<p>Hello, my name is Andr&#xE9; Jaenisch. You can find myself online under
Ryuno-Ki as well.</p>
<p>This is my first episode on Hacker Public Radio!<br />
It is recorded on 8th May 2023 using Audacity.<br />
It is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0
International License.</p>
<p>Today I want to introduce myself.<br />
I'm a web developer for ten years now and recently turned into a
freelancer.<br />
My area of expertise is with Frontend technologies, although I also know
Node.js and Python. I taught myself these languages because my studies
in mathematics did not cover them.<br />
During my studies I switched to GNU/Linux. I started with Ubuntu but
discovered that I prefer Rolling Release distributions more. So I jumped
to Sabayon Linux which was based on Gentoo back then but pre-compiled
the binaries while staying compatible. Now they decided to turn into
another direction so I was looking for another home. I tried Gecko Linux
based on openSUSE for a while until they had bad news in the press. I'm
currently running Kaisen Linux which is based on Debian Bookworm.</p>
<p>Speaking of, I love to read. I have whole shelves filled with books
here.<br />
There is so much to learn from books even in the age of the Internet. I
enjoy that they have a finite amount of content you can walk
through.</p>
<p>I learned about Hacker Public Radio at FOSDEM 2023. When I mentioned
that I have a RODE NT-USB microphone at home already I was encouraged to
contribute to the show. Now I have been listening to the podcast since
the beginning of the year and already heard some of the emergency shows.
I noticed that the hackers on the show are mainly from the United
States. I hope you welcome people from other parts of the world as
well.</p>
<p>I'm from Germany in Europe. A beautiful place to live and I bet as
diverse as in the States when it comes to the landscape. We have more
than Berlin and Bavaria here!</p>
<p>I'm not quite sure what kind of content you would love to hear about.
I have the requested topics page in front of me and could talk about
different items. For example, my first smartphone ever was a Firefox OS
(I still have it. As well as a tablet).<br />
I switched to Android with F-Droid when Mozilla was cancelling the
project. I'm running on a Fairphone here, which is a small Dutch
manufacturer that already managed to move the whole industry into a more
sustainable direction. Because we produce lots of waste. So I could talk
about that.</p>
<p>Or I could talk about building things for the web. Usually I blog
about that because I feel like text feels more natural to it. But then I
saw that some episodes contained code snippets in the show notes.</p>
<p>I could talk about mathematics. We don't have enough podcasts about
math! My focus was on statistics and numerics so that might be
interesting?</p>
<p>What I would love to hear more about is music theory. You see I
haven't learned to play an instrument in my life. Mainly because those
are expensive. My personal taste goes more into heavy metal but I'm not
sure whether you would call me a fan. What does make a metalhead anyway?
But in order to improve my game development having some sort of music
and sound effects is important. So I was really enjoying the episode
3792 on reading music sheets. I lend some books on the library to learn
more. These subjects weren't covered in depth in my school days!</p>
<p>Another subject I would like to learn more about is electronics.
Especially repairing one's computers. Look, I'm using ThinkPads since
years now. I have a X250 (from FOSDEM) in current use. But I also have a
X200 and a T520 gathering dust here. Mainly because something &#x201E;broke&#x201D;
with the hardware and I'm too afraid to crack them open.<br />
Then there's a HP Pavilion standing under my desk to wait for repair.
And even one of the old machines from the DOS era with an original
Lemmings installed! But I have no idea how to refurbish them into a
bootable state. Do you have ideas?</p>
<p>I'm sharing <a href="https://jaenis.ch/">my homepage</a> as well as
<a href="mailto:andre.jaenisch.wdc@posteo.net">my e-mail address</a> in
the show notes. I would really love to hear back from you.</p>
<p>I feel like I already touched on different ideas today, but looking
at the time the recording is rather short. Personally I can tune into
episodes up to 30 minutes best, so I will try to respect this threshold
myself.</p>
