{
  description = "a shared collection of dots by cydiralis and beanigen";

  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
    home-manager.url = "github:nix-community/home-manager";
    home-manager.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    nix-index-database.url = "github:nix-community/nix-index-database";
    nix-index-database.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    jovian.url = "github:Jovian-Experiments/Jovian-NixOS";
  };

  outputs = inputs@{ self, nixpkgs, home-manager, jovian, ...}:{
    nixosConfigurations."patio" = nixpkgs.lib.nixosSystem {
      system = "x86_64-linux";
      specialArgs = { inherit inputs; };
      modules = [
        ./base/patio
        jovian.nixosModules.jovian
        home-manager.nixosModules.home-manager {
          home-manager.backupFileExtension = "hm-backup";
          #imports = [ inputs.nix-index-database.hmModules.nix-index ];
          home-manager.extraSpecialArgs = {
            inherit inputs;
            vars = {
              isNixOS = true;
              class = "handheld";
              user = "alyx"; #cursed way of setting username
            };
          };
          home-manager.useGlobalPkgs = true;
          home-manager.useUserPackages = true;
	  home-manager.sharedModules = [{ imports = with inputs; [ nix-index-database.hmModules.nix-index ];}];
          home-manager.users.alyx = ./home;
        }
      ];
    };
  };
}