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Think bigger. Start a quality IT consulting business and possibly be rich. There’s a small fraction of industry who will pay for it. Likely plenty for many
by mixmastamyk 3y ago
Think bigger. Start a quality IT consulting business and possibly be rich. There’s a small fraction of industry who will pay for it. Likely plenty for many ‘lifestyle businesses’ per region.
- fullspectrumdev 3y agoThere used to be good money in that, setting up and securing email/filesharing/website for small businesses. These days they largely opt for the GSuite/Squarespace stack or similar to fulfil those needs around here.
- sunshine-o 3y agoI have been wondering about this recently. Actually I have been considering investing & going BSD only to escape the insanity that has now also contaminated the "Linux world" Now from my initial observations the opportunities in the saner world are quite scarce and hard to find. But I am pretty sure those companies often face a skill shortage too.
- ptman 3y agowhat insanity are you referring to? systemd?
- never_inline 3y ago> also Probably complaining about the rat race / grind mindset which leads to lot of people without strong fundamentals gaming the system and getting high end jobs.
- sunshine-o 3y agoSystemd doesn't bother me that much actually. The whole Docker & container craze vs how things are done in FreeBSD worry me much more. But this is not so much about the technology but more about the fact that as Linux became mainstream & the default choice it doesn't filter out anymore the companies who have no idea what they are doing.
- ciupicri 3y agoI agree about the Docker & container craze, but doesn't FreeBSD have something a bit similar - jails - since 2003 if not earlier?
- systems_glitch 3y agoWow, mid-2000 release date, I thought Solaris containers were older, but definitely not!
- sunshine-o 3y agoYes but jails had since the beginning much clearer and stronger security features.
- spkm 3y ago"void linux" is a great distro if you want BSD-like but still linux. It also uses runit instead of systemd.
- kanwisher 3y agoIsn't all this stuff in the cloud now, most startups I goto don't even have a single server in the office
- mixmastamyk 3y agoAre you implying every system is stable and reliable now, because it is in the cloud? My guess is that it helps on the hardware front, but there is more to a stable system.