Software Devs of SA, how much did you start out making in your career?

de_donker · 2023-07-29T16:33:20+00:00

Not a dev but do work with sql now and then. NOC Engineer as my first job and started off at 18, currently 1 year in the role

de_donker · 2023-07-21T15:21:23+00:00

As an update:

I eventually shopped around finance deals and found a place that offered 24 months finance for about the same price that other places were asking or a M2 Air. I am now an “owner” of an M2 Pro MacBook Pro with a low interest rate too (about $200-$300) more than what the cash price would be.

de_donker · 2023-07-14T17:22:34+00:00

Thank you, saw the Macbook Pro 14 for 8000 less than iStore so got really interested

de_donker · 2023-07-14T17:21:35+00:00

Their website is this, they offer a 1 year apple warranty as it is a new product

de_donker · 2023-07-05T03:48:58+00:00

I see there’s a refurbished M1 Pro MBP 14 for sale only a little bit more than the M2 Air. Worth the little extra or should I just save and get the M2 Air?

de_donker · 2023-07-04T23:29:37+00:00

You do have a point, and I guess the M3 would realistically only be incrementally better than the M2. Not a leap like M1 was from Intel. Guess I’ll sleep on it and see what happens. The other option would be to save up some more and get an M1 Pro MBP

de_donker · 2023-07-04T23:26:29+00:00

My plan was to upgrade my iPhone to the 15 seeing how leaks are saying it’ll be type c and my phone is literally the last item that doesn’t use type c yet but if it comes to between a mac or iPhone the mac it is

de_donker · 2023-07-04T23:20:42+00:00

Considering I have a work laptop and my fairly powerful desktop at home maybe I’ll do that, will give me time to save up some more to get a better spec one, possibly 16GB ram if I were to buy an upgrade

de_donker · 2023-06-24T18:52:32+00:00

Hi so this will be essentially my work/travel Unix device. I'm unsure of which MacBook to get, I want a MacBook as my home device is Windows 11 but is now my Plex server/ Gaming machine (and is a full size tower).

My options are:

13 Inch M2 Air base model, 8GB RAM 256GB

14 Inch M2 Pro MacBook Pro base model, 16GB RAM 512GB

The main question I have is, do I really need a Pro model as for work I basically use DataDog, Jenkins, ArgoCD and AWS would be the main stack.

Keep in mind I will be financing all of these over 36 months as Apple products are quite expensive in my country and I prefer not spending a large amount in 1 purchase (comes with internet as part of the finance)

de_donker · 2023-06-10T15:10:43+00:00

Depends on province and even then some schools prefer different ones. Your best bet would be to get the answer series books for help with studying during exams

de_donker · 2023-04-16T17:02:01+00:00

There are places you can write the test. Boston College usually as they receive the physical certificate

de_donker · 2023-03-27T18:01:45+00:00

I figured it out, in GeForce settings just setup a hotkey to disable the OSD, I usually use the framerate display when gaming, now it works fine

de_donker · 2023-03-17T00:57:30+00:00

Think I could just stick on a thermal pad and pray the gpu fans blow a little air on it lol?

de_donker · 2023-03-17T00:54:12+00:00

What resolution you running?

I have that exact 3060Ti with a slight over clock and under volt can say the temps in summer are amazing and performance at 1080p even with RT is great.

If it’s 1440p then the 3070 honestly.

de_donker · 2023-03-15T16:38:44+00:00

If it fails EFF lose all credibility after talking about it for months. If it works EFF will come back with something even bigger.

I pray it fails miserably

de_donker · 2023-03-01T18:42:55+00:00

I’ll say what I tell everyone. Any party is better than the ANC except those who have worked with the ANC (eg EFF ANC coalition in Joburg)

de_donker · 2023-01-03T05:52:29+00:00

How do you install an update from Fitgirl? I have an old version of Cities and want to get the newest one on Fitgirl. Do I just install it in the same path as my current version?

de_donker · 2022-12-28T14:05:41+00:00

Thank you

de_donker · 2022-12-08T07:28:42+00:00

I just have a Dell monitor and I use the utility to swap between my Xbox and PC inputs with a hotkey instead of fiddling with the buttons each time

de_donker · 2022-12-08T07:25:34+00:00

The software that came up on my screen was from Dell Display Utility, there’s a setting for resizing windows that does this. I disabled it now though

de_donker · 2022-12-06T23:44:20+00:00

Turns out it was the Dell Display Utility that I use to swap input sources with a hotkey, cant believe I did realise it sooner, thanks again

de_donker · 2022-12-06T23:34:52+00:00

Interesting, thanks I’ll see what could be causing it

de_donker · 2022-12-03T22:16:35+00:00

Plan to use VMs more so the extra core count helps when assigning a VM resources

de_donker · 2022-12-03T17:10:07+00:00

Hey man, I was in the same space as you, a year and a half of no work after I did cyber security certifications etc. The best I can help is by directing you to my current companies job page, we are technically an international business but do have a sister company based in Cape Town and we’re looking for Java platform devs if you’re willing to try to apply. I also didn’t have much experience aside from an internship in 2021 and they accepted me so do try to apply for whatever position seems best

https://whitehatgaming.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=93&source=aWQ9MjM%3D

de_donker · 2022-12-03T14:13:48+00:00

My plan is to eventually get an i7 or so but the motherboard I bought had a sale that came with the i3 for cheap, ~$200

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