed to create /etc/shadow
+  secretsForUsers = (lib.filterAttrs (_: v: v.neededForUsers) config.sops.secrets) != {};
+in
+{
+  options = {
+    sane.impermanence.enable = mkOption {
+      default = false;
+      type = types.bool;
+    };
+    sane.impermanence.home-dirs = mkOption {
+      default = [];
+      type = types.listOf (types.either types.str (types.attrsOf types.str));
+    };
+    sane.impermanence.service-dirs = mkOption {
+      default = [];
+      type = types.listOf (types.either types.str (types.attrsOf types.str));
+    };
+  };
+
+  config = let
+    map-dir = defaults: dir: if isString dir then
+        map-dir defaults { directory = "${defaults.directory}${dir}"; }
+      else
+        defaults // dir
+      ;
+    map-dirs = defaults: dirs: builtins.map (map-dir defaults) dirs;
+
+    map-home-dirs = map-dirs { user = "colin"; group = "users"; mode = "0755"; directory = "/home/colin/"; };
+    map-sys-dirs = map-dirs { user = "root"; group = "root"; mode = "0755"; directory = ""; };
+
+  in mkIf cfg.enable {
+    sane.image.extraDirectories = [ "/nix/persist/var/log" ];
+    environment.persistence."/nix/persist" = {
+      directories = (map-home-dirs cfg.home-dirs) ++ (map-sys-dirs [
+        # TODO: this `0700` here clobbers the perms for /persist/etc, breaking boot on freshly-deployed devices
+        # { mode = "0700"; directory = "/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections"; }
+        # "/etc/nixos"
+        # "/etc/ssh"  # persist only the specific files we want, instead
+        "/var/log"
+        "/var/backup"  # for e.g. postgres dumps
+        # "/var/lib/AccountsService"   # not sure what this is, but it's empty
+        "/var/lib/alsa"                # preserve output levels, default devices
+        # "/var/lib/blueman"           # files aren't human readable
+        "/var/lib/bluetooth"           # preserve bluetooth handshakes
+        "/var/lib/colord"              # preserve color calibrations (?)
+        # "/var/lib/dhclient"          # empty on lappy; dunno about desko
+        # "/var/lib/fwupd"             # not sure why this would need persistent state
+        # "/var/lib/geoclue"           # empty on lappy
+        # "/var/lib/lockdown"          # empty on desko; might store secrets after iOS handshake?
+        # "/var/lib/logrotate.status"  # seems redundant with what's in /var/log?
+        "/var/lib/machines"            # maybe not needed, but would be painful to add a VM and forget.
+        # "/var/lib/misc"              # empty on lappy
+        # "/var/lib/NetworkManager"    # looks to be mostly impermanent state?
+        # "/var/lib/NetworkManager-fortisslvpn" # empty on lappy
+        # "/var/lib/nixos"             # has some uid/gid maps, but we enforce these to be deterministic.
+        # "/var/lib/PackageKit"        # wtf is this?
+        # "/var/lib/power-profiles-daemon"  # redundant with nixos declarations
+        # "/var/lib/private"           # empty on lappy
+        # "/var/lib/systemd"           # nothing obviously necessary
+        # "/var/lib/udisks2"           # empty on lappy
+        # "/var/lib/upower"            # historic charge data. unnecessary, but maybe used somewhere?
+        #
+        # servo additions:
+      ] ++ cfg.service-dirs);
+      files = [ "/etc/machine-id" ];
+    };
+
+    # secret decoding depends on /etc/ssh keys, which are persisted
+    system.activationScripts.setupSecrets.deps = [ "persist-files" ];
+    # `setupSecretsForUsers` should depend on `persist-files`,
+    # but `persist-files` itself depends on `users`, to this would be circular.
+    # we work around that by manually mounting the ssh host key.
+    # strictly speaking, this makes the `setupSecrets -> persist-files` dep extraneous,
+    # but it's a decent safety net in case something goes wrong.
+    # system.activationScripts.setupSecretsForUsers.deps = [ "persist-files" ];
+    system.activationScripts.setupSecretsForUsers= lib.mkIf secretsForUsers {
+      deps = [ "persist-ssh-host-keys" ];
+    };
+    system.activationScripts.persist-ssh-host-keys = lib.mkIf secretsForUsers (
+      let
+        key_dir = "/etc/ssh/host_keys";
+      in ''
+        mkdir -p ${key_dir}
+        mount -o bind /nix/persist${key_dir} ${key_dir}
+      ''
+    );
+  };
+}
+
--- a/modules/impermanence/default.nix
+++ b/modules/impermanence/default.nix
@@ -1,326 +0,0 @@
-# borrows from:
-#   https://xeiaso.net/blog/paranoid-nixos-2021-07-18
-#   https://elis.nu/blog/2020/05/nixos-tmpfs-as-root/
-#   https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence
-{ config, lib, pkgs, utils, ... }:
-
-with lib;
-let
-  cfg = config.sane.impermanence;
-  # taken from sops-nix code: checks if any secrets are needed to create /etc/shadow
-  secrets-for-users = (lib.filterAttrs (_: v: v.neededForUsers) config.sops.secrets) != {};
-  getStore = { encryptedClearOnBoot, ... }: (
-    if encryptedClearOnBoot then {
-      device = "/mnt/impermanence/crypt/clearedonboot";
-      underlying = {
-        path = "/nix/persist/crypt/clearedonboot";
-        # TODO: consider moving this to /tmp, but that requires tmp be mounted first?
-        type = "gocryptfs";
-        key = "/mnt/impermanence/crypt/clearedonboot.key";
-      };
-    } else {
-      device = "/nix/persist";
-      # device = "/mnt/impermenanence/persist/plain";
-      # underlying = {
-      #   path = "/nix/persist";
-      #   type = "bind";
-      # };
-    }
-  );
-  home-dir-defaults = {
-    user = "colin";
-    group = "users";
-    mode = "0755";
-    relativeTo = "/home/colin";
-  };
-  sys-dir-defaults = {
-    user = "root";
-    group = "root";
-    mode = "0755";
-    relativeTo = "";
-  };
-
-  # turn a path into a name suitable for systemd
-  cleanName = utils.escapeSystemdPath;
-
-  # split the string path into a list of string components.
-  # root directory "/" becomes the empty list [].
-  # implicitly performs normalization so that:
-  # splitPath "a//b/" => ["a" "b"]
-  # splitPath "/a/b" =>  ["a" "b"]
-  splitPath = str: builtins.filter (seg: (builtins.isString seg) && seg != "" ) (builtins.split "/" str);
-  # return a string path, with leading slash but no trailing slash
-  joinPathAbs = comps: "/" + (builtins.concatStringsSep "/" comps);
-  concatPaths = paths: joinPathAbs (builtins.concatLists (builtins.map (p: splitPath p) paths));
-  # normalize the given path
-  normPath = str: joinPathAbs (splitPath str);
-  # return the parent directory. doesn't care about leading/trailing slashes.
-  parentDir = str: normPath (builtins.dirOf (normPath str));
-
-  dirOptions = defaults: types.submodule {
-    options = {
-      encryptedClearOnBoot = mkOption {
-        default = false;
-        type = types.bool;
-      };
-      directory = mkOption {
-        type = types.str;
-      };
-      user = mkOption {
-        type = types.str;
-        default = defaults.user;
-      };
-      group = mkOption {
-        type = types.str;
-        default = defaults.group;
-      };
-      mode = mkOption {
-        type = types.str;
-        default = defaults.mode;
-      };
-    };
-  };
-  mkDirsOption = defaults: mkOption {
-    default = [];
-    type = types.listOf (types.coercedTo types.str (d: { directory = d; }) (dirOptions defaults));
-    # apply = map (d: if isString d then { directory = d; } else d);
-  };
-
-  # expand user options with more context
-  ingestDirOption = defaults: opt: {
-    inherit (opt) user group mode;
-    directory = concatPaths [ defaults.relativeTo opt.directory ];
-
-    ## helpful context
-    store = builtins.addErrorContext ''while ingestDirOption on ${opt.directory} with attrs ${builtins.concatStringsSep " " (attrNames opt)}''
-      (getStore opt);
-  };
-
-  ingestDirOptions = defaults: opts: builtins.map (ingestDirOption defaults) opts;
-  ingested-home-dirs = ingestDirOptions home-dir-defaults cfg.home-dirs;
-  ingested-sys-dirs = ingestDirOptions sys-dir-defaults cfg.dirs;
-  ingested-dirs = ingested-home-dirs ++ ingested-sys-dirs;
-
-  # include these anchor points as "virtual" nodes in below fs tree.
-  home-dir = {
-    inherit (home-dir-defaults) user group mode;
-    directory = normPath home-dir-defaults.relativeTo;
-  };
-  root-dir = {
-    inherit (sys-dir-defaults) user group mode;
-    directory = normPath sys-dir-defaults.relativeTo;
-  };
-
-  unexpanded-tree = builtins.listToAttrs (builtins.map
-    (dir: {
-      name = dir.directory;
-      value = dir;
-    })
-    (ingested-dirs ++ [ home-dir root-dir ])
-  );
-
-  # ensures the provided node and all parent nodes exist
