Setting up Incus with ZFS on NixOS

Rocky Hetherington
28 Jan 2025 — 6 min read

Personal infrastructure setup 2026

My 2026 infrastructure strategy is simple :

 ☄  Incus for efficient
       lightweight service isolation

@Morten Linderud

Obscura

The open-source headless browser for AI agents and web scraping. Lightweight, stealthy, and built in Rust.

github.com/h4ckf0r0day/obscura

Unlike stateless sandboxes,
OpenComputer offers persistent VMs.

Your data survives across sessions, eliminating the need for constant re-installs. Enjoy a continuous workflow with the ability to scale resources instantly.

opencomputer.dev

Firecracker consists of 83k lines of Rust, boots in 125ms, and powers AWS Lambda.

QEMU is a 1.4m-line C beast capable of emulating anything from a modern processor down to a Sound Blaster 16.

While most agent sandboxes opted for Firecracker, we chose QEMU. As agent capabilities become 100x more ambitious, simple function runtimes simply won't suffice. 

We’re building the actual computers they need.

@utpalnadiger

My Stack for 2026 - Dec 22, 2025 
joshblais

Go + Datastar + SQLite + NixOS

I am building a cloud - 2026-04-22

Today’s cloud is broken: rigid abstractions, overpriced networking, and bottlenecked SSDs. I’m building exe.dev to fix it.

A cloud designed for the era of AI agents where you control your resources, not the vendor. 

Back to basics, back to computing.

CubeSandbox

Type : CLI
Environment : Local/Cloud
Isolation workspace : No
Isolation runtime : RustVMM + KVM 

Cube Sandbox is a high-performance, out-of-the-box secure sandbox service built on RustVMM and KVM. 

creating a hardware-isolated sandbox environment with full service capabilities in under 60ms, while maintaining less than 5MB memory overhead.

Claude Mythos could root many shells, apparently.

Auto mode is a middle path that lets you run longer tasks with fewer interruptions while introducing less risk than skipping all permissions

Auto mode provides a safer long-running alternative to --dangerously-skip-permissions.

$ claude --enable-auto-mode

claude.com/blog/auto-mode

Workstation
ↄ arch linux
ↄ cachy os

Server
ↄ debian

Agentic AI love KVM isolation
(only on linux)

Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor

ounapuu.ee/posts/2026/04/01/focus

Terminal tool

The fuzzy finder that powers half the terminal world. Search files, processes, git branches, shell history, anything.

github.com/junegunn/fzf

Terminal tool

A smarter cd that learns your habits. Type "z proj" and it jumps to the directory you actually meant.

github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

Mix in New York | Tinzo ♪

Nine Inch Noize - Heresy
Coachella 2026

ARC-AGI-2

Gemini is absolutely crushing this game 🔥

https://arcprize.org/arc-agi/2