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Justine Smithies

This is how married life is.....
Today is our 27th wedding anniversary and guess what ?
Yep Julie forgot 🤣. It's progress though as we both usually forget. We've been together for 33 years so life's taken it's toll and that's the excuse we use as to why we forget. 😂

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Sam Crauwels

@justine Congrats! You know you’ve got a good relationship when those things aren’t an issue.

Stefano Marinelli

@justine Congratulations!!!
Being together for such a long time is a great, great thing.

Stevan

@justine Many congratulations to you both. 🍰 or 🍾 ?

Justine Smithies

Look what came in the post today. I absolutely love them ! Thank you so much @stefano :freebsd_logo: 😍
#BSDCafe #RunBSD

A photo of a BSD Cafe sticker which is a coffee cup with the FreeBSD logo rising from inside.
Stefano Marinelli

@justine I’m happy they’ve already arrived and that you like them! I’ll bring some to #EuroBSDCon, and there will be a few other surprise 'gadgets' from BSD Cafe, suitable for the location 🙂

Justine Smithies

OK folk answer me this. Why as a constant #Linux user since the early 90's do I keep leaning towards #BSD ? Yeah I'm going to use it on my homelab but i keep yearning for it to be my daily driver too. Is it an age thing and if so does this happen to most Linux users in later life ? I feel like Eve wanting to taste the forbidden fruit if that makes any sense at all ? 😂 :freebsd:
#RunBSD #FreeBSD

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Jasmine Vidalia

@justine I would love to run BSD but I game and not everything on Steam works as expected on Linux and I fell into the base + Flatpak in $home workflow over time.

A lot of people will say the infrastructure changes a lot, but the vast majority of innovations have resulted in improvements to my flow so I go with it. Being a well seasoned user whose been daily driving Linux since the days of KDE 2.x back when SUSE came in a box, I have to say the experience gets better all the time.

That being said, I do love me some BSD and its always good to know the Unix-like landscape still has a lot of options.

@justine I would love to run BSD but I game and not everything on Steam works as expected on Linux and I fell into the base + Flatpak in $home workflow over time.

A lot of people will say the infrastructure changes a lot, but the vast majority of innovations have resulted in improvements to my flow so I go with it. Being a well seasoned user whose been daily driving Linux since the days of KDE 2.x back when SUSE came in a box, I have to say the experience gets better all the time.

sivecano

@justine
I think there's a certain charming simplicity to it, that is hard to find in modern linux.
At least in part because of the sprawling ecosystem.

Michael

@justine Perhaps it's just a "the grass always looks greener on the other side" situation. You've been using Linux for so long that you know all the brown, muddy spots. In comparison, the BSD grass is looking green and lush from a distance, and those first patches you munched on certainly were tasty. 😁

Justine Smithies

Hi thought I'd better introduce myself. I'm Justine I'm a marine electronics engineer to trade which basically means I install / repair anything on a vessel from satellite internet and sat TV to autopilots, radars, VHFs and navigational equipment. Other than that I've been a #Linux user since around 2000 and even worked on the distro LRs Linux that basically compiled from scratch according to the users hardware and was LFS based. My current daily driver is #ChimeraLinux and my WM of choice is #RiverWm
I am currently migrating my #homelab from #Ubuntu to #FreeBSD.

Hi thought I'd better introduce myself. I'm Justine I'm a marine electronics engineer to trade which basically means I install / repair anything on a vessel from satellite internet and sat TV to autopilots, radars, VHFs and navigational equipment. Other than that I've been a #Linux user since around 2000 and even worked on the distro LRs Linux that basically compiled from scratch according to the users hardware and was LFS based. My current daily driver is #ChimeraLinux and my WM of choice is #RiverWm

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Psyhackological

@justine wow... Speechless.
Give also maybe some background about how did you get it to here.

C.B.Leslie

@justine what's the weirdest thing you've fixed on a boat?

EnigmaRotor ⁂

@justine being interested about radiocomms since my teens (well… 30y ago!) I’ve been reading a lot about radio navigation and marine HF broadcasting.
Did you have the chance to fix/install HF Radiofacsimile devices? To me, these devices were just « KISS » principle applied. I get great pleasure from decoding these broadcasts at home, while I have no special interest in marine weather itself. I think the analogue FSK principle of the device appeals me, (much more than JPEG), and the free over-the-air HF broadcasting, far from any satellite usage fee, for the public interest of safety, seems so fundamental to me. I guess It matches basic principles of « open source » « free software », and that might explain my interest in both utility broadcasting and free software. Long life to HFFAX ! Long life to RTTY/SYNOP and others ! Some day, as it was the case with LW broadcasting, DWD will stop emitting, because of costs or « obsolescence ». This day will be a hard day for me. Until some satellites get targeted by some enemy and maybe shortwave will regain some unexpected love…

@justine being interested about radiocomms since my teens (well… 30y ago!) I’ve been reading a lot about radio navigation and marine HF broadcasting.
Did you have the chance to fix/install HF Radiofacsimile devices? To me, these devices were just « KISS » principle applied. I get great pleasure from decoding these broadcasts at home, while I have no special interest in marine weather itself. I think the analogue FSK principle of the device appeals...

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