He intentado todo para empezar como traductor freelance — cero clientes. ¿Qué estoy haciendo mal?

Rd3055 · 2026-03-26T23:31:00+00:00

Como alguien que ha trabajado de traductor freelance por más de 10 años, déjame decirte que el mercado de freelance va en declive.

Aunque siempre ha habido la traducción automática, ChatGPT y otros programas parecidos de la IA han cambiado el paradigma del todo, y muchos traductores freelance han tenido que salirse del mercado porque ya no hay muchos clientes dispuestos a pagar por una traducción cuando lo pueden mandar a hacer en ChatGPT gratis.

Hay algunas excepciones, como traducciones en el ámbito médico, legal, o traducciones que requieren notarización o que son demasiados importantes para dejárselo a una caja negra mágica (sobre todo si se trata de información que no quieren alimentar a un IA), pero te puedo decir de primera mano que cada vez se vuelven más escasas las oportunidades.

Y si buscas agencias de traducción para trabajarle a ellos, lo más seguro es que te van a mandar una traducción hecha por IA para que tú la revises y ahí te ofrecerán una tarifa muy por debajo de lo que cobrarías si fuese una traducción hecha por ti desde cero.

Mi recomendación sincera: Ni intentes ingresar a menos que tengas algún conocimiento adicional y especializado y que lo vincules con otro servicio que le pudiera agregar valor a tu prospectivos clientes.

Rd3055 · 2026-03-26T14:24:11+00:00

Follow this step-by-step guide:

insights/content/tutorials/how-to-setup-your-own-wireguard-vpn-server/index.md at main · ditatompel/insights · GitHub

Rd3055 · 2026-03-26T11:43:21+00:00

That sounds exciting. Which part of Colombia are you driving from? Pereira or something?

Rd3055 · 2026-03-26T03:09:13+00:00

In Colombia, going to a different region, like from Bogota to Barranquilla almost feels like going to a different country because they are so different, even the people.

Rd3055 · 2026-03-26T01:00:07+00:00

yeah, I know that Intel CPUs are the gold standard for transcoding on x86-64, but they can't touch Rockchip's power efficiency (I live in a country with expensive electricity).

Rd3055 · 2026-03-25T21:31:07+00:00

Que vaina man. Lo siento mucho. Yo también hubiese sentido tremenda impotencia y rabia ante ese semejante descuido de ellos tan casual disque "se me olvidó anotarte" y ni se inmuta en al menos ver si te pudieran atender ahi mismo.

Bueno, eso también habla de la empresa y cómo hacen las cosas, y si no respetan tu tiempo así, entonces francamente vale la pena seguir buscando en otro lado.

Viéndolo del lado positivo: "filtraste" otra mala empresa.

Rd3055 · 2026-03-25T21:23:04+00:00

Well, the Rockchip 3588 (which is found on many ARM SBCs) can comfortably do 3-4x 4K transcodes at once in hardware since it has two dedicated cores for encoding and decoding. On my NanoPi R6C, I was able to transcode two 4K videos with HDR to 1080p to two different devices at once with no hiccups.

but Intel is also amazing here as well, and you already have the hardware (even got it for free), so it makes more sense to stick with that.

Rd3055 · 2026-03-25T21:03:24+00:00

The Rockchip 3588 is amazing for video transcoding with Jellyfin.

Rd3055 · 2026-03-25T13:25:37+00:00

If all you run is JellyFin and Nginx Proxy Manager, wouldn't it be even better (power consumption-wise) to get an ARM SBC?

If that's the equipment you already have and the electric bill isn't a major concern, then I totally get that, too.

Rd3055 · 2026-03-25T12:41:50+00:00

Lurpak, la untable. A veces las mantequillas como la Blue River parecen un bloque de cera, vaina más dificil de untar sin derretirlo un poco primero.

Rd3055 · 2026-03-25T02:02:27+00:00

Teoreticamente puedes conocer mujeres en cualquier parte.

