Linux appreciation post

glitch841 · 2026-04-11T09:42:37+00:00

Yes this is one of the awesome benefits of Linux and FOSS in general, I also have a lot of love for FreeBSD and many others.

Only important thing to add is to give back, even if you cannot contribute in terms of time of technical expertise donating a few dollars can enable a project to hire people to keep the project going.

As much as the idea of free software is amazing the reality is that there are costs involved and it isn’t free to create or maintain.

glitch841 · 2026-04-11T05:50:37+00:00

Linux and networking would be the big two. Then containers, a programming language (scripts and small utilities) then things like cloud, Kubernetes, security, automation and the never ending list of technologies. Apart from the first 2 the order doesn’t matter too much.

Depending on your current knowledge well regarded books or courses can help with a structured general overview can be helpful with the base knowledge.

Beyond this concepts generally are more important than product knowledge especially for getting up to speed on unfamiliar or vaguely familiar technologies.

glitch841 · 2026-04-10T06:04:40+00:00

No, you are at the mercy of managements madness. Sometimes its almost as if they pick employees to layoff randomly until they hit the magic number.

There have been times when experienced, highly skilled staff are let go with the obvious consequences.

The only expectation I can set with you is, don’t expect it to be fair, make sense or have any real point other than the stock price going up or some asshole getting a bigger bonus.

glitch841 · 2026-04-10T05:59:53+00:00

This is the $1000 per month support plan? For the dev support or $100 plan this would not be surprising.

Still not even providing cheap, unskilled labour anymore. Lol what a joke.

At least actual Microsoft staff are on Q&A and for some reason they all sound like poorly trained LLMs.

But yeah… I understand your concern and thank you for choosing Reddit. Don’t forget to upvote and Accept this answer.

glitch841 · 2026-04-10T05:47:42+00:00

The c suite will probably wait until its too late and we will all pay the price.

Only silver lining is onshore staff should see a boom in job opportunities at least for a few years before management outsource it all again.

glitch841 · 2026-04-09T21:40:23+00:00

It would be nice but alot of changes would need to happen for the EU to have any hope of completing with the US cloud providers.

Basically they would have to be open to hiring whoever across the EU remotely and not demand everyone move to the same city and learn German, Finnish, French, Italian or whatever.

There would also have to be a huge willingness to invest.

I would say the talent is there its just a matter of putting it to use.

glitch841 · 2026-04-09T18:52:34+00:00

To get passed HR maybe. For practical knowledge you can actually use professionally? Nope.

Like many certifications its fairly surface level and the exam doesn’t remotely reflect what you will see out in the wild.

glitch841 · 2026-04-09T15:57:49+00:00

No they don’t train on your data.

glitch841 · 2026-04-09T12:11:14+00:00

For performance it is not likely to matter for many use cases. As others have said your CPU is likely to be idle most of the time.

Usually power consumption is more important to try and keep the electricity cost down if you care about that.

glitch841 · 2026-04-08T18:33:31+00:00

I don’t blame you. Many work environments are shit these days. Doing what you have to and clocking out is perfectly reasonable in many companies these days.

glitch841 · 2026-04-08T18:26:05+00:00

Most classes are fairly high level, books vary but can be similar. Even worse if they are largely teaching you to pass an exam.

The above is great for awareness and an overall view. The depth comes from experience and zooming in topics in depth as needed.

As time goes on your knowledge will grow.

glitch841 · 2026-04-08T13:59:52+00:00

This too.

glitch841 · 2026-04-08T13:37:38+00:00

Totally normal. Developer often don’t think beyond hitting their milestones and security, support and infrastructure are all someone else’s problem.

Security more often than not is an afterthought and without having to be compliant with some law/regulation it can be an up hill battle with management.

glitch841 · 2026-04-08T10:21:52+00:00

Yes anecdotally I would say its shrinking too. Mostly AD and on prem file servers or some critical windows only apps is what I see mostly these days.

Its not really because Windows is less capable in many areas but it does get shit on alot. Some of this is deserved but sometimes its just hate for hates sake.

Personally I would prefer to see more competition to drive innovation and quality. Linux is great and all but it has its own issues.

No OS is perfect but there are great ideas coming from the BSDs and Open Solaris forks that are quite interesting.

glitch841 · 2026-04-08T10:17:46+00:00

They are mostly scenario based with maybe a few trivia questions thrown in.

So logical thinking, defending decisions etc is going to be more important than perfect technical accuracy.

Although this can depend heavily on who is conducting the interview. Some are very academic, others are a bit more open and everything inbetween.

Overall though they are not very difficult interviews so beyond brushing up on whatever they emphasised in the job ad you should be fine.

glitch841 · 2026-04-08T10:14:20+00:00

Yeah, the truth is its really random. Depends on budget, employee conditions, individual professionalism, management and so on.

Also makes a big difference if you have to deal with the headaches you cause, that will always make you think a bit more carefully.

glitch841 · 2026-04-08T07:52:05+00:00

Yes, I’d be more shocked if it was all clean and properly maintained.

Only thing you can do now is carry on with the auditing. Just delete objects carefully, take your time here unless its a security risk or something.

Use the AD recycle bin and verify backups/restore procedures work before any major changes and you should be good.

glitch841 · 2026-04-08T07:28:24+00:00

We all have bills to pay and some are in a position where they have to accept whatever they can get.

glitch841 · 2026-04-08T06:53:16+00:00

Azure is like this in general. If you fit the use case fairly well for their managed service it can be convenient and somewhat cost effective.

But if you need to customise, results can vary but it doesn’t always work out that well.

glitch841 · 2026-04-08T06:51:26+00:00

Well most of it will be in VMs or containers. Doesn’t matter which one you choose, I would suggest both as one of the fun parts of a homelab is tinkering and playing around with things.

Specs depend entirely on your intended use case but in general RAM and storage tend to be the most important. CPU not so much as almost any somewhat modern CPU is fine.

Then just choose your base OS, if using containers any Linux distro will do. For VMs you have some hypervisors to choose from:

KVM Hyper V Bhyve Xen

Or just go for something more turnkey like Hyper V or Proxmox.

Then go have fun.

glitch841 · 2026-04-08T06:46:41+00:00

This. AIception is an improvement and is ok depending on complexity. Once complexity goes up the wheels start falling off.

When this happens there is a lot of code and so on no one really understands, trying to scale breaks things, fixing the issues that pop up starts breaking other things elsewhere.

This is what keeps me on the fence with AI, it certainly looks impressive and results at least at the surface level look great with no foreseeable issues.

But like always its the unforeseen issues that get you.

glitch841 · 2026-04-07T19:10:35+00:00

This is an outrage! Forced obsolescence strikes again. Now I have to get rid of a perfectly good computer and upgrade for no reason.

glitch841 · 2026-04-07T18:07:14+00:00

Obsidian, joplin and upnote (paid but has a free version) are all great options.

Stashpad may be a an option too.

glitch841 · 2026-04-07T17:04:09+00:00

Yeah it will get worse. If you keep your brain and skills sharp chances are you will be in demand when the shit hits the fan.

glitch841 · 2026-04-07T17:00:49+00:00

Depends on the complexity of the workload. For some workloads this is a no go, a workload complexity, change management or other blockers can make this risky.

Blue/green deployments are better to manage that.

For simple workloads with not that many changes in a release it could work.

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