-  ensureNode = tree: path: (
-    let
-      parent-path = parentDir path;
-      tree-with-parent = if parent-path == "/"
-        then tree
-        else ensureNode tree parent-path;
-      parent = tree-with-parent."${parent-path}";
-      # how to initialize this node if it doesn't exist explicitly.
-      default-node = parent // { directory = path; };
-    in
-      { "${path}" = default-node; } // tree-with-parent
-  );
-
-  # finally, this tree has no orphan nodes
-  expanded-tree = foldl' ensureNode unexpanded-tree (builtins.attrNames unexpanded-tree);
-in
-{
-  options = {
-    sane.impermanence.enable = mkOption {
-      default = false;
-      type = types.bool;
-    };
-    sane.impermanence.root-on-tmpfs = mkOption {
-      default = false;
-      type = types.bool;
-      description = "define / to be a tmpfs. make sure to mount some other device to /nix";
-    };
-    sane.impermanence.home-dirs = mkDirsOption home-dir-defaults;
-    sane.impermanence.dirs = mkDirsOption sys-dir-defaults;
-  };
-
-  config = mkIf cfg.enable (lib.mkMerge [
-    (lib.mkIf cfg.root-on-tmpfs {
-      fileSystems."/" = {
-        device = "none";
-        fsType = "tmpfs";
-        options = [
-          "mode=755"
-          "size=1G"
-          "defaults"
-        ];
-      };
-    })
-
-    {
-      # without this, we get `fusermount: fuse device not found, try 'modprobe fuse' first`.
-      # - that only happens after a activation-via-boot -- not activation-after-rebuild-switch.
-      # it seems likely that systemd loads `fuse` by default. see:
-      # - </etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount>
-      #   - triggers: /etc/systemd/system/modprobe@.service
-      #     - calls `modprobe`
-      # note: even `boot.kernelModules = ...` isn't enough: that option creates /etc/modules-load.d/, which is ingested only by systemd.
-      # note: `boot.initrd.availableKernelModules` ALSO isn't enough: idk why.
-      # TODO: might not be necessary now we're using fileSystems and systemd
-      boot.initrd.kernelModules = [ "fuse" ];
-
-      # TODO: convert this to a systemd unit file?
-      system.activationScripts.prepareEncryptedClearedOnBoot =
-      let
-        script = pkgs.writeShellApplication {
-          name = "prepareEncryptedClearedOnBoot";
-          runtimeInputs = with pkgs; [ gocryptfs ];
-          text = ''
-            backing="$1"
-            passfile="$2"
-            if ! test -e "$passfile"
-            then
-              tmpdir=$(dirname "$passfile")
-              mkdir -p "$backing" "$tmpdir"
-              # if the key doesn't exist, it's probably not mounted => delete the backing dir
-              rm -rf "''${backing:?}"/*
-              # generate key. we can "safely" keep it around for the lifetime of this boot
-              dd if=/dev/random bs=128 count=1 | base64 --wrap=0 > "$passfile"
-              # initialize the crypt store
-              gocryptfs -quiet -passfile "$passfile" -init "$backing"
-            fi
-          '';
-        };
-        store = getStore { encryptedClearOnBoot = true; };
-      in {
-        text = ''${script}/bin/prepareEncryptedClearedOnBoot ${store.underlying.path} ${store.underlying.key}'';
-      };
-
-      fileSystems = let
-        store = getStore { encryptedClearOnBoot = true; };
-      in {
-        "${store.device}" = {
-          device = store.underlying.path;
-          fsType = "fuse.gocryptfs";
-          options = [
-            "nodev"
-            "nosuid"
-            "allow_other"
-            "passfile=${store.underlying.key}"
-            "defaults"
-          ];
-          noCheck = true;
-        };
-      };
-
-      environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.gocryptfs ];  # fuse needs to find gocryptfs
-    }
-
-    (
-      let cfgFor = opt:
-        let
-          # systemd creates <path>.mount services for every fileSystems entry.
-          # <path> gets escaped as part of that: this code tries to guess that escaped name here.
-          backing-mount = cleanName opt.store.device;
-          mount-service = cleanName opt.directory;
-          perms-service = "impermanence-perms-${mount-service}";
-          parent-mount-service = cleanName (parentDir opt.directory);
-          parent-perms-service = "impermanence-perms-${parent-mount-service}";
-          is-mount = opt ? store;
-          backing-path = if is-mount then
-            concatPaths [ opt.store.device opt.directory ]
-          else
-            opt.directory;
-        in {
-          fileSystems."${opt.directory}" = lib.mkIf is-mount {
-            device = concatPaths [ opt.store.device opt.directory ];
-            options = [
-              "bind"
-              # "x-systemd.requires=${backing-mount}.mount"  # this should be implicit
-              "x-systemd.after=${perms-service}.service"
-              # `wants` doesn't seem to make it to the service file here :-(
-              "x-systemd.wants=${perms-service}.service"
-            ];
-            # fsType = "bind";
-            noCheck = true;
-          };
-
-          # create services which ensure the source directories exist and have correct ownership/perms before mounting
-          systemd.services."${perms-service}" = let
-            perms-script = pkgs.writeShellScript "impermanence-prepare-perms" ''
-              backing="$1"
-              path="$2"
-              user="$3"
-              group="$4"
-              mode="$5"
-              mkdir "$path" || test -d "$path"
-              chmod "$mode" "$path"
-              chown "$user:$group" "$path"
-
-              # XXX: fix up the permissions of the origin, otherwise it overwrites the mountpoint with defaults.
-              # TODO: apply to the full $backing path? like, construct it entirely in parallel?
-              if [ "$backing" != "$path" ]
-              then
-                mkdir -p "$backing"
-                chmod "$mode" "$backing"
-                chown "$user:$group" "$backing"
-              fi
-            '';
-          in {
-            description = "prepare permissions for ${opt.directory}";
-            serviceConfig = {
-              ExecStart = ''${perms-script} ${backing-path} ${opt.directory} ${opt.user} ${opt.group} ${opt.mode}'';
-              Type = "oneshot";
-            };
-            unitConfig = {
-              # prevent systemd making this unit implicitly dependent on sysinit.target.
-              # see: <https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.special.html>
-              DefaultDependencies = "no";
-            };
-            wantedBy = lib.mkIf is-mount [ "${mount-service}.mount" ];
-            after = lib.mkIf (opt.directory != "/") [ "${parent-perms-service}.service" ];
-            wants = lib.mkIf (opt.directory != "/") [ "${parent-perms-service}.service" ];
-          };
-        };
-        cfgs = builtins.map cfgFor (builtins.attrValues expanded-tree);
-        # cfgs = builtins.map cfgFor ingested-dirs;
-        # cfgs = [ (cfgFor (ingestDirOption home-dir-defaults ".cache")) ];
-        # myMerge = items: builtins.foldl' (acc: new: acc // new) {} items;
-      in {
-        # fileSystems = myMerge (catAttrs "fileSystems" cfgs);
-        fileSystems = lib.mkMerge (builtins.catAttrs "fileSystems" cfgs);
-        systemd = lib.mkMerge (catAttrs "systemd" cfgs);
-      }
-    )
-
-    (lib.mkIf secrets-for-users {
-      # secret decoding depends on /etc/ssh keys, so make sure those are present.
-      system.activationScripts.setupSecretsForUsers = lib.mkIf secrets-for-users {
-        deps = [ "etc" ];
-      };
-      system.activationScripts.etc.deps = lib.mkForce [];
-      assertions = builtins.concatLists (builtins.attrValues (
-        builtins.mapAttrs
-          (path: value: [
-            {
-              assertion = (builtins.substring 0 1 value.user) == "+";
-              message = "non-numeric user for /etc/${path}: ${value.user} prevents early /etc linking";
-            }
-            {
-              assertion = (builtins.substring 0 1 value.group) == "+";
-              message = "non-numeric group for /etc/${path}: ${value.group} prevents early /etc linking";
-            }
-          ])
-          config.environment.etc
-      ));
-    })
-  ]);
-}
-
--- a/modules/nixcache.nix
+++ b/modules/nixcache.nix
@@ -20,28 +20,22 @@ in
      default = false;
      type = types.bool;
    };
-    sane.nixcache.enable-trusted-keys = mkOption {
-      default = config.sane.nixcache.enable;
-      type = types.bool;
-    };
  };

