retiring but retaining expertise

I would personally like to find a way to find another mere 2k/mo in income so I could semi-retire, and mostly work on writing down and passing along stuff that I know that not enough folk seem to know, and help make a few improvements there or there to slow start, cake, wifi, etc.

I am not up to major projects anymore, and do wish fervently that somehow more companies realize that expertise is vanishing as the initial wave of linux developers begin to hang it up. But they don't know what they don´t know, and have paved paradise to put up a parking lot.

LibreQos.io, which is my primary project now, I hope succeeds wildly one day for at least some cloudy applications, but donations remain pretty low, the ongoing cost of the initial development, high, and while I like to think longterm a redhat would benefit, taking the time to package it for them seems less worthwhile by the day. That said, without redhat´s investment into eBPF, libreqos would not exist today, so there´s that.

The FLOSS future really seems uncertain so long as the real costs of software development are not better cared for. One of the ironies I keep watching is the whole "made in america" set of arguments made by the current US administration, without a hint that software, at least compiled in america, would help a lot to control a bunch of national security issues introduced by the long tail of ancient software and lagging support.