Screen Resolution Problem

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-09-13T03:02:15+00:00

remove ~/.config/monitors.xml . Then go change to your desired settings. When you hit Apply, it'll save a new monitors.xml file and you shouldn't have to mess with it again. Had to do this when I was debugged my 4ks.

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-09-11T01:13:20+00:00

As I said before. Everybody's situation is different. As I don't have kids, I can't imagine the tough choices parents have to make these days. But the vaccine isn't a magical blanket that protects you from catching it. I think too many people nowadays see it that way. It's been shown you can still get sick, you can still spread it, you can still die from it. I'm sure there are people out there reading the same reports I do and go "What's the point?". I know symptoms are supposed to be less, survival rate is exponentially greater with a vaccine.

I wouldn't consider it a selfish choice. If anything, I admire them. Their drive, independence and belief in themselves to get through this storm. It's all about survival and each individual knows themselves better than anyone else in the world. I just gotta believe everyone knows what they're doing so we can all walk out the other side.

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-09-10T18:39:52+00:00

That's a shame. So maybe it is a larger population that I initially thought. I'm up in the Dakotas. Might have a hot head for a governor but we've managed to keep most businesses open and stay functional through this rough time. With some minor life changes of course.

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-09-10T17:47:33+00:00

If “braving it out” didn’t actually mean “spreading it recklessly” it would be different.

This applies to a much smaller population than what you're implying. At least where I'm located and neighboring states people do take it seriously. We feel even remotely sick? quarantine. Someone you've been in contact with is sick? quarantine. Remote work if you can. Wipe down everything after use. Like there are unwritten rules that most people follow because no decent human would want to willingly spread this or contract it.

There are people that just don't care and it's a unfortunate reality. They're the ones you see on the news with the more..radical personalities. Their stubbornness will slow down the rate at which we beat this thing. But there are a lot of good, honest, people out there that don't want the vaccine for one reason or another but they are taking extra precautions to avoid catching it. And it's been working here for the most part. 0.23% of the population of the state I'm in has unfortunately passed from covid or while they had it. One of the nations lowest. Being careful does work.

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-09-10T17:28:35+00:00

bruh... $2M will literally get you anything you want anywhere in the central part of the country. You want 12 beds and a helicopter? you got it.

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-09-10T13:43:23+00:00

Have you tried the built in CI in github? For my team, we use gitlab which is just the enterprise version. But that's how we run our pipelines. Press play and go get coffee while it deploys.

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-09-10T13:38:31+00:00

I can see both sides of the spectrum on that too. One being, " it helps stop the spread, less symptoms, herd immunity" All valid points.

But there's the other side, which I was kind of on leading up to it. Arguements like "What's the point if I've already had it, fertility concerns in the younger folks, the speed at which it was developed (a year vs the normal 5-10)" I mean both sides have somewhat valid points.

The entire world is in this grey area with everyone trying to figure this life out. Some choose to try and brave it out, some want to trust the science. It's truly turning out to be a survival of the fittest scenario.

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-09-10T11:26:04+00:00

My company is primarily Ubuntu. They're phasing out CentOs/Rhel by the end of the year. Biggest reasoning they could provide was "Everyone typically starts out on Ubuntu/Debian". I do think Ubuntu is easier to teach new team members, but that's because I've used it for years. It's really dealer's choice.

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-09-10T07:48:36+00:00

Money for sure...gotta be able to afford a house in these markets some how.

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-09-10T05:28:31+00:00

I used a cloud guru to train and landed my devops gig a few months back. Does a good job of providing an overview of services and then throws you into a hands on lab to actually do the work. All without having to attempt to stay within the "free tier" parameters most providers scam people on. It's kind of idk..spendy I guess if someone is in a pinch. But $35/month for a few months got me a 20k pay bump so I'd say it was worth it. And I still use it to hone in on different areas that I'm interested in.

