No, because it became a locked down ecosystem that is user-hostile and not user-controllable. I realized this when I observed the younger generation, who I thought would be much better than us at computing, who had not a clue how anything worked because they never had the ability, need, or desire to tinker with the underlying systems, with only rare exceptions (roms, etc).
Depends on your lifestyle and location. The only thing I use my cellphone for is text messaging and looking at wikipedia or part numbers when im not at home. It is definitely useful, but 95% of my computer work is still done on a PC.
I grew up in the mountains at about 8500 ft, but was often spending my freetime at higher elevations surrounding the village. There are lots of little things about living at high altitude people don't think about, such as cooking times and quirks, sealed containers exploding when going up, etc. My favorite has to be just how superhuman (when I was in my prime) going down to low elevation made me feel.
The biggest issue people don't talk about? Remote high alt places often become unlivable for people when they get elderly due to altitude interference in certain medical conditions, and the general distance away from hospitals.
I miss the mountains so much all the time, and hope to retire back up there.
As a linux admin, I refuse to install npm or anything that requires it as a dep. It's been bad since the start. At least some people are starting to see it.
Stuff like this is why I chose to refactor my project into Godot. It lacks many of the UE/Unity features, so I am building many things myself, but the freedom I get feels worth the work. I have also been working on "commercial" subparts (like a digital twin system for things like datacenters), which this would apply to. I'm increasingly assured my decision was correct.
My own action MMORPG (think Mordhau meets Cyberpunk meets Arma 3). It's the perfect application of everything I already know as a platform engineer, and I get to learn all the things I don't. I'm making the client foss, the assets foss, and the gameplay compelling as all getout. Non-sharded, persistent world, with different lands for different real world regions. It's a type of metaverse in truth, but some of that part I have to flesh out better on the local client side where you can do whatever, but on the server there is a storyline.
I almost applied to YC because I'm at the stage I'm close to public alpha and need funding, but instead I'm planning on crowdfunding, but the release strategy has to be tops. I'm also doing things like planning on how to scale the business itself, lots of work on the over time growth profit model, etc. So basically, instead of a thousand side projects, I have one giant project where I get to do everything with my own theorycrafting - after years of being stuck doing whatever the boards/c-suite needs, it's a taste freedom and a dream.
Remote: Preferred, open to physical presence for the right position.
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: I started as a network engineer and sysadmin, evolved into devops/SRE, currently more aligned with platform engineering and operations management. Specialized in on-prem and datacenters (bootstrapped a t2 solo), with HPC (NUMA on the brain) and other low-latency high-throughput applications. Currently very interested in learning the lower stack I didn't know before, such as building datacenters from scratch (construction, plumbing, mechanical) and learning more about power generation and electricity, as I see them becoming the "new datacenters" in the power dynamic. GNU/Linux focused. Able to build and lead excellent teams. Also able to think and operate at a C-suite/board level.
