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24 days agoI have a few places where I can find joy in my life.
From nature, I find happiness from the trails I walk to the garden of veggies and plants that I grow.
For creativity, I have been learning some coding and building operating systems for my laptop and raspberry pi home server.
Socially, I got really lucky last year and met someone who has been amazing to me. She’s my mycelium and through her I’ve been meeting all these new interesting people who I’ve been able to relate and connect with. People who have unique and very open personalities that aren’t solely based on work or religion.
I’m living at home now with my aging parents so I’m fortunate enough to use some of the backyard for growing veggies and plants.
I’ve mostly been “building” an operating system by using Alpine Linux. It’s a super minimal operations system that’s commonly used for containers like Docker. Once installed, you start everything from a TTY screen. There is support for graphical desktop environments but even then you need to add extra parts to it. Everything from file systems to USB connectivity and so on.
It’s been a good starting point for me into understanding how Operating Systems work without taking any formal education. Alpine is very modular which means you can create a system specific to your needs if you wish. I think it’s great for a web facing server since you can create a system that has less surface area to attack. One step out of many when it comes to internet safety.
I did create a program for myself based on POSIX scripting standards for file transfers using Rsync which I am quite proud of creating. It should in theory work on a wide range of operating systems that fall under unix, including apple products or even windows if you are using the linux sub system with Rsync installed.
You can see it here
Thank you. There is so much love and understanding between us and the people in her friend group and I appreciate all of them so much. I’m happy to have met all of them.