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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
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netherlands, embedded systems student (attempting to), he/him, 29 years old, programming, devops, rust, embedded development, retro computing, procrastinating

politics and gen ai are depressing, but i can't not talk about them. i do my best to cw them.

currently working on fedilite, a server-side rendered simple mastodon api client
git.sijman.nl/vijfhoek/fedilite
Location netherlands
Birthday 1997-01-18
Pronouns he/him (EN), hij/hem (NL)
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realised i never posted an on my new instance

Hi, i'm Sijmen, a.k.a. vijfhoek, am a 28yo dutchie, and I have been a Fosstodon user for some time. Because Fosstodon wasn't really for me I started off on Misskey, then Sharkey. After a while the itch started again, and I was getting annoyed with Sharkey's bloatedness and bad Mastodon API implementation, so I looked into a new server. GoToSocial was cool but too simple, people recommended me to skip Akkoma/Pleroma/etc and to try IceShrimp.NET too, and here we are.

I like programming, specifically creating new projects and never finishing them (latest one is an mastodon API client: git.sijman.nl/vijfhoek/fedilite), and the odd embedded stuff (I've been building a keyboard I really need to finish someday it's so close).

Other than programming I like coffee, D&D, and self-hosting things. I have got a job in devops (mostly Kubernetes stuff nowadays) and am an (honestly non-practicing) embedded systems master student.

If you read this, send me cat pictures and cool things to self-host.

so yeah that's it i guess doei
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@yassie_j @lea also selling carbon credits for projects that would've happened anyway... and selling carbon credits for projects that aren't going to happen

:D
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klarna jumpscare (okay it's not that bad) @steph @aetios ja precies, het is gewoon creditcards 2: electric boogaloo

in t eerste opzicht lijkt "afbetalen in 3 termijnen" een best nice deal, en soms zal dat het ook zijn, maar straks ben je tientallen dingen aan het afbetalen in 3 termijnen
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@stefan @aetios cameras are such a fascinating financial thing though, because of lenses being so expensive

i justified getting a camera because the camera was only €225

and then proceeded getting €250 and €400 lenses

i absolutely love the €400 lens tho
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klarna jumpscare (okay it's not that bad) @aetios
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@aetios doesn't help that the siren song of klarna got to me

never using that again
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spent too much money on camera stuff help
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@catsalad neocat_shocked
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@snow should Just Work™ with most, but it does wear them down quicker. maybe a label printer could work?
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still funny how my ducky keyboard can have the numlock be off while the led is on

only seems to be an issue on linux, and it does throw me off often
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@hazelweakly if you haven't yet by the way - you can swap the `~ and §± keys by changing the keyboard layout in the macos settings if you want.

it will of course make the keys do something different from what they say, but that's easy enough to get used to.

not sure if you can make the `~ button act as a shift too (so you can fatfinger it to your heart's content) but surely there's tools for that (though knowing the mac ecosystem it'll probably cost like €25)
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@hazelweakly it usually is a second \| key (which also isn't very useful). AltGr is in stead of the right Alt key
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@hazelweakly @helle at least framework had the foresight to make the top case compatible with both layouts (though replacing the keyboard still requires you to unscrew a bunch of tiny screws)
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@hazelweakly isn't the tilde next to z an apple invention? i've never seen it on pc iso keebs
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@helle @hazelweakly though perhaps you could swap the entire top case?
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@helle @hazelweakly sadly you can't remove a macbook keyboard without destroying it (it's riveted in)
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@jeder it was me, i was hungy
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@jwildeboer oh :(
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@jwildeboer Solid chance your local phone repair place has repaired a couple of these way back when, worth a shot perhaps?
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@mametsuko mmm wie das duftet
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every time @catsalad goes on a cat photo reblog spree i get one step closer to actually getting a cat