About me
So I'm Julien Acker. Currently 19 and studying Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen. I was born in South Africa, moved to Switzerland when I was 10 (where I'm still officially resident), and am a German citizen.
I like technology. I like knowing how systems work together. I always like to understand the world more. My hobbies are primarily reading (well, to be fair, mostly listening) to books and a Newspaper. I like consuming knowledge, through books and documentaries, from geopolitics to history, technology, science, engineering, and more.
I like to tinker. Especially with Linux. One of my summer projects was to install a custom Coreboot image and Arch Linux on my Chromebook which I installed on XFS, on LVM, on LUKS, on RAID0 (between the SD card and internal eMMC storage. LVM was for having some Swap space as I had been having difficulties with dynamic swap allocation. dd would freeze the system when generating a new swap file). On top of all of that, I was trying out Swaywm as my first taste away from the safety (and legacy) or Xorg (though I never managed to get Firefox VAAPI working). Sometime, in the future, I hope to tinker with that old machine some more and maybe get the TPM working for Secure boot (it's only a TPM 1.2 but there is a firmware update provided by the chip's OEM to turn it into a TPM 2 device). That aside, I hope to get my hands on a Turing Pi 2.
