I started fairly recently (probably somewhere between nine and seven years ago; time isn’t my strong suit, cut me some slack) on Debian. Now I’m on Arch Linux.

  • Aniki 🌱🌿
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    911 months ago

    In university in 2000. Now I am a Linux DevOps Engineer.

    Currently writing some python so we can get a report out of our shiny new harbor docker registry.

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        10 months ago

        For sure! Most DevOps jobs are like that. Honestly, my company cannot hire competent Linux admins fast enough. If you have zero experience but a sweet portfolio you’ll probably get hired. The intern I just got up to speed has zero work experience at all.

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            10 months ago

            If I was still in uni I’d put all my time into software engineering and go straight to making software. DevOps is fun but you’ll make way more money being a software engineer. My code is shit compared to a legit developer.

            [e] actually I think embedded linux systems are going to continue to become more and more the rage. Low power, super efficient. Think huge advancements in robots in a very short while when absolutely every sensor can run a ghz SOC a quarter the size of a fingernail.

            Get, good, at, C.

            I haven’t touched it in decades but I’m coming back to it so I can make Adruino/ESP32 projects.

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              If I did it again I would go into mycology and run around forests to collect samples, while some forests still exist.
              @aniki @Cwilliams

              • Aniki 🌱🌿
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                110 months ago

                You do that after you sell your startup to google and cash out for the rest of your life.

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                  -110 months ago

                  There is much more to life than being a screw in the machine that is killing all of us.
                  @aniki