Low-effort and high-impact tasks

[ericgundrum]

Enable easy sharing of nix store among local machines.

How to make Nixpkgs more eco-friendly / use less resources

Another avenue to explore would be to make it easier to share a nix store between local machines, right now it takes a decent amount of work for the end user to setup their machines as binary caches. It also comes with some weird gotchas so the experience is not very smooth. Fixing those problems has the potential to save bandwidth from the server and provide a better user experience for bandwidth constrained users, and is probably much more tractable than the optimizations listed above. From a…