-  config = {
+  config = mkIf cfg.enable {
    # use our own binary cache
-    # to explicitly build from a specific cache (in case others are down):
-    # - `nixos-rebuild ... --option substituters https://cache.nixos.org`
-    # - `nix build ... --substituters http://desko:5000`
-    nix.settings.substituters = mkIf cfg.enable [
-      "https://nixcache.uninsane.org"
-      "http://desko:5000"
-      "https://nix-community.cachix.org"
-      "https://cache.nixos.org/"
-    ];
-    # always trust our keys (so one can explicitly use a substituter even if it's not the default
-    nix.settings.trusted-public-keys = mkIf cfg.enable-trusted-keys [
-      "nixcache.uninsane.org:r3WILM6+QrkmsLgqVQcEdibFD7Q/4gyzD9dGT33GP70="
-      "desko:Q7mjjqoBMgNQ5P0e63sLur65A+D4f3Sv4QiycDIKxiI="
-      "nix-community.cachix.org-1:mB9FSh9qf2dCimDSUo8Zy7bkq5CX+/rkCWyvRCYg3Fs="
-    ];
+    nix.settings = {
+      substituters = [
+        "https://nixcache.uninsane.org"
+        "http://desko:5000"
+        "https://nix-community.cachix.org"
+        "https://cache.nixos.org/"
+      ];
+      trusted-public-keys = [
+        "nixcache.uninsane.org:r3WILM6+QrkmsLgqVQcEdibFD7Q/4gyzD9dGT33GP70="
+        "desko:Q7mjjqoBMgNQ5P0e63sLur65A+D4f3Sv4QiycDIKxiI="
+        "nix-community.cachix.org-1:mB9FSh9qf2dCimDSUo8Zy7bkq5CX+/rkCWyvRCYg3Fs="
+      ];
+    };
  };
 }
--- a/modules/packages.nix
+++ b/modules/packages.nix
@@ -1,313 +0,0 @@
-{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
-
-with lib;
-with pkgs;
-let
-  cfg = config.sane.packages;
-
-  imagemagick = pkgs.imagemagick.override {
-    ghostscriptSupport = true;
-  };
-
-  consolePkgs = [
-    backblaze-b2
-    cdrtools
-    dmidecode
-    duplicity
-    efivar
-    flashrom
-    fwupd
-    ghostscript  # TODO: imagemagick wrapper should add gs to PATH
-    gnupg
-    gocryptfs
-    gopass
-    gopass-jsonapi
-    ifuse
-    imagemagick
-    ipfs
-    libimobiledevice
-    libsecret  # for managing user keyrings
-    lm_sensors  # for sensors-detect
-    lshw
-    ffmpeg
-    memtester
-    networkmanager
-    nixpkgs-review
-    # nixos-generators
-    # nettools
-    nmon
-    oathToolkit  # for oathtool
-    # ponymix
-    pulsemixer
-    python3
-    rsync
-    # python3Packages.eyeD3  # music tagging
-    sane-scripts
-    sequoia
-    snapper
-    sops
-    speedtest-cli
-    sqlite  # to debug sqlite3 databases
-    ssh-to-age
-    sudo
-    # tageditor  # music tagging
-    unar
-    visidata
-    w3m
-    wireguard-tools
-    # youtube-dl
-    yt-dlp
-  ];
-
-  guiPkgs = [
-    # GUI only
-    aerc  # email client
-    audacity
-    celluloid  # mpv frontend
-    chromium
-    clinfo
-    { pkg = dino; private = [ ".local/share/dino" ]; }
-    electrum
-
-    # creds/session keys, etc
-    { pkg = element-desktop; private = [ ".config/Element" ]; }
-    # `emote` will show a first-run dialog based on what's in this directory.
-    # mostly, it just keeps a LRU of previously-used emotes to optimize display order.
-    # TODO: package [smile](https://github.com/mijorus/smile) for probably a better mobile experience.
-    { pkg = emote; dir = [ ".local/share/Emote" ]; }
-    evince  # works on phosh
-
-    # { pkg = fluffychat-moby; dir = [ ".local/share/chat.fluffy.fluffychat" ]; }  # TODO: ship normal fluffychat on non-moby?
-
-    foliate
-    font-manager
-
-    # XXX by default fractal stores its state in ~/.local/share/<UUID>.
-    # after logging in, manually change ~/.local/share/keyrings/... to point it to some predictable subdir.
-    # then reboot (so that libsecret daemon re-loads the keyring...?)
-    { pkg = fractal-latest; private = [ ".local/share/fractal" ]; }
-    # { pkg = fractal-next; private = [ ".local/share/fractal" ]; }
-
-    gajim  # XMPP client
-    gimp  # broken on phosh
-    gnome.cheese
-    gnome.dconf-editor
-    gnome-feeds  # RSS reader (with claimed mobile support)
-    gnome.file-roller
-    gnome.gnome-disk-utility
-    gnome.gnome-maps  # works on phosh
-    gnome.nautilus
-    # gnome-podcasts
-    gnome.gnome-system-monitor
-    gnome.gnome-terminal  # works on phosh
-    gnome.gnome-weather
-
-    { pkg = gpodder-configured; dir = [ "gPodder/Downloads" ]; }
-
-    gthumb
-    handbrake
-    inkscape
-
-    kdenlive
-    kid3  # audio tagging
-    krita
-    libreoffice-fresh  # XXX colin: maybe don't want this on mobile
-    lollypop
-    mesa-demos
-
-    { pkg = mpv; dir = [ ".config/mpv/watch_later" ]; }
-
-    networkmanagerapplet
-
-    # not strictly necessary, but allows caching articles; offline use, etc.
-    { pkg = newsflash; dir = [ ".local/share/news-flash" ]; }
-
-    { pkg = nheko; private = [
-      ".config/nheko"  # config file (including client token)
-      ".cache/nheko"  # media cache
-      ".local/share/nheko"  # per-account state database
-    ]; }
-
-    # settings (electron app). TODO: can i manage these settings with home-manager?
-    { pkg = obsidian; dir = [ ".config/obsidian" ]; }
-
-    pavucontrol
-    # picard  # music tagging
-    playerctl
-
-    libsForQt5.plasmatube  # Youtube player
-
-    soundconverter
-    # sublime music persists any downloaded albums here.
-    # it doesn't obey a conventional ~/Music/{Artist}/{Album}/{Track} notation, so no symlinking
-    # config (e.g. server connection details) is persisted in ~/.config/sublime-music/config.json
-    #   possible to pass config as a CLI arg (sublime-music -c config.json)
-    # { pkg = sublime-music; dir = [ ".local/share/sublime-music" ]; }
-    { pkg = sublime-music-mobile; dir = [ ".local/share/sublime-music" ]; }
-    tdesktop  # broken on phosh
-
-    { pkg = tokodon; private = [ ".cache/KDE/tokodon" ]; }
-
-    # vlc remembers play position in ~/.config/vlc/vlc-qt-interface.conf
-    { pkg = vlc; dir = [ ".config/vlc" ]; }
-
-    whalebird # pleroma client. input is broken on phosh
-    xdg-utils  # for xdg-open
-    xterm  # broken on phosh
-  ]
-  ++ (if pkgs.system == "x86_64-linux" then
-  [
-    # x86_64 only
-
-    # creds, but also 200 MB of node modules, etc
-    (let discord = (pkgs.discord.override {
-      # XXX 2022-07-31: fix to allow links to open in default web-browser:
-      #   https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/78961
-      nss = pkgs.nss_latest;
-    }); in { pkg = discord; private = [ ".config/discord" ]; })
-
-    # kaiteki  # Pleroma client
-    # gnome.zenity # for kaiteki (it will use qarma, kdialog, or zenity)
-    # gpt2tc  # XXX: unreliable mirror
-
-    logseq
-    losslesscut-bin
-    makemkv
-
-    # actual monero blockchain (not wallet/etc; safe to delete, just slow to regenerate)
-    { pkg = monero-gui; dir = [ ".bitmonero" ]; }
-
-    # creds, media
-    { pkg = signal-desktop; private = [ ".config/Signal" ]; }
-
-    # creds. TODO: can i manage this with home-manager?
-    { pkg = spotify; dir = [ ".config/spotify" ]; }
-
-    # hardenedMalloc solves a crash at startup
-    (tor-browser-bundle-bin.override { useHardenedMalloc = false; })
-
-    # zcash coins. safe to delete, just slow to regenerate (10-60 minutes)
-    { pkg = zecwallet-lite; private = [ ".zcash" ]; }
-  ] else []);
-
-  # general-purpose utilities that we want any user to be able to access
-  #   (specifically: root, in case of rescue)
-  systemPkgs = [
-    btrfs-progs
-    cacert.unbundled  # some services require unbundled /etc/ssl/certs
-    cryptsetup
-    dig
-    efibootmgr
-    fatresize
-    fd
-    file
-    gawk
-    gptfdisk
-    hdparm
-    htop
-    iftop
-    inetutils  # for telnet
-    iotop
-    iptables
-    jq
-    killall
-    lsof
-    netcat
-    nethogs
-    nmap
-    openssl
-    parted
-    pciutils
-    powertop
-    pstree
-    ripgrep
-    screen
-    smartmontools
-    socat
-    strace
-    tcpdump
-    tree
-    usbutils
-    wget
-  ];
-
-  # useful devtools:
-  devPkgs = [
-    bison
-    dtc
-    flex
-    gcc
-    gdb
-    # gcc-arm-embedded
-    # gcc_multi
-    gnumake
-    mercurial
-    mix2nix
-    rustup
-    swig
-  ];
-
-  pkgSpec = types.submodule {
-    options = {
-      pkg = mkOption {
-        type = types.package;
-      };
-      dir = mkOption {
-        type = types.listOf types.str;
-        default = [];
-        description = "list of home-relative paths to persist for this package";
-      };
-      private = mkOption {
-        type = types.listOf types.str;
-        default = [];
-        description = "list of home-relative paths to persist (in encrypted format) for this package";
-      };
-    };
-  };
-in
-{
-  options = {
-    # packages to deploy to the user's home
-    sane.packages.extraUserPkgs = mkOption {
-      default = [ ];
-      type = types.listOf (types.either types.package pkgSpec);
-    };
-    sane.packages.enableConsolePkgs = mkOption {
-      default = false;
-      type = types.bool;
-    };
-    sane.packages.enableGuiPkgs = mkOption {
-      default = false;
-      type = types.bool;
-    };
-    sane.packages.enableDevPkgs = mkOption {
-      description = ''
-        enable packages that are useful for building other software by hand.
-        you should prefer to keep this disabled except when prototyping, e.g. packaging new software.
-      '';
-      default = false;
-      type = types.bool;
-    };
-    sane.packages.enableSystemPkgs = mkOption {
-      default = false;
-      type = types.bool;
-      description = "enable system-wide packages";
-    };
-
-    sane.packages.enabledUserPkgs = mkOption {
-      default = cfg.extraUserPkgs
-        ++ (if cfg.enableConsolePkgs then consolePkgs else [])
-        ++ (if cfg.enableGuiPkgs then guiPkgs else [])
-        ++ (if cfg.enableDevPkgs then devPkgs else [])
-      ;
-      type = types.listOf (types.either types.package types.attrs);
-      description = "generated from other config options";
-    };
-  };
-
-  config = {
-    environment.systemPackages = mkIf cfg.enableSystemPkgs systemPkgs;
-    # XXX: this might not be necessary. try removing this and cacert.unbundled?
-    environment.etc."ssl/certs".source = mkIf cfg.enableSystemPkgs "${pkgs.cacert.unbundled}/etc/ssl/certs/*";
-  };
-}
--- a/modules/services/default.nix
+++ b/modules/services/default.nix
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@
 {
  imports = [
    ./duplicity.nix
-    ./dyn-dns.nix
-    ./kiwix-serve.nix
    ./nixserve.nix
-    ./trust-dns.nix
  ];
 }
--- a/modules/services/duplicity.nix
+++ b/modules/services/duplicity.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # docs: https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=21.11&query=duplicity
-{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
+{ config, lib, ... }:

