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TronNerd82

Where are you from?
United States of "WTF IS A KILOMETER"
What do you do for a living?
Gainfully unemployed at the moment, looking into content creation as a potential form of income, or at the very least, a fun hobby. If that doesn't pan out, working as a C programmer is my backup.
What are your hobbies?
Testing out different distros, *BSDs, and other OSes (but not Windows), making memes, watching Filthy Frank on YouTube, playing old video games, collecting comic books and cassettes, and petting my cat.
What are you listening to lately?
Mainly 90s death metal. Bands like Suffocation, Dying Fetus, Cannibal Corpse, Sinister, etc. One day I may finally get all my favorite death metal albums on cassette, but given the prices on some of them, the day I achieve that goal is the day Betamax becomes available in stores again.

remiliascarlet

TronNerd82 What do you do for a living?
Gainfully unemployed at the moment, looking into content creation as a potential form of income, or at the very least, a fun hobby. If that doesn't pan out, working as a C programmer is my backup.

Honestly, C programmer might be your better option.
YouTube/Twitch/some other video platform are all very saturated markets, it's very hard to get a sustainable income out of it these days.
And if you do get successful by any chance, ad revenue is very unsustainable as you get to deal with ever changing TOS's, adpocalypses, SJW's trying to deplatform you once you get too popular (they are just jealous), advertisers throwing less money in January and February (but more in December)

The changing TOS part might sound like it's a no big deal, but YouTube is notorious for that.
If you uploaded a video 15 years ago, and it was all within the TOS back then, and YouTube changes it today which renders that video no longer appropriate, they will still treat that 15 year old video as it if was uploaded a few minutes ago, and therefore give you a community guidelines strike over it, which in turn heavily damages your ad revenue stream.
And that's how I ended up getting banned from YouTube.

There are very few job openings for C programmers, but if there are, you at least get a sustainable income.

fromage

nothing special, i am swiss dude living in France (weird, i know). on the BSD front, I only use OpenBSD as router/fw.

why I joined? somehow, i love the indie aspect of the space and that forum medium are still alive.

thanks UnitedBSD

seankurtz

Where I am from - Austin, TX originally, but went to school in Dallas and am currently employed in Houston. So I've lived in most of the major cities in Texas for extended periods of time.

What I Do - Systems Programmer for a financial services firm. Yes, Mainframe systems programming usually. Involves a lot of C, Assembly, and gasp JCL, aka shell scripts from literal hell.

Why BSD - I got into Linux a long time ago and just found the transition to BSD to be natural after a certain amount of time. Especially as I became a better C programmer and started to really appreciate the traditional UNIX approach to things, I.e. rejection of bloat and reinventing the wheel, adherence to standards, kernel and system utilities and libraries all developed and distributed as one package, etc.

Hacking on the BSDs had been of immense value as well in helping me in my day job, where I work on a very (I'd argue to a fault) traditional kind of UNIX, and where being able to leverage the strict POSIX compliance of a lot of BSD based utilities is a godsend for porting and making the lives of other system programmers a little bit nicer.

Hobbies - Dancing/clubbing, EDM, classical music, journaling and fountain pens and other fancy writing paraphernalia. Volleyball. Extremely amateurish electronics projects. Reading (mostly non-fiction).

mccd

What I Do - Been working as a fullstack dev remotely while traveling. Recently quit my job to take a sabbatical where I try some startup ideas that won't necessarily be profitable but I also want to enrich and learn more CS.

What are your hobbies - Very into cooking, art, older movies, traveling, philosophy, calisthenics

Why BSD - I got into Linux in 2008 with Ubuntu 08.04. I got into it because of the 3D desktop cube, that blew my mind completely back then and I was really into tweaking and changing my desktop.

After high school I stopped messing around with Linux and switched to Mac. I kinda forgot about open source or why it mattered and became very focused on being productive and using tools that "just work" and makes the path of least resistance the lowest. Overtime came to appreciate simple software that was understandable, rather than just piling quick fixes on top of each other.

Last year work slowed down so I started revisiting Linux again. I got into Void Linux followed by NixOS/Guix. I like immutable OSes for servers because they solve a lot of issues, but I have to say I hate their complexity. Same with cloud infrastructure, super complex, overkill and hard to understand. I realized it is critical we can understand how our systems work, otherwise we are powerless and I started trying to simplify and use simpler systems in everything I do.

My search for simplicity lead me away from nix/guix to NetBSD and OpenBSD. Reading the Unix philosophy book got me even more hooked on BSDs. In general I like the "feel" of both OpenBSD and NetBSD. In the NetBSD source code I can actually understand a bit what is happening, even though I only did some C first year in uni. I like that the BSDs try to be simple. I love that they have a ton of documentation (sometimes I just wanna work somewhere without wifi). I also love the focus on portability, especially in a world where we need to buy less new stuff and reuse old stuff. In that sense I feel like I'm back to 2008, exploring and tweaking my desktop. It's been a lot of fun.

I've been looking for open source projects to contribute to, so I'm hoping to be able to do so with NetBSD at some point.

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

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