Just a technomancer exploring the fediverse and decoding the universe. Part of the resistance against Roko's basilisk.
#Musician. #Developer. #Matterhacker. #Infrastructure and #Automation is my bread and butter, and I have a hunch there might be something to this AI thing.
#Progressive. #Secular #Collectivist. #Atheist. #Humanist.
He/Him. 🇺🇸​❤️​🇺🇦​.
I feel so soap-boxy lately, maybe because I’m teaching a class, but here’s another kernel of truth I’ll throw at y’all about communities:
If you are trying to get new people,especially diverse people and young people into your hobby, and your first reaction is to show off your really expensive kit and say how much it cost, you are gatekeeping mega mode, even if you’re just trying to share your interest. Nobody wants to hear there is a $1500 (or $5000) barrier to entry to their new hobby. It’s demoralizing, not educational, and they’re just gonna leave.
Happens in bicycles, drones, photography, astronomy, gaming, marksmanship… you name it, there’s a rich older white dude ready to show off his six grand investment in a hobby to a college student with a three digit bank account.
Debian Stable is on just about everything baremetal I run these days if I have a say, except for my gaming system which I recently switched to Arch.
On my workstation I run a hypervisor that lets me run VM's as needed, often find myself in Arch or Debian Testing.
I used to use the redhat family of products about as much as debian, but IBM made a convincing argument and dissuaded me of that.
For containers, it's typically alpine, but I'm missing Container/CoreOS. Honestly though it's a pretty wide variety, including debian.
Appreciate the encouragement! Thankfully I'm not new to linux, this is more of a back-to-basics refresher + something that's always been on my to do list, but still, (re)learning a lot of things, including many I've forgotten or misunderstood. Definitely worth it so far imo.
Sidenote, I now have a much better appreciation for how much time/compute it takes to compile linux.
And yeah, love this place and just how many skilled people and knowledge is out here.
Oh wow, didn't know there was a wiki/FAQ etc. Good looking out.
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