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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: 2026-07-28 14:00:45
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Nina Kalinina@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt (2026-08-15 19:17:27)
The USB stick with NetBSD is prepared, the laptop is ready to go, the bootloader finds the OS, and then... The OS immediately fails to boot because it couldn't find the installation USB disk it was booting from.
Might have been a fluke, might have been an issue with some of the USB ports - I moved the stick to a different port, and things started to move.
The laptop is a second-hand (third-hand?) Dell with 11th generation Intel. It's not the best laptop for NetBSD, but with some tweaks, it is workable. I have had it working, but my ArcaOS install destroyed my partitioning table, so I want a fresh install, ideally with the encrypted root partition.
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Nina Kalinina@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt (2026-08-15 18:37:49)
It's Saturday, so we sudo dd if=NetBSD-11.0-amd64-install.img of=/dev/disk6 for a fresh NetBSD install.
Nina Kalinina@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt (2026-07-31 05:42:42)
And I thought One Piece was a life-long commitment. It seems each episode of this anime is 21 minute long. Still ongoing
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Nina Kalinina@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt (2026-07-28 07:08:34)
As a lover of old computers, I've heard this question way too many times.
It's kinda ugly but it is #originalart; drawn in ink
P.S. Metrovick 950 can run Lunar Lander (I wrote the game last year): https://git.sr.ht/~nkali/mv950toy/
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