Message from @shadowedROM
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as in programming hardware?
"yes", in Verilog or VHDL (preferably the former)
give me $30 and I'll say whatever you bought was shipped
and it'll arrive in a month
if you're a student you can get them on discount
but it's not exactly like a "load a bunch of cool software and do rando stuff easily" deal like a rpi
any starter kits you know of?
Never done things like that
speaking of which, I claimed my AWS one year free tier and idk what to do with it
run an irc server
sounds fine
that one is pretty good; it's not autist approved since it strays away from oldschool codebases but imho that's part of the charm
tN.micros on aws can get throttled if you use up too many cycles so stuff like web and irc are good
don't, don't compile stuff
if you wanna learn things, an openvpn server is fine too, but watch out for bandwidth usage on the free tier
the openvpn server is pretty easy to set up; the hard part is learning to finesse around openssl commands, and that's kind of worth it
I just normally use sshuttle for my vpn purposes
also got lifetime subs to a couple of real vpn providers
great
i heard that you need to sell yourself to pay for it all
the more you think of it as another VPS the worst off you are and you don't gain from their service abstractions
having memcached or a sql server spin up as an appliance is kinda neato
and yeah AWS is expensive
i've never paid for it; only use it through work
but the cost of AWS is basically a means for entities to abstract away their IT staff so it's "worth it"
don't need to pay homo sapiens to run stuff
is it really different than say, run a bunch of VPSes from different pre-made images?
functionally - no; but, they provide API endpoints to abstracted services, so, instead of running some config mgmt or cloudinit script to provision a VPS instance for something like hadoop, you just use Amazon's shit by saying "I want a hadoop instance that does N-cycles amt of work" or whatever.
it's "magic"
idk you should research it yourself. it's worth learning if not only for the resume padding if you're a career-minded type.
as far as that $50, how about software defined radio gear
idk wtf ur interested in
I'm just a hobbyist programmer that does small sysadmin stuff
cool
Managed to get myself contracted to my school
So they cover anything I include in the bill without questions
Optimized a bunch of stuff and cut my yearly expenses by 50$
imho hobby stuff is not worth buying since it's mostly distraction. if your goal is programming, just code.
Need to do something with it