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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023

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  • I’ve daily droven Linux for ~3 years and learned a lot

    I don’t have any thoughts on certs that haven’t already been shared, but some thoughts for any interviews you may land:

    • The person interviewing you has probably daily driver Linux for 20 years, and that’s okay. We all have to start somewhere.
    • There aren’t going to be many others (if any) interviewing who have daily driven Linux for three years.

    So be humble, but not too humble. Haha.

    We’re a neat bubble here, but running Linux as a daily driver is still pretty rare, and puts you way ahead of the pack of other candidates, at least for entry/early Linux systems jobs.

    Edit: And if you find an organization that uses AI spicy autocomplete to do entry level Linux admin work, run far away. There’s not enough money in the world to make it worth working with people that stupid (who choose to use hallucination for problems that demand reliability, haha).



  • I can’t see these gaining more popularity over Steam, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo if they are only sticking to do retro.

    Right. I don’t think they are particularly trying for those markets - although Sony dropping physical media of any kind is probably doing Evercade a favor anyway.

    I carry my Hyper Mega Tech Pocket more often than my SteamDeck or Switch Lite, because it is so much smaller.

    From my understanding, most indie companies want maximum reach for their games, especially for the amount of time and money they put into things.

    Yes. Evercade’s gimick is multiple games per cart, rather than exclusives.

    Some of my Indie game collection I got cheaper by buying it on Evercade. Some idie devs I have only discovered because they included a game on Evercade.

    A few I have bought again on my SteamDeck, to add it to my family library.



  • I rarely even try what I suspect to be the final boss battle.

    Game devs without difficulty settings can fuck off and not take my money for the next chapter.

    They figure I must have figured out all the mechanics by now, surely?

    No motherfucker, I did not. I played this game in 7 minute bursts between real life kicking my ass.

    I don’t know shit about what game techniques I was supposed to have learned back in chapter 2. Haha.

    So when I get to the hard bit, I just turn the game off and never return to it. If I get there during the Steam refund window, I’ll ask for my money back, too.

    Edit: Now a cozy game with a final cozy cinematic, I am fully down for.