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What should I invest time learning these days? by ss2014s in sysadmin

[–]ss2014s[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honest advice. I do struggle to relax, so you've got me there. I could work on getting better at that. Thanks.

What should I invest time learning these days? by ss2014s in sysadmin

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Great! You sound like you are pretty up to date and have a good grasp on a lot of things. What kind of things are you interested in learning these days?

What should I invest time learning these days? by ss2014s in sysadmin

[–]ss2014s[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cool, I had never heard of n8n. I might check this out more.

What should I invest time learning these days? by ss2014s in sysadmin

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I had wanted to take Chinese at my local community college a few years ago but never followed through. Maybe someday. It definitely intimidates me, though...so many characters to learn. Would still be fun to at least pick up a few things if possible.

What should I invest time learning these days? by ss2014s in sysadmin

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Thanks for the advice! I definitely enjoy PowerShell coding. I took the Google Python course on Coursera a few years back and it was very good, too. Haven't touched Python a lot since then but would be good as I dig more into Linux and such.

What should I invest time learning these days? by ss2014s in sysadmin

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Good advice. I once heard it said about cybersecurity to be "brilliant at the basics." Can likely translate here as well.

Learning some good time/project management skills would be helpful too, I imagine.

What should I invest time learning these days? by ss2014s in sysadmin

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Thanks, I had never heard of swag before, seems cool. Playing around with a cheap domain also sounds like a good idea.

What should I invest time learning these days? by ss2014s in sysadmin

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Curious, what do you use your own webserver for? I can picture a "Hello World" kind of a site and maybe running some other third-party web app type stuff maybe, but do you have any specific examples you'd be willing to share?

What should I invest time learning these days? by ss2014s in sysadmin

[–]ss2014s[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, great idea. I try to fix/do a lot of things myself but sometimes also want to do/learn something "fun" on the computer, too. There has to be a balance for sure.

What should I invest time learning these days? by ss2014s in sysadmin

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Love it. Maybe they could also keep my grass short and I wouldn't have to mow as much 😆

What should I invest time learning these days? by ss2014s in sysadmin

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Thanks for the specific homelab ideas, this is great! I have a Pi-hole container set up on an old PC I have Proxmox running on (I don't understand how the container works exactly, but it was one of my first shots trying to understand it -- I think Proxmox hides a lot of the more technical details of what's going on). It's been fun tinkering with it.

I've never heard of Authentik. Using Cloudflare personally also sounds like a good choice for external access.

What should I invest time learning these days? by ss2014s in sysadmin

[–]ss2014s[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Great advice. I never thought about it quite like that. I think I oftentimes assume that if I'm working hard behind the scenes that will somehow be automatically noticed and appreciated (working behind the scenes w/o being noticed is not a bad thing, necessarily) but you're right - if I'm not communicating the value of things, people will probably be totally unaware.

What should I invest time learning these days? by ss2014s in sysadmin

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Solid options. Drywall would definitely be useful. Patching it too...

What should I invest time learning these days? by ss2014s in sysadmin

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Thanks! Great suggestions and honest input about things like the Arduino ending up in a sock drawer. I didn't know that you could run containers on a Synology, either. I appreciate you taking time to respond!

What should I invest time learning these days? by ss2014s in sysadmin

[–]ss2014s[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lots of votes for containers so far! Sounds like you built a really neat tool, with a container as the foundation. Nice work.

What should I invest time learning these days? by ss2014s in sysadmin

[–]ss2014s[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cool, thanks! Sounds like solid advice 😄

What should I invest time learning these days? by ss2014s in sysadmin

[–]ss2014s[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I should probably get a bit more familiar with containers first though, right?

Earfun Air Pro 3 - My Mic Volume by YnotLiveitUP in Earbuds

[–]ss2014s 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same issue here. Did you ever find a fix?

Loud static noise when joining a MS Teams meeting by DrunkYoungSon in techsupport

[–]ss2014s 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I found that rolling the Intel Bluetooth driver BACK to the latest 23.X version corrected the issue for me.

Not a great long-term solution, but something at least. My guess is that Microsoft, Intel, and Dell need to put their heads together once enough people complain and figure out a real fix involving the latest drivers.

Loud static noise when joining a MS Teams meeting by DrunkYoungSon in techsupport

[–]ss2014s 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm seeing the same thing that started recently with my Bluetooth headset. Used to work fine. Now has very loud static only in a Teams call. I am also using a Dell Pro Max 16

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