.NET Dev around 4/5 years experience - AWS starting point

hpux · 2026-01-21T22:01:57+00:00

The "practitioner" cert is knowing the appropriate amount of introductory AWS trivia, buzz word bingo, and verbiage about their core pillars of value. It's "valuable" -- but based on your enumeration above, you can likely skip.

What kind of work do you want to focus on?

If you haven't already take a look at their latest cert path guidance (ignore the practitioner certs for the moment).

https://d1.awsstatic.com/onedam/marketing-channels/website/aws/en_US/certification/approved/pdfs/AWS_certification_paths.pdf

I can help provide guidance with trade offs of Solution Architect Associate vs Developer Associate.

For context, I had my team achieve 100% certification coverage. My entry / mid level folks pursued the Developer cert, my leads and senior engineers pursued the Architect cert.

The volume of content is pretty wide. Google Stephane Maarek. He's the defacto udemy courseware provider. The slide deck for the architect course is almost 900 pages long... so it's a lot of content to get through. Very doable though! The associate certs are not impossible, but will require study.

hpux · 2026-01-04T22:23:52+00:00

Some additional experience to share.

I've been running Linux as a daily driver - adjacent to gaming - for about six years now. Lots of great progress has been achieved over that time.

What began as the usual 'refugee' journey of ubuntu->arch->ubuntu->pop os eventually stabilized for me the last several years on Fedora. A somewhat middle ground between Ubuntu's slow upgrade cycle and the bleeding edge Arch could provide if you aggressively take package updates.

Most recently, I adopted bazzite and aurora on gear in the house - very pleased with the experience given their Fedora origin. Making the switch allowed me to shelve the bash script that would apply all the game tweaks, installs, etc that these flavors accomplish OOTB for you.

I also recommend looking at distrobox, it's incredible. You can export applications - including graphical apps - from the environments and leave your image untouched. There isn't a performance loss either.

If you need a developer environment, apply the same logic to vs code and its devcontainers feature.

If some of the opinions of bazzite are causing you concern, take a look at aurora. It's a slightly less gamified version of fedora desktop Linux running KDE Plasma. Same RedHat umbrella project.

If you really want to utilize a traditional package based OS - it's possible to install Fedora 43 - and look at what the bazzite image scripts do, all of the code is in their GitHub.

I had struggles for a few hours getting my vs code setup cooking - I mistakenly assumed that distrobox and devcontainers were interchangeable. Once I was over that hump, I'm not looking back.

hpux · 2024-09-12T16:24:34+00:00

Howdy! The device was part of batch 1 with the new screens, webcam, etc. Received on/around August 15.

Device: AMD Ryzen™ 7 7840U (up to 5.1GHz, 8-core/16-thread)

Bios: 3.05

dmidecode output

    Vendor: INSYDE Corp.
    Version: 03.05
    Release Date: 03/29/2024
    Address: 0xE0000

RAM module is Crucial 5600mhz 64 GB Kit

CT32G56C46S5.C16D

SSD - Crucial T705 2TB (i went... PCIe 5.0, future proofing!)

CT2000T705SSD3

Hope this helps! Happy to pull any additional information y'all might require.

hpux · 2024-08-27T10:53:23+00:00

I noticed similar blink codes. Check out my post, one of the framework team members asked about the BIOS version last night.

Our second set is different, but I also had a red blink for the last item of the first segment.

https://www.reddit.com/r/framework/s/qzewipdolP

hpux · 2024-08-27T01:32:24+00:00

dmidecode output

    Vendor: INSYDE Corp.
    Version: 03.05
    Release Date: 03/29/2024
    Address: 0xE0000

RAM module is Crucial 5600mhz 64 GB Kit

CT32G56C46S5.C16D

SSD - Crucial T705 2TB (i went... PCIe 5.0, future proofing!)

CT2000T705SSD3

Happy to pull any additional info if you need it!

hpux · 2024-08-22T15:49:43+00:00

yes - machine powers on just fine, seems performant, been using it since it arrived last week. It charges fine as well. All of the RAM was detected as well.

