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Nina Kalinina@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt
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Or, as my "professional" email signature says, "IT expert and mixed media artificer".
A late millennial, yet I grew up with a ZX Spectrum and used an i486 as my main PC well into 00s.
I have a degree in electrical engineering, majored in industrial and microelectronics, but somehow ended up building massively distributed computer systems. SCADA with sensors scattered across hundreds of miles, L7 balancing for millions of users, corporate video call infrastructure, helping to delete ~petabyte of data a day, and until recently keeping the lights on for a major cloud provider. I learned a lot during my long-ish career, and this knowledge makes me sad and keeps me up at night sometimes.
I never post here in a "working adult" capacity, and wouldn't dare to speak for my current or past employers. Instead, I engage in playful shitpost and creative exploration of technologies that have no commercial applications.
Feel free to DM me, I'll try to reply to all!
Homepage: https://ninakalinina.com
Location: UK (South Wales)
Pronouns: she/her
Labels: pan+demi=pandemic
Bae: There is one <3
Tired?: lejfiofejwrjifw orz
Label: Content
Joined: 2026-09-16 22:45:20
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Reply to @bpl@snac.bsd.cafe
Nina Kalinina@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt (2026-09-18 20:13:20)
@bpl I have never tried this; my parents just use a cellar for storage, it worked reasonably well
Nina Kalinina@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt (2026-09-18 20:00:50)
This year I've had 6 potato plants, and got approximately three small bucketfuls of potatoes out of them. Probably around 15 kilos of unpeeled tatoes in total. That's more tatoes than I need in the foreseeable future. I hope they will stay in a good condition for a long time. Maybe I should cook and freeze half of them to be on the safe side 🤔 turns out it kind of sucks to not have a cellar.
Reply to @bpl@snac.bsd.cafe
Nina Kalinina@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt (2026-09-18 16:37:15)
@bpl @CliffsEsport that reminds me, there's a third party live usb for NetBSD that comes with X11: http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/netbsd/liveimage/
Login is mikutter, password is Teokure-
Reply to @r1w1s1@snac.bsd.cafe
Nina Kalinina@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt (2026-09-17 04:45:15)
@r1w1s1 doesn't have to be eeePC, any tiny cute laptop would do, right?
Nina Kalinina@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt (2026-09-16 22:34:05)
My favourite local computer scavenger found a new toy for me: original eeePC 900. I don't think I've held one in my hands in the last 15 years.
The laptop had a broken Windows 7 install on it, but it is too underpowered for this. We're boasting a single-core Celeron M running at 900 MHz, with 2 GB of RAM (upgraded from 1 GB), and Intel 910GM instead of a GPU. I wish it as eeePC 900a with Intel Atom; then I wouldn't need Spectre mitigations.
NetBSD installs well on it, but doesn't find WiFi out of the box (maybe it is turned off in the BIOS, I didn't check)
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