 with lib;
 let
@@ -15,10 +15,11 @@ in

  config = mkIf cfg.enable {
    # we need this mostly because of the size of duplicity's cache
-    sane.impermanence.dirs = [ "/var/lib/duplicity" ];
+    sane.impermanence.service-dirs = [ "/var/lib/duplicity" ];

    services.duplicity.enable = true;
-    services.duplicity.targetUrl = "$DUPLICITY_URL";
+    services.duplicity.targetUrl = ''"$DUPLICITY_URL"'';
+    services.duplicity.escapeUrl = false;
    # format: PASSPHRASE=<cleartext> \n DUPLICITY_URL=b2://...
    # two sisters
    # PASSPHRASE: remote backups will be encrypted using this passphrase (using gpg)
@@ -31,28 +32,29 @@ in
    services.duplicity.secretFile = config.sops.secrets.duplicity_passphrase.path;
    # NB: manually trigger with `systemctl start duplicity`
    services.duplicity.frequency = "daily";
+    # TODO: this needs updating to handle impermanence changes
+    services.duplicity.exclude = [
+      # impermanent/inconsequential data:
+      "/dev"
+      "/proc"
+      "/run"
+      "/sys"
+      "/tmp"
+      # bind mounted (dupes):
+      "/var/lib"
+      # other mounts
+      "/mnt"
+      # data that's not worth the cost to backup:
+      "/nix/persist/var/lib/uninsane/media"
+      "/nix/persist/home/colin/tmp"
+      "/nix/persist/home/colin/Videos"
+      "/home/colin/tmp"
+      "/home/colin/Videos"
+    ];

    services.duplicity.extraFlags = [
      # without --allow-source-mismatch, duplicity will abort if you change the hostname between backups
      "--allow-source-mismatch"
-
-      # includes/exclude ordering matters, so we explicitly control it here.
-      # the first match decides a file's treatment. so here:
-      # - /nix/persist/home/colin/tmp is excluded
-      # - *other* /nix/persist/ files are included by default
-      # - anything else under `/` are excluded by default
-      "--exclude" "/nix/persist/home/colin/dev/home-logic/coremem/out"  # this can reach > 1 TB
-      "--exclude" "/nix/persist/home/colin/use/iso"  # might want to re-enable... but not critical
-      "--exclude" "/nix/persist/home/colin/.local/share/sublime-music"  # music cache. better to just keep the HQ sources
-      "--exclude" "/nix/persist/home/colin/.local/share/Steam"  # can just re-download games
-      "--exclude" "/nix/persist/home/colin/.bitmonero/lmdb"  # monero blockchain
-      "--exclude" "/nix/persist/home/colin/.rustup"
-      "--exclude" "/nix/persist/home/colin/ref"  # publicly available data: no point in duplicating it
-      "--exclude" "/nix/persist/home/colin/tmp"
-      "--exclude" "/nix/persist/home/colin/Videos"
-      "--exclude" "/nix/persist/var/lib/duplicity"  # don't back up our own backup state!
-      "--include" "/nix/persist"
-      "--exclude" "/"
    ];

    # set this for the FIRST backup, then remove it to enable incremental backups
@@ -68,26 +70,5 @@ in
        "/dev/mmc0 5M"
      ];
    };
-
-    # based on <nixpkgs:nixos/modules/services/backup/duplicity.nix>  with changes:
-    # - remove the cleanup step: API key doesn't have delete perms
-    # - don't escape the targetUrl: it comes from an env var set in the secret file
-    systemd.services.duplicity.script = let
-      cfg = config.services.duplicity;
-      target = cfg.targetUrl;
-      extra = escapeShellArgs ([ "--archive-dir" "/var/lib/duplicity" ] ++ cfg.extraFlags);
-      dup = "${pkgs.duplicity}/bin/duplicity";
-    in lib.mkForce ''
-      set -x
-      # ${dup} cleanup ${target} --force ${extra}
-      # ${lib.optionalString (cfg.cleanup.maxAge != null) "${dup} remove-older-than ${lib.escapeShellArg cfg.cleanup.maxAge} ${target} --force ${extra}"}
-      # ${lib.optionalString (cfg.cleanup.maxFull != null) "${dup} remove-all-but-n-full ${builtins.toString cfg.cleanup.maxFull} ${target} --force ${extra}"}
-      # ${lib.optionalString (cfg.cleanup.maxIncr != null) "${dup} remove-all-inc-of-but-n-full ${toString cfg.cleanup.maxIncr} ${target} --force ${extra}"}
-      exec ${dup} ${if cfg.fullIfOlderThan == "always" then "full" else "incr"} ${lib.escapeShellArg cfg.root} ${target} ${lib.escapeShellArgs ([]
-        ++ concatMap (p: [ "--include" p ]) cfg.include
-        ++ concatMap (p: [ "--exclude" p ]) cfg.exclude
-        ++ (lib.optionals (cfg.fullIfOlderThan != "never" && cfg.fullIfOlderThan != "always") [ "--full-if-older-than" cfg.fullIfOlderThan ])
-        )} ${extra}
-    '';
  };
 }
--- a/modules/services/dyn-dns.nix
+++ b/modules/services/dyn-dns.nix
@@ -1,91 +0,0 @@
-{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
-
-with lib;
-let
-  cfg = config.sane.services.dyn-dns;
-in
-{
-  options = {
-    sane.services.dyn-dns = {
-      enable = mkOption {
-        default = false;
-        type = types.bool;
-      };
-
-      ipPath = mkOption {
-        default = "/var/lib/uninsane/wan.txt";
-        type = types.str;
-        description = "where to store the latest WAN IPv4 address";
-      };
-
-      ipCmd = mkOption {
-        default = "${pkgs.sane-scripts}/bin/sane-ip-check-router-wan";
-        type = types.path;
-        description = "command to run to query the current WAN IP";
-      };
-
-      interval = mkOption {
-        type = types.str;
-        default = "10min";
-        description = "systemd time string for how frequently to re-check the IP";
-      };
-
-      restartOnChange = mkOption {
-        type = types.listOf types.str;
-        default = [];
-        description = "list of systemd unit files to restart when the IP changes";
-      };
-    };
-  };
-
-  config = mkIf cfg.enable {
-    systemd.services.dyn-dns = {
-      description = "update this host's record of its WAN IP";
-      serviceConfig.Type = "oneshot";
-      restartTriggers = [(builtins.toJSON cfg)];
-
-      after = [ "network.target" ];
-      wantedBy = cfg.restartOnChange;
-      before = cfg.restartOnChange;
-
-      script = ''
-        mkdir -p "$(dirname '${cfg.ipPath}')"
-        newIp=$(${cfg.ipCmd})
-        oldIp=$(cat '${cfg.ipPath}' || true)
-        # systemd path units are triggered on any file write action,
-        # regardless of content change. so only update the file if our IP *actually* changed
-        if [ "$newIp" != "$oldIp" ]
-        then
-          echo "$newIp" > '${cfg.ipPath}'
-          echo "WAN ip changed $oldIp -> $newIp"
-        fi
-        exit $(test -f '${cfg.ipPath}')
-      '';
-    };
-
-    systemd.timers.dyn-dns = {
-      # if anything wants dyn-dns.service, they surely want the timer too.
-      wantedBy = [ "dyn-dns.service" ];
-      timerConfig = {
-        OnUnitActiveSec = cfg.interval;
-      };
-    };
-
-    systemd.paths.dyn-dns-watcher = {
-      before = [ "dyn-dns.timer" ];
-      wantedBy = [ "dyn-dns.timer" ];
-      pathConfig = {
-        Unit = "dyn-dns-reactor.service";
-        PathChanged = [ cfg.ipPath ];
-      };
-    };
-
-    systemd.services.dyn-dns-reactor = {
-      description = "react to the system's WAN IP changing";
-      serviceConfig.Type = "oneshot";
-      script = if cfg.restartOnChange != [] then ''
-        ${pkgs.systemd}/bin/systemctl restart ${toString cfg.restartOnChange}
-      '' else "${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/true";
-    };
-  };
-}
--- a/modules/services/kiwix-serve.nix
+++ b/modules/services/kiwix-serve.nix
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
-
-with lib;
-let
-  cfg = config.sane.services.kiwix-serve;
-in
-{
-  options = {
-    sane.services.kiwix-serve = {
-      enable = mkOption {
-        default = false;
-        type = types.bool;
-      };
-      package = mkOption {
-        type = types.package;
-        default = pkgs.kiwix-tools;
-        defaultText = literalExpression "pkgs.kiwix-tools";
-        description = lib.mdDoc ''
-          The package that provides `bin/kiwix-serve`.
-        '';
-      };
-      port = mkOption {
-        type = types.port;
-        default = 80;
-        description = lib.mdDoc "Port number to listen on.";
-      };
-      listenAddress = mkOption {
-        type = types.nullOr types.str;
-        default = null;
-        description = lib.mdDoc ''
-          IP address to listen on. Listens on all available addresses if unspecified.
-        '';
-      };
-      zimPaths = mkOption {
-        type = types.nonEmptyListOf (types.either types.str types.path);
-        description = lib.mdDoc "ZIM file path(s)";
-      };
-    };
-  };
-
-  config = mkIf cfg.enable {
-    systemd.services.kiwix-serve = {
-      description = "Deliver ZIM file(s) articles via HTTP";
-      serviceConfig = let
-        maybeListenAddress = lib.optionals (cfg.listenAddress != null) ["-l" cfg.listenAddress];
-        args = maybeListenAddress ++ ["-p" cfg.port] ++ cfg.zimPaths;
-      in {
-        ExecStart = "${cfg.package}/bin/kiwix-serve ${lib.escapeShellArgs args}";
-        Type = "simple";
-      };
-      after = [ "network.target" ];
-      wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
-    };
-  };
-}
--- a/modules/services/nixserve.nix
+++ b/modules/services/nixserve.nix
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ in
      type = types.bool;
    };
    sane.services.nixserve.sopsFile = mkOption {
+      default = ../../secrets/servo.yaml;
      type = types.path;
-      description = "path to file that contains the nix_serv_privkey secret (can be in VCS)";
    };
  };

