You could do what they do in The Expanse. Spin the planet fast enough that you have artificial gravity, and build upside-down housing as you now fall away from the center.
Dishwashers do a pre-wash to get most of the big stuff off, then a main wash to finish up. If you use the capsule-things, there's only soap for the main wash.
If your dishwasher has two compartments, then put detergent in both as one is for the pre-wash and one for the main wash.
If it doesn't have two compartments, then just put some detergent loose with the dishes for the pre-wash.
Is it really that ridiculous? One man forced the Senate to never vote on a Supreme Court Justice, and they have the constitutional obligation to do that.
You should have some understanding of the nix language to use it, but I wouldn't worry too too much.
I would also start by installing nix and home-manager on top of whatever distro you already use. For some config, you need to specify things in nix, but for things in home-manager, for example, you can usually either use nix or point to a toml or conf or whatever file.
I prefer to come at it from an immediate utility level, and I think a good place to start with that is home-manager.
You can install nix and home-manager on any Linux distribution or MacOs. It lets you, in a single place, specify what packages you want, services you want to run at the user level, and what config files you want in your home directory. For a lot of things, home-manager has built-in config options, but you can also specify arbitrary config files.
Then, you can take this one file to a new computer, and with no other config, have everything set-up the way you like it.
NixOs allows you to do this for your whole system.
It also has a bunch of other benefits, which tie-in to the jargon you bring up. But if you want to check it out, I'd worry about that later.
Patents expire after, what, 20 years? I'd be happy with an open source printer based on 20 year old technology.