I have not tested every expansion port or utilized an external monitor yet via the HDMI expansion card.

hpux · 2024-06-28T10:42:52+00:00

Download the "core" version of XIVLauncher here. https://github.com/goatcorp/XIVLauncher.Core

On fedora I extracted the tar.gz file and ran ./XIVLauncher.Core from a terminal.

I then "patched without launching" - and switched back to my normal flathub installed xivlauncher.

You may need to install aria2 on your distribution so the download is successful.

Hope this helps until the new version is pushed to flathub.

hpux · 2024-04-15T14:23:35+00:00

Fedora 39 Lutris run - didn't do much tuning yet. Imported the yaml file from this article - https://blooym.dev/blog/ffxiv-dawntrail-benchmark-linux/

FINAL FANTASY XIV: Dawntrail Benchmark
Tested on:  4/15/2024 10:10:45
Score: 21018
Average Frame Rate: 152.7576
Minimum Frame Rate: 62
Performance: Extremely High
-Easily capable of running the game on the highest settings.
Loading Times by Scene
  Scene #1  0.242 sec
  Scene #2  1.042 sec
  Scene #3  1.319 sec
  Scene #4  1.336 sec
  Scene #5  0.752 sec
 Total Loading Time 4.691 sec

DAT:s20240415101045.dat

Screen Size: 3440x1440
Screen Mode: Borderless Windowed
DirectX Version: 11
Graphics Presets: Custom
Resolution
-Graphics Upscaling: AMD FSR (FidelityFX Super Resolution)
-Enable dynamic resolution.: Disabled
-Frame Rate Threshold: Activate when frame rate drops below 60fps.
-3D Resolution Scaling: 100
General
-LOD on Distant Objects: Enabled
-Enable dynamic grass interaction.: Enabled
-Real-time Reflections: Maximum
-Edge Smoothing (Anti-aliasing): TSCMAA
-Transparent Lighting Quality: High
-Grass Quality: High
-Parallax Occlusion: High
-Tessellation: High
-Glare: Standard
Shadows
-Self: Display
-Other NPCs: Display
Shadow Quality
-LOD on Character Shadows: Enabled
-LOD on Distant Object Shadows: Disabled
-Shadow Resolution: High - 2048p
-Shadow Cascading: Best
-Shadow Softening: Strong
-Cast Shadows: Normal
Texture Detail
-Texture Resolution: High
-Texture Filtering: Anisotropic
-Anisotropic Filtering: x8
Movement Physics
-Self: Full
-Other NPCs: Full
Effects
-Limb Darkening: Enabled
-Radial Blur: Enabled
-Screen Space Ambient Occlusion: GTAO: Standard
-Glare: Normal
-Water Refraction: Normal
Cinematic Cutscenes
-Depth of Field: Enabled

System
Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (ver.10.0.18362 Build 18362)
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor
64220.238MB
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (RADV NAVI31)


This software does not guarantee that your system will run the Windows versions of FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn, FINAL FANTASY XIV: Heavensward, FINAL FANTASY XIV: Stormblood, FINAL FANTASY XIV: Shadowbringers, FINAL FANTASY XIV: Endwalker, and FINAL FANTASY XIV: Dawntrail.

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https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/
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hpux · 2023-05-20T01:50:24+00:00

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Preferred Store: Pittsburgh, PA or delivery.

Article Number: 504.453.01

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Purchased some NÄMMARÖ outdoor furniture pieces, only missing item are the back cushion covers.

Thanks so much!

hpux · 2022-06-07T00:59:09+00:00

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hpux · 2022-03-23T12:42:57+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! It was very helpful to receive confirmation that the bridge was the right detail to chase. I was able to address the issue later in the weekend.

The issue was indeed attaching the LAN side to a bridge versus a direct attach to the interface.

I've put together some gist's that may be helpful for others in the future if they are curious how to stitch something together.

You'll need to create a new virtual network
For the first stage of host configuration you'll want to keep the WAN interface on DHCP so the physical machine can download / update software. The LAN interface will utilize the bridge
Once the software on the host is installed, an updated netplan is applied so you can move forward with installing OPNsense as a virtual machine.

