ssokolow

I'm a classic nerd, born in the 1980s, who loves technical things and fiction focused on comedy or exploring characters, with a particular focus on Linux, Rust, Qt QWidget GUIs (via PyQt or PySide until someone makes a memory-safe Rust binding), websites that gracefully handle not having JavaScript enabled, and a growing interest in programming on platforms I lacked the tools to program for as a kid. Genre-wise, aside from comedy, I tend to enjoy adventure sci-fi.

I used to be big into anime and manga and I'm weaning myself off a fanfiction addiction.

The most notable nerdy things that don't generally interest me are superhero comics, visual novels, and tabletop/pen-and-paper role-playing games. I'm also generally disinterested in how the mainstream of sci-fi and fantasy have drifted towards being thrillers with "I aspire for this to be a movie script" writing styles in the last few decades.

You probably won't see me being very active here since I tend to take a "spend more on tech that'll last and be easy to repair/replace" attitude toward things I don't receive as hand-me-downs... which tends to mean Debian stable on x86-based devices which get mainline Linux support more or less automatically.

(I think the only ARM-based device I'm using which I wasn't given as a hand-me-down is a Cubox i4Pro that I bought as a Kodi box back in the days of the original Raspberry Pi and now run SolidRun's image of i.MX6 Debian on as a fanless NTP/Samba/Netatalk server for my retro-hobby network. I turned my original Raspberry Pi into a specialized media player as a gift for my mother.)