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seninha

Where I am from: Brazil, somewhere around the capital Brasilia. Living at the surroundings of a capital city sucks; everything is centralized there and the car traffic accumulates as you approach it.

What I do for a living: Currently unemployed for one year after two years of a paid internship. I also dropped college (was doing computer science) and took the year quite away from much online activity. Am looking into a job now; maybe on sysadmin or embedded C dev, or something a UNIX greybeard can apply his wizardry at.

What I do for hobby: I regret I'd never cultivated much enjoyable out-of-computer activity at spare times. Weirdly, I was never into gaming as someone chronically at computer is supposed to be. I rarely play anything more gamey than solitaire twice a month. Now I try to do aviculture & birdwatching, walking & working out, and am trying to get into cooking.

Why BSD: Moved from Linux to BSD at the time I was (re)learning C. OpenBSD manuals on C standard library were so better than what I had at Linux that I'd rather have a browser tab on https://man.openbsd.org than a terminal emulator window on man(1). Utilities and filters from OpenBSD were also the first real-life codes I read and understood. It was also reading and reimplementing one of them that I reported my first bug (an infinite loop on OpenBSD vis(1)). Moving to this system was then inevitable.

pfr

agh I don't come back to this thread often enough. Great to see another Aussie in the room, not that I'm at all patriotic.. I reckon you've probably have a few pairs Blundstone's by the sound of ya 🪃

BaronBS

Where are you from: Bananil (A.K.A. Brasil), but I live in Malta.
What do you do for a living: AML,F&P & TFP segment in the igaming sector, that's all I can say about it.
What are your hobbies: "BSD+DIY computing" enthusiast and "magic shrooms" sommelier, I also like to talk about thing I don't know, in pubs, from time to time.
What are you listening to lately: from The Slakers & The Specials to JollyRoger & Scarecrow Jack. #KeepGrooving

IrisFeeling

pfr Where are you from:

Germany

pfr What do you do for a living:

I'm NEET (not in employment, education or training), have been such for quite a while and will probably be that for the foreseeable future too.

pfr What are your hobbies:

I program stuff, mostly graphics lately (with OpenGL) and little shell scripts. I don't play much games, but when I do, it's Japanese visual novels and Minecraft. I probably spend a considerable amount of time posting on and lurking message boards and forums too. When I'm not at my computer, what happens rarely enough though, I read Manga or play card games like Solitaire with myself.

arpnsh

Where are you from: Indonesia, East Jakarta
What do you do for a living: Student at Bina Sarana University
What are your hobbies: i like exploring technology also like programming, i used to do a lot of calisthenics, now i am lazy 😄
What are you listening to lately: prog rock, Porcupine Tree

JuvenalUrbino

arpnsh What are you listening to lately: prog rock, Porcupine Tree

A person of culture. I last saw them live in Milan, a couple of yesrs ago, after the reunion.

oui

My post is due for an update, hard to believe 5 years has passed..

Still a Swedish guy living in Japan. Interface designer by trade.
My hobbies have expanded a bit towards natural living and movement.
Something I've really gotten into lately is fermenting my own food.
Has been truly life changing. I mainly do milk kefir and sauerkraut.
Is there someone else here that ferments food?

Small list of my main interests:

Minimalism
Wellness
Calisthenics
Life close to nature
Simple, small software
Portable, small hardware
Text interfaces
Low tech
Reading / writing
Fermenting food

qrvhh

Hey everyone, I'm new here, so time for an introduction!

From: Central-Eastern Europe (I know, that's not a thing, let me cope)
What I do for a living: I'm a Linux/Unix SysAdmin and currently getting more and more into DevOps and Cloud
My hobbies: reading, podcasts, cooking, learning languages (currently working towards C1 German and HSK4 Mandarin Chinese), tinkering with old-tech (like my old T60 ThinkPad), calisthenics, decluttering/minimalism and occasionally writing
Why BSD? I've been interested in Linux virtually my whole life (my computing journey started with SuSE in the early 2000s), and after starting working in the field I slowly went deeper and deeper into the Unix rabbit-hole. I even have nostalgia for Sun's Solaris although I've never actually used it. This was kind of how I learned about BSDs, and recently I've decided to give it a proper spin. I also feel like the BSD community, being smaller than the Linux one, is a friendlier place with less elitism - that, or I just haven't been part of it for long enough, but I'm really hoping it's the first 😃

oui Is there someone else here that ferments food?

Yes! We ferment cucumbers quite often, it's kind of a traditional thing here. Also, ever since I've visited South-Korea 2 years ago I've been wanting to make kimchi at home. I've yet to find the time and ingredients to do so.
How is kefir working out for you? It's one of my favourite foods (drinks?) and would love to make it at home!

oui

qrvhh That's a fine set of hobbies you've got going on there, welcome!

Awesome to hear you are fermenting cucumbers, haven't got to them myself yet but cucumbers are on my to try soon list.

Kefir is working out great, I highly recommend trying to make it at home with real kefir grains and not the instant powders. It's a very quick and easy ferment, just some grains and milk in a jar and let it sit in room temperature for usually around 24-36h. My favorite part is since the grains are an active live culture of a bacteria/yeast, they'll just keep on making you kefir for a lifetime if you take care of them.

Feel free to ask about anything if you have any questions 😄

bones

Adding my thoughts here:

- Where are you from: Oregon

- What do you do for a living: Assistant manager of a natural foods store

- What are your hobbies: Cycling, particularly gravel riding and off-road touring. I don't like riding on the road as much these days, too many distracted drivers! I am an avid reader of actual books, no e-books, please. I like camping, hiking, and otherwise being outside as much as possible.

- What are you listening to lately: Whatever is playing on my favorite SomaFM stations: Metal Detector, DefCon Radio, Groove Salad, Tiki Time.

Other stuff:

I'm a pragmatic anarchist
I was both a MovNat Certified Trainer and a Primal Health Coach
I prefer simple, minimal, and low tech to complex, maximal, and high tech
I suck at ricing window manager environments, so mostly end up using XFCE
Why BSD? Tired and disillusioned with Linux, it's kind of a mess. But I still use Slackware.

KYLikesBSD

Hello all.

I am KY, and I am from Tamil Nadu, India. I develop software for a living.

My favourite ways to pass time are by reading books, listening to music, and gardening.

I am currently reading The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. My favourite genres are history, cosmology and metaphysics.

I have a varied taste in music, and like to listen to Indian independent music and classical music. My favourite independent artists are Parekh & Singh (though they recently disbanded), Dualist Inquiry, The F16s, and Tame Impala. The classical artists I am currently listening to are Ravi Shankar and his youngest disciple Rishabh Rikhiram Sharma.

I joined this forum as I recently got into the concept of constrained computing, and as part of it I am reviving old computers from the 90s and early 2000s and bringing them to the current era with the help of NetBSD. This place seems to have the most active community around NetBSD (outside their mailing list), and figured I will be needing their help sooner or later.

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