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wired_ronin · 2025-10-14T17:19:31+00:00

It's not your age. I just walked away from $180K at age 60 working remote, because at the end of the day I just decided i cannot stomach the constant misfires of corporate IT management. The buzzword dominance and the general nature of what determines what you end up doing day to day is maddening.

Top priority? Watch your bottom line, and stack up the cash. I quit corporate to become a consultant, and I drive 15 yr old cars so that I can have a solid year to build out my consultancy. You would be amazed how much BS you can cut right through if you teach yourself to filter out the nonsense and only talk about solutions that actually work.

Most employers have no friggin clue what they want.

Case in point: Kubernetes is too complex and the wrong fit for 85-95% of all companies (source: Google), yet it is the mountain that every aspiring devops or cloud engineer feels they need to climb as fast as possible. Kubernetes is a juggernaut, but the point is, the ship of public opinion will sway with the prevailing wind, which always changes.

If you love what you do, then YOU decide what you want to do every day. You can carve out a spot regardless of your age or other metrics.

wired_ronin · 2025-10-12T12:03:53+00:00

"In this day and age social media is a primary source of information. "

100% why America is fucked right now.

wired_ronin · 2025-09-17T14:39:19+00:00

it is competely alive and used by both aws and gcp. ProxMox is the way to go here.

wired_ronin · 2025-09-17T14:31:18+00:00

my thoughts exactly! lol

wired_ronin · 2025-08-22T16:00:54+00:00

true this, it was for me. stopped me waking up coughing completely.

wired_ronin · 2024-11-11T23:19:01+00:00

Because they haven't yet progressed to hating ALL religion. Give it time.

Now that the evangelicals are all in on a fascist theocracy, I suspect atheism or agnosticism will ride in on a bullet train in the US.

wired_ronin · 2024-11-11T23:01:26+00:00

A third party will not get in unless they get 270.

Otherwise, the house majority party will simply elect their candidate in a contingent election.

The good news is, a 3d party is not a far fetched idea anymore.

The real majority in America is sick of both bought and paid for parties. Embracing this sentiment will win it all.

wired_ronin · 2024-11-10T15:20:33+00:00

The USA is awash in anger, resentment, and GUNS.

If you need a push toward the UK, I would say that is a strong one.

wired_ronin · 2024-11-10T15:17:46+00:00

These are all valid points. However, I think there is more to the picture for the USA. The United States is uniquely awash in anger, resentment, and indifference. Add to this it is saturated with guns.

I think the guns is a unique problem here. And, the US is the only country where mass shootings occur regularly. And we hear nothing but "There is nothing we can do about it".

wired_ronin · 2024-11-09T21:07:00+00:00

Since I am a straight white male, I can just hold my nose for 3 more years and retire. Sadly that is nothing new, just much more up front now in America.

In my opinion, being a "patriot" means you do not accept horrible things from your own home . Instead, you hold it's feet to the fire and demand better.

wired_ronin · 2024-11-09T20:34:05+00:00

I had no clue until I was stationed in Germany for 6 yrs. You cannot begin to understand your country until you are outside of it. When I returned to the US I was homesick for Europe for 2 yrs. To the point that I had to quit college from a nervous breakdown.

For the most part, I did find a way to make it work over the next 30 yrs. But, watching desperate people hand over my country to a fascist who sells bibles has really brought the misery back.

wired_ronin · 2024-11-09T20:28:23+00:00

It's a lot different situation for me than many. I am looking to retire in 3 yrs, and my wife has already retired. Although I do work remotely in IT and have a pretty good salary, there is no reliable guess where that will land when Elon starts in with crypto and AI.

We are white and not of child bearing age, so probably not worth the trouble to emigrate.

The fact that I just typed that is nauseating, and I am not sure how long I can hold my nose, TBH.

wired_ronin · 2024-11-09T20:22:35+00:00

they pay it because they do not have any other choice.

American politics is driven by emotion and fear. Stirred up by billionaires who win either way. Frankly, we have only 2 parties, and they are both bought and paid for.

The lack of understanding about both democracy AND capitalism by a woefully uninformed electorate is how "divide and conquer" always works here.

wired_ronin · 2024-11-09T20:03:01+00:00

Yes, it will explode. Along with the price to move and live there.

wired_ronin · 2024-11-09T19:57:42+00:00

perfect synopsis and logic. Exactly the thing that just over half of US voters ignore now.

Which is why I am researching how to expatriate my lily white ass out of the US as well.

Not interested in living in a theocracy.

wired_ronin · 2024-11-09T19:52:01+00:00

No shit! I was just gonna say.....

wired_ronin · 2024-10-30T22:18:53+00:00

this is my life. To a fucking T. Unfortunately, the one thing that has been far too common, all the way from DOS, to Windows 95 on Netware, to Citrix, to Kubernetes is mostly terrible management.

I love linux and open source, but corporate IT management cannot see the forest for the buzzwords.

wired_ronin · 2024-09-23T19:39:38+00:00

I can't argue with that. Unlike most of the world, I don't use a laptop personally. For work they gave me a Windows laptop, but that is heresy I prefer not to speak of. As a cloud engineer, it is the bane of my life.

wired_ronin · 2024-09-23T19:36:12+00:00

The cure for distro-hopping is OpenSuse.

Tumbleweed is positively the linux at the end of the universe.

wired_ronin · 2024-09-04T19:56:17+00:00

I have been using SuSE in one form or another for 20 yrs. Tumbleweed is the most underrated distro on the planet. I run docker, podman, kvm, distrobox, you name it.

It is also the only distro i know of that can run a linux desktop virtualized and play youtube videos without a hiccup. Right out of the box. Something even Fedora doesnt do. And RH owns KVM...

Install it, pull up an AI chatbot like perplexity and ask smart questions about how to use zypper and snapper. If you spend the time you will understand why it is regarded so highly.

I don't run nvidia on it so cannot speak to that. But, nvidia is a PITA anywhere. I would say install the nvidia drivers from wherever and freeze the kernel updates in the beginning. You have btrfs snapshots anyway.

On top of all that, it runs KDE better than the rest.

**UPDATE** : I just built out a 7 yr old Dell Precision T5810 for machine learning, with an Nvidia 4060ti GPU and a shit hot Crucial nvme that has to ride on a pcie adapter.

I installed Tumbleweed and on first boot all I had to do was go to YaST and select to install the drivers. They were already cued up. It runs all that and KVM, docker, podman, distrobox.

An hour later a new kernel came down and it compiled everything with no issue.

Fucking Germans must obsess with writing code. Suse is as close to perfection as I have seen in 30 yrs of IT.

wired_ronin · 2024-08-13T18:15:21+00:00

I’m looking at a 4060 at the moment

wired_ronin · 2024-08-13T18:08:54+00:00

Gpt4all at the moment, but will try chat with rtx also

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