computer witch in a professional software/linux/embedded engineer's clothing - anti-vibecoder - i live in maryland and bend old computers to my will - polyamorous, vaguely relationship anarchist, very gay - sometimes i make music as 'ersatz waterfall' - not a tech-only account, i'm just a computer addict - Intel 80286 enthusiast, and also PowerPC and MIPS and RISC-V - i have either too many or not enough ESP32s --- if you have recently used the world wide web, connected to a 5g cell network, or gotten an ultrasound at a hospital, there's a chance something i worked on helped. i currently do energy monitoring tech --- i am an operating systems nerd. i regularly use Gentoo, FreeBSD, and NetBSD on desktop, NetBSD/Alpine on server, Debian when those fail me, and sometimes Haiku, and many old operating systems, including IRIX and Novell NetWare. --- there exist no conversations without politics consumerism is destructive control your technology, don't let it control you --- this is not a mastodon account. if you are using mastodon, i highly recommend trying alternatives. a diverse ecosystem is a healthy ecosystem --- i make an effort to put alt text on all my image posts, but alt text seems to break sometimes on misskey. --- follow requests invoke a vibe check. if you're cool i'll probably accept. unless i already follow you, then they're automatically accepted. if you're cool and you didn't get accepted, dm me, it may have just gotten lost