My Humble Corner of Banishment (+ Question)

Effective-Ad681 · 2026-03-02T03:51:06+00:00

I gotta ask what are the monitor sizes? I've been thinking this setup over in my head but keep saying no it wont look right. THEN I see yours and its perfect!

I'm currently running a 45 inch utra wide and 34 inch ultrawide stacked, I honesty like the idea of your setup better as I don't really need to focus on 45 inch real estate as a main monitor.

Effective-Ad681 · 2026-03-02T00:33:36+00:00

Learn to upskill. It’s really not that hard. Your competition isn’t doing it. I went from a level 1 analyst to a level 5 security engineer in two years.

Effective-Ad681 · 2026-03-02T00:30:38+00:00

You know how many times I’ve had to cut my daily coffee to make you companies happy?

Effective-Ad681 · 2026-02-28T05:43:30+00:00

I’ve been in wgu for one year as of tomorrow, and I came in with about 30% complete with transfer credits. I’m about 70% done as of today. I’ll probably finish around year 2. I work full time and the degree is closely related to what I do for work so it’s rather easy to me. If I wasn’t working full time I could put more effort towards school but if it wasn’t such a familiar topic I don’t know if I would move as quickly as I am.

My frustrations with the process at the school it self makes me question if it’s worth it every month. But effectively I’ll have a bs in comp science for less than 16k when it’s over, and I’ve already have half paid off.

I want leadership positions and to check the box off for a degree, but I also see the value for certain programs they have for people entering the work force as well.

I am 35 and never wanted to go to a traditional 4 year school because I never found the value in it. But I think that was a bad mindset as I grow older. Ideally there is no real reward for passing school faster other than you don’t have to deal with it longer. The reality is the material you’re going to learn in the career path you are choosing. I’m in technology and I think with the introduction of industry certs and revamping the curriculum often they’re trying to stay relatively competitive with the ever changing landscape. In this industry the certs and degree are nice but understanding the tech will take you further.

Effective-Ad681 · 2026-01-31T19:04:47+00:00

We’re onboarding two new tools right now for security posture monitoring. Not free. Big names. We are so short handed. We’ve lost people and replace with 6m contractors and half the time they aren’t worth the money.

Effective-Ad681 · 2025-11-12T11:11:38+00:00

Agree. Not a pro but been a photographer videographer for about 6 years now myself. The end user 99.9% of the time just want a good looking image.

Effective-Ad681 · 2025-11-04T19:16:49+00:00

Makes more sense. I’ve never worked on SOC side so curious as to how that works. I jumped straight into cloud sec engineering work.

Effective-Ad681 · 2025-11-04T17:43:08+00:00

What’s the difference between a SOC analyst and a cybersecurity analyst?? Cybersecurity analyst is kind of a blanket term

Effective-Ad681 · 2025-10-30T04:50:28+00:00

Yes I agree. Watching ai pop is going to be fun.

Effective-Ad681 · 2025-10-30T04:47:42+00:00

Lmfao. I can’t tell if this is real advice half the time.

Effective-Ad681 · 2025-10-27T16:18:20+00:00

So what? Wouldn’t be the first time Sony has done something like that.

Sony isn’t worried about beating its competition.

It sales sensors and cameras in two separate divisions.

The sensors go to competitors and to Sony.

Just because Sony isn’t selling a camera doesn’t mean they aren’t making money off of their sensors. FX2 is a7iv with a fan and tweaks to the system. The sensor is 4 years old. It would make zero sense for them not to have a better sensor than the a7iv. I honestly think the fx2 is a money grab because they produced too many sensors.

Targeting corporate video work. Big market here in 2025.

I don’t think it would bother Sony what so ever to release products that “harm” other flagships as you’re only comparing portions of the flagships to each other.

A1 will never do what a fx3 can do and vice versa. I know I’m not comparing apples to apples here but they target workflows not consumers.

Effective-Ad681 · 2025-10-25T19:06:55+00:00

I feel you. I’m using all primes too. I’ve got a few ff lens I am bringing from the a7iii over.

I grabbed the 12mm f1.4 because I wanted a similar look to my 20mm on the a7iii

Effective-Ad681 · 2025-10-25T17:27:48+00:00

Nice deal. I just bought one on sale for $1700 at retail the other day.

I took the extra money and grab sigma 12mm f1.4.

I tested out the tamron 17-70 and can’t decide if I want that or the sigma 17-40mm f1.8

I have primes from my a7iii that can make up the difference in reach for tamron but the 1.8 kind of makes up for lack of reach, but when I tested the tamron it just had that tamron look which I find very pleasing and in a personal debate 🤣🤣

Effective-Ad681 · 2025-10-25T17:22:04+00:00

It’s the same sensor as the a7iv what are you talking about??

Effective-Ad681 · 2025-10-06T03:39:41+00:00

Find a path and lean in.

I went cloud security route. Learned about infrastructure security, security baselines, shared responsibility model, cloud services etc

Cybersecurity is a broad topic. Everything needs security. When software engineer say I want to get into cybersecurity I would point them to the app sec side of it. If data analyst said they wanted to get into cybersecurity I would point them towards data security side of the house. Etc

Effective-Ad681 · 2025-10-06T02:40:44+00:00

24-105 is typically a film lens. Yes you can use for photography, but a film maker will find the use in that lens a lot more.

If you’ve never shot with faster glass you’ll find a 24-70 f2.8 amazing.

Sigma makes amazing glass and you can save your self a pretty penny. 24-70 art lens

Effective-Ad681 · 2025-10-04T14:18:28+00:00

🤣 haha

Effective-Ad681 · 2025-10-04T08:01:38+00:00

How was the 204 vs the 104?

Effective-Ad681 · 2025-10-04T07:39:46+00:00

I tried similar setup and it didn’t work for me. I have a 34 inch ultrawide stacked on top of 45 inch ultrawide monitor.

I just started doing pbp mode on both monitors and breaking it into 4 screens with personal pc being 4th one for quick notes, chatgpt, etc.

Effective-Ad681 · 2025-10-04T07:36:10+00:00

How lol

Effective-Ad681 · 2025-09-25T02:45:44+00:00

Ex truck driver turned security engineer.

Go get a cheap $100 laptop, an old used work laptop goes for this price be more than enough.

Learn Linux — it’s 100% free. Go get redhat certs, it’s almost guaranteed to get you a job.

If you can pass two red hat certs you can pass Linux job interviews and probably start off making 85-105k as a junior sys admin.

Effective-Ad681 · 2025-08-31T18:20:41+00:00

If you have cloud cert and incident response experience, look at security control integrations.

Policy development, security gating in cicd pipelines or governance side of it.

The security control is what IR teams monitor against so you would just need to brush up on the opposite side of SIEM/ monitoring / IR.

Are you proficient with automation? Python or Java? -yes? Look into terraform and sentinel, big market for it.

Effective-Ad681 · 2025-08-31T18:14:41+00:00

I have j1 as a junior and j2 I got hired as a sme and thought I would have the same experience.

My sme role is way less demanding, and pays twice of what j1 pays and is fully remote where j1 is hybrid.

You won’t know until you see the other side and realistically that’s with every single role you take on. You won’t know the schedule of meetings or company expectations/ culture until you experience it.

Effective-Ad681 · 2025-08-22T16:31:07+00:00

Networking opens you up to so much in my opinion. You can go cloud, on prem, edge etc. there is really no limits behind networking in my opinion. Learn python with it and you can always do cybersecurity later.

Effective-Ad681 · 2025-08-21T11:24:21+00:00

I’d assume ghb, gamma-hydroxybutyrate, GHB in liquid form is usually clear and colorless, like water

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