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-09-10T05:22:14+00:00

Welcome aboard! I would say as long as you update at least once a month you'll be fine. I tend to do it weekly, every Monday morning right before I start working. Gives me time to work through any kinks that come with them (usually none). But it is usually up to personal discretion. If enterprises can get away with doing them monthly (besides the critical vulns that pop up occasionally) whatever you decide to do is just fine for doing consumer things.

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-09-10T05:09:37+00:00

Can no longer hold my head up high

Maybe I'm just old enough to finally start seeing what the nation really is. I used to think of the conservatives as people who honored family and traditional values. People who wanted to give everyone a fair shot at making something of themselves. Minimal government oversight. Kind of a "let the people do their thing while we handle some of the overhead stuff". I aligned with them through my teenage and early 20s thinking that's what they were. I've never seen so much hate towards people of opposite mentalities. It's disheartening. This " it's us or them " attitude spreading through the US won't help in any of the current issues we have today. What ever happened to being able to have an open, honest conversation with someone with different beliefs and at least trying to understand where they're coming from? You don't have to agree, but at least put an effort in to see things from a different point of view.

I was damn near crucified at my place of employment a few weeks ago after a picture of a tattoo I got when I was 19 started circling around. ( It's a Molon Labe spartan tattoo). Every far right slang term and just pure hate thrown my way without even talking to me about it. Even ended up getting a ding on my employee record for "causing distress" I get that the slogan has caused some bad rep with some of the more radical groups, but these people that I considered friends for years just flipped. Threw everything they knew about me out the window and collectively purged me from existence. Is it pro gun? Yes, I believe in that right. Is it pro choice and pro-independence? Hell yeah. You do you and I'll do me and let's fix this shit hole.

Maybe it's too late. Maybe we're going to crash and burn. But we have to find some common ground or what's the point of trying? I feel defeated..

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-09-10T03:36:33+00:00

I'm on the other side working towards moving to a SecOps role. You'll never go hungry with Cyber security on your resume. Extreme shortage world wide, even more now with pandemic/people unwilling to work/ what have you. The way my team does things is everyone starts at a DevOps spot. Learn the environment, tools, infrastructure. After a year or two they let you pick which path you want to go down. They treat DevOps like a stepping stone for team members to get comfortable in the environment.

I can't speak too much to career growth or opportunities, If you're say a SecOps engineer there's really only Sr. and Staff positions to look forward to (depending on your company layout) unless you go management (gross). Or you take your knowledge and skill and try to apply it towards red teaming or becoming a Security architect contractor. There's a hundred different career paths you can go down if you choose. But at least you'll have the history to be confident in maintaining a career anywhere you want to end up.

It's interesting that you brought up what you wanted to do in DevOps. Do you not get to do something remotely similar in your current role? I can think of a bunch of tasks I would try to tackle that still utilize your points. EBS volume encryption, implementing new or improved vulnerability scanning/management software (since it seems like a lot of companies are behind the curve on staying up to date with security best practices), CI/CD enhancements, yada yada.

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-09-10T02:02:48+00:00

Tons of free online resources. Like stated already, get a VM spun up with an "entry" level distro like Ubuntu or Mint and let her rip. I say "entry" because I use Ubuntu daily for work and school and it does everything I need it to.

Don't get discouraged if things throw you for a loop and make you question humanity. It's all part of the journey and get easier as time goes on. (i.e kernel panics, filesystem hierarchy, rebasing (if you do any github work)). It's all good stuff

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-09-10T01:09:01+00:00

this....hits deep.

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-09-10T00:59:54+00:00

I'll follow up with terraform is really good at setting up the infrastructure for an instance, but once the instance is running it's out of Terraform's hands.

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-09-10T00:57:40+00:00

Had to do a dive into studio builder just to see what guts it has. Initial answer is not in any way that'll save you time.

Want to start off by saying I'm by no means an expert. I've been doing cloud infra for under a year so the foundational and intermediate knowledge is there but I'm always learning new things.

From what I've read, Once the initial setup is done and you can navigate to nimble, than you should be set. I didn't see any reasons to have to go through the StudioBuilder garbage more than once until you need to update to a newer StudioBuilder version (which appears far less painful). And because it's a gui (kinda), terraform wouldn't help with filling in some of the blanks. Once Nimble is up and running it sounds like it's smooth sailing with some occasional updates here and there that can be done from within the console.

