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Location: California

Remote: Yes (potentially hybrid)

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Infrastructure, systems administration, DevOps, Linux, Terraform, AWS, configuration management, docker, python, monitoring/metrics (prometheus, grafana, et al)

Résumé/CV: https://localko.st/cv.pdf

Email: hn@localko.st

Have been exploring a different (non-tech) career path the last few years (since covid) and doing some volunteer work in South America and Mexico. Potentially willing to relocate if role is in Southeast Asia, otherwise only looking for remote.

Location: California

Remote: Yes (potentially hybrid)

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Infrastructure, systems administration, DevOps, Linux, Terraform, AWS, configuration management, docker, python, monitoring/metrics (prometheus, grafana, et al)

Résumé/CV: https://localko.st/cv.pdf

Email: hn@localko.st

Have been exploring a different (non-tech) career path the last few years (since covid) and doing some volunteer work in South America and Mexico. Potentially willing to relocate if role is in Southeast Asia, otherwise only looking for remote.

> Nix and NixOS ruined me. It’s hard to go back.

I don't know. Not much about all this setup feels appealing. The apparent learning curve for nix looks...steep. I've been using linux for a pretty long time (I think kernel 2.1 was fresh when I started). I've done the slackwares and debians and redhats and arches and gentoos etc. And I have zero desire to put such effort into having a working system.

I realize the post is prefaced with a warning that it's over-engineered. I guess my question is- can I use nix without going so hard down the rabbit hole? I don't think I have the time to invest like my gentoo (read: teenage) years.

I'm pretty satisfied with doing a minimal install of fedora, setting up i3 and firefox and calling it a day. Maybe I'm just older and more crotchety than I thought.

(Incoming downvotes. Sorry I can't contain myself. Yes, it's sarcasm and I hate that I feel like I have to preface this)

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  improve  
    intransitive verb
        To raise to a more desirable or more excellent quality or condition; make better.
    intransitive verb
        To increase the productivity or value of (land or property).
    intransitive verb
        To become better.
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Either we need a new definition, or start calling it GNU/systemd

edit: What I'm actually trying to get at is- "are all distros that implement systemd expected to jump on every major architectural change that Lennart&co come up with?" Is this not asking a lot? That's a ton of weight and a lot decisions that have been traditionally owned by the distros. Maybe nobody actually wants to think about this stuff, though.

> Secondly, the GameCube only has 24MB (and some specialized areas) of RAM across a 4GB address space, meaning most memory addresses have no RAM backing them!

Is this common with consoles or anywhere else? I knew that there's very little RAM on consoles, but is there a reason for having the large address space available? (possibly convenience?)