Add neovim dependency fd, initial setup of remote building

configurations/desktop/configuration.nix

@@ -39,6 +39,14 @@
   cspark-desktop-niri.enable = true;
   # cspark-desktop-exwm.enable = true;
 
+  # This user handles building packages remotely for my laptop
+  users.users.nixremotebuilder = {
+    isNormalUser = true;
+    description = "Nix Remote Builder";
+    openssh.authorizedKeys.keyFiles = ./resources/nixos/.ssh/cspark-desktop-nixremotebuilder.pub;
+  };
+  nix.settings.trusted-users = [ "root" "nixremotebuilder" "@wheel" ];
+
   # My audio interface has issues after coming out from suspend/hibernate, this will reset it to fix it when necessary.
   systemd.services.audiointerface-reset-unbind = {
     description = "Resets audio interface to clear up any issues - de-initialises audio interface before sleeping/hibernating/shutting down";

configurations/desktop/resources/nixos/.ssh/cspark-desktop-nixremotebuilder.pub

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIJ+mt7zo89rAZqLpBFoONKPXsqA3+B3V2qccS2gjs8Bc root@cspark-nixos-laptop

configurations/laptop/configuration.nix

@@ -26,6 +26,42 @@
   networking.networkmanager.enable = true;
   # networking.wireless.enable = true;  # Enables wireless support via wpa_supplicant.
 
+  # Setting up my desktop computer to be able to build files for my laptop
+  # Make remote builder desktop a known host
+  programs.ssh = {
+    knownHosts = {
+      cspark-desktop-nixremotebuilder = {
+        extraHostNames = [ "cspark-nixos-desktop" "192.168.1.110" ];
+        publicKeyFile = ./resources/nixos/.ssh/cspark-desktop-nixremotebuilder.pub;
+      };
+    };
+    extraConfig = ''
+    Host cspark-desktop-nixremotebuilder
+        IdentitiesOnly yes
+        IdentityFile /root/.ssh/cspark-desktop-nixremotebuilder
+        # The weakly privileged user on the remote builder – if not set, 'root' is used – which will hopefully fail
+        User nixremotebuilder
+    '';
+  };
+  nix.buildMachines = [ {
+	 hostName = "cspark-desktop-nixremotebuilder";
+	 sshUser = "nixremotebuilder";
+	 system = "x86_64-linux";
+         protocol = "ssh-ng";
+	 # if the builder supports building for multiple architectures,
+	 # replace the previous line by, e.g.
+	 # systems = ["x86_64-linux" "aarch64-linux"];
+	 maxJobs = 1;
+	 speedFactor = 2;
+	 supportedFeatures = [ "nixos-test" "benchmark" "big-parallel" "kvm" ];
+	 mandatoryFeatures = [ ];
+  }] ;
+  nix.distributedBuilds = true;
+  # optional, useful when the builder has a faster internet connection than yours
+  nix.extraOptions = ''
+    builders-use-substitutes = true
+  '';
+
   # Custom desktop environments
   # cspark-desktop-plasma.enable = true;
   # cspark-desktop-gnome.enable = true;

configurations/laptop/resources/nixos/.ssh/cspark-desktop-nixremotebuilder.pub

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIJ+mt7zo89rAZqLpBFoONKPXsqA3+B3V2qccS2gjs8Bc root@cspark-nixos-laptop

global.nix

@@ -300,6 +300,7 @@
 
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       ripgrep
+      fd
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