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Shoutout to fwupd for updating device firmware
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this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2023
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I see, that's plenty fair enough, although I don't think they meant it quite so literally (but rather as a method of lightening their support requests - I don't have any fwupd capable hardware AFAIK however I get the feeling fwupd is pretty popular).
I find it really cool what Nix/Guix are doing and I give major props to their communities for what they've pulled off, for what its worth.
Interestingly enough, someone actually did release two nix derivations for this software!
https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=23.05&show=fwupd-efi&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=fwupd
Oh that's awesome! Although I can't say I'm surprised, the last I heard Nixpkgs had more packages than the AUR, which is certainly no small feat.