--- a/modules/services/trust-dns.nix
+++ b/modules/services/trust-dns.nix
@@ -1,167 +0,0 @@
-{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
-
-with lib;
-let
-  cfg = config.sane.services.trust-dns;
-  toml = pkgs.formats.toml { };
-  fmtRecord = proto: rrtype: name: value: "${name}\t${proto}\t${rrtype}\t${value}";
-  fmtRecordList = proto: rrtype: name: values: concatStringsSep
-    "\n"
-    (map (fmtRecord proto rrtype name) values)
-  ;
-  fmtRecordAttrs = proto: rrtype: rrAttrs:
-    concatStringsSep
-      "\n"
-      (
-        attrValues (
-          mapAttrs
-            (name: fmtRecordList proto rrtype name)
-            rrAttrs
-        )
-      );
-  fmtIncludes = paths: concatStringsSep
-    "\n"
-    (map (path: "$INCLUDE ${path}") paths);
-
-  genZone = zcfg: ''
-    $TTL ${toString zcfg.TTL}
-    ${fmtRecordAttrs "IN" "SOA" zcfg.inet.SOA}
-    ${fmtRecordAttrs "IN" "A" zcfg.inet.A}
-    ${fmtRecordAttrs "IN" "CNAME" zcfg.inet.CNAME}
-    ${fmtRecordAttrs "IN" "MX" zcfg.inet.MX}
-    ${fmtRecordAttrs "IN" "NS" zcfg.inet.NS}
-    ${fmtRecordAttrs "IN" "SRV" zcfg.inet.SRV}
-    ${fmtRecordAttrs "IN" "TXT" zcfg.inet.TXT}
-    ${fmtIncludes zcfg.include}
-    ${zcfg.extraConfig}
-  '';
-
-  configFile = toml.generate "trust-dns.toml" {
-    listen_addrs_ipv4 = cfg.listenAddrsIPv4;
-    zones = attrValues (
-      mapAttrs (zname: zcfg: rec {
-        zone = if zcfg.name == null then zname else zcfg.name;
-        zone_type = "Primary";
-        file = if zcfg.file == null then
-          pkgs.writeText "${zone}.zone" (genZone zcfg)
-        else
-          zcfg.file;
-      }) cfg.zones
-    );
-  };
-in
-{
-  options = {
-    sane.services.trust-dns = {
-      enable = mkOption {
-        default = false;
-        type = types.bool;
-      };
-      listenAddrsIPv4 = mkOption {
-        type = types.listOf types.str;
-        default = [];
-        description = "array of ipv4 addresses on which to listen for DNS queries";
-      };
-      # reference <nixpkgs:nixos/modules/services/web-servers/nginx/vhost-options.nix>
-      zones = mkOption {
-        type = types.attrsOf (types.submodule {
-          options = {
-            name = mkOption {
-              type = types.nullOr types.str;
-              description = "zone name. defaults to the attribute name in zones";
-              default = null;
-            };
-            TTL = mkOption {
-              type = types.int;
-              description = "default TTL";
-              default = 3600;
-            };
-            include = mkOption {
-              type = types.listOf types.str;
-              description = "paths of other zone files to $INCLUDE into this one";
-              default = [];
-            };
-            extraConfig = mkOption {
-              type = types.lines;
-              description = "extra lines to append to the zone file";
-              default = "";
-            };
-            inet = {
-              SOA = mkOption {
-                type = types.attrsOf (types.listOf types.str);
-                description = "Start of Authority record(s)";
-                default = {};
-              };
-              A = mkOption {
-                type = types.attrsOf (types.listOf types.str);
-                description = "IPv4 address record(s)";
-                default = {};
-              };
-              CNAME = mkOption {
-                type = types.attrsOf (types.listOf types.str);
-                description = "canonical name record(s)";
-                default = {};
-              };
-              MX = mkOption {
-                type = types.attrsOf (types.listOf types.str);
-                description = "mail exchanger record(s)";
-                default = {};
-              };
-              NS = mkOption {
-                type = types.attrsOf (types.listOf types.str);
-                description = "name server record(s)";
-                default = {};
-              };
-              SRV = mkOption {
-                type = types.attrsOf (types.listOf types.str);
-                description = "service record(s)";
-                default = {};
-              };
-              TXT = mkOption {
-                type = types.attrsOf (types.listOf types.str);
-                description = "text record(s)";
-                default = {};
-              };
-            };
-
-            file = mkOption {
-              type = types.nullOr types.str;
-              default = null;
-              description = "instead of using the generated zone file, use the specified path";
-            };
-          };
-        });
-        default = {};
-        description = "Declarative zone config";
-      };
-
-      generatedZones = mkOption {
-        type = types.attrsOf types.str;
-        description = "generated zone text for each zone";
-      };
-    };
-  };
-
-  config = mkIf cfg.enable {
-    sane.services.trust-dns.generatedZones = mapAttrs (zone: zcfg: genZone zcfg) cfg.zones;
-    networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ 53 ];
-    networking.firewall.allowedUDPPorts = [ 53 ];
-
-    systemd.services.trust-dns = {
-      description = "trust-dns DNS server";
-      serviceConfig = {
-        ExecStart = ''
-          ${pkgs.trust-dns}/bin/named \
-            --config ${configFile} \
-            --zonedir /
-        '';
-        Type = "simple";
-        Restart = "on-failure";
-        RestartSec = "10s";
-        # TODO: hardening (like, don't run as root!)
-      };
-      after = [ "network.target" ];
-      wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
-    };
-  };
-}
--- a/modules/universal/allocations.nix
+++ b/modules/universal/allocations.nix
@@ -23,15 +23,13 @@ in
    sane.allocations.greeter-uid = mkId 999;
    sane.allocations.greeter-gid = mkId 999;

-    # new servo users
    sane.allocations.freshrss-uid = mkId 2401;
    sane.allocations.freshrss-gid = mkId 2401;
-    sane.allocations.mediawiki-uid = mkId 2402;

    sane.allocations.colin-uid = mkId 1000;
    sane.allocations.guest-uid = mkId 1100;

-    # found on all hosts
+    # found on all machines
    sane.allocations.sshd-uid = mkId 2001;  # 997
    sane.allocations.sshd-gid = mkId 2001;  # 997
    sane.allocations.polkituser-gid = mkId 2002;  # 998
@@ -41,15 +39,15 @@ in
    sane.allocations.systemd-oom-uid = mkId 2005;
    sane.allocations.systemd-oom-gid = mkId 2005;

-    # found on graphical hosts
+    # found on graphical machines
    sane.allocations.nm-iodine-uid = mkId 2101;  # desko/moby/lappy

-    # found on desko host
+    # found on desko machine
    sane.allocations.usbmux-uid = mkId 2204;
    sane.allocations.usbmux-gid = mkId 2204;


-    # originally found on moby host
+    # originally found on moby machine
    sane.allocations.avahi-uid = mkId 2304;
    sane.allocations.avahi-gid = mkId 2304;
    sane.allocations.colord-uid = mkId 2305;
--- a/modules/universal/default.nix
+++ b/modules/universal/default.nix
@@ -1,37 +1,20 @@
 { pkgs, ... }:
+
 {
  imports = [
-    ./bluetooth.nix
+    ./allocations.nix
    ./fs.nix
-    ./hardware
-    ./i2p.nix
-    ./machine-id.nix
+    ./home-manager
+    ./home-packages.nix
    ./net.nix
    ./secrets.nix
    ./ssh.nix
+    ./system-packages.nix
    ./users.nix
    ./vpn.nix
  ];

-  sane.home-manager.enable = true;
-  sane.nixcache.enable-trusted-keys = true;
-  sane.packages.enableConsolePkgs = true;
-  sane.packages.enableSystemPkgs = true;
-
-  sane.impermanence.dirs = [
-    "/var/log"
-    "/var/backup"  # for e.g. postgres dumps
-    # TODO: move elsewhere
-    "/var/lib/alsa"                # preserve output levels, default devices
-    "/var/lib/bluetooth"           # preserve bluetooth handshakes
-    "/var/lib/colord"              # preserve color calibrations (?)
-    "/var/lib/machines"            # maybe not needed, but would be painful to add a VM and forget.
-  ];
-
-  nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true;
-
-  # time.timeZone = "America/Los_Angeles";
-  time.timeZone = "Etc/UTC";  # DST is too confusing for me => use a stable timezone
+  time.timeZone = "America/Los_Angeles";

