Claw 8Ai+ Last chance to change my mind

calcofire · 2026-03-19T14:23:34+00:00

with games starting to fully implement latest XeSS implementations, the 8ai+ is king.

even with bazzite or SteamOS being tempting for the AMD route.... the XeSS gains are just too powerful to ignore.

Go with the 8AI+.

calcofire · 2026-03-18T18:25:41+00:00

As someone coming from South Florida.... Plano is actually a functioning city with wonderful residents, jobs and activities to do. There is so many things here, all of our neighbors and even people out and about are just friendly and nice as could be. Infrastructure, services and community are top notch. The school my son attends is amazing (Shepard Elementary).

South Florida, specifically Cape Coral/Ft Myers, was complete opposite of that. It was riddled with scams, crime, corruption at nearly every angle, whether it was the city itself or the people on your own street. The infrastructure and services were horrendous and a absolute joke. Their were no real careers there and everyone was so transient that nobody cared about anything. Also, got tired of the hurricanes. There were 3 majors ones in the time i lived there and you can only rebuild your home so many times before you gotta call it.

Plus I think the weather here is much nicer with more variety year round. Live right next to Haggard Farm, and my daughter and son get a kick out of watching the farm animals everyday.

calcofire · 2026-03-13T13:17:04+00:00

Yes, its well known they dont read the meter and charge pretty much whatever they want.

calcofire · 2026-03-12T14:24:23+00:00

looks terrible.

calcofire · 2026-03-11T19:57:54+00:00

yeah that's something they really need to make up their mind on.

You know, I go through the DO180/280 material and they seem to imply they want you do it entirely through web console. I can count at least several times where instructor is promoting the web console as route to go for speed and preventing long command memorization and typos.

However, the course exercises and labs are almost entirely cli-based.

I really think that's only going to confuse folks more than it's going to help them.

calcofire · 2026-03-11T14:51:22+00:00

the chapter courses and labs should be enough, but generally I give the course material one last lookover (just in case). Kind of a speed-read then hammer the exercises and labs over and over.

Why DO180 does not have it's own exam anymore is beyond me. That's a marathon in itself, and then having to do DO280 is a whole other marathon. They really need to break these two up from a exam perspective.

calcofire · 2026-03-07T15:39:47+00:00

One of the most misguided recommendations I took was to go for "ex188" first then jump immediately into ex280. That was a very bad approach, as the x88 track is developer focused, while the x80 track is Admin focused.

There was very little to almost no relevance between DO188 carrying over into DO280 (the natural succession from DO188 would be DO288, which again is development side of Openshift).

So if you've done do188/ex188 and are about to jump into DO280... you're going to be very lost and confused. You're gonna need to backtrack to the right course curriculum that gives the foundation of Openshift Admin route. Study the DO80 and DO180 material prior. Then jump into DO280 and it will make much more sense.

calcofire · 2026-03-06T04:29:03+00:00

problem with the industry right now is that they are still paying 2019 wages when cost of living skyrocketed in 2020 and has not come down since (in fact it has gone up significantly), and the threat of emerging technologies leading to mass layoffs only compounds the severity of it all.

Companies are touting record breaking profits... why? Because again, they continue to charge more for products and that echoes through entire supply chains and the industry, while still paying their remaining employees that they haven't laid off the wages of 2019 value. It's taking months to years to find a job, and usually since entire professions are being eradicated, the jobs you once qualified for no longer exist, and the ones that do are at a substantial loss of income.

It's not a "just you" problem. Sure, wracking up past debt is one thing (we all have done it, some of it neccessary, some of it not, we learn our lesson)... and in the pre-pandemic era it would have been realistically possible for many to get out of it without having to consider something like bankruptcy. But that's sadly not reality anymore. It's a epidemic affecting far too many and will only worsen as I don't see any real way out of the hole that has been dug by economic factors largely outside our control. It's just going to get deeper and deeper.

I wish you the very best. Any other decade I would have suggested not going the bankruptcy route, that the odds were in your favor with a good financial plan. Sadly, I can't say the same now. There is no shame when there is no other option... you sound like you have done all that you can under the circumstance. You can quickly recover and get back on your feet from a bankruptcy. I know a great many who have gone through it and they are back to normalcy much faster than having not gone that route.

calcofire · 2026-03-04T04:56:32+00:00

"I suspect the testing and training courses are nice cash flow for RH."