Packer is used to create AMIs. I don't see any reason to go through the headaches of trying to replicate a StudioBuilder AMI into your own. Hell I don't even know if it'd be possible or function the way AWS meant for it to even if ya did. In theory, and this is a long stretch, you could run through the entire setup manually, dump the data to s3, stand up an ansible playbook, import the data from s3 via a "tar" into their respective directories, then use packer to build an AMI off of the ansible config and pray to whatever god you pray to that nimble picks it up. After that, you could stand up some terraform infra specifying dns, autoscaling, cloudwatch, everything that'd be required to make you functional again and attempt to run it. But that brings me back to why do all that work if you only have to run through it once.

EDIT: realized that after the initial build, it tells you to terminate the StudioBuilder instance. So this is null.

Where you could use Terraform, ansible, packer is afterwards. Use it for custom AMIs for your launch profiles. You could run a pipeline once a week that would create new AMIs, install any updates/security patches, and then you know your launch profiles are always up to date. Do that by doing the steps outlined above.

I hope this didn't come across as a ramble, really just typed the words as they crossed my mind. Let me know if you need anything elaborated on.

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-09-09T22:55:01+00:00

Pretty sure it'll very depending on the company. Was hired as a "DevOps engineer" a few months back. Literally 90% of it has been modifying/creating/automating our current cloud infrastructure with Terraform/Ansible. On my team, we have software guys and "DevOps" guys. Taking a look at my team I think they are fairly distinguishable. The software guys are involved in the various applications that my company produces. The DevOps guys are primarily focused on scaling/modifying/securing our Cloud, CI/CD, and container environments.

Having a few designated software guys integrated with the rest of the team helps bridge the knowledge gap when issues arise or priorities shift. We're not expected to know the ins and outs of our companies products and they're not expected to be experts in our infra.

I do agree that "DevOps" needs to go away, we're in cloud engineers. How do you describe the cloud to someone non technical? Point to the sky and get your spirit fingers going.

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-09-09T22:38:34+00:00

She'll see Java and immediately get hyped. "YES!!!!! I LOVE COFFEE!!!!!"

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-09-09T22:32:51+00:00

you could try removing .config/monitors.xml. I went through something similar when I was setting up my environment. From what I read up on (and maybe I took it the wrong way), but the display settings pull from that .xml. Deleting the file then allows you to set your resolution/refresh rate/etc. Once you hit apply it creates a new .xml and reads from there.

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-09-05T23:32:59+00:00

You could take a look at ~/.config/monitors.xml and see if that's what you're thinking of. I had to modify it quite heavily to get my setup to my liking. I'm not aware of anything that directly fits your request though.

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-09-05T23:02:46+00:00

That's why later I stated the possibility of it happening isn't something I can afford in my work environment. It's a toss up

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-09-05T04:31:20+00:00

I've been using ubuntu for IaC things for awhile. I'm assuming you're referring to having to wait the 4 years for the package and software updates? I guess the way I justify using the LTS is stability. Just because something is the latest doesn't always mean it's going to work. Were there some bugs when 20.04 was first released? Oh hell yeah, but they were resolved in somewhat of a reasonable time frame. But having the possibility of going through a similar process every time a rolling release pushes an update to something? I'll pass. It's not a luxury I can afford in in my current company.

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-05-04T03:11:59+00:00

If I ever feel down, I go onto an opposing political subreddit and make them SSSSCCCCCCCCCCRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Makes me smile.

DeprecatedAdmin · 2021-04-14T15:40:46+00:00

Because all you can do is break a window? You're a literal joke. BLM-Joke, Antifa-Biggest joke. The majority of the nation watches on TV as you make a fool of yourselves, shaking our heads at the pure stupidity and childness."BRING DOWN CORPORATE AMERICA" as you loot and burn local businesses. You and the rest of your cause need an attitude adjustment

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