  # allow `nix flake ...` command
  nix.extraOptions = ''
@@ -51,9 +34,6 @@
    };
  };

-  # disable non-required packages like nano, perl, rsync, strace
-  environment.defaultPackages = [];
-
  # programs.vim.defaultEditor = true;
  environment.variables = {
    EDITOR = "vim";
@@ -68,8 +48,16 @@
  };
  # enable zsh completions
  environment.pathsToLink = [ "/share/zsh" ];
+  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
+    # required for pam_mount
+    gocryptfs
+  ];

-  # link debug symbols into /run/current-system/sw/lib/debug
-  # hopefully picked up by gdb automatically?
-  environment.enableDebugInfo = true;
+  security.pam.mount.enable = true;
+  # security.pam.mount.debugLevel = 1;
+  # security.pam.enableSSHAgentAuth = true; # ??
+  # needed for `allow_other` in e.g. gocryptfs mounts
+  # or i guess going through mount.fuse sets suid so that's not necessary?
+  # programs.fuse.userAllowOther = true;
 }
+
--- a/modules/universal/fs.nix
+++ b/modules/universal/fs.nix
@@ -19,17 +19,11 @@ let sshOpts = rec {

  optionsRoot = optionsBase ++ [
    # we don't transform_symlinks because that breaks the validity of remote /nix stores
-    "sftp_server=/run/wrappers/bin/sudo\\040/run/current-system/sw/libexec/sftp-server"
+    "sftp_server=/run/wrappers/bin/sudo\\040${pkgs.openssh}/libexec/sftp-server"
  ];
 };
 in
 {
-  environment.pathsToLink = [
-    # needed to achieve superuser access for user-mounted filesystems (see optionsRoot above)
-    # we can only link whole directories here, even though we're only interested in pkgs.openssh
-    "/libexec"
-  ];
-
  fileSystems."/mnt/servo-media-wan" = {
    device = "colin@uninsane.org:/var/lib/uninsane/media";
    inherit (sshOpts) fsType;
--- a/modules/universal/home-manager/aerc.nix
+++ b/modules/universal/home-manager/aerc.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
 # Terminal UI mail client
-{ config, lib, ... }:
-
-lib.mkIf config.sane.home-manager.enable
+{ config, ... }:
 {
  sops.secrets."aerc_accounts" = {
    owner = config.users.users.colin.name;
-    sopsFile = ../../secrets/universal/aerc_accounts.conf;
+    sopsFile = ../../../secrets/universal/aerc_accounts.conf;
    format = "binary";
  };
  home-manager.users.colin = let sysconfig = config; in { config, ... }: {
--- a/modules/universal/home-manager/default.nix
+++ b/modules/universal/home-manager/default.nix
@@ -9,34 +9,38 @@
 with lib;
 let
  cfg = config.sane.home-manager;
-  # extract package from `sane.packages.enabledUserPkgs`
+  # extract package from `extraPackages`
  pkg-list = pkgspec: builtins.map (e: e.pkg or e) pkgspec;
-  # extract `dir` from `sane.packages.enabledUserPkgs`
-  dir-list = pkgspec: builtins.concatLists (builtins.map (e: e.dir or []) pkgspec);
-  private-list = pkgspec: builtins.concatLists (builtins.map (e: e.private or []) pkgspec);
+  # extract `dir` from `extraPackages`
+  dir-list = pkgspec: builtins.concatLists (builtins.map (e: if e ? "dir" then [ e.dir ] else []) pkgspec);
+  private-list = pkgspec: builtins.concatLists (builtins.map (e: if e ? "private" then [ e.private ] else []) pkgspec);
  feeds = import ./feeds.nix { inherit lib; };
 in
 {
  imports = [
    ./aerc.nix
-    ./firefox.nix
+    ./discord.nix
    ./git.nix
    ./kitty.nix
+    ./librewolf.nix
    ./mpv.nix
    ./nb.nix
    ./neovim.nix
-    ./splatmoji.nix
    ./ssh.nix
    ./sublime-music.nix
    ./vlc.nix
-    ./zsh
+    ./zsh.nix
  ];

  options = {
-    sane.home-manager.enable = mkOption {
-      default = false;
-      type = types.bool;
+    # packages to deploy to the user's home
+    sane.home-manager.extraPackages = mkOption {
+      default = [ ];
+      # each entry can be either a package, or attrs:
+      #   { pkg = package; dir = optional string;
+      type = types.listOf (types.either types.package types.attrs);
    };
+
    # attributes to copy directly to home-manager's `wayland.windowManager` option
    sane.home-manager.windowManager = mkOption {
      default = {};
@@ -50,7 +54,7 @@ in
    };
  };

-  config = lib.mkIf cfg.enable {
+  config = {
    sane.impermanence.home-dirs = [
      "archive"
      "dev"
@@ -61,7 +65,7 @@ in
      "Music"
      "Pictures"
      "Videos"
-    ] ++ (dir-list config.sane.packages.enabledUserPkgs);
+    ] ++ (dir-list cfg.extraPackages);

    home-manager.useGlobalPkgs = true;
    home-manager.useUserPackages = true;
@@ -75,7 +79,7 @@ in
      manual.html.enable = false;  # TODO: set to true later (build failure)
      manual.manpages.enable = false;  # TODO: enable after https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/issues/3344

-      home.packages = pkg-list sysconfig.sane.packages.enabledUserPkgs;
+      home.packages = pkg-list cfg.extraPackages;
      wayland.windowManager = cfg.windowManager;

      home.stateVersion = "21.11";
@@ -86,7 +90,7 @@ in
        initKeyring = {
          after = ["writeBoundary"];
          before = [];
-          data = "${../../scripts/init-keyring}";
+          data = "${../../../scripts/init-keyring}";
        };
      };

@@ -97,18 +101,18 @@ in
            name = path;
            value = { source = config.lib.file.mkOutOfStoreSymlink "/home/colin/private/${path}"; };
          })
-          (private-list sysconfig.sane.packages.enabledUserPkgs)
+          (private-list cfg.extraPackages)
        );
      in {
        # convenience
-        "knowledge".source = config.lib.file.mkOutOfStoreSymlink "/home/colin/private/knowledge";
+        "knowledge".source = config.lib.file.mkOutOfStoreSymlink "/home/colin/dev/knowledge";
        "nixos".source = config.lib.file.mkOutOfStoreSymlink "/home/colin/dev/nixos";
        "Videos/servo".source = config.lib.file.mkOutOfStoreSymlink "/mnt/servo-media/Videos";
        "Videos/servo-incomplete".source = config.lib.file.mkOutOfStoreSymlink "/mnt/servo-media/incomplete";
        "Music/servo".source = config.lib.file.mkOutOfStoreSymlink "/mnt/servo-media/Music";

        # used by password managers, e.g. unix `pass`
-        ".password-store".source = config.lib.file.mkOutOfStoreSymlink "/home/colin/knowledge/secrets/accounts";
+        ".password-store".source = config.lib.file.mkOutOfStoreSymlink "/home/colin/dev/knowledge/secrets/accounts";
      } // privates;

      # XDG defines things like ~/Desktop, ~/Downloads, etc.
@@ -130,7 +134,7 @@ in
      # - `xdg-mime query filetype path/to/thing.ext`
      xdg.mimeApps.enable = true;
      xdg.mimeApps.defaultApplications = let
-        www = sysconfig.sane.web-browser.desktop;
+        www = "librewolf.desktop";
        pdf = "org.gnome.Evince.desktop";
        md = "obsidian.desktop";
        thumb = "org.gnome.gThumb.desktop";
@@ -161,18 +165,6 @@ in
        "audio/x-vorbis+ogg" = [ audio ];
      };

-      # libreoffice: disable first-run stuff
-      xdg.configFile."libreoffice/4/user/registrymodifications.xcu".text = ''
-        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-        <oor:items xmlns:oor="http://openoffice.org/2001/registry" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
-          <item oor:path="/org.openoffice.Office.Common/Misc"><prop oor:name="FirstRun" oor:op="fuse"><value>false</value></prop></item>
-          <item oor:path="/org.openoffice.Office.Common/Misc"><prop oor:name="ShowTipOfTheDay" oor:op="fuse"><value>false</value></prop></item>
-        </oor:items>
-      '';
-      # <item oor:path="/org.openoffice.Setup/Product"><prop oor:name="LastTimeDonateShown" oor:op="fuse"><value>1667693880</value></prop></item>
-      # <item oor:path="/org.openoffice.Setup/Product"><prop oor:name="LastTimeGetInvolvedShown" oor:op="fuse"><value>1667693880</value></prop></item>
-
-

      xdg.configFile."gpodderFeeds.opml".text = with feeds;
        feedsToOpml feeds.podcasts;
--- a/modules/universal/home-manager/discord.nix
+++ b/modules/universal/home-manager/discord.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{ ... }:
+{
+  # TODO: this should only be enabled on gui devices
+  # make Discord usable even when client is "outdated"
+  home-manager.users.colin.xdg.configFile."discord/settings.json".text = ''
+    {
+      "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true
+    }
+  '';
+}
--- a/modules/universal/home-manager/feeds.nix
+++ b/modules/universal/home-manager/feeds.nix
@@ -61,12 +61,6 @@ in rec {
    (mkPod "https://feeds.feedburner.com/dancarlin/history?format=xml" // rat // infrequent)
    ## 60 minutes (NB: this features more than *just* audio?)
    (mkPod "https://www.cbsnews.com/latest/rss/60-minutes" // pol // infrequent)
-    ## The Verge - Decoder
-    (mkPod "https://feeds.megaphone.fm/recodedecode" // tech // weekly)
-    ## Matrix (chat) Live
-    (mkPod "https://feed.podbean.com/matrixlive/feed.xml" // tech // weekly)
-    ## Michael Malice - Your Welcome
-    (mkPod "https://www.podcastone.com/podcast?categoryID2=2232" // pol // weekly)
  ];

  texts = [
@@ -100,8 +94,6 @@ in rec {
    (mkText "https://bitbashing.io/feed.xml" // tech // infrequent)
    (mkText "https://idiomdrottning.org/feed.xml" // uncat // daily)
    (mkText "https://anish.lakhwara.com/home.html" // tech // weekly)
-    (mkText "https://www.jefftk.com/news.rss" // tech // daily)
-    (mkText "https://pomeroyb.com/feed.xml" // tech // infrequent)