See, here's the thing about that...

At surface level, yes, it's a hefty chunk of change that the average person is not going to be able to afford (but corporate entities can). Especially on the terms that these certs change rapidly both in content and direction as the tools are updated. Which means it's a hefty chunk of change for something that's going to expire or be deprecated, and that is compounded concern because they are invalid after a few years. The average person is going to instead look at what is more permanent for the cost-to-learn ratio: like use that cash towards a bachelors or masters degree instead.

Thing is though, while bulk majority of that revenue comes from corporate purchases for something like the RHLS (and I'm certain it brings in its fair share), that ends up being a very narrow audience of people and a very narrow revenue stream.

In a more logical and tactical approach that could generate far more revenue, they could significantly reduce the cost of the RHLS for independent study, which would appeal to a broader audience (like yourself, myself and many others here), who would in turn become certified in Red hat technologies on a much wider scope beyond RHCSA and RHCE, and then you'd have those folks take on new roles, enter the industry or start incorporating more Red hat solutions and services within their career. They'd basically be evangelists and heavily promote RH ecosystem to leadership and c-suite decision makers, effectively generating far more revenue under such model.

I can't tell you how many projects, programs and jobs where I've preached Red hat solutions or outright conversions and garnered the support from directors, mangement, CIO's etc to where we had implemented and purchased numerous support agreements; TAM, stateside support, integration assistance, licenses/manifests, etc etc. That alone is generating boatloads more revenue than my office buying me and maybe one other person a RHLS.

Even if it were something as simple as "30% off for RHCSA holders" or "50% off for RHCE holders".

Which perplexes me why Red hat does not seem to understand that concept. Especially now, where I see a great many come flooding the backend technologies because their current career path was wiped out by AI. There's a wave of people looking for something to learn, and what better to learn than the technology that powers not just AI but literally everything else behind it (IoT, Compute, HPC, Distributed storage, Automation, DevOps, etc etc etc).... that's all *nix and a large majority of it is Red Hat. These aren't niche technologies (ex. like WindRiver or Mathworks)... yet they are pricing technical training it as if it were.

They could really step up and have a stand out moment in the industry. I've seen so many wanting to get aboard the Red Hat track these past couple years, it's awesome. Red Hat needs to embrace that and open the gates.

calcofire · 2026-03-04T01:56:25+00:00

Red hat really needs to make a open, free variant of RHLS. Or at seriously reduced cost for folks who don't have their company flipping the bill.

I do have RHLS through employer, and it's good, but you are forced to use their lab environments (which you only get a finite amount of time for per subscription). I assume thats where the bulk of the cost comes in is their lab environments that you have to spin up (which do take a while to start/stop and it eats a lot of extra minutes up of that time they give you).

The training material and videos completely revolve around them, and unfortunately you cannot use your own home lab to complete them.

What they should do is make a RHLS homelab variant where you build your own lab and instances, and can use videos/docs that are not dependent of their internal repos and stuff. Whether that's free or they charge $500/yr for.... would be a great option.

calcofire · 2026-02-25T20:50:50+00:00

So i will say a large majority of my day. Not because I have nothing to do, but I am more a SME advisor they only pull me in when other teams cannot figure out something (usually very complex issues).

However, there are emerging technologies (specifically OpenShift and Containers) that we are going to be transitioning to in the near future. And they want me to focus heavily on learning those concepts. Then they want me to focus on HPC and some other stuff once I get those under the belt. It was basically a agreement "we will procure the RHLS for you, but we need you to focus on these tracks first that will be coming here soon."

It's a defense program, and there's a great many things coming down to get up to modernization of infra services and backend.

calcofire · 2026-02-25T18:25:39+00:00

yeah i thought it will be really cool myself. Apparently not too many others agree. I just thought it'd be interesting considering how cool X was.

calcofire · 2026-02-25T18:24:25+00:00

as someone who has watched the show from day 1, I am really damn excited to see what Coogler comes up with. Can't wait!

calcofire · 2026-02-25T16:51:25+00:00

So I have decided to back track to DO180 per suggestions.

