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Therspists should die out. Thank god. Ive been to therapists and they are 99% useless and expensive.
Of course it's good to know what you need to do to become a Senior. It used to be more wooly but at the same time even the best thought-out skills matrices don't capture what a Senior engineer really is.
I've got a couple of actual machines running Ubuntu, and run it a lot in VMs/LXD containers depending on what I'm doing (see: https://jnsgr.uk/2024/06/desktop-vms-lxd-multipass/).
On my personal machines I'm running NixOS because I find it interesting.
I've been critical of Nix for a variety of reasons along the way but one of those reasons is how so many people (and consultancies) seem hell-bent to set up their own little fiefdoms within the community.
The community is already niche, we certainly didn't need people purposely driving further fragmentation and incompatibility with these frameworks with bad bus factor and NIH designs.
I've seen a lot of tribalism and cargo culting around some of the other efforts in this vein, too.
You can use modern software bit it's not a given that you'll be able to do everything that you could in the past, or that it will be as easy and straightforward if you can still do it.
Perhaps it's surprised to hear that there are things these old apps and operating system can do that no modern software can do as well? Drawing in dither patterns is one (useful today for platforms such as Playdate), but there are many more.