    # (TECH; POL) COMMENTATORS
    (mkSubstack "edwardsnowden" // pol // infrequent)
@@ -119,7 +111,6 @@ in rec {
    (mkText "https://blog.dshr.org/rss.xml" // pol // weekly)
    ## Matt Levine
    (mkText "https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthew-s-levine.rss" // pol // weekly)
-    (mkText "https://stpeter.im/atom.xml" // pol // weekly)

    # RATIONALITY/PHILOSOPHY/ETC
    (mkSubstack "samkriss" // humor // infrequent)
@@ -139,11 +130,8 @@ in rec {
    ## Sean Carroll
    (mkText "https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/rss" // rat // infrequent)

-    ## mostly dating topics. not advice, or humor, but looking through a social lens
-    (mkText "https://putanumonit.com/feed" // rat // infrequent)
-
    # CODE
-    # (mkText "https://github.com/Kaiteki-Fedi/Kaiteki/commits/master.atom" // tech // infrequent)
+    (mkText "https://github.com/Kaiteki-Fedi/Kaiteki/commits/master.atom" // tech // infrequent)
  ];

  images = [
--- a/modules/universal/home-manager/git.nix
+++ b/modules/universal/home-manager/git.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
-
-lib.mkIf config.sane.home-manager.enable
+{ pkgs, ... }:
 {
  home-manager.users.colin.programs.git = {
    enable = true;
--- a/modules/universal/home-manager/kitty.nix
+++ b/modules/universal/home-manager/kitty.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-{ config, lib, ... }:
-
-lib.mkIf config.sane.home-manager.enable
+{ ... }:
 {
  home-manager.users.colin.programs.kitty = {
    enable = true;
--- a/modules/universal/home-manager/librewolf.nix
+++ b/modules/universal/home-manager/librewolf.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+# common settings to toggle (at runtime, in about:config):
+#   > security.ssl.require_safe_negotiation
+
+# librewolf is a forked firefox which patches firefox to allow more things
+# (like default search engines) to be configurable at runtime.
+# many of the settings below won't have effect without those patches.
+# see: https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/settings/-/blob/master/distribution/policies.json
+
+{ config, lib, pkgs, ...}:
+let
+  package = pkgs.wrapFirefox pkgs.librewolf-unwrapped {
+    # inherit the default librewolf.cfg
+    # it can be further customized via ~/.librewolf/librewolf.overrides.cfg
+    inherit (pkgs.librewolf-unwrapped) extraPrefsFiles;
+    libName = "librewolf";
+
+    extraNativeMessagingHosts = [ pkgs.browserpass ];
+    # extraNativeMessagingHosts = [ pkgs.gopass-native-messaging-host ];
+
+    extraPolicies = {
+      NoDefaultBookmarks = true;
+      SearchEngines = {
+        Default = "DuckDuckGo";
+      };
+      AppUpdateURL = "https://localhost";
+      DisableAppUpdate = true;
+      OverrideFirstRunPage = "";
+      OverridePostUpdatePage = "";
+      DisableSystemAddonUpdate = true;
+      DisableFirefoxStudies = true;
+      DisableTelemetry = true;
+      DisableFeedbackCommands = true;
+      DisablePocket = true;
+      DisableSetDesktopBackground = false;
+      Extensions = {
+        Install = let
+          addon = pkg: addonId: "${pkg}/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/${addonId}.xpi";
+        in with pkgs.firefox-addons; [
+          # the extension key is found by building and checking the output: `nix build '.#rycee.firefox-addons.<foo>'`
+          # or by taking the `addonId` input to `buildFirefoxXpiAddon` in rycee's firefox-addons repo
+          (addon ublock-origin "uBlock0@raymondhill.net")
+          (addon sponsorblock "sponsorBlocker@ajay.app")
+          (addon bypass-paywalls-clean "{d133e097-46d9-4ecc-9903-fa6a722a6e0e}")
+          (addon sidebery "{3c078156-979c-498b-8990-85f7987dd929}")
+          (addon browserpass "browserpass@maximbaz.com")
+          (addon metamask "webextension@metamask.io")
+          # extensions can alternatively be installed by URL, in which case they are fetched (and cached) on first run.
+          # "https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/gopass-bridge/latest.xpi"
+        ];
+        # remove many default search providers
+        Uninstall = [
+          "google@search.mozilla.org"
+          "bing@search.mozilla.org"
+          "amazondotcom@search.mozilla.org"
+          "ebay@search.mozilla.org"
+          "twitter@search.mozilla.org"
+        ];
+      };
+      # XXX doesn't seem to have any effect...
+      # docs: https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates#homepage
+      # Homepage = {
+      #   HomepageURL = "https://uninsane.org/";
+      #   StartPage = "homepage";
+      # };
+      # NewTabPage = true;
+    };
+  };
+in
+{
+  # XXX: although home-manager calls this option `firefox`, we can use other browsers and it still mostly works.
+  home-manager.users.colin = lib.mkIf (config.sane.gui.enable) {
+    programs.firefox = {
+      enable = true;
+      inherit package;
+    };
+
+    # uBlock filter list configuration.
+    # specifically, enable the GDPR cookie prompt blocker.
+    # data.toOverwrite.filterLists is additive (i.e. it supplements the default filters)
+    # this configuration method is documented here:
+    # - <https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/2986#issuecomment-364035002>
+    # the specific attribute path is found via scraping ublock code here:
+    # - <https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/src/js/storage.js>
+    # - <https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/assets/assets.json>
+    home.file.".librewolf/managed-storage/uBlock0@raymondhill.net.json".text = ''
+      {
+       "name": "uBlock0@raymondhill.net",
+       "description": "ignored",
+       "type": "storage",
+       "data": {
+          "toOverwrite": "{\"filterLists\": [\"fanboy-cookiemonster\"]}"
+       }
+      }
+    '';
+    home.file.".librewolf/librewolf.overrides.cfg".text = ''
+      // if we can't query the revocation status of a SSL cert because the issuer is offline,
+      // treat it as unrevoked.
+      // see: <https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#im-getting-sec_error_ocsp_server_error-what-can-i-do>
+      defaultPref("security.OCSP.require", false);
+    '';
+  };
+}
--- a/modules/universal/home-manager/mpv.nix
+++ b/modules/universal/home-manager/mpv.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-{ config, lib, ... }:
-
-lib.mkIf config.sane.home-manager.enable
+{ ... }:
 {
  home-manager.users.colin.programs.mpv = {
    enable = true;
--- a/modules/universal/home-manager/nb.nix
+++ b/modules/universal/home-manager/nb.nix
@@ -8,16 +8,13 @@
 # it offers a primitive web-server
 # and it offers some CLI query tools

-{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
-
-# lib.mkIf config.sane.home-manager.enable
-lib.mkIf false # XXX disabled!
+{ lib, pkgs, ... }: lib.mkIf false  # XXX disabled!
 {
-  sane.packages.extraUserPkgs = [ pkgs.nb ];
+  sane.home-manager.extraPackages = [ pkgs.nb ];

  home-manager.users.colin = { config, ... }: {
    # nb markdown/personal knowledge manager
-    home.file.".nb/knowledge".source = config.lib.file.mkOutOfStoreSymlink "/home/colin/knowledge";
+    home.file.".nb/knowledge".source = config.lib.file.mkOutOfStoreSymlink "/home/colin/dev/knowledge";
    home.file.".nb/.current".text = "knowledge";
    home.file.".nbrc".text = ''
      # manage with `nb settings`
--- a/modules/universal/home-manager/neovim.nix
+++ b/modules/universal/home-manager/neovim.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
-
-lib.mkIf config.sane.home-manager.enable
+{ pkgs, ... }:
 {
  sane.impermanence.home-dirs = [ ".cache/vim-swap" ];

