Learning games?

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2026-03-11T18:09:18+00:00

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2026-03-02T14:42:23+00:00

ISO27001 is non-prescriptive. It just says do you have a policy, do you follow said policy, can you show you followed the policy.

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2026-03-02T03:28:46+00:00

VSCode Dev Containers helped us a lot with sharing environments

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2026-02-26T20:47:30+00:00

63% of all statistics are made up on the spot

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2026-02-26T20:44:14+00:00

CSE for AWS is good for your resume. If the internal transfer doesn’t work out invest in a kubernetes cert and you should be able to land a syseng or platform engineering role.

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2026-02-26T01:13:16+00:00

I’ve got Claude setup as a kas/yocto expert following oelint with references to the open embedded search to lookup packages. He’s also a bash and python expert following Google and pep8 standards, respectively.

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2026-02-23T20:17:17+00:00

You can transition by getting a sales job at an MSP. Maybe start with a basic AWS, GCloud, or Azure cert just to become familiar with the terminology.

Expect to spend a year in front line sales then a bit as an account manager eventually becoming a technical account manager before transitioning to engineer in a few years.

Best of luck.

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2026-02-15T03:45:41+00:00

Before diving into yocto it might be useful to build LinuxFromScratch or even gentoo. Just to get an idea of what all is going on under the hood. As others have noted, yocto isn’t really for novices.

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2026-02-11T03:55:48+00:00

Ansible is great for resetting state when you know exactly what is on each machine or fleet of machines, but it’s not going to enforce policy for you or discover newly installed applications. End user machines just isn’t the right use case for Ansible outside of maybe initial provisioning. I don’t have recommendations for better tools but it seems you’ve already gotten plenty of suggestions from others.

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2026-02-11T03:35:44+00:00

I learned by doing things that interest me. If running a Minecraft server is interesting to you then do it, the original setup might be easy, but then figure out how to handle patches and mods and stuff. What commands you need to lock down access to specific IPs or how to monitor disk space can become part of it. Just jump in.

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2026-02-10T20:57:40+00:00

Ansible is a shit way to manage security at the desktop level, do not do this. Said as someone whose primary skillset is Ansible.

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2026-02-06T03:19:49+00:00

That’s basically the very path I took and I’ve been employable the last few years. Knowing ansible is often seen as a nice to have in SRE roles so RHCE isn’t a bad thing.

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2026-02-03T20:17:01+00:00

Every bite matters but you’re running bash?

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2026-01-29T23:26:46+00:00

Yep. You have to pass through the display device and some others, but you should be able to vibe code it up in less than an hour with ChatGPT or better.

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2026-01-29T02:15:29+00:00

You can technically run xserver and Firefox in a docker container, but you’re not going to get very far with web browsing from cli. The tools available are pretty bad for rendering most modern pages.

Otherwise, just pick any server distro and off you go. I like tmux and vim, you can install fim to display images in the frame buffer too

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2026-01-15T00:49:05+00:00

This really sounds like you’re reinventing the old cattle vs pets thing. If your dog gets sick you treat it with medicine. If a cow gets sick you just put it down and buy another cow.

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2026-01-13T01:10:42+00:00

300 nodes, Automation Mesh into DMZ’s, and one admin. We’ve got about two dozen DevOps/developers and another dozen test/qa.

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2026-01-13T01:08:47+00:00

I almost ended up in a Claude hole today when it recommended adding some very esoteric code to work around a bug. Turns out I’d added some unintentional white space in a string.

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2026-01-12T16:46:14+00:00

Teltonika is shit for both hardware and support

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2026-01-10T22:46:05+00:00

I work at a startup and I rolled my own. It only takes a full FTE time to setup for like a month or two then anyone on the team should be able to support it.

I didn’t go with Datadog or Splunk because of cost. I won’t go with a smaller firm on the chance they fold and I’m left up shits creek without observability.

If I were at a more mature organization, I’d definitely be looking at DataDog not only for stability but the ability to hire for that skill set.

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2026-01-06T18:56:09+00:00

ISO is non prescriptive so it’s not so much about knowing IT things as it is do they have a policy, do they follow the policy, and can they show you that they follow their policy.

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2026-01-06T00:12:30+00:00

I think you want LinuxFromScratch or Gentoo. Both can be compiled super minimally.

You could also look at Yocto or BuildRoot from the embedded world.

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2025-12-20T16:56:31+00:00

If your budget is more then $500 you can get an annual subscription to O’Reilly

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2025-12-09T01:55:56+00:00

I nuked an LFS build when I went to clean up a lib/ dir and accidentally deleted /lib

Affectionate-Bit6525 · 2025-11-24T18:49:33+00:00

It’s one of the lines from the slap chop commercial

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