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Carve me a linux system administration roadmap.

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Explain to me like I’m 5, why this is a bad idea…

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Yup, ask for it in email, respond with “as we discussed I have fears about yada yada but we will begin implementing at your request” and then start spamming that resume because there’s no fucking way I would want to stick around to clean up that dumb fuck’s mess.

Nicotine, as cognitive enhancer?

Posted by Legal_Audience_4931@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 33 comments

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This is the exact thing I would think back when I was a smoker. The addicted mind will draw some pretty out there conclusions to justify itself. You will pick it back up if you quit tomorrow. You probably didn't in the Caribbean because you were staying engaged and distracted. If you have a four day weekend or a few vacation days coming up with Thanksgiving, try going that whole time without it while you're at home doing nothing. My bet is you'll be grabbing your vape by the next day.

You guys get called while on pto?

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Yup and yeah I answer. When you’re the only one who is responsible for a certain part of the infrastructure that is business critical, you don’t have much of a choice. Luckily we’re considerate about what we actually call over so I know the world is broken when the call comes through.

Is avoiding nvidia really the way?

Posted by Zery12@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 87 comments

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Oh wow. I never experienced any of that, though I can’t speak for VMWare as I haven’t used a desktop hypervisor in nearly a decade. It’s been rock solid in gaming though for me.

Is avoiding nvidia really the way?

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Vendors: Quickest way to lose my business

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I hear things like this all the time but everywhere I’ve worked had gift clauses where we can’t accept anything valued over like $20 and meals need to be personally paid but reimbursed from the company. It always trips up vendors when I turn them down on all the fun offers but I just don’t want to deal with all the red tape so fuck ‘em.

What do other sysadmins do to make money on the side?

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saucyeggnchee@reddit

Holy shit this post is all over the place. I get that you’re an over performer, you made that clear. You also view yourself and a caged bird that needs to stretch your wings. Got it. But you’re incredibly overworked and the answer to that is to make more money? Don’t see how that connects but fine. Then we see that this overworked, over performing caged bird that is also a software developer fluent in six languages goes to their supervisor about being overworked and gets put on a performance improvement plan? That’s where you lose me. There’s a shit ton more that’s either not being shared or you’re oblivious to. As far as money goes, a software developer fluent in six languages can make so much more money being, well, a software developer instead of a systems administrator.

SysAdmins over 50, what's your plan?

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Is it okay to block competitors’ emails if client didn’t request it?

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Send the information to your supervisor explaining what you found and what lead you to discover it. Over email for records. After that, the ball is in management’s court. They’ll decide if it should be reverted and communicate anything to the client if needed. You just need to back the fuck off from this.

Do you hate webinars?

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saucyeggnchee@reddit

I’ve never attended a webinar and left with beneficial information. Im not interested in your sales pitches. Also, the phrase “Lunch and Learn” makes me irrationally angry.

Sysadmins - What would your dream office have?

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If I was forced to work in office again there is only one thing I would require. Huge windows. I’d give up all the break room amenities and fancy meeting room tech in the world for simply the option to turn off the god awful fluorescent lights and enjoy natural lighting.

How not to help Linux: Debian Outreachy Internship excludes white and Asian males.

Posted by WolfVidya@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 23 comments

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God that guy has gone off the deep end. Loved him back in the Linux Action Show days and his yearly Linux Sucks presentations were something I always looked forward to. Checked in on him recently and it was all about DEI this and DEI that.

Had a recent (stress related) health scare, wanting to step back and find a job with less responsibility, but don't know how/if to communicate that in job interviews.

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I wouldn’t mention the health issues, nor try to communicate that you’re looking for less responsibility. If you find a job that potentially asks for what you perceive as less, they probably don’t realize it and will pass on you. Just head into the interview, ask some questions like what your intended role would be, what the team is like, what the concerns the team has regarding existing issues in the environment and what role you would be playing within that. Use that info to make a judgement for yourself. Going in and saying you have stress related health issues and that you don’t want much responsibility will never be conveyed in a good light, no matter how hard you try.

Makefiles For Threesomes

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How exactly is Fedora an intermediate distro?

