i'm Eve Coull, an IT engineer out of Edinburgh. it's pretty nifty job. left school at 16, went straight into IT, been there ever since.
you can check out my job history on linkedin. i've done a few things within IT, mostly as a frontline engineer handling day-to-day helpdesk tasks (on-premises and virtual), but now working in quality assurance
(yes, my name on some platforms is Ross. it's my deadname lol)
Mastodon (hello.oe.tc)
Twitter/X
Instagram
Threads
Bluesky
(frequently asked questions except they're not frequent because no one asked the questions and i just want them noted)
why thanks for asking! i'm using Atkinson Hyperlegible, a font family specifically made for readability. i do a bit of design on the side and this is my favourite font because of its attention to detail for low-vision readers, while looking nice (sorry, looking at you OpenDyslexia). and it's completely free and open to use for everyone!
in my house on my Dell PowerEdge R720 running Proxmox Virtual Environment!
i'm planning on moving this soon to a new setup using my existing gaming PC, but have Proxmox on bare metal with a gaming VM that i can boot up when needed. Soonβ’
i try to self-host anything i can, like social media (Mastodon), single sign-on (Authentik), and more. here's a full list of what i host (everything is on the server unless it says differently):
i was young and naive, thinking i could try and create a bunch of projects. the first was a youtube channel called OTHER ETC that would post videos of characters in media. then it was a clothing brand with the same name. then it was going to be a group for other youtube channels. then i realised i didn't want to put effort into any of that and just kept a hold of the domain. i had a different domain as my personal website for years but the automatic renewal broke and i didn't see the emails
/kΚl/