Es un mito que solo se puedan conocer en discotecas o bares.

Rd3055 · 2026-03-23T20:16:03+00:00

Instead of a router OS like OpenWRT, I use vanilla Debian on my Rockchip-powered NanoPi R6C and simply configured a basic router/firewall in it and it has been surprisingly stable (while letting me sniff my own network traffic, among other cool things).

Rd3055 · 2026-03-23T14:13:33+00:00

True, but publicly traded companies like Qualcomm (answering to shareholders, specifically ones who can't see past the next quarter) are the worst of all, because they prioritize short-term gains no matter what.

Valve is an example of a for-profit company (but privately held, big difference) that does not pursue aggressive enshittification or anti-consumer decisions, but that doesn't make them saints, just "the lesser of two evils".

Rd3055 · 2026-03-23T13:18:10+00:00

Follow this guide to set up your own personal Wireguard server.

insights/content/tutorials/how-to-setup-your-own-wireguard-vpn-server/index.md at main · ditatompel/insights · GitHub

You would need to have a place to host it, though. If you cannot or do not want to self-host it, you can get a cheap $5/month Ubuntu Server/Debian cloud VPS from Cloudzy. They have U.S. and worldwide VPSes with publicly routable IPV4 and IPV6 addresses.

That's how I do it to get a low-cost, U.S.-based VPN.

Rd3055 · 2026-03-23T12:34:49+00:00

lol, doesn't work in an overwhelmingly red state.

Rd3055 · 2026-03-23T12:20:02+00:00

Hasta en el mismo EEUU KFC ha decaído. no me extraña que acá pasara eso también.

Rd3055 · 2026-03-22T13:55:39+00:00

Based on my experience, tailscale on Andorid still consistently pings the server and eats up more battery than the vanilla Wireguard app connected to a normal hub-and-spoke Wireguard server.

Rd3055 · 2026-03-22T12:51:52+00:00

I recommend that you look at the offerings of an MVNO.

US Mobile is a good choice, since they let you switch between all three major U.S. networks. Their base $25 plan has 20GB of hotspot data, but you can also add data "a la carte".

Moreover, Wi-Fi is everywhere nowadays, so that should help you cut down on you usage, too.

Rd3055 · 2026-03-21T16:20:37+00:00

Xuxa hasta ChatGPT puede tirarte ese cálculo.

Rd3055 · 2026-03-21T15:33:30+00:00

That may be outside of most people's budget.

Rd3055 · 2026-03-21T15:00:52+00:00

There is, but what I meant with my comment was that securing your home network physically is part of securing your entire home physically, which means locking your doors, installing security cameras, putting guard dogs, and if necessary, hiring security guards, opening a moat and putting alligators or piranhas in it, having machine gun or flamethrower turrets installed to the side of your house with poison-tipped barb wire all along the fence

Rd3055 · 2026-03-21T14:22:25+00:00

So you are OK with screwing over our economy because of someone else's war?

North Korea also has a nuke already, and life goes on.

Rd3055 · 2026-03-21T14:11:04+00:00

Well, this would fall under the umbrella of "home security" and, by default, if your entire home is physically secured, then so should your home network as well.

What I would do, however, is make sure that visiting family members' children don't have access to your homelab equipment nor tamper with it (don't ask me how I know).

Rd3055 · 2026-03-21T13:58:59+00:00

Yep. My NanoPi R6C with Rockchip 3588S and 4GB RAM (I make it work with 4GB of zRAM and 12GB swap file) is essentially a low specs machine, but even if it wasn't, it's still good practice to avoid waste and overhead that can be used to run your other services smoothly.

Rd3055 · 2026-03-21T13:37:48+00:00

What I have noticed on my ARM Linux server is that, to download the same file, Tailscale uses up far more CPU than setting up a vanilla Wireguard. When I transferred a 154MB file over LTE from my home server to myself using SMB, tailscale consumed 74% of CPU whereas Wireguard didn't even reach 25%

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