These are already on backorder so you have time for your Pico W projects.

I hope so. Split efforts often die independent of one another.

How well NixOS and Nixpkgs are maintained absolutely affects users of NixOS. This may have just saved NixOS from becoming an unmaintained or at best slowly maintained project that people advise against using for anything serious.

Seems like political tensions stemming from developments with situations Israel/Gaza/Iran and Ukraine have piqued the discontentment over accepting donations from organizations that profit from contracts with the US DoD.

The lead developer/organizer of the NixOS project seems to be pro authoritarian in their political values and this has also lead to an uneasiness amongst a number of contributors although things seem to be civil overall.

It seems that the “toxic” behavior from Hamilton was derailing technical discussions over concerns about the funding from military contractors.

I may have got some of this wrong, but it seems that everyone involved is trying not to draw attention to the broader political aspect of the schism in the community. So people out of the loop are having trouble figuring out what is going on.

Is it too early to make an aux.computer community on programming.dev?

I hope it brings something worthwhile for the effort.

Try posting at https://discourse.nixos.org/