Ruben Schade  πŸ”° πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί

@rubenerd@bsd.network
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Hi πŸ‘‹ 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. πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ

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
Omakehttps://rubenerd.com/omake.html
Scrolling through my timeline and seeing evidence that people care about the world makes me feel good.

Reheated some food thinking the topping was cheese, took a big bite, and it was... mould. Then for some reason I instinctively swallowed it instead of spitting it out.

Happy Monday! I... um, don't feel great.

New barista at this coffee shop: "I've got an order for Chris"

Kiwi: "[mumbling] for Chrus?"

New barista: "This was for Chris. A flat white"

Kiwi: "[mumbling] I'm Chrus, and [mumbling] flat white"

New barista: "I... I think this was for you then?"

Kiwi: "[mumbling] Chrus [mumbling]" *walks out*

I know I've been mentioning @davidgerard here a lot recently, but his stuff has been super useful.

Pivot to AI comes out every weekday, and succinctly summarises the latest AI guff. Each episode covers one topic, which also makes them easy to share.

https://www.youtube.com/@PivotToAI

Pivot to AI

Deflating the AI bubble

YouTube

I still can’t even.

My father in law’s latest haul! A beige Athlon tower, some early 2000s books, an Apple ADB keyboard with Alps switches, and an original IBM XT 5160 motherboard with all memory banks populated ;w;

If I were a depraved billionaire buying companies to satisfy my whims, I’d just put 3.5mm audio jacks back in everything
Local op shop had this among a bunch of travel books. Published 1961! Instabuy.

It's really weird today, I'm both incredibly pessimistic about the current state of the industry... but I just wrote a bit of code and went to get a coffee and am in high spirits. It's like my brain can't decide what to feel.

I'm sure this isn't as unusual or interesting as I'm making it out to be.

Why do I get the feeling that someone on the fediverse wants this bad boi?
https://www.facebook.com/share/1HpxGXD29S/