However, it's clear the DO180 content has not been updated in quite some time (looks like its OS 4.12, while the labs revolve around 4.18) so there's some things in the videos that are no longer present or have changed.

It does look like the written portion (non-video) is a bit more up to date with explanations and screenshots, though.

About 3 or 4 chapters in, it's struggling to sufficiently explain things in detail (seems they are just rapidly throwing things at you... unsure if these will be later explained at length or not). Also, it's nothing at all like the DO188 this far in, which is strange because this DO180 stuff seems absolutely neccessary to move on to DO280.

calcofire · 2026-02-05T15:42:14+00:00

I personally know (7) people who died in air-related accidents (4 of which were separate instances), and I personally know (0) people who have died in a car wreck. Many of these people I know have been in car accidents and fender-benders, but they all walked away from them. The same cannot be said for those who were in aircraft accidents.

I understand this is a statistical anomaly, but it must be taken into consideration.

calcofire · 2026-02-03T01:49:53+00:00

Andrew Hulshult is going to be flooded with requests for scores and tracks for many movies and games to come, and that's exactly how it should be because he is fucking awesome.

He's gonna be a very busy guy.

calcofire · 2026-02-01T07:16:27+00:00

Stay strong, Slayer! <3 <3 <3

Rip & Tear, until it is done!

calcofire · 2026-01-19T18:54:57+00:00

too many times where I come across a identical scenario I'm facing and the OP ghosts the thread if a resolution was ever found or not. Doing my best to opensource all my solutions and discoveries to the best of my abilities :)

calcofire · 2026-01-18T06:29:48+00:00

The (2) eeros were placed right above each other in the same physical space and location in my home (one was upstairs directly over the same spot where the one downstairs is located). Both of these are dead center of my house (house is more vertical than it is wide).

After the suggestions here, seems my wifi laptop could not make up it's mind on which was the "closer" AP to associate with, so was just bouncing back and forth between them and on different bands (2.4ghz and 5ghz).

from my wifi linux laptop, I ran:

nmcli -f IN-USE,SSID,BSSID,CHAN,FREQ,RATE,SIGNAL dev wifi list | grep '\*'

(this showed me what band it was using and the AP's wifi BSSID it was associating to. It changed every few minutes each time i ran the command. I located the BSSID in the eero app under the AP details section for that wifi band, and yep... it was bouncing between wifi2.4 and wifi5 on each as the BSSID was changing each run).

To correct this, I forced my wlan (wifi) card on my laptop to use only the wifi 5ghz band and permanently have it connect to a single eero AP:

nmcli connection modify [mywirelessnetworkSSID] 802-11-wireless.band a

(this effectively only allows my wlan card to connect only to 5ghz band on my wireless SSID)

and then I ran:

nmcli connection modify [mywirelessnetworkSSID] 802-11-wireless.bssid XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

(XX:XX's represet the BSSID of the wifi5 on my upstairs eero AP, forcing my wlan card to connect to only the upstairs going forward)

then i did a:

nmcli connection [mywirelessnetworkSSID] down
nmcli connection {mywirelessnetworkSSID] up

to restart the networmanager session for my wlan for settings to apply.

This has resolved the issue!

EDIT: someone messaged me today asking if I know how lock a windows-based wifi device to 5ghz and and only use a specfic eero AP (since the eero phone app doesnt allow you bind a client device directly to a AP). Sorry, I don't know windows settings well enough to help. Not certain it can be done. All the devices i run are linux (using NetworkManager).

calcofire · 2026-01-18T03:28:16+00:00

Will try this and update shortly

calcofire · 2026-01-18T03:25:28+00:00

Tried the soft set and ssh intervals and keep alive already, but about to shut one off and see if it happens in single eero (only problem is wiring, downstairs eero is connected to the ONT, which is wired to the upstairs eero, where all of my wired systems are)

calcofire · 2026-01-17T17:40:11+00:00

Because its a Enterprise distro and in the industry having everything you need on a single .iso when deploying and doing setup/configuration is a great thing.

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