unprofessional computer witch in a professional software/linux/embedded engineer's clothing - i live in maryland and bend old/weird computers to my will - polyamorous, vaguely relationship anarchist - sometimes i make music as 'ersatz waterfall'
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if you have recently used the world wide web, connected to a 5g phone network, or gotten an ultrasound at a hospital, there is a high chance something i worked on was involved
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in our modern world, it is not possible to have a conversation that is not political. you cannot "keep politics out of it". do not get upset with people for pointing out that the conversation you were having already had politics in it. instead, practice grace and tolerance. if you don't know how, just pretend, and eventually it will come naturally.
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OS: i use gentoo and freebsd on desktop, netbsd and freebsd for servers (or proxmox for vm hosts), and sometimes haiku.
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remember that consumerism is destructive, and that we should control our technology, not let it control us.
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i do not use mastodon. this is not a mastodon account. if you are using mastodon, i highly recommend trying alternatives. a diverse ecosystem is a healthy ecosystem
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i try to put alt text for all my image posts, but alt text seems to break sometimes on misskey.