【この道を歩く】〜WALK THIS WAY〜

Earlier this year I adquired a Steam Deck OLED after taking my time of waiting almost a whole year since it was released to make sure it was a proper solid product that will continue to have backing by Valve and indeed it has been like that.

Suddenly, I've been playing more computer games in the device than in the computer itself, partly because I work at the desk the whole day and having a portable console really helps me to disconnect as I cna just go into the bed below blankets and play stuff like in the good old PSP days, I think it's a very nostalgic feeling as the PSP was my favorite console of all times, I awlays prefered portable setups and consoles than the big ones for your living room.

So I guess that bias got enabled once again with the deck, in fact during the emergency hotel stay due to the bathroom situation I brought the setup with me and was amazed how I could play the latest computer games on top of my old emulation games on top of my old windows games like PSO BB all in 1 device.



I honestly I'm very happy with it what I would change for an evolution would be to improve battery times and maybe shrink it a little bit.

But otherwise if you feel your game requirements doesn't include too many AAA games I highly recommend to get one too!

Like I mentioned in the previous post on top of being busy at work I also had the bad luck the bathroom at home got broken, unable to use the toilet at all for a few days I had to rely in a stupid overpriced hotel but just to be able to use the toilet and take a shower!!

The most expensive bathroom I had to deal in my life, but I'm very relieved it's all finished now as the new toilet is set in the house. What surprises me the most is that nobody seems to care for bathrooms when they purchase a house, or when they decide to make a whole reform to the place. Instead they focus on the most banal stuff and don't notice that if something goes wrong with the bathroom, it doesn't matter if you live in a mansion or in a simple house or a loft YOU WILL BE KICKED OUT OF THE HOUSE DUE TO NO BATHROOM ACCESS!!

I cannot stress how important this is !!!! and if things woul've been different it could've saved me 300 euros which I cannot afford in extra annoying expenses of hotels and shit!.

Dear god please take care of your bathroom!!

It's been a few days since the last entry in the blog but since then, I've been very busy with work mostly with work related stuff as I"m doing the career shift I mentioned in my previous entry.

I had to deal with an insane amount of bullshit to get the job done of setting up a proper CI/CD environment you cannot imagine, and also I've been horrorized by the sheer amount of incompetence that plagues the people that work in systems in the social security.

Is not like I'm an expert myself either but dear god some basic understanding of how to cd'd into a folder or ls'd directories as long as basic web server setting that I can understand!!

But I needed this to get through as it will allow me to finally make the career jump I want to system administration and be able to get away of sociopaths and insane competition in the development space.

I used to feel ashamed of not being able to write in English properly for a while, and as I grew older I still do horrible mistakes here and there, but one thing is for certain, in the "Perfect World" the people want to think the AI will bring to us, the fact nothing is ever symetrical or perfect is where the human charm lies, and we surely gonna miss imperfect stuff, in this case, this horrible writing I'm doing now for this post.

But hey! is not an excuse I will try my best to begin improve my writing too! (pinky promise)

Over the years, and specially since 2020 I started to enjoy more being less on the bleeding edge for everything including computer systems and "embracing tradition" in more basic computing and low-spec machines.

This is one of the reasons why I decided to set up this server as a place where I can just go back to the basics again, the way I used to do, the way I used to have fun with more than 20 years ago...

So found this cheapo VPS that cost me like 5 bucks a month and I was like, "Can I commit to pay for this in the long term???" "Will it be useful for me somehow??" "or im just throwing money that I don't have away??" but then, thanks to this little machine I've been able to embrace a completely different way of doing computing, learning Linux, System Administration stuff and also learning old(new for me) lower level languages such as CGI, SH and PERL which I find them more useful and robust than living in the sandbox Javascript actually is.

How limited I was, and now suddenly also having to set up and work on the PSO server and running services like this blog all in such a small footprint of 512MB RAM, it kinda helped and encouraged me push through and earn my first humble certifications in Linux System Administration so I can achieve a more stable job than dying in what is the hell of the usual Web Development with endless unfair interviews, office politics, unreasonable deadlines, etc.

I really want to get away from all that and just focus on maintaining your computers and systems running in the background without you ever noticing it....

Like a cat behind a desk!
I just hope I can still bring food to my table...