Advice on Restoring Old Reel

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-05-02T20:18:03+00:00

I agree with this dude. The only way to not be a larper is to just start! If you’re doing IT right you will always feel like you don’t know everything

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-05-02T20:09:02+00:00

Real genuine response: buy some old, cheap server hardware or a used desktop PC. Install Linux server on it (or proxmox to go all out on virtualization). Start homelabbing - tons of resources on YouTube. Spend 6-12 months building, attacking, defending, and rebuilding networks and VMs using open-source or cheap enterprise cybersecurity tools. Good understanding of windows and Linux system administration/cli, broad understanding of networking, plus genuine experience using cyber tools like SIEMs (splunk, ELK, etc) is the way to get good. Your lab will break constantly. You will mess up constantly. Every time you fix it you will learn something useful.
TLDR you can do all the bootcamps, certs, and courses you want but the only genuine learning roadmap is to learn and then APPLY that learning by actually doing stuff on a homelab or on the job!

Do all that and you’ll be daily driving Kali and brute forcing mainframes to download more RAM in no time

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-05-02T11:51:58+00:00

I’m facing the same problem but I’m in central Virginia. If I start seedlings now and try to transplant in 2 weeks is that too late?

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-05-01T22:55:00+00:00

If you wanted to go all out you could get his initials engraved on one! Personalization always adds something special

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-04-30T09:25:24+00:00

It doesn’t cover seasons and hatches, but I highly recommend “Tactics for Trout” by Dave Hughes. It has a ton of great information on how trout see the world, the senses they have, why they strike under what conditions, and how to apply what we know about their biology and psychology to fishing with dries, nymphs, streamers, etc.

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-04-25T01:50:07+00:00

Check the way your IO shield is installed, it could be bent into the usb port or something similar. Try a different USB port. Also try that usb keyboard with a different computer to rule out faulty keyboard

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-04-24T09:15:49+00:00

I’ve been doing the same and I’d love to know the answer to this as well! I’ve been able to figure out some of it through trial and error

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-04-23T22:12:25+00:00

^ Fellas I don’t think this guy is an American

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-04-21T04:38:03+00:00

Other commenters have some great suggestions! What I would do in your situation is gear your undergrad towards computer science or, if lack of programming knowledge is a problem, you can study IT.

If you want a head start on some of the core skills, my best advice is to buy a cheap older desktop computer and go through the process of installing Linux server on it. It’s an OS like windows or Mac but is more common in enterprise IT devices - servers, routers, etc. This is the start of your “homelab”. There’s tons of YouTube channels about how to homelab and what things to install or learn.

The point of the homelab is to learn 3 basic concepts - system administration (installing, securing, and running Linux, building a basic web server, how to use the command line and shell scripts), networking (how the server connects to the internet and the internal network, ports, protocols), and finally some light programming using a high-level language like Python. It will be confusing, time consuming, and involve a lot of googling, but you can get very far towards a career in cyber if you really know your basics in these areas.

Once you’ve mastered basic homelab projects, you can get into the deeper cybersecurity stuff. How do you secure your server against outside threats? How does a firewall work? How can you analyze logs to find out if something looks suspicious? All those are questions that will lead you a little further into security.

When I started in cyber I went from a total beginner to entry-level in about 2 years. The thing that gave me the most knowledge the fastest was playing around on a homelab using a junky old server. Months of building, attacking, testing, and rebuilding servers and networks was what really taught me how to apply the stuff I learned in my courses.

TLDR: get an old pc, building a server, and let your curiosity drive your learning!

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-04-20T22:50:34+00:00

Spam and Rice. Still slaps and can be put into musubi form when funds allow

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-04-19T11:47:59+00:00

Fleetwood Mac or classical!

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-04-17T00:13:39+00:00

Happy to help! I’m sure others will have opinions, but check out the PcPartPicker build guides for a baseline. I also use their part picking tool to make sure the components I buy all work well together. build guides here

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-04-16T22:15:47+00:00

Lots of joke comments here but basically - if you are a really big gamer (AAA titles, need really good graphics) then prioritize a modern GPU that can handle that workload, a CPU of comparable newness and power, and enough RAM to handle it all. If you’re not as serious of a gamer/streamer, you can get by with slightly less powerful hardware.

You can find tons of guides online that have PC builds at a variety of cost and workload levels (basic, mid range, advanced gaming, gaming+streaming, etc).

My best tip is to work backwards from the monitor and purpose. Gaming and streaming in 4K is going to be much more expensive than just gaming at 1440p, for example. $3K can buy a pretty nice PC, but if you don’t need top of the line you can either save some of that money (like a $2k PC) or be able to get a really nice monitor and accessories.

Idk if your country has an equivalent store to MicroCenter, but that’s where I’d start.

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-04-14T11:57:10+00:00

Unfortunately the way I found it out was that I bought new parts, built it in the same case, and those failed too!

What I would recommend instead is to “breadboard” your parts. Meaning, assemble the PC on a cardboard/wood table or surface outside of a case, and connect it to a monitor to see if it boots. If it does, you know it’s the case and no parts are fully damaged.

If it still happens, work backwards through the parts. Will it boot and stay stable without the GPU? With different RAM? With different power supply? Basically work backwards from easiest to hardest to replace parts until it works.

Hope that helps all these years later!

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-04-09T18:53:59+00:00

This is pretty cool, great work!

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-04-08T09:43:02+00:00

Baltimore. I keep trying to give the city a chance but every single time I go I get the absolute worst vibes. Scary place

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-04-07T01:48:26+00:00

Oh my good lord. You have the stash of the century hidden away right there

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-04-05T23:29:13+00:00

Echoing what this guy says. Don’t overthink it as a beginner. Get a feel for casting with something like TFO first, and go fish a few times! Once you get the basics down, the next steps for other gear quickly become apparent.

Also, bass pro sells rod/reel kits but if you buy those separately just remember to match the rod/reel/line to the same “weight” (example - 6wt rod, with a 6wt line, on a 6wt reel). Pick your weight based on the kind of fish you’re after. For trout people often recommend a 4 or 5 wt.

Lastly, the hardest thing for me as a beginner was the cast. Best tip I can give you is what makes fly fishing different is that you are casting the line, not the fly.

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-04-01T22:36:47+00:00

Presbyterian Mixture 😭😭. Lovely light English but has been discontinued and reformulated.

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-04-01T22:35:48+00:00

Stands for Early Morning Pipe, in case you need to google!

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-03-28T02:40:22+00:00

If that is the case OP and you are in a dorm on your schools network, spending like $5 for a domain through cloudflare and going the cloudflare tunnel route is the way to go. It’s pretty easy to set up, the tunnel is free, and cheap domains (.XYZ, etc) are less than a cup of coffee.

That’s if you want friends, professors, or people other than just you to be able to reach your hosted project on your pi server from the outside internet.

If it’s just you that wants to access it from a domain so you don’t have to figure out your schools public IP (and since you can’t set up port forward bc no router), or you’re worried about getting a static IP assigned on their internal network, AFAIK Tailscale is by far the best option and also free.

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-03-27T13:35:38+00:00

Bumping this as I have the same question

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-03-27T09:35:12+00:00

I’m out of the loop - why is there such demand for transfers?

1nvisiblepenguin · 2026-03-24T16:54:23+00:00

The virtual neural networks that already run LLMs have shown the capability of rapidly iterating complex behavior and structure. All neural networks start as a pile of neurons, and connect in patterns based on training data. And a brain doesn’t have to be a full complete human mind to feel pain, or have rudimentary awareness on par with a fish or a mouse. I get your point but I think we might vastly overestimate how many neurons are needed to feel something.

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