diff --git a/nix/configurations/hetzner_benchmark/nixos/sane-nix.nix b/nix/configurations/hetzner_benchmark/nixos/sane-nix.nix
index 54f76994..3419eae6 100644
--- a/nix/configurations/hetzner_benchmark/nixos/sane-nix.nix
+++ b/nix/configurations/hetzner_benchmark/nixos/sane-nix.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
 # Protect my system from running out of storage or memory
-let
-  totalStorage = 500;
-in
 {
+  # 500GB Storage
   nix.settings = {
-    min-free = builtins.ceil (totalStorage * 0.2) * 1024 * 1024 * 1024;
-    max-free = builtins.ceil (totalStorage * 0.3) * 1024 * 1024 * 1024;
+    min-free = 50 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024;
+    max-free = 100 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024;
   };
 
   systemd.services.nix-daemon.serviceConfig = {
diff --git a/nix/configurations/vanadium.nix b/nix/configurations/vanadium.nix
index 99d9c96d..2f4bec34 100644
--- a/nix/configurations/vanadium.nix
+++ b/nix/configurations/vanadium.nix
@@ -94,7 +94,6 @@ in
     ./vanadium/nixos/input.nix
 
     ./vanadium/nixos/misc.nix
-    ./vanadium/nixos/remote-builders.nix
 
     ./vanadium/nixos/display.nix
     ./vanadium/nixos/gui.nix
diff --git a/nix/configurations/vanadium/home/programs.nix b/nix/configurations/vanadium/home/programs.nix
index 74c8bed8..32db4e26 100644
--- a/nix/configurations/vanadium/home/programs.nix
+++ b/nix/configurations/vanadium/home/programs.nix
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
   home.packages = [
     pkgs.ghc # my favorite calculator
 
-    pkgs.lsr # fast ls with io_uring
     pkgs.nmap
     pkgs.stow
     pkgs.zip
diff --git a/nix/configurations/vanadium/nixos/remote-builders.nix b/nix/configurations/vanadium/nixos/remote-builders.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 87a21592..00000000
--- a/nix/configurations/vanadium/nixos/remote-builders.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-let
-  supportedFeatures = [
-    "nixos-test"
-    "benchmark"
-    "big-parallel"
-    "kvm"
-  ];
-in
-{pkgs, ...}:
-{
-  nix.buildMachines = [
-    # NOTE: these hosts need to be put in the .ssh/config of root.
-    # https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Distributed_build#Recommended_setup:_multi-user_Nix_local_%E2%80%93%3E_multi-user_Nix_remote
-    {
-      hostName = "pancake";
-      sshUser = "remotebuild";
-      speedFactor = 2;
-      system = pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system;
-      inherit supportedFeatures;
-    }
-    {
-      hostName = "hetzner_benchmark";
-      sshUser = "remotebuild";
-      speedFactor = 12;
-      system = pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system;
-      inherit supportedFeatures;
-    }
-  ];
-}
diff --git a/nix/configurations/vanadium/nixos/sane-nix.nix b/nix/configurations/vanadium/nixos/sane-nix.nix
index bb710e8e..83c080d8 100644
--- a/nix/configurations/vanadium/nixos/sane-nix.nix
+++ b/nix/configurations/vanadium/nixos/sane-nix.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
 # Protect my system from running out of storage or memory
-let
-  totalStorage = 930;
-in
 {
   nix.settings = {
-    min-free = builtins.ceil (totalStorage * 0.2) * 1024 * 1024 * 1024;
-    max-free = builtins.ceil (totalStorage * 0.3) * 1024 * 1024 * 1024;
+    min-free = 50 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024;
+    max-free = 100 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024;
   };
 
   systemd.services.nix-daemon.serviceConfig = {
diff --git a/nix/configurations/vanadium/overlay.nix b/nix/configurations/vanadium/overlay.nix
index a73ecd0c..169bf13b 100644
--- a/nix/configurations/vanadium/overlay.nix
+++ b/nix/configurations/vanadium/overlay.nix
@@ -16,14 +16,6 @@ infuse {
     ./patches/helix/W-as-write.patch
   ];
 
-  btop.__output.patches.__append = [
-    (final.fetchpatch {
-      name = "btrfs-io-graph";
-      url = "https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/aristocratos/btop/pull/1285.patch";
-      hash = "sha256-za6B1EiOV1JqKMJwrNQo43RKChw+C4mmC8pcoxLLau4=";
-    })
-  ];
-
   # TODO:
   # pinned branch of https://github.com/astrand/xclip/tree/xerror
   # use this until #43 gets resolved properly
diff --git a/nix/homeModules/common/btop/btop.conf b/nix/homeModules/common/btop/btop.conf
index c1973464..626f09c7 100644
--- a/nix/homeModules/common/btop/btop.conf
+++ b/nix/homeModules/common/btop/btop.conf
@@ -184,7 +184,8 @@ disk_free_priv = False
 show_io_stat = True
 
 #* Toggles io mode for disks, showing big graphs for disk read/write speeds.
-io_mode = True
+# This doesn't seem to have an effect when using btrfs. I'd rather see the disk usage.
+io_mode = False
 
 #* Set to True to show combined read/write io graphs in io mode.
 io_graph_combined = False
diff --git a/nix/homeModules/common/fish/aliasesAbbrs.nix b/nix/homeModules/common/fish/aliasesAbbrs.nix
index 8affff1d..863510f6 100644
--- a/nix/homeModules/common/fish/aliasesAbbrs.nix
+++ b/nix/homeModules/common/fish/aliasesAbbrs.nix
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   programs.fish = {
     shellAbbrs = lib.mkMerge [
       (lib.mkIf pkgs.stdenv.isLinux {
-        "," = "nix-shell --command $SHELL -p";
+        "," = "nix-shell -p";
       })
     ];
 
diff --git a/nix/homeModules/common/fish/functions/ls.fish b/nix/homeModules/common/fish/functions/ls.fish
deleted file mode 100644
index 785ac319..00000000
--- a/nix/homeModules/common/fish/functions/ls.fish
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-function ls
-    if type -q lsr
-        command lsr $argv
-    else
-        command ls $argv
-    end
-end
diff --git a/nix/homeModules/common/fish/functions/nix.fish b/nix/homeModules/common/fish/functions/nix.fish
deleted file mode 100644
index 488220e9..00000000
--- a/nix/homeModules/common/fish/functions/nix.fish
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-function nix
-    if [ $(count $argv) -lt 1 ]
-        command nix $argv
-    end
-    and if [ $argv[1] = "build" -o $argv[1] = "shell" ] && type -q nom
-        nom $argv
-    else
-        command nix $argv
-    end
-end
-