Ruben Schade  🔰 🇦🇺

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Hi 👋 I’m a human, blogger, technical writer, IaaS engineer, weeb traveller, urbanist, third-culture kid, profile list enumerator, and retro computator in Sydney, Australia, formerly Singapore. He/them. Friend. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Runs #NetBSD, #FreeBSD, #illumos. Slings #Xen and #QEMU at work. Co-host of #BSDNow!

I am bad at replying; sorry.

Webloghttps://rubenerd.com
Lunchboxhttps://codeberg.org/rubenerd/lunchbox
Landshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eora
Wikihttps://www.sasara.moe/wiki/
Ruben Schade  🔰 🇦🇺14h ago

I know when my career has shifted when having a head cold and sounding gross has a material impact on my job.

Webinars, client calls, and a podcast? "Mate, you sound crap, you okay?!"

Ruben Schade  🔰 🇦🇺15h ago
Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️16h ago

PSA:

1. If you are not silly, it is vital you become silly

2. If you are silly, you must stay silly

2. If you used to be silly but have stopped, you must make all efforts to return to silliness

Ruben Schade  🔰 🇦🇺1d ago

Just passed a coffee shop in Lidcombe called 1 Litre Coffee.

Mmm… 1 Litre of coffee. ☕️

#Sydney

Ruben Schade  🔰 🇦🇺1d ago

I don't know who needs to hear this, but Kate is an *awesome* editor. It's not often included by default in KDE distros, but it really should be. Even runs on my work Mac!

I still use Vim/nvi for editing configs etc, but am slowly moving over to Kate for everything else.

https://kate-editor.org/

Kate - Get an Edge in Editing

Kate is a modern text editor built on the KDE Frameworks and Qt.

Kate
Ruben Schade  🔰 🇦🇺2d ago

In my head canon, Jim Bergerac and Tom Barnaby are the same person.

Maybe he changed his name after his Jersey shenanigans. 🇯🇪

Ruben Schade  🔰 🇦🇺2d ago

Hey, you. Yes, you! Have you bought @brynet a pizza yet? You should, he's awesome.

https://brynet.ca/wallofpizza.html

brynet's something somewhat site - pizza wall of fame

brynet's something somewhat site - pizza wall of fame

Ruben Schade  🔰 🇦🇺2d ago
Railway Gazette International2d ago
App launched to make tram travel easier for autistic people https://www.railwaygazette.com/accessibility-and-inclusion/app-launched-to-make-tram-travel-easier-for-autistic-people/70629.article
App launched to make tram travel easier for autistic people

ITALY: The Via Blu app has been launched to help autistic people make tram journeys more independently by providing tools to reduce anxiety, uncertainty and sensory overload.

Railway Gazette International
Ruben Schade  🔰 🇦🇺2d ago
Chester Wisniewski 🇨🇦2d ago
If you thought blockchain was an inefficient disaster of an idea for currency before now, wait until you see how it will need to work in a post-quantum era. Holy cow.
Ruben Schade  🔰 🇦🇺2d ago
Feeling so vindicated for thinking that Harry Potter was a bit rubbish when I was a kid.
Ruben Schade  🔰 🇦🇺4d ago

I’ve decided to spend more time talking about and sharing things that are awesome.

FreeBSD is especially awesome for storage and hypervisors.

NetBSD is especially awesome for anything old and small, but can still grow with you.

Xen is especially awesome as a Linux hypervisor.

Tribblix is an awesome illumos OS, not just for those nostalgic for Solaris tooling.

OM System (ne. Olympus) still make especially awesome fun cameras.

Coffee is especially awesome for taste and alertness.

FLAC, turns out, is especially awesome when your ears have been fixed up.

This is a non-exhaustive list.