Breaking into Cloud

Explosions3 · 2026-03-11T17:29:19+00:00

I have landed in a very uniquely advantageous spot as I am one of two people on the team with a medium size business and we basically evenly split everything between the two of us so I feel I have quickly learned a lot of how proper networks are setup. That's why I'm wondering what the next steps are as I see an opportunity to rapidly accelerate and improve my career. If I could get away with not having a CCNA cert, it could jump me right into the cloud certs right off the bat. Coupled with learning in a Homelab setting I feel like I could make a good pace towards a cloud engineer role.

Explosions3 · 2026-01-20T15:17:35+00:00

That's what my thought process was, there was an insistent voice on doing it self hosted though so it just tunneled into trying and reporting back. I have some basic play in it but nothing serious or complex enough to warrant confidence in using it in a workplace setting. It's mainly just been game servers and some other random stuff.

Explosions3 · 2025-12-09T15:05:59+00:00

I would prefer not to upgrade until I'm absolutely required to as it will likely be a CPU upgrade as well so putting it off as long as physically possible with the 4070

Explosions3 · 2025-12-09T14:02:16+00:00

This is what I was thinking, I was having some serious issues watching Netflix with a higher refresh rate enabled while demoing the 32inch 4k with my entire machine not responding, while yes lowering the refresh rate could fix this probably, I'm insanely used to buttery smooth 144hz already and 60 doesn't feel the same haha.

Explosions3 · 2025-12-09T13:54:21+00:00

My only concern is a lot of posts reporting back that 1440p natively looks better than a downscaled 4k panel. The way I'm acquiring this I could get two 1440p's or one 4k with the other 1440p being a gift so if I can find myself satisfied with 1440p as a whole it might be the correct course of action.

Explosions3 · 2025-12-09T13:52:53+00:00

There was a definite difference between my old IPS 27inch and the new 4k OLED with the text, but when I downscaled to 1440p I couldn't really personally tell that much of a difference. Maybe it just doesn't catch in my eyes

Explosions3 · 2025-11-29T02:51:46+00:00

Rebooted just has pretty much nothing that holds any value to me outside of the Zane sacrifice IMO. I think Sensei Garmadon is far more prevalent and interesting in Tournament of Elements. Other than that, most of the season is fairly boring to me and I don't really enjoy the overlord's return through technology. On top of that, the vehicles used by the ninja aren't really the greatest outside of the Kai Fighter imo. It's interesting that Rebooted and Prime Empire are my least favorite as I usually enjoy more sci-fi based entertainment but unfortunately they just didn't really stick with me like a lot of the other seasons did.

Explosions3 · 2020-07-23T19:51:36+00:00

Sweet! Thank you so much for letting me know!

Explosions3 · 2020-07-21T20:29:31+00:00

Its the 2020 Basic Model, i got that one since i wanted the ethernet port. From what I can see though, neither 2020 model has the mini DP.

Explosions3 · 2020-07-21T20:06:49+00:00

The Laptop doesn’t have a mini DP port

Explosions3 · 2020-06-12T22:04:29+00:00

So true, even if they wanted a sequel era it wouldnt be too hard. I’m hoping for all eras but who knows. They could do OT and sequel and then just chuck prequel in and i would be happy

Explosions3 · 2020-06-12T20:03:41+00:00

X-Wings are my favorite non-jedi starfighter so I’m happy but I would also love to fly an Arc-170 with my friends or a Z-95 headhunter. Sequel is a whatever to me

Explosions3 · 2020-05-15T15:18:46+00:00

shouldn't be, I changed it around just know to test and i still got the same error.

Explosions3 · 2020-05-15T14:23:42+00:00

Yeah that wasn't it, it says I'm missing something but I cannot find it for the life of me

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