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From memory, they got sued for patent infringement from a patent troll, and had to end the project(at least as far as the hardware goes). No idea how much or if any of it is true. The project is still available as open source. Runs reasonably well on a raspberry pi. Setup can be a little finicky for the microphone.
Nix has an ephemeral command to “install” packages to try out before installing permanently.
nix-shell -p <package>
will install the package, and drop you into an ephemeral shell to test it out. Exit the shell and it’s gone.It’s also possible to install permanently straight from the CLI, but that ruins composability. To each his own.
My bigger problem w nix is the lack of FHS and the hoops you have to jump thru to get a non standard app to work.