 
 (setq gc-cons-threshold (* 100 1048576))
 
-(setq use-package-always-defer t
-      use-package-always-ensure nil
-      use-package-ignore-unknown-keywords t
-      use-package-verbose nil
-      use-package-compute-statistics t)
-
 (when (boundp 'read-process-output-max)
   ;; This is to speedup LSP. Increase the amount of data which Emacs
   ;; reads from the process. Again the emacs default is too low 4k

         shell-command-switch "-lc"
         with-editor-emacsclient-executable "/etc/profiles/per-user/aim/bin/emacsclient")
  (global-set-key "\M-`" 'other-frame))

(defvar use-nix-epkgs (or (string= system-name "mba")
                          (string= system-name "x1c")))

(unless (functionp 'json-serialize)
  (error "**** you don't have a json-serialize built-in function ****"))

(use-package x509-mode)

(use-package pinentry
  :demand t
  :commands (pinentry-start)
  :config
  (setq epa-pinentry-mode 'loopback) ; prevent GUI input
