If you like tech (sw dev in particular based on the roles) enough to do it but can't motivate yourself to do it for a job, consider making it a hobby and changing careers. Don't ruin your passion by making it a chore.
Jobs that are "low effort" are rare, usually you need one of:
- time: job is time consuming (think monitoring cameras for N hours a day)
- physical: job requires physical work (think sorting boxes in a warehouse or janitorial work)
- skilled: job requires certification/skill (think electrician or engineering)
- social: job requires interacting with humans (think customer support or sales)
Depending on you skillset/preferences select one or two and search for vocations/jobs. Jobs usually have a mix of them (and there are likely some more categories). Jobs always require effort, that's why people are paying for it. If you want to reduce time look for "part time" jobs.
If you are fine with mid-low pay, take a look at jobs in public institutions (Education, Government). They tend to have rather good long term working conditions and are commonly open to people changing careers into public service.
That seems pretty overzealous, companies like SAP or Heinlein are doing well-ish and the recent push for digital sovereignty has induced some money. There also is a bunch of mixed shops (doing he and software or integration work).
The primary difference is that many expect on-site and they pay is generally not US-startup scale.
Many companies also expect you to at least have some knowledge of their local language (e. G., German, Spanish or Polnish) and not just English. One has to adapt to be competitive here.
The other comment already answers part of it, there is no real need for it for a NixOS system as you usually either can consult the store on the machine (and recursively build a graph of a all transitive dependencies of a generation), have a system that stores the config along with the generation (option `system.copySystemConfiguration` or a flake-based system will store the config in the store itself).
A system that has neither a store nor the config (container image) not easily reconstructable as you miss too much metadata.
> Not being forced to buy ram and storage is one of the "luxuries" of buying framework.
To be fair at least Lenovo and to some extent dell also offer this for individual customers.
It usually is not an option on the latest processors for premium models though as soldered RAM becomes more prevalent there. A minor problem of the author might be that they are looking at the relatively high tier models, which ime have less options for "saving" money, while something like a thinkpad e14 might also have been a good candidate instead.
About that, we actually tried (with support from the network team) to open a small VPN Fron our office for some mobile devices as part of an event installation. Just plain wireguard on a public IP.
After two weeks of back and forth the wireguard packets were still being discarded somewhere by a firewall/router thanks to "deny VPNs by default". Tailscale got through those immediately though by using their relays + one of the workarounds for standard wireguard ports being blocked. Point being, the service provided by a mature solution like Tailscale for punching through networks is surprisingly effective even for corporate-level networks.
Serious question: what tools only support netrc for authentication? I'm aware of lots of tools that (unfortunately IMO) support netrc as a source of credentials, but I can't think of a single one that requires it.
> only try to flash over an ECU or try swapping it.
To be fair, they have wrenches thrown in their way there as many ECUs and other computer-driven components are fairly locked down and undocumented. Especially as the programming software itself is not often freely distributed (only for approved shops/dealers).
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