diff --git a/configuration.nix b/configuration.nix
index 41757cf..aba1c68 100644
--- a/configuration.nix
+++ b/configuration.nix
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@
     LC_TIME = "en_US.UTF-8";
   };
 
-  networking.hostName = "imladris"; # Define your hostname.
+  # set by the configurator
+  # networking.hostName = "imladris"; # Define your hostname.
   networking.networkmanager.enable = true;
   services.resolved.enable = true;
   services.resolved.fallbackDns = [
@@ -181,6 +182,7 @@
     bitwarden
     brave
     cloc
+    cmake
     cmus
     cscope
     direnv
@@ -217,6 +219,7 @@
     lagrange
     libfixposix
     libzip
+    man-pages
     mercurial
     mg
     mutt
@@ -238,6 +241,7 @@
     scdoc
     scrot
     silver-searcher
+    sqlite-interactive
     stumpwm
     syncthing
     tailscale
@@ -268,7 +272,7 @@ ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="backlight", GROUP="video", MODE="0660"
   };
   programs.ssh.askPassword =  "ksshaskpass";
 
-  nix.settings.experimental-features = [ "nix-command" ];
+  nix.settings.experimental-features = [ "nix-command" "flakes" ];
 
   # This value determines the NixOS release from which the default
   # settings for stateful data, like file locations and database versions
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b5c1b64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+{
+  description = "stolen from neutralinsomniac's nix config";
+
+  inputs = {
+    nixpkgs.url = "nixpkgs/nixos-24.11";
+    nixpkgs-unstable.url = "nixpkgs/nixos-unstable";
+
+    nix-index-database.url = "github:nix-community/nix-index-database";
+    nix-index-database.inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
+
+    nixos-hardware.url = "github:NixOS/nixos-hardware/master";
+  };
+
+  outputs = inputs@{
+    self,
+    nixpkgs,
+    nix-index-database,
+    ...
+  }:
+  let
+    lib = nixpkgs.lib;
+  in {
+    nixosConfigurations = lib.genAttrs [ "imladris" "orion" ] (hostName: lib.nixosSystem {
+      system = "x86_64-linux";
+      specialArgs = { inherit inputs; };
+      modules = [
+        { networking.hostName = hostName; }
+        ./hw/${hostName}
+        ./configuration.nix
+        nix-index-database.nixosModules.nix-index
+        { programs.nix-index-database.comma.enable = true; }
+      ];
+    });
+  };
+}
diff --git a/hw/imladris/default.nix b/hw/imladris/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e40436b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hw/imladris/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{ inputs, ... }:
+
+{
+  imports = [
+    ./hardware-configuration.nix
+  ];
+}
diff --git a/hw/imladris/hardware-configuration.nix b/hw/imladris/hardware-configuration.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..36dccd2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hw/imladris/hardware-configuration.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# Do not modify this file!  It was generated by ‘nixos-generate-config’
+# and may be overwritten by future invocations.  Please make changes
+# to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix instead.
+{ config, lib, pkgs, modulesPath, ... }:
+
+{
+  imports =
+    [ (modulesPath + "/installer/scan/not-detected.nix")
+    ];
+
+  boot.initrd.availableKernelModules = [ "xhci_pci" "nvme" "usb_storage" "sd_mod" ];
+  boot.initrd.kernelModules = [ ];
+  boot.kernelModules = [ ];
+  boot.extraModulePackages = [ ];
+
+  fileSystems."/" =
+    { device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/a646409d-193c-47b7-a38c-33e08f1bf3ae";
+      fsType = "ext4";
+    };
+
+  boot.initrd.luks.devices."luks-41752b4f-4f27-4459-9087-8a8ba57e8e65".device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/41752b4f-4f27-4459-9087-8a8ba57e8e65";
+
+  fileSystems."/boot" =
+    { device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/A3CB-584F";
+      fsType = "vfat";
+      options = [ "fmask=0077" "dmask=0077" ];
+    };
+
+  swapDevices = [ ];
+
+  # Enables DHCP on each ethernet and wireless interface. In case of scripted networking
+  # (the default) this is the recommended approach. When using systemd-networkd it's
+  # still possible to use this option, but it's recommended to use it in conjunction
+  # with explicit per-interface declarations with `networking.interfaces.<interface>.useDHCP`.
+  networking.useDHCP = lib.mkDefault true;
+  # networking.interfaces.enp0s31f6.useDHCP = lib.mkDefault true;
+  # networking.interfaces.wlp0s20f3.useDHCP = lib.mkDefault true;
+
+  nixpkgs.hostPlatform = lib.mkDefault "x86_64-linux";
+  hardware.cpu.intel.updateMicrocode = lib.mkDefault config.hardware.enableRedistributableFirmware;
+}
diff --git a/hw/orion/default.nix b/hw/orion/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e40436b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hw/orion/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{ inputs, ... }:
+
+{
+  imports = [
+    ./hardware-configuration.nix
+  ];
+}
diff --git a/hw/orion/hardware-configuration.nix b/hw/orion/hardware-configuration.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a7ea437
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hw/orion/hardware-configuration.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# Do not modify this file!  It was generated by ‘nixos-generate-config’
+# and may be overwritten by future invocations.  Please make changes
+# to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix instead.
+{ config, lib, pkgs, modulesPath, ... }:
+
+{
+  imports =
+    [ (modulesPath + "/installer/scan/not-detected.nix")
+    ];
+
+  boot.initrd.availableKernelModules = [ "xhci_pci" "thunderbolt" "ahci" "nvme" "usb_storage" "usbhid" "sd_mod" "rtsx_pci_sdmmc" ];
+  boot.initrd.kernelModules = [ ];
+  boot.kernelModules = [ "kvm-intel" ];
+  boot.extraModulePackages = [ ];
+
+  fileSystems."/" =
+    { device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/896531dc-7a85-4b4b-a739-404a9881427c";
+      fsType = "ext4";
+    };
+
+  boot.initrd.luks.devices."luks-5c5e94fc-f710-4578-a5f6-3a244efe5d3b".device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/5c5e94fc-f710-4578-a5f6-3a244efe5d3b";
+
+  fileSystems."/boot" =
+    { device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/B165-2F51";
+      fsType = "vfat";
+      options = [ "fmask=0077" "dmask=0077" ];
+    };
+
+  swapDevices = [ ];
+
+  # Enables DHCP on each ethernet and wireless interface. In case of scripted networking
+  # (the default) this is the recommended approach. When using systemd-networkd it's
+  # still possible to use this option, but it's recommended to use it in conjunction
+  # with explicit per-interface declarations with `networking.interfaces.<interface>.useDHCP`.
+  networking.useDHCP = lib.mkDefault true;
+  # networking.interfaces.enp89s0.useDHCP = lib.mkDefault true;
+  # networking.interfaces.wlo1.useDHCP = lib.mkDefault true;
+
+  nixpkgs.hostPlatform = lib.mkDefault "x86_64-linux";
+  hardware.cpu.intel.updateMicrocode = lib.mkDefault config.hardware.enableRedistributableFirmware;
+}