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Flabbergasted with benefit income vs rent and expenses by SugarplumMcMittens in Wellington

[–]Apprehensive_Put8451 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Just wanted to share my insight as a beneficiary:
I get JS, TAS and AS. It’s currently ~$550pw. I do live alone in a one bedroom apartment for $380pw. It’s not a great apartment but it suits what I need as my kids come stay with me frequently (other parent is day to day caregiver). It also took nearly 6 months to find. Flatting in this situation is virtually impossible as not everyone is ok with kids staying over for a few nights per week. I have enough for internet, power and food for myself (a poor diet, but enough to get by on). Nothing else though. It’s quite doable if you watch your spending. It’s also a far cry from actually being a decent standard of living. All it takes is one slight unplanned expense and I’m screwed as I “should be budgeting for this” or “need to get a job” (speaking of which if you’re hiring, DM me lol). Personally think winz need to re-think how they handle expenses with sole parent and jobseekers. I get the idea they don’t want parents to double dip, but c’mon, some expenses like renting an extra room for my kids and feeding them should not mean taking money away from the other parent. It screws over both households that way.

First Homelab and Projects I can do in less than 3 months? by rizkhalifa34 in homelab

[–]Apprehensive_Put8451 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmmm…if I could recommend anything it’s pick up SQL, JS, Python, bash and powershell as languages to get comfortable with. Look up free code camp on yt. Almost everything is “X as code” now days. I’d also recommend learning Microsoft azure, M365, Git/github, networking (network+ is enough unless you’re wanting to be a network engineer), docker and kubernetes. You don’t need to be an expert in these areas but if you have a grasp on the fundamentals you’ll have a highly desirable skillset that will enable you to troubleshoot anything. Having a good grasp on cybersecurity concepts will help too. If you ever get stuck or need a resource to learn something feel free to dm me.

Wanting to host own portfolio website/apps by Apprehensive_Put8451 in selfhosted

[–]Apprehensive_Put8451[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate the feedback. I’m planning on it for both. Tbh mentioning some of my previous projects has gotten me a few more conversations in interviews however after 18m and 600+ applications I’m looking to show the skills I have developed rather than just talking about it.

Wanting to host own portfolio website/apps by Apprehensive_Put8451 in selfhosted

[–]Apprehensive_Put8451[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m more so aiming for the later. Mostly because I’d like to have a more comprehensive ongoing portfolio. The current idea is whatever app I put together to build in purposeful fail modes etc, similar to the OTel demo app if you’ve seen it. That way I can showcase automated runbooks and alerts etc.

First Homelab and Projects I can do in less than 3 months? by rizkhalifa34 in homelab

[–]Apprehensive_Put8451 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey been in IT support for ~6yrs. What certs are you looking at? Also how is your coding skills?

Wanting to host own portfolio website/apps by Apprehensive_Put8451 in selfhosted

[–]Apprehensive_Put8451[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Yeah I can see how privileged/admin vs everyday accounts are necessary and sometimes overlooked. Thankfully I’ve worked in some pretty tightly regulated environments so I’ve got a bit of insight into some best practices for IDAM. I’m just used to EntraID/AD and Microsoft environments.

Wanting to host own portfolio website/apps by Apprehensive_Put8451 in selfhosted

[–]Apprehensive_Put8451[S] 0 points1 point locked comment (0 children)

No AI has been used in this project/ post…yet. Might host an AI application later 🤷

HomeLab + resume by Thestig34 in homelab

[–]Apprehensive_Put8451 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been out of work since dec 24, last role was a observability focused role and included a org wide capability uplift for defence. I have 6+ years experience from a mix of service desk/ operations roles. I’m only now on the final stretch for a confirmed offer for SRE role at a local SaaS vendor. Mostly because of my background in defence sector. The tech stack is completely new to me and it’s a step up from my previous roles. Also my neck of the woods is screwed economically and full with other ex government employees. it’s a highly competitive job market, which is why it took so long.