@@ -33,12 +31,21 @@ lib.mkIf config.sane.home-manager.enable
          " autocmd Syntax tex set conceallevel=2
        '';
      })
+      # nabla renders inline math in any document, but it's buggy.
+      #   https://github.com/jbyuki/nabla.nvim
+      # ({
+      #   plugin = pkgs.nabla;
+      #   type = "lua";
+      #   config = ''
+      #     require'nabla'.enable_virt()
+      #   '';
+      # })
      # treesitter syntax highlighting: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Tree_sitters
      # docs: https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter
      # config taken from: https://github.com/i077/system/blob/master/modules/home/neovim/default.nix
      # this is required for tree-sitter to even highlight
      ({
-        plugin = nvim-treesitter.withAllGrammars;
+        plugin = (nvim-treesitter.withPlugins (_: pkgs.tree-sitter.allGrammars));
        type = "lua";
        config = ''
          require'nvim-treesitter.configs'.setup {
--- a/modules/universal/home-manager/ssh.nix
+++ b/modules/universal/home-manager/ssh.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
-
-lib.mkIf config.sane.home-manager.enable
+{ config, pkgs, ... }:
 {
  home-manager.users.colin = let
    host = config.networking.hostName;
--- a/modules/universal/home-manager/sublime-music.nix
+++ b/modules/universal/home-manager/sublime-music.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
-{ config, lib, ... }:
-
-lib.mkIf config.sane.home-manager.enable
+{ config, ... }:
 {
  # TODO: this should only be shipped on gui platforms
  sops.secrets."sublime_music_config" = {
    owner = config.users.users.colin.name;
-    sopsFile = ../../secrets/universal/sublime_music_config.json.bin;
+    sopsFile = ../../../secrets/universal/sublime_music_config.json.bin;
    format = "binary";
  };
  home-manager.users.colin = let sysconfig = config; in { config, ... }: {
--- a/modules/universal/home-manager/vlc.nix
+++ b/modules/universal/home-manager/vlc.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-{ config, lib, ... }:
-
-lib.mkIf config.sane.home-manager.enable
+{ lib, ... }:
 {
  home-manager.users.colin.xdg.configFile."vlc/vlcrc".text =
  let
--- a/modules/universal/home-manager/zsh.nix
+++ b/modules/universal/home-manager/zsh.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+{ ... }:
+{
+  # we don't need to full zsh dir -- just the history file --
+  # but zsh will sometimes backup the history file and we get fewer errors if we do proper mounts instead of symlinks.
+  sane.impermanence.home-dirs = [ ".local/share/zsh" ];
+
+  home-manager.users.colin.programs.zsh = {
+    enable = true;
+    enableSyntaxHighlighting = true;
+    enableVteIntegration = true;
+    history.ignorePatterns = [ "rm *" ];
+    dotDir = ".config/zsh";
+    history.path = "/home/colin/.local/share/zsh/history";
+
+    initExtraBeforeCompInit = ''
+      # p10k instant prompt
+      # run p10k configure to configure, but it can't write out its file :-(
+      POWERLEVEL9K_DISABLE_CONFIGURATION_WIZARD=true
+    '';
+    initExtra = ''
+      # zmv is a way to do rich moves/renames, with pattern matching/substitution.
+      # see for an example: <https://filipe.kiss.ink/zmv-zsh-rename/>
+      autoload -Uz zmv
+
+      # disable `rm *` confirmations
+      setopt rmstarsilent
+
+      function nd() {
+        mkdir -p "$1";
+        pushd "$1";
+      }
+    '';
+
+    # prezto = oh-my-zsh fork; controls prompt, auto-completion, etc.
+    # see: https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto
+    prezto = {
+      enable = true;
+      pmodules = [
+        "environment"
+        "terminal"
+        "editor"
+        "history"
+        "directory"
+        "spectrum"
+        "utility"
+        "completion"
+        "prompt"
+        "git"
+      ];
+      prompt.theme = "powerlevel10k";
+      utility.safeOps = false;  # disable `mv` confirmation (and supposedly `rm`, too)
+    };
+  };
+
+  home-manager.users.colin.home.shellAliases = {
+    ":q" = "exit";
+    # common typos
+    "cd.." = "cd ..";
+    "cd../" = "cd ../";
+  };
+}
--- a/modules/universal/home-packages.nix
+++ b/modules/universal/home-packages.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,198 @@
+{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
+
+with lib;
+with pkgs;
+let
+  cfg = config.sane.home-packages;
+  universalPkgs = [
+    backblaze-b2
+    cdrtools
+    duplicity
+    gnupg
+    gocryptfs
+    gopass
+    gopass-jsonapi
+    ifuse
+    ipfs
+    libimobiledevice
+    libsecret  # for managing user keyrings
+    lm_sensors  # for sensors-detect
+    lshw
+    ffmpeg
+    networkmanager
+    nixpkgs-review
+    # nixos-generators
+    # nettools
+    nmon
+    oathToolkit  # for oathtool
+    # ponymix
+    pulsemixer
+    python3
+    # python3Packages.eyeD3  # music tagging
+    sane-scripts
+    sequoia
+    snapper
+    sops
+    speedtest-cli
+    sqlite  # to debug sqlite3 databases
+    ssh-to-age
+    sudo
+    # tageditor  # music tagging
+    unar
+    visidata
+    w3m
+    wireguard-tools
+    # youtube-dl
+    yt-dlp
+  ];
+
+  guiPkgs = [
+    # GUI only
+    aerc  # email client
+    audacity
+    celluloid  # mpv frontend
+    chromium
+    clinfo
+    electrum
+
+    # creds/session keys, etc
+    { pkg = element-desktop; private = ".config/Element"; }
+
+    emote  # TODO: package [smile](https://github.com/mijorus/smile) for probably a better mobile experience.
+    evince  # works on phosh
+
+    # { pkg = fluffychat-moby; dir = ".local/share/chat.fluffy.fluffychat"; }  # TODO: ship normal fluffychat on non-moby?
+
+    foliate
+    font-manager
+
+    # XXX by default fractal stores its state in ~/.local/share/<UUID>.
+    # after logging in, manually change ~/.local/share/keyrings/... to point it to some predictable subdir.
+    # then reboot (so that libsecret daemon re-loads the keyring...?)
+    { pkg = fractal-next; private = ".local/share/fractal"; }
+
+    gimp  # broken on phosh
+    gnome.cheese
+    gnome.dconf-editor
+    gnome-feeds  # RSS reader (with claimed mobile support)
+    gnome.file-roller
+    gnome.gnome-disk-utility
+    gnome.gnome-maps  # works on phosh
+    gnome.nautilus
+    # gnome-podcasts
+    gnome.gnome-system-monitor
+    gnome.gnome-terminal  # works on phosh
+    gnome.gnome-weather
+
+    { pkg = gpodder-configured; dir = "gPodder/Downloads"; }
+
+    gthumb
+    handbrake
+    inkscape
+
+    kid3  # audio tagging
+    krita
+    libreoffice-fresh  # XXX colin: maybe don't want this on mobile
+    lollypop
+    mesa-demos
+
+    { pkg = mpv; dir = ".config/mpv/watch_later"; }
+
+    networkmanagerapplet
+
+    # not strictly necessary, but allows caching articles; offline use, etc.
+    { pkg = newsflash; dir = ".local/share/news-flash"; }
+
+    # settings (electron app). TODO: can i manage these settings with home-manager?
+    { pkg = obsidian; dir = ".config/obsidian"; }
+
+    pavucontrol
+    picard  # music tagging
+    playerctl
+    soundconverter
+    # sublime music persists any downloaded albums here.
+    # it doesn't obey a conventional ~/Music/{Artist}/{Album}/{Track} notation, so no symlinking
+    # config (e.g. server connection details) is persisted in ~/.config/sublime-music/config.json
+    #   possible to pass config as a CLI arg (sublime-music -c config.json)
+    { pkg = sublime-music; dir = ".local/share/sublime-music"; }
+    tdesktop  # broken on phosh
+
+    tokodon
+
+    # vlc remembers play position in ~/.config/vlc/vlc-qt-interface.conf
+    { pkg = vlc; dir = ".config/vlc"; }
+
+    whalebird # pleroma client. input is broken on phosh
+    xdg-utils  # for xdg-open
+    xterm  # broken on phosh
+  ]
+  ++ (if pkgs.system == "x86_64-linux" then
+  [
+    # x86_64 only
+
+    # creds, but also 200 MB of node modules, etc
+    (let discord = (pkgs.discord.override {
+      # XXX 2022-07-31: fix to allow links to open in default web-browser:
+      #   https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/78961
+      nss = pkgs.nss_latest;
+    }); in { pkg = discord; dir = ".config/discord"; })
+
+    # kaiteki  # Pleroma client
+    # gnome.zenity # for kaiteki (it will use qarma, kdialog, or zenity)
+
+    logseq
+    losslesscut-bin
+    makemkv
+
+    # actual monero blockchain (not wallet/etc; safe to delete, just slow to regenerate)
+    { pkg = monero-gui; dir = ".bitmonero"; }
+
+    # creds, media
+    { pkg = signal-desktop; dir = ".config/Signal"; }
+
+    # creds. TODO: can i manage this with home-manager?
+    { pkg = spotify; dir = ".config/spotify"; }
+
+    # hardenedMalloc solves a crash at startup
+    (tor-browser-bundle-bin.override { useHardenedMalloc = false; })
+
+    # zcash coins. safe to delete, just slow to regenerate (10-60 minutes)
+    { pkg = zecwallet-lite; dir = ".zcash"; }
+  ] else []);
+
+  # useful devtools:
+  devPkgs = [
+    bison
+    dtc
+    flex
+    gcc
+    gdb
+    # gcc-arm-embedded
+    # gcc_multi
+    gnumake
+    mix2nix
+    rustup
+    swig
+  ];
+in
+{
+  options = {
+    sane.home-packages.enableGuiPkgs = mkOption {
+      default = false;
+      type = types.bool;
+    };
+    sane.home-packages.enableDevPkgs = mkOption {
+      description = ''
+        enable packages that are useful for building other software by hand.
+        you should prefer to keep this disabled except when prototyping, e.g. packaging new software.
+      '';
+      default = false;
+      type = types.bool;
+    };
+  };
+  config = {
+    sane.home-manager.extraPackages = universalPkgs
+      ++ (if cfg.enableGuiPkgs then guiPkgs else [])
+      ++ (if cfg.enableDevPkgs then devPkgs else []);
+  };
+}
--- a/Show More
+++ b/Show More