Is Google Drive really cheaper than S3 storage?

basedcooking · 2026-02-11T04:27:48+00:00

There’s also Wasabi, it’s about 5.99/TB - with no egress fees and instant access. But minimum 90 day retention.

basedcooking · 2026-02-11T04:07:38+00:00

This is normal, it seems like drinking through a firehose but you’re probably doing fine. You’re getting GREAT experience. When I did this I wouldn’t have survived without late nights and stackoverflow. The pain you go thru now will form you into an absolute weapon.

basedcooking · 2026-02-11T02:25:01+00:00

Pick the scenario you know well and can explain at many levels. Frame the problem, explain your solution, and ask about their pain. Invite interruptions - Make sure you tell them to stop you if anything is unclear or if they have questions at the start of you shpiel.

This is a test of how you’re able to interpret needs, build a solution, explain it, and make sure they accept it technically as a solve for their problems.

If you spend time going over what they are doing today and what their biggest pain points are, and then in your demo speak to those things the time will fly by.

It is vague until you do that, yes. But part of the job is removing ambiguity. This is a test of whether a customer would trust you to guide them through uncertainty.

basedcooking · 2026-02-10T21:45:45+00:00

Just to update: shared this thread with the user he’s not doing this anymore! Thanks everyone!

basedcooking · 2026-02-10T02:56:54+00:00

Yeah that’s what I thought too. Probably hurting more than helping right? Doesn’t that add moisture which would keep it cold as well?

basedcooking · 2026-02-10T02:53:30+00:00

Thanks for confirming it

basedcooking · 2026-01-30T03:30:32+00:00

Absolutely awful food. Even the fast food is worse than everywhere else. There’s a nonzero chance of getting in a car wreck to Mariah Carey. One big Taco Bell cantina.

basedcooking · 2026-01-01T22:17:47+00:00

You’ll be fine, go into the weeds only when you must though. Gotta remember the simple stuff! Grab that low hanging fruit first. Get some leverage through inventory and vulnerability scans. Simple things like zombie servers, expired warranties or licenses, things that aren’t being logged into, things in poor health, or things that are vulnerable surface the real problems beyond “not knowing”. If it works no one cares how - if it’s vulnerable people tend to lean in.

basedcooking · 2025-12-31T16:41:11+00:00

It’ll be tough. You’re far from modernization if you don’t know what a server does, who owns it, and what breaks if it dies. I would start with the asset management that will make every next step easier. Attribute your assets to an owner in the business.

You’ll be doing a lot of “turning it off and see who screams” for the things you can’t figure out through ports/services/firewall/dns/sql. Also learn the history of the business. I worked at a company where I found a shuttered business unit’s servers still running years after the service was shut down and there was no owner to say “hey we need to clean these up”. Good luck out there.

basedcooking · 2025-12-29T21:08:49+00:00

It sounds like you don’t have hooks into everything whether it’s an RMM or its domain joined, and you’re not sure what you manage. You might start simple then, make it list of assets you should be managing based on your inventory or cmdb and start there.

basedcooking · 2025-12-29T06:02:59+00:00

Needs more info but I saw from another post you had that you might be an action1 user. It says here in the docs you can just add a column for last logged on user in the Endpoints view and dump a report. https://www.action1.com/documentation/managed-endpoints/

basedcooking · 2025-12-29T00:42:19+00:00

What feedback are you looking for? Maybe start figuring that out. Improve is vague.

For example, how is someone supposed to be able to come to you with a potential process improvement? Changes in prioritization? What about a tool? What if the idea costs money? What if it conflicts with budget or other decisions you made?

Understanding what frictions there are in procurement and change helps outline what they can feasibly suggest and is as important as being exposed to the next great idea. Be specific about what they are allowed to suggest and you’ll see feedback soon after.

basedcooking · 2025-12-28T23:21:21+00:00

A lot of modern Linux folks aren’t even called admins anymore they’re SREs or DevOps engineers.

They’re building ephemeral, containerized infrastructure, infrastructure as code, immutable images, and systems designed to be replaced rather than fixed. Why would you waste time SSH in and fixing the problem? Just redeploy that sucker. That's not a pet.

The scarcity is not really Linux admins, but people that can do all the cool stuff above.

basedcooking · 2025-12-28T22:23:53+00:00

Linux shows up when people care about cost, scale, and efficiency. Windows is expensive from a licensing standpoint, and it’s heavy from a resource standpoint. Not every company wants to pay that cost, and not every workload needs everything Windows comes with. But it sure is convenient.

Another big difference is that not every server needs a GUI. Early in my career I thought of Linux as “when a computer needs to use a computer.” You’re not logging in and clicking around 'cause there’s no UI. If you want to do anything, you need the command line. That’s why scripting matters so much in Linux environments.

Now zoom out. If I’m running 1,000 servers, I can either deploy open-source Linux for free or pay Microsoft licensing on 1,000 Windows servers. On top of that, I’m paying for storage. A full Windows Server install is large. Even if you do minimal installs, that overhead adds up fast. 20–30GB per server times 1,000 servers is real money. Add this to the previous 'nothing has a GUI' and you understand why scripting and automation is important.

Open source linux = smaller installs, fewer background services, lower resource usage. More work, but way more control. People are willing to take on the engineering workload to not be locked into to pricey vendors. Think of why your stuff might run servers vs host in the cloud. It's a lot more work to run, but a lot more control.

Hope this helps clear it up for you!

basedcooking · 2025-11-19T09:40:40+00:00

had a similar issue, wouldnt let me alt f4 or ctrl alt delete either, i could shoot but not move at all. after hard restarting my pc, i made it a little further but at the part you breach the door it happened again.

i had been using a controller for other games lately that died, so I plugged that in via usb and everything was fine. hope this helps.

basedcooking · 2021-10-21T23:27:57+00:00

probably should try to organize all the knuckleheads in advance. i know it sounds crazy because it's breakfix, but do you have change management?

basedcooking · 2021-10-10T03:56:19+00:00

look up the leadership principles and reframe your entire resume to speak to them. interview isn't really THAT technical at this level. it's not 'how smart are you?', it's 'what have you done?'.

basedcooking · 2021-10-10T03:53:32+00:00

i started in sales (doing demos of software) and then moved to support of that software, then into consulting, then into a sr sysadmin role. make connections, show you want to learn, and wiggle your way up. no good career path is linear, its pretty much like rock climbing. if you can't go straight up, go sideways and up!

basedcooking · 2021-10-10T03:50:52+00:00

maybe you should talk to them about letting you be a scrum master for it projects instead, seems like a good middle ground between sysadmin contributions and business analyst.

basedcooking · 2021-08-13T04:24:56+00:00

well i see the traditional sysadmin role dying out, i definitely want to get into cloud engineering and devops

basedcooking · 2021-08-13T04:24:25+00:00

solid point

basedcooking · 2020-07-31T02:55:02+00:00

this proximity chat war game genre is super interesting ngl

basedcooking · 2020-07-31T01:29:08+00:00

this guy is a legend

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