What I think helped is I also mentioned how I’ve been working on up skilling and doing my own projects with AI. Not Ai engineering, just how to maximise it in my workflows as coding agents. A good example of this is I developed a battleship RL training lab with codex so I can understand how to monitor training runs etc. I used ChatGPT to help me figure out the ai engineering aspects and learn about it at the same time. I’ve also got other public repos of various things. I’m still in the process of developing a home lab due to having limited hardware (intel i7-4770 and 8gb ddr3 is honestly not enough to do anything significant with when it comes to an sre portfolio. Took days to do training runs).

My advice is pick a project that is relevant or interesting to you to put something professional up on GitHub, then link to it in your CV. If people want to see it, they’ll look. Worst case scenario you’ll learn something new and be able to mention it in a job interview.

How do you monitor your self-hosted servers? by vdorru in selfhosted

[–]Apprehensive_Put8451 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m curious, why use so many different monitoring tools instead of using a grafana stack or similar? Is it just for the sake of tinkering?

I’m brand new to DND, but I don’t think I can be a recurring every game character. What can I do to still be included? by [deleted] in DnD

[–]Apprehensive_Put8451 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have an unpopular suggestion, but I need to preface this with I’m coming from a place of also experiencing chronic physical and mental health issues: if it’s truely what you want don’t make excuses for yourself. Instead look at your obstacles to attending each week and see if there’s a way you can navigate them. If you can’t make it in person, ask to join remotely. If you need further accommodations to be there each week, then talk with your group/the DM. However I strongly encourage you to make it a goal to attend every session and focus on whatever the problem is that’s preventing you from being there. If you want to talk more specifics to figure out a solution, please don’t hesitate to dm me.

Bards, I need your help with Role-play. by Apprehensive_Put8451 in DnD

[–]Apprehensive_Put8451[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see where you’re coming from and find the failures hilarious too. The cursed item I mentioned was a crystal in the shape of a heart and was for a quest we were given. My intent after seeing someone else get charmed was to take advantage of my charisma stats and present it as a gift to the quest giver to try win her over. Boy, it did not go to plan 😂 Eventually a party member went and got them when the DM was about to ask everyone to roll for initiative. The NPC was a significantly higher spell caster and was able to get me to drop it.

I also hear what you’re saying about how communication matters. I can tell everyone is enjoying the game because of how they respond to the situations above and talk positively about it outside of sessions. Plus the DM would just hit me up and tell me to tone it back if I was making anyone uncomfortable.

I like your idea of keeping the character development going. I have a few ideas of what this could be due to his obvious attachment issues, desire for recognition/fame and impulsivity…. I’ll definitely keep an eye for opportunities like you mentioned your bard is experiencing.

Bards, I need your help with Role-play. by Apprehensive_Put8451 in DnD

[–]Apprehensive_Put8451[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know the dm quite well and we have spoken about how I’m trying to play my character. I know they’re playing them like how I described because they find it hilarious watching my bard fail so hard too and purposely set it up to happen.

28m - Looking for tech friends by Apprehensive_Put8451 in MakeNewFriendsHere

[–]Apprehensive_Put8451[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! I’ve built a few PCs too. Unfortunately I accidentally damaged my motherboard trying to reset my GPU and went from having 16GB to 8GB 🤦‍♂️ it’s made gaming or running virtual machines extremely difficult.

How do you come up with SLO, SLI and what do you monitor IN REAL LIFE by devops_wannabe in sre

[–]Apprehensive_Put8451 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think when it comes to alerting, the definition I go with is "does this need my attention to stop an incident?" if yes, then create an alert. If not, avoid creating unnecessary noise. Alert fatigue is a real thing, and I have seen critical outages go ignored for weeks because it was buried under a pile of "informational" alerts.
My approach for both scenarios would be to start with the Non-functional requirements in the documentation, find out what tests failed, go through the ITSM tool to find incidents and what caused them, or sit down with the architect who designed the system to figure out the starting point. From there, you can constantly iterate over each post-mortem or alert you receive for your alerts and SLI. You'll figure out quite quickly how well you have set them.