I'm just going to be vulnerable for a minute here. I met the first person in real life who had similar server-y linux-y obsessions to me and we'd send eBay links of systems to drool over to eachother. They ended up being a terrible person but hid it from me pretty well until they couldn't anymore and now I no longer have someone to chat with about those things.
So um, I guess I'm open for applications for the position of "nerdy friend who I nerd too hard with about network infrastructure and Linux packages" now
Edit: Autocorrect errors manually corrected
Im sorry that this happened to you. It sucks to learn that someone isn’t who you thought they are after you trust them.
I’m a network engineer by trade and a Linux enthusiast, and happily apply for the position 😊
I hope that one day there will be a larger community of network engineers on Lemmy, however it seems that most did not make the migration off of that old site.