Posted by S1rTerra@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 142 comments

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Lower official support time and enabling RPM Fusion repositories can be a bit of a hurdle for newbies. Also Nvidia driver repo used to not be added during install and required manually installing from their website (at least that's what I remember around 2015 or so before the negativo repos appeared). Oh, and you're coming from an age where flatpacks exist. Before you were limited to what was in the repos or pray that an RPM was available (which there usually wasn't as debs were all you would find for most). Things have come a really long way.

A Cloud Guru - shoot me

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I used Linux Academy religiously when I started my current job. As it evolved to Pluralsight, and now A Cloud Guru, it has only gotten progressively worse to the point that is has become my last resort when learning new skills.

Assign Okta app org wide

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We use Active Directory integration for this. Assign an app to an AD group (in your case one containing all employees) and you're done. Future employees get added to that group when their AD account is created and then they have the app by default.

Docking Stations are the new Printers.

Posted by Creepy-Editor-3573@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 635 comments

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Surface docks were the bane of my existence back when I was on service desk. My monitors won't turn on! Unplug and re-connect your dock cable. Only one is on now! Unplug from the back of the dock and reconnect in the same order. But they're flipped now. I said in the same order, swtich them. Now it's not charging! Let's wipe off the connector, it probably has some grime. That did it! Rinse and repeat.

Java License (Doubts)

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They did that to us. We went through and switched everything over to OpenJDK anyway just in case but before then the sales rep just kind of gave up after they found out how many installs we actually had. I think they just wanted to make a quick buck and bounced when they realized it wasn’t going g to be much at all.

How important is "workplace culture" to you?

Posted by Darth_Malgus_1701@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 46 comments

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Culture never mattered to me until I got into a place that had a great culture. It was then that I stopped job hopping. If I’m working a job until I retire, which is the goal, a good culture is incredibly important. The culture influences everything from work load, time off, and flexibility.

I don't want to do this anymore

Posted by imadeanaccount6969@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 320 comments

I don't want to do this anymore

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A loophole in MDM service on Samsung Knox devices

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I don't want to do this anymore

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Hey man, I’ve been where you’re at now. There are a lot of suggestion about job hopping and vacation, both of which are fine options. I’m going to go a different route though. Therapy. Your last sentence strikes me as someone who’s got some anxiety brewing from all the responsibilities thrusted upon you. If it sounds like I’m projecting, I am but that’s because I’ve been where you’re at and this was the way I worked it out. Started therapy, got a psych, discovered some neglected mental health issues that have unknowingly been impacting my life in horrendous ways, and got medicated. Take that first step and talk to a therapist. Worst case it doesn’t work. Best case it stops you from making a drastic decision that you can’t bounce back from.

Did you ever get that job that felt completely beyond your level when you read the job requirements description ?

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Same here. Job posting was out of my league, I was obviously nervous in the interview, and my resume was the same one that got rejected 70 times prior but here I am being a valued member of the team and killing it (not to sound pompous). Sometimes you just get that lucky break.

VMware / Broadcom unuique ID issues

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I'm New, and the Linux Community is Strange

Posted by StookyDoo22@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 318 comments

saucyeggnchee@reddit

if there's one thing I've learned in using Linux over the past few decades it's that Linux communities, especially on Reddit, are mostly trash. You have much better luck on the actual forums for the specific distro you use. As for what everyone says Linux is good/bad for, that is irrelevant. If it works for everything you want then it's great. If you need something that it doesnt run then it's not for you. All that said, welcome! Hope you find a nice little hobby here. 

Valve announces Frog Protocols to bypass slow Wayland development and endless “discussion”

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I remember when Wayland was the new hotness and was going to fix everything. That was over a decade ago. Thank god Valve has been stepping up and fixing things. 

Condescending

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Went on restricted website with work phone

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What would you put in your dream server room that isn't IT?

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Ansible handson project

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saucyeggnchee@reddit

Writing a playbook to hardens a linux system according to the CIS guidelines would be a good one. You'd install packages and make configuration changes ranging fom setting cron jobs, appending text to config files, creating new files, and other little things here and there that add up to what you'd be doing in your day to day. 

