I moved from academia into working with linux. I did some selfhosting before and was well versed in linux. Look for sysadmin or devops roles – I did not know what devops was before I started this. Look for companies that are in process of moving to linux or recently has, they may be looking for increased workforce to handle to move or are in the process of replacing consultants with more permanent staff. Look for companies which have development in C, C++, maybe also rust? Chances are their software ay be running on linux in one way or another, and may need a devops and/or sysadmin. Some banks, companies doing embedded systems, industrial tools and machinery, are examples which fit here that I know of. Might not be the most interesting companies, but the work could be ok.

If you are looking to get a foot in in some open source project, then it is a bit different. I have almost happened to slide into some projects. Use a product, get to know it, read the issues. Maybe closed issues just to find a solved one and try to figure out why that solved it. Start solving open issues. If you think you have something to contribute when a project asks for input, leave a comment. See what sticks. Some projects may take years to get back to you and your contributions, others may ask you to review something after a few weeks if it clicks. That is my feeling at least, but I just have sporadic contributions, more well established folks may have more insight.

– [x] I’m in this picture and don’t like it.

I used to run linux in a vm on the work mac, which was fine. Then they managed to block it too. I tried a gentoo prefix, but did not work well enough to be usable on arm. It sucks.

Hm, I should have asked… When I had a similar problem I just unplugged disk by disk from my raidz2 to find the right one. Good that you found a better way.

I would recommend this too. This was the easiest to setup. I only had an issue with docker compose which made the pihole not being accessible while on wireguard. Once I put the pihole and wg-easy on the same docker network it started working.

We were moving between countries and could not bring it all. Transporting it would be the big hassle, and we dont need the like maybe some 100€ at most we could get for the stuff, so we put it up for free. Lots of people were bringing candy, store bought and even homemade, for the stuff they were getting. Very nice actually.

It may only be possible to say so because I have not used windows in 20ish years, but I find mac to be completely horrible.

Super slow. Even the arm ones, to switch to the workspace where my vscode windows are takes like 4 seconds, starting bash (I have gone through my bashrc like 10 times) takes several seconds. After a boot it takes minutes before everything is loaded in the settings, meaning some settings are not available directly after boot (why is the settings window modular and dynamic like that?)

The mouse speed and accelleration just feels like I’m stuck in butter. I have made some config change outside of the settings to speed up the mouse, but I have to reboot to make them take effect is insane. Accelleration is suppose to be off, but that disgusting buttery feeling is still there. If I switch to linux it is not.

They had an update where they broke ssh. They fucking broke ssh for like two months. How the fuck am I suppose to work on it?

Not having a proper distinction between left and right opt/cmd/control which makes adapting keyboard layout to your personal workflow hard as shit.

You have to like click everything and random shit grabs the window focus all the time. So many times I have switched workspace or something and it displayed it but the focus is still left on the laptop or something. Randomly you have to click on a window instead of just using a keybind to get there.

After a day at work, forced to use mac, I just have to start my linux machine, even if I do not have anything to do on it, just to feel sane again.

Tried this once, sort of. But it was in wmii. I switched workspace, and then my friend wanted the browser, so I say go ahead. He presses the little 2 down in the corner, I did not even know it was clickable, and that happens to be the workspace with the browser.

It does spell trouble, but you might be able to ask your ISP to give you a public IP in that case.

There is no auth needed for gh runners? Like a secret shared between them and the repo? I would guess repo secrets are not shared when forked… right?

Debian based. Debian? Based!

It say TailOS, not Tails though.

They should make a usb-port with a spring in it which can be released with eject. Until then I have to be content with just making sound effects when I run eject on other devices.

Bo Burnham - That Funny Feeling

Like a fairly realistic one: measurement exclude a cosmological constant as the explanation for cosmic acceleration in favour of a quintessence scenario.

I guess it is different reasons for different people. But for me, I started using ubuntu in 2005. When I was learning linux, it was just not complete enough. You install another DE/WM, to try it out, and stuff started to break. So I switched pretty quickly. I tried to return every now and then, because it had an environment of newer packages which I waned/needed. But it was never worth it, this or that always broke when you tried to do something peculiar. I use ubuntu every now and then, but it is mostly no good. The issue is really just snap. Snap firefox on rpi, which is the default, is just trash and unusable. It is crazy that they made it the default. I have also had servers where snap-services just eats too much cpu and first thing I have to do is to purge it. So, in summary, I don’t really trust them to provide a reliable system, and I am sceptical of their direction.

That screenshot is from another site. An account named longpanda has also appeared on lemmy and had their post/replies removed because of impersonation suspicions.

I think it is wise to take extra care on this issue on what you read and trust.

Not sure what Disk Manager is, but if it says

USB Mass Storage device detected

It appears to be something. If you do a sudo journalctl -f before you plug it in, does it tell you what device name it is given? If it is sata-to-usb you are using it is probably /dev/sd[a-z] or so, does anyone show up when you plug it in?

The arch wiki is a good substitute, but the gentoo wiki when it was still around and at its peak was amazing.

But I agree… Gentoo is not quite keeping up with a lot of details. Like experimenting with refind, dracut, efistubs, I felt I was in the dark a lot of the time. I ended up making very few mistakes, because the distro is very good at working for special cases even if all the details are not explained. Still my favourite distro.