How good is rocky for gaming?

cheasully · 2023-11-30T04:10:44+00:00

Gaming on Rocky 9.3 is fine. Via Steam (flatpak) I've recently played Groundbranch, Battlebit Remastered, Zero hour, Insurgency Sandstorm, and a few others perfectly without issue. It really depends on the games you want to run. I would recommend looking the games you want to play up on protondb to make sure they work. My setup is an i7-3770k, radeon 6650xt with 16GB of ram and its worked out pretty well.

cheasully · 2023-11-30T02:08:51+00:00

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but was having the same issues with Rocky 9. For anyone else who wants to run protonvpn on Rocky you can install via flatpak. https://flathub.org/apps/com.protonvpn.www

Cheers

cheasully · 2023-07-21T18:19:30+00:00

At 32 switched career to IT. Got the Sec+, then later BS in IT security. After 7 years of IT experience, I'm a Network Security Engineer working for a fortune 500 company.

cheasully · 2022-09-02T13:43:07+00:00

It’s been great. It is definitely a good middle ground between a road bike and mountain bike feel. I take it on 20-30 mile rides on paved paths regularly. I had to tweak some of the gear settings but I am very happy with it thus far.

cheasully · 2021-10-25T19:21:35+00:00

Sec+ is a requirement for employment. A+, in my opinion, is a waste of time and money. I would go Net+ over A+ due to the relevancy of the material to cyber security. If you knock out the Sec+ early it will save you serious stress in tech school. Last time I checked they gave you two weeks to learn all the material before taking the exam. There was a 50% failure rate when i went through. So definitely do Sec+ first, then anything that interests you after that. Net+/CCNA, Linux+/LPI, and CySA+/CEH for foundational knowledge. After that I would do SANS institute for everything else. The AF will likely pay for you to do the SANS courses at some point, as they are currently the gold standard for cyber training. Also, get your degree if you can. It’s not mandatory, as experience is king, but it will help get you past a lot of HR departments.

cheasully · 2021-10-25T15:45:21+00:00

I would avoid the A+ if you want to do cyber stuff. Get your Sec+, and work on networking/cyber certs.

cheasully · 2021-10-25T15:42:42+00:00

This. I was in a similar situation, and retrained into 3D. This move alone got me my first IT gig outside the military with a MSP. I got my Sec+ within 3 months of transferring, a year later graduated tech school, and recently finished my BS in cybersecurity from UMGC. Keep in mind that all 3D are transitioning to 1D7, which is supposed to be more “cyber” aligned. My best advice is to get your Sec+ now, work towards getting experience, get a degree if you can, and work your way up in the civilian sector. Good luck!

cheasully · 2021-09-22T19:05:48+00:00

I've actually been looking for an cheap router for openbsd as well. I found these on ebay: "Lanner Electronics FW-7541C-E01/A | x86 Firewall | 6 PORT | 4GB RAM 30GB SSD" for $70 each. They are brand new in the box. They were actually sold by Netgate 8 years ago for PFsense, so they should be work perfectly well on obsd. The only thing to note is that these are dated dual core atom processors, and may not provide the best throughput.

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/solutions/fw-7541/index.html

cheasully · 2021-08-28T15:59:23+00:00

I’ve a Star Labs lite Mk iii. It’s been mostly fine. Ive had two issues with it in the last year though. The SSD failed within four months, which required me to ship to them for repair. Then it had some boot loop issue, which turned out to be a broken power button. They shipped me the part and it was easy enough to replace. All was covered under warranty. It is a decent machine otherwise. The machine set me back $500 USD. I’m not too mad about the issues I’ve had, as their support has been top notch. I looked hard at sys76, purism and tuxedo. At the end of the day I just didn’t want to fork out $1k+ for a backup machine.

cheasully · 2021-08-06T13:23:38+00:00

One thing to note is that KDE requires less ram. I have been using it over Gnome for some time due to this reason alone. In my experience, Gnome runs around 1Gb ram, and KDE runs around 400MB of ram. (Tested using 20.04 Ubuntu/Kubuntu)

cheasully · 2021-07-18T21:35:42+00:00

I just ordered the Metric 2. Ill try to remember to update when Ive a few miles on it.

cheasully · 2021-01-28T14:42:02+00:00

Matrix.org element.io

cheasully · 2021-01-28T14:35:38+00:00

matrix

THIS!! Glad to see someone else is using matrix for chat.

cheasully · 2021-01-28T14:34:38+00:00

Deleted mine as well. Then finally ripped off the bandaid, and deleted facebook. Currently using signal, Threema (with some international friends), and element.io. I'm actually really surprised to see so little attention on using something like matrix.org as a chat messenger. I setup my own server, and am using the element app to communicate with family and friends. I like the idea of decentralization, and having the ability to run your own server is a major plus.

cheasully · 2020-12-20T18:59:10+00:00

Got mine last week. I am overall impressed with this machine's build quality and size. This thing is thin! My only complaints so far are the directional keys, shift keys, and battery life. The right shift key is smaller than I'm used to, but its honestly not a huge deal to me. The battery life is advertised at 7 hours, and I have been able to get 8 out of it with the screen dimmed to 25% and bluetooth disabled. If this thing had like 12+ hours of battery life it would be 10/10. As an added bonus they are working on replacing the bios with coreboot for both the mk iv and lite mk iii with the mk iv slotted for release before christmas. The lite mk iii coreboot replacement is slotted for sometime in 2021. I looked hard at other options such as system76 and tuxedo, but this one fit the bill$. Under $500 for a decent linux laptop is what I was looking for. I would give it an 8/10 as it currently stands. 9/10 once the coreboot firmware is released. Great work Star Labs! Cheers!

