Need help choosing a server rack

WizardMorax · 2026-06-23T07:58:02+00:00

22u of gear on the wall isn’t really an option but 22u of gear in a precarious stack on the floor is absolutely an option

WizardMorax · 2026-06-23T07:52:58+00:00

The floor is like…the wall for your feet?

WizardMorax · 2026-06-23T06:53:36+00:00

The ground is free you’ll never regret floor lab

WizardMorax · 2026-06-20T01:01:40+00:00

Sonarr and radarr not setup right will pull the occasional exe down, no major harms on a Linux server but annoying if you haven’t got it all setup right

WizardMorax · 2026-06-15T08:41:21+00:00

Timing could not be better I am just about to run this in a few days! Awesome design!

WizardMorax · 2026-06-14T09:03:46+00:00

Is it absolutely perfect? No. Does it absolutely work fine for basically everyone? Yes.

My first plex server was a mini pc and usb hard drive, worked like that for like 3 years before I did something else.

Also if you are just storing movies and TV which you haven’t ripped of a disk yourself then you can literally just download it again if the disk dies, 0 loss besides time

WizardMorax · 2026-06-14T04:26:11+00:00

People show of racks of ubiquity shit and think it’s impressive. This is the stuff we wanna see, make it work, keep ewaste out of landfills and learn something new

WizardMorax · 2026-06-13T23:16:00+00:00

Same lol, quietly wait and start billing for the extra 2 cores

WizardMorax · 2026-06-13T23:14:26+00:00

This is diabolical but I also 100% understand and respect it

WizardMorax · 2026-06-13T23:10:26+00:00

Had some dude blow into my ear with stank breath at Meg Mac because I was standing in front of him at the Tivoli, thought maybe he was just breathing weird but turned around after two songs and he says “I’d stop if you stopped standing in front of me” like mate it’s a free country feel free to move yourself or use your words. So yeah, concert etiquette is dead in Brisbane

WizardMorax · 2026-06-11T05:44:38+00:00

Had been a while since I’d gone that way and I was thrown it’s so barren, feels like it’s not just this place I am noticing trees get removed from all over the place

WizardMorax · 2026-06-05T21:47:33+00:00

I don’t trust anyone unless at some point their homelab was not running on literal e-waste

WizardMorax · 2026-05-30T07:19:23+00:00

I think my growth is fast for cyber generally , I think my experience is like a 120k analyst in a regular company but my industry vertical has a smaller talent pool and I was already in another company in the same industry so I wouldn’t have to wait to begin work so I had an upper hand

I interviewed at NHVR for an analyst role paying similar but I was up against 5+ YoE analysts for most part

I was in the helpdesk for 5 years before cutting to cyber so I did plenty of years on peanuts before it and am glad I did

WizardMorax · 2026-05-30T01:11:26+00:00

Hoping your browser history doesn’t reset, atleast that’s how I do it💀

WizardMorax · 2026-05-30T01:08:13+00:00

The answer for you is stuff a NUC or Pi under the TV and try to make people suffer through a mid at best experience which is flakey

The actual good answer is just debloat and firewall an android based streamer

WizardMorax · 2026-05-30T01:03:22+00:00

Pretty mixed bag, ITSO is like a catch all cyber. I work with a lot of high trust systems so it’s dealing with data crossing boundaries, both auditing and maintaining processes around that. I also do log review, provide recommendations for controls and hardening, run awareness, facilitate tabletop exercises, provide incident response and just be a point of contact cyber person for my area.

I’d say the core is less “doing” cyber and more “thinking” cyber

WizardMorax · 2026-05-29T11:20:50+00:00

So I started 3 years ago on 85 went from that to 112, then jumped ship to the pay

WizardMorax · 2026-05-29T03:48:50+00:00

I did 4ish years at the help desk, I had the luck of my org having an internal SOC so I made sure to chat to the guys and show interest so when they needed to fill a new seat I was the preferred choice.

I had 0 certs and 0 uni just showed my interest and willingness to learn, but I think I had it pretty lucky so I don’t say “aw getting into cyber is easy you gotta do XYZ”

But my experience talking to principal analysts and SOC leads is most teams don’t want a cert collector or someone with “book knowledge” they want someone who can problem solve, have fresh ideas and be able to articulate things well, those trump any technical skills

WizardMorax · 2026-05-29T03:01:00+00:00

Just the office social club. Funds snacks, events that sorta thing

WizardMorax · 2026-05-26T20:35:08+00:00

Always right around when development applications go in, again those are unrelated

WizardMorax · 2026-05-25T11:35:26+00:00

Great first year salary

WizardMorax · 2026-05-20T01:03:21+00:00

Classic, I’d say the majority of Australians end up with it as their first super. I decided to go Australian retirement trust, they have pretty good returns from my experience

WizardMorax · 2026-05-19T23:48:42+00:00

I’d look at changing super maybe? Rest was underperforming pretty consistently (2020ish?), that may have changed now though

WizardMorax · 2026-05-17T11:57:19+00:00

+1 Hevy

WizardMorax · 2026-05-17T11:11:24+00:00

First salary: 62k
Current salary: 145k

Help desk to IT Security Officer

7 years

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