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Shrinking NixOS RAM footprint and resource requirements to the bare minimum


A few people were surprised by how low you can go with NixOS, so i thought I would do a write up as I did not realise this was anything special, I kept notes when doing it but not for the intention of writing a blog article so i might miss small tweaks I did here and there.

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