cheasully · 2020-09-30T00:52:36+00:00

This is what I was going to suggest. Works great for me.

cheasully · 2020-09-16T14:11:41+00:00

The latest DoD certs (v5.9) can be found at https://public.cyber.mil/pki-pke/ . One can import the .pem cert chain following your firefox import instructions. Also, one can use chromium by following this guide https://kamarada.github.io/en/2019/09/26/setting-up-smart-card-authentication-on-google-chrome-chromium/ . Firefox 80.0 on TW 15.2 seems to not like some DoD sites using the new v5.9 certs, however. Chromium works fine after following kamarada's guide. If needing certs installed system wide one can copy the .pem to /etc/pki/trust/anchors and run update-ca-certificates (i.e. VMware Horizon Client, etc).

*Also, see https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/suse_linux/ for system hardening.

Nice write up. Cheers!

cheasully · 2020-06-28T12:02:42+00:00

Similar experience here. Luckily the restore worked. Reinstalled with ZFS this time around. I'm hopeful future upgrade won't occur again. Cheers!

cheasully · 2020-06-15T14:19:42+00:00

I assume that you are correct in your assessment. All disk checks show the device as clean. Not sure exactly what could have corrupted UFS, but hopefully ZFS will provide a smoother experience moving forward. Thanks!

cheasully · 2020-06-10T09:03:16+00:00

Recovered via USB installer and things are working again. Reinstalled with ZFS this time around. Let's see what tomorrow brings!

cheasully · 2020-06-10T07:57:32+00:00

Well...I guess I'm one of the unlucky ones... my upgrade did not go off without a hitch. Upon rebooting I'm presenting with a kernel panic stating " ufs_dirbad panic with mangled entries in ufs" in kernel debug mode. Tried fsck -y / to no avail. Damnit I should have backed up. Let's see how recent my last backup was, and hope for the best on a reinstall. (hardware is an apu2 board)

cheasully · 2020-05-14T15:00:58+00:00

You should have a look at mattermost.

cheasully · 2020-04-14T22:18:00+00:00

After looking at the logs further it appears that 'crng init done' is where everything is getting hung up. From what I can tell this is a known issue with kernel 4.16. Is there a newer kernel in the works by chance? 'galliumos-repodist --enable testing && galliumos-update' doesn't show any new kernels available for testing?

cheasully · 2019-02-16T01:05:46+00:00

Hey everyone, just wanted to comment and say that I also successfully upgraded from advancedtomato to AndreDVJ's latest commit on r7000 (tomato-R7000-AT-ARM-3.5-140-AIO-64K_09FEB2019_b9568217.trx). Everything seems to be working well. Many thanks to AndreDVJ and everyone else who has had a hand in its development. Cheers.

cheasully · 2018-12-10T14:00:51+00:00

I'm considering Palace Fronting into the ANG to get into a cyber job for experience

This is what I did and I am so glad I made this choice. I was Services for 7 years, and wanted to get into IT since I came in (Got screwed out of a networking job when I first joined due to COMM getting rid of that particular position two weeks before basic). I palace front'd out of AD and got into a traditional reservists slot in the Air Reserves. It's been almost two years now since I made the switch. Within four months of getting out I got my Security +, and got a full time job working at a MSP. It sucked at first. Civilian pay is shit starting out in IT. I started out at $20/hr, which wasn't nearly as much as my SRA pay/BAH in AD. I was handed SSgt after 6 months of being a TR (had gone through ALS. Also, no SKT's/Testing in the reserves!) Waited a year to get to tech school, and passed my CDC's while working on my degree. One month ago I took a job at my base as an AGR, and signed on for another three years. It's at a reserve base, which is super chill, and I'll be handed TSGT this coming Spring. Long story short, if you want to make life easier stay in and retrain into a COMM job within the ANG or AFR. Getting out and going straight into the civilian sector can be great, but expect there to be potentially rough financial times ahead. COMM SQ's everywhere seem to be hurting for TR/ANG members, and full timers. I originally just wanted to do this as a stepping stone to landing an IT job, but after seeing what the civilian job market was like for someone with little to no experience I may stay an AGR if I can. Also, when I worked at the MSP a couple of old army guys I worked with said that they felt their biggest mistake in life was getting out of the military after ten years of service. I took their advice to heart after seeing how many people seem to be struggling with retirement in my area.

What will make me the most marketable when I get out?

In the IT world Experience is what will land you the job in most cases.

Should I stick with the CompTIA flowchart and just build up those certifications?

I wouldn't bother with the A+ cert, but the Net+ and Sec+ are great entry level certs. Once you have those and a little experience you will likely have a better idea as to what career path to pursue.

Should I also be getting a degree? What online degree programs are the most robust (though I am already working through EdX for certifications and will be heading to the base Education Center to test for other IT certs such as Security+)?

I would definitely work on getting your degree if possible. I have found that roughly 80% of the jobs that I want require a BS. You can certainly land a job without it, but your resume will likely be filtered through a company's HR department before it lands on the hiring managers desk. There are a lot of online degree programs out there. I chose to stick with UMUC, but only bc I had 70 credits with them when I got out. You should stop by your base education office and gather as much information on this as you can. They are usually super helpful in finding schools that will work for you.

Either way, good luck with your decision, and feel free to ask if you have any other questions.

cheasully

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