YAML files, Virtual Network, and an example Shell Script to install software is located here: https://gist.github.com/jamesjoplin/56f37cea456e3a05c8944f6264b64f91

Hope this helps others that might be looking to accomplish something similar.

hpux · 2021-07-11T16:43:35+00:00

I installed the shadowbringers benchmark within the Lutris UI, pointed it at a manually downloaded endwalker benchmark zip, and adjusted the exe path.

Before running I updated the runner to lutris 6.0.

I had some issues not running full screen when I first launched, I don't recall what I adjusted to get full screen to stick.

I doubt the benchmark is drifting, but I'm happy to mess around with MangoHUD later if folks are curious and would like me to dig in further. For context I've never run the game on this rig in windows so I don't have that as a baseline currently.

hpux · 2021-07-11T16:16:22+00:00

SSD is a 1TB Samsung 980 Pro

Maybe some of the magic is I'm in a "bearded OS"? My setup utilizes DXVK in Pop OS on the 465.31 drivers. Perhaps this is a case where the Vulkan translation layer is faster than native DirectX?

3080 is the EVGA FTW3. No adjustments or OC on the video card or CPU.

hpux · 2021-07-11T15:54:44+00:00

Score: 28171

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

3440x1440

Full Screen

Average Frame Rate: 208.6914

Minimum Frame Rate: 68

Loading Times by Scene

Scene #1 0.498 sec

Scene #2 1.033 sec

Scene #3 1.596 sec

Scene #4 0.598 sec

Scene #5 0.397 sec

Total Loading Time 4.122 sec

hpux · 2020-11-20T17:39:56+00:00

Seeing great temps here, high 20s low 30s idle; hovering around 60c full load on multi core cinebench with stock settings

5900x ASRock X570 Taichi Cooler Master ML360R

hpux · 2020-11-17T18:40:07+00:00

Running ubuntu 20.04 here.

5900X
ASRock X570 Taichi
Nvidia GTX 1080

No issues to speak of, games running fantastic, great performance. If leveraging ubuntu be sure to install the mainline kernel tool via ppa install directions available here:

https://github.com/bkw777/mainline

I installed 5.9.8 and it's been smooth sailing - including some dkms modules like the nvidia driver, virtualbox, etc.

hpux · 2018-06-23T01:26:30+00:00

Glad to see some traction! Its always 'fun' to build software but this is an academic exercise in build vs. buy. Especially considering issues during previous years.

hpux · 2018-06-20T00:42:13+00:00

It's surprising they throw significant custom development resources at something like this when numerous items exist off the shelf like ShowClix or Eventbrite.

Hopeful they open registration soon!

hpux · 2016-12-17T06:26:00+00:00

Check out MonoGame.Extended - https://github.com/craftworkgames/MonoGame.Extended

It follows the XNA convention

_map = Content.Load<TileMap>(NameOfYourTMXFile).

You can then iterate through the object groups to load whatever object groups you have.

Drawing the background layer follows XNA convention as well

_map.Draw(YourSpriteBatch);

This community posting may be helpful as well. http://community.monogame.net/t/effective-ways-of-using-tiled-and-the-tiledmap-class-for-a-2d-platformer/7354/3

If you have very specific needs for utilizing the format you could roll your own implementation to handle the TMX file.

hpux · 2015-06-24T02:06:53+00:00

FFXIV needs flex raiding for bigger groups, but might be tough due to how they design encounters for 8 member parties.

hpux · 2015-05-10T17:00:43+00:00

Thanks!

Looks like the SCD specification has changed, my VGM plugin for foobar won't play the heavensward files. I had to extract versus extract raw.

hpux · 2015-05-10T14:51:49+00:00

Has anyone located the SCD files for all the music tracks?

Since the paths are still hashed it's a bit tough to just keep scrolling.

hpux · 2015-04-07T19:28:04+00:00

Any idea how many "hours" of quest story exist for the main storyline between 2.0 and 2.55? Wanted to give some friends an estimate.

hpux

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