Help me teach my kid to be a pirate

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Switching iOS users from iCloud to one drive

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Switching iOS users from iCloud to one drive

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Make sure they don't have storage optimization turned on. If they do the images are basically placeholders that load when they open the photo. In this case OneDrive won't see the photos to back up. You'll have to disable storage optimization and allow all the photos to redownload locally before asking OneDrive to backup. 

Advice: Open a Support Ticket

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Advice: Open a Support Ticket

Posted by Khue@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 33 comments

Advice: Open a Support Ticket

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Advice: Open a Support Ticket

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Disagree. It's always worth it to open a support ticket. While you await a response you troubleshoot so you have information available to help expedite the process you just said you want to avoid. Besides, when the situation evolves beyond you and you inevitable need support, you just wasted so much time. You pay for support, not an ego boost. 

Getting a job with Linux

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The order above is what you want. A+, Net+, Security+. Each builds off the last. A+ will give you hardware and basic software/networking knowledge. Net+ doubles down on the networking knowledge, and security+ takes that network and software knowledge you learned previously to teach you the concepts of using that knowledge to identify and remediate vilberabilitues. 

Getting a job with Linux

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Senior Sysadmin with a specialization in Linux here. If you're entering IT, you start with help desk. Doesn't matter your specialization you start there. While doing that get your trifecta (A+, Net+, Security+). This next part determines what kind of company you work for. If your company offers a chance for advancement to associate systems administrator, you can probably get there in about a year if you are great at service desk and show initiative for projects. Else you'll probably a bit more time on service desk before you can job hop. Systems administrator is the path you want. After you get associated you'll probably be administrating windows servers at first. If your company has anything Linux in their inventory, you will want to go for your Linux+. That will help you transfer over. So essentially, help desk, trifecta, associate Sysadmin, Linux+, then you're ready. 

First "REAL" Job

Posted by Lopsided_Fan_9150@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 15 comments

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If you take both jobs at those workloads you'll under perform in both. Maybe not right away but a month in and your performance will probably start to tank. Not only that but as soon as one of the jobs required being on-call, you're fucked. 

So, you're a pro in networking, backups, ... But what's your setup at your home ?

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Ansible for dummies

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This right here. Even if he followed the other suggestion of deploying AWX, I wouldn't trust anyone to run a damn thing with it if they don't even know what ansible is. Unfortunately we don't always have that option though so I just wish OP the best and hope he finds a nice rehab facility when he's done with it all. 

I don't get it why people like Flatpak

Posted by CodenameDarlen@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 475 comments

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You get convenience at the cost of control. Sure you can package and deploy everywhere but you miss out on anything that requires OS level integration. My favorite example of this is the Steam flatpak. With Steam, if you enter big picture mode, you have the option of restarting or shutting down your computer straight from the app. Perfect when you're making a console like experience without using a dedicated distro like Bazzite. Using flatpak, those option are unable to function. 

Microsoft May Have Just Helped Linux...Inadvertantly

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VMware / Broadcom unuique ID issues

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New Sysadmin Job—Seeking Advice on Learning and Impressing Higher-Ups

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saucyeggnchee@reddit

I'm going to focus on your last question as others will probably fill in countless suggestions for documentation and network testing. If you want to show your skills and impress management, find a part of your environment that is lacking. Whether that be an inefficient process, a lacking technology, whatever. Identify it, find a creative way to solve it, and then implement a POC. Send that POC suggestion to your supervisor and they'll either be impressed and send it to upper levels to implement or, most beneficial to your career, allow you to implement it yourself. You then just became "the guy" for something and showed management that you have tow rare and valuable traits; a self motivated work ethic and the ability to think outside standard procedure to solve critical issues. That kind of work ethic will get you through the ranks in no time. 

Received a promotion for learning scripting. All scripts were written by ai.

Posted by PuaZotohZhaan@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 286 comments

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I'm surprised your AI script worked on the first try. That's not going to be the case very often. I'll use AI in scripting but I look at it like a jigsaw puzzle. The AI will fill in all the corners for me perfectly and then just tossed all the pieces in the center. Some are in the right place but most are up to me to rearrange or change it fit into other areas. Long story short, don't get complacent and rely on it. You're going to need to learn and pretty fast if this is your new responsibility.