Dropping upstream Nix from Determinate Nix Installer

With respect to the Lazy trees mention from earlier, that PR has been stalled for four months after the upstream team had issues with the implementation. From what we can see as users, there has been no communication from Determinate Systems regarding the issues upstream had with the implementation, and seemingly no interest in moving forwards with it either.

Now unless there’s a secret matrix channels where DetSys and Nix devs are communicating, I think it’s somewhat fair to come to the conclusion that the PR is stalled waiting for DetSys’ response, no? This is one example of the sort of communication we need, so that it doesn’t feel like features are forever stuck in limbo.

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