Life was easy when you first started out on NixOS with a single machine. Then you decided you want to have your configs available for macOS as well. Then you wanted to support an arbitrary number of hosts. Then you wanted to group modules more naturally. After some trials and many errors, here is where I ended up to achieve all three.
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