Ruben Schade (taking break)

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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 (taking break)Jun 11

(On social media break while travelling, but this is my ongoing Vietnam 2026 blog post series if anyone is interested. Trying to chill but also so much to see/do hah).

https://www.rubenerd.au/tag/vietnam2026/

Rubenerd: Vietnam2026

By Ruben Schade in Eora/Sydney, Australia.

Rubenerd
Ruben Schade (taking break)May 30

Married! (Only took us… 12 years?!) 🎉

Update: thank you everyone! ♡ We’re off to Vietnam again to celebrate. Catch you all later.

Ruben Schade (taking break)May 28
Show threadAnnika BackstromMay 27
@fshinneman @AkaSci Who could forget the standard calculator disclaimer, "Calculators are based on AI and can make mistakes. Please verify all output."
Ruben Schade (taking break)May 28

Need to recycle some hazardous stuff and ewaste. Hey look, the council has a community recycling site!

> The CRC is a drive-through facility only.

I… huh? So if you’re one of the millions of Australians who don’t drive… off to landfill? What an unserious scheme.

https://www.hornsby.nsw.gov.au/Property/Waste-and-recycling/Recycling/Community-Recycling-Centre

Community Recycling Centre

The Thornleigh Community Recycling Centre (CRC) makes it easy for residents to safely dispose of problem wastes that cannot go into household garbage bins or kerbside collection.

Ruben Schade (taking break)May 27

Sonny Rollins 😢 🎷

Saw him in Singapore in the early 2000s with my dad. He was just as incredible as you'd expect. What a legend.

Ruben Schade (taking break)May 26
mhoyeMay 26
Regrettably, I don't think the executives who reorganized their entire companies around wildly oversubsidized code generators at the expense of things like "understanding our own systems" "meeting customer's needs" are going to be the people who end up struggling financially because of their catastrophically shortsighted incompetence.
Ruben Schade (taking break)May 26
Shannon PrickettMay 26
If some cookies are essential for the functioning of your website, you need a better website.
Ruben Schade (taking break)May 25

Pardon the French, but fuck I love #NetBSD.

Had a long train ride home, so SSH’d into my Shonen Jump box at home, then into my old Solaris box, then my Pentium 1. It all still works, and it’s wonderful. Wanted to try something, built a little chroot, done. It’s all so predictable and consistent and wonderful.

And… increasingly rare.

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* My old Sun box. Which at some point ran Solaris/SunOS. You know what I mean.

Ruben Schade (taking break)May 25
There are a surprising number of people who are oddly proud of the fact they don’t know how to operate shoe horns.
Ruben Schade (taking break)May 24

Got some more boxes that fit into the IKEA Billy bookshelves (when doors are attached).

I’ll finally be able to find “the box” with SATA cables, and disks, and motherboard parts, and and and…! … without the few plastic tubs just labelled “cable crap”