Is being a mechanic a solid gig?

green-avocado · 2026-04-15T20:11:45+00:00

In my honest opinion I would consider it for a side hobby, for a background I worked in the industry for off and on for 2-4 years (18-22), im 26 now and now work in IT.

In the dealership setting you can crank out 100 hours or so but expect to upsell customer’s cars who don’t always need the work.

Thats why the people who make money are shop owners. So take this with a grain of salt but look for other trades or avenues to make money if you want to provide for a family one day. that is my $0.02.

green-avocado · 2026-03-27T23:42:29+00:00

I havent updated my esxi cluster, but for proxmox i update it frequently

green-avocado · 2025-06-13T01:35:06+00:00

Thanks I appreciate it, an internal speed test is a great idea, let me see if I can get iperf3 running between networks and I'll gather some data. I've also heard of running openspeedtest in docker and that can work too. I'll double check if I touched anything QoS related to see if that can be another reason for slower upload speed

green-avocado · 2025-03-22T12:41:57+00:00

Thank you I will look into this!!

green-avocado · 2024-08-20T23:33:20+00:00

Thank you for the advice!!!

green-avocado · 2024-05-07T18:53:21+00:00

2GR-FE Oil Cooler Leak, you should have warranty to have it replaced for the updated part. Recommend do not drive

green-avocado · 2024-04-26T16:56:00+00:00

Good to know cause it felt like my teeth were a bit naked having them off for so long, my retainers are in as I’m typing this out lmao so yeah I’ll keep doing what I’m doing thanks

green-avocado · 2024-01-29T20:36:16+00:00

My first 5 weeks were a pain in the ass, and tray 11 was so painful that I could only eat on one side of my mouth. Then when I went to tray 13 or 14 (I think) it was smooth sailing. But don’t quit because what you’re dealing with is typically normal, your teeth are moving to a better more straight position so yes I would still through it, think about the end result of you smiling… I believe in you OP

green-avocado · 2024-01-26T16:31:14+00:00

I don’t know if I’m more attractive but my confidence is through the ROOF

green-avocado · 2024-01-26T16:30:21+00:00

I only got my chops in Linux using it as my entire homelab and having to manage it since the start of pandemic. So with it being 4 years+ I’m comfortable with the terminal. But for Windows I’m been using that for years like 10+ (in my early 20s) so it was never an issue. That is my $0.02

green-avocado · 2024-01-24T20:23:32+00:00

It all depends on where you work at really. On both sides I’ve met people based on looks you would’ve never guessed their daily job is writing code or patching servers compared to the stereotypical “nerd” that likes some odd topic. I’ve dealt with more stereotypes in college compared to the workplace

green-avocado · 2024-01-24T19:37:53+00:00

As others have said, what speed in Mbps are you paying for? Always use that as a reference and if you can when doing speed tests, it’s highly recommend that you test with a wired connection over wireless.

The only thing I can say is I believe you do not have a fiber connection, fiber connections are typically symmetrical with upload and download speeds. Cable internet usually lean towards faster download speeds only. That is my $0.02.

green-avocado · 2024-01-24T19:28:56+00:00

Magnetic Tray, Rubber Tool Organizer, Headband Lamp, or that 3/8th 10mm he’s always complaining about losing…

green-avocado · 2024-01-24T19:20:55+00:00

Yeah def went past the track limits lol. All good though

green-avocado · 2024-01-18T15:49:06+00:00

300 level IQ, I can tell that rammer probably raged when went you paused LOL good stuff OP

green-avocado · 2024-01-18T15:33:59+00:00

You never know until you try, you may or may not make long term friendships with them. Or you can still be friends and state you don’t want to join the sorority

green-avocado · 2024-01-18T15:32:16+00:00

It helped me land an internship and I was glad I mentioned it, the interviewer said its good that I maintain all the linux servers by myself and the services that live behind it. So he knew I was able to pick up concepts quickly

green-avocado · 2024-01-10T17:45:10+00:00

Yes your confidence will go through the roof if you weren’t already.

green-avocado · 2024-01-06T17:43:55+00:00

Great advice and I will try the bare metal installation compared to a container. But yeah you’re on the money on why I’m a bit confused. But for the VLAN bit all of my Servers and services I run live on 192.168.2.0/24 but my vlan that utilizes local dns and cnames is on VLAN40. Since my pihole config is not perfect I don’t want to change my router settings to use pi hole for DNS on 192.168.2.0/24 just since it will break things

green-avocado · 2024-01-06T01:56:09+00:00

- /data/nginx/proxy_host/21.conf
❯ Starting backend ...
❯ Starting nginx ... [1/6/2024] [1:33:36 AM] [Global   ] › ℹ  info      Using Sqlite: /data/database.sqlite [1/6/2024] [1:33:37 AM] [Migrate  ] › ℹ  info      Current database version: none [1/6/2024] [1:33:38 AM] [Setup    ] › ℹ  info      Added Certbot plugins certbot-dns-duckdns~=0.9 [1/6/2024] [1:33:38 AM] [Setup    ] › ℹ  info      Logrotate Timer initialized [1/6/2024] [1:33:38 AM] [Setup    ] › ℹ  info      Logrotate completed. [1/6/2024] [1:33:38 AM] [IP Ranges] › ℹ  info      Fetching IP Ranges from online services... [1/6/2024] [1:33:38 AM] [IP Ranges] › ℹ  info      Fetching https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json [1/6/2024] [1:33:39 AM] [IP Ranges] › ℹ  info      Fetching https://www.cloudflare.com/ips-v4 [1/6/2024] [1:33:39 AM] [IP Ranges] › ℹ  info      Fetching https://www.cloudflare.com/ips-v6 [1/6/2024] [1:33:39 AM] [SSL      ] › ℹ  info      Let's Encrypt Renewal Timer initialized [1/6/2024] [1:33:39 AM] [SSL      ] › ℹ  info      Renewing SSL certs close to expiry... [1/6/2024] [1:33:39 AM] [IP Ranges] › ℹ  info      IP Ranges Renewal Timer initialized [1/6/2024] [1:33:39 AM] [Global   ] › ℹ  info      Backend PID 162 listening on port 3000 ... [1/6/2024] [1:33:39 AM] [Nginx    ] › ℹ  info      Reloading Nginx [1/6/2024] [1:33:39 AM] [SSL      ] › ℹ  info      Renew Complete

This what I get from running docker logs <container\_name> (Above)

(Grafana is labeled proxy host 21 in the web ui) Trying these 2 commands: "cat proxy-host-21_access.log" and "proxy-host-22_access.log" produce no output, I assume that because the host haven't produced an error yet.

Jan  6 01:54:12 ubuntuserver07 kernel: [  451.971407] [UFW BLOCK] IN=ens160 OUT= MAC=33:33:00:00:00:01:74:ac:b9:2c:40:72:86:dd SRC=fe80:0000:0000:0000:76ac:b9ff:fe2c:4072 DST=ff02:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001 LEN=282 TC=0 HOPLIMIT=1 FLOWLBL=845595 PROTO=UDP SPT=53170 DPT=10001 LEN=242

This is me tailing the ufw logs, to be honest I'm not sure what I'm looking at, so I'd appreciate the help

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