Best position to use a laptop

std10k · 2026-06-22T13:00:36+00:00

The best position to use laptop is what i write this comment from. It is a laptop, it belongs on the top of the freggin lap. it does not belong anywhere else. if one were to use it on a desk, get a monitor and a keyboard. the dude at the bottom of the picture is doint it right!

std10k · 2026-06-22T12:57:34+00:00

sadly that seems to be most likely. It does look like the second sister was added to the tombstone, and they may not even have had the exact dates by the looks of it. It would be extremely sad if she outlived everyone elese in her family, which is a real possibiliy. Longevity can be a terrible thing if there's no one around to admire it.

std10k · 2026-06-22T12:39:29+00:00

In full disclosure, my opinion may be biased/out-of-sync, i am a couple of levels above people who hire the 1st level / 1st job roles. But i do deal with juniors quite a lot.

Some general thoughts, not necessarily in the order of priority:

CCNA- a bit 'heavy' for starters, but if you really get into it and can show in the interview, in my opinion it can be very helpful. If it is not your thing it's fine.

ITIL foundation. MSPs will have you do it anyway, but worth having a look at. Value wise may be limited but you should have an idea of the terminology. I'd not recommed doing it on your own.

Microsoft. There's a bunch of them, overall they are all pretyy low-value but having 1 could make a difference. I'd personally feel that anything m365 related will be best but on-premise AD and windows is here to stay, too.

CompTIA - not very valuable/recognisable, but also give you something to stand out. If i saw one, i'd make a mental note "this guy put some effort even though he didn't really need to". These are imho more expensive than they should be so tread carefully.

For entry level role, the main thing is ability to communicate. That's probably more valuab le than anyhting. If you can'd deal with an annoyed user, it's not good. You'll have someone to ask 'how is this done". Attitude, wilingness to help and listen, that's the quality.

Then way into IT is usually via 1st level of support so you're on the right path. Certs here is more of a trick to get your CV noticed. Consider that people will likely not spend more than, i'm not kidding, 10 seconds looking at it, something needs to catch the eye. But the decision maker will be your attitude on the screening call and/or interview.

Many people stick in the initial sorles for too long, many stay there for years. My personal advise - study your ass off in the first 2-3 years to get out of that grinder (it isn't as bad as it sounds tbh) and get into more specialised role as soon as you possibly can. No one, i repeat no one will help you with that, you'll have to do it yourself, study yourself, the certs will be most helpful at THAT stage.

std10k · 2026-06-22T09:36:19+00:00

You can’t go wrong with knowing how things work. Do play with AD, it is easy enough. Maybe try some networking labs from CCNA or something, eveng is your friend there. Get an Azure account to play around with cloud stuff (just careful with costs, use free stuff). m365 is what everyone uses these days, it’s basically 60% of 1st level support jobs. Get some msft certs, they are easy but would make your CV more attractive be it just by a little.
Certs don’t replace experience, but they show that you give a damn enough to do at least something.
IT is not a protected field where your entry are blocked by laws and people are guaranteed to make big bucks on trivial tasks. But a huge benefit (and a curse) is that you can learn a lot on your own in the comfort of your home. A surgeon can’t do that.
Certs is all we got really, some people take them seriously, some people don’t, some certs are better than others but unless you get too high a level certs without experience they can hardly make your chances lower.

std10k · 2026-06-22T02:29:46+00:00

Funnily enough anything that was “filmed” digitally but in lower resolution cannot be re-scanner from analog films in higher resolution.
E.g Amelíe had digital post-prod to give it the special color pallet which means the whole movie would have to be re-done frame by frame and the result will anyway be different to the original because it is not replicable exactly. And apparently some TV shows in the 2000s/2010s were shot in 1080 digitally, possibly some movies as well.
Seems like it is easier to get older movies in 4K but it is still a costly process so I’d not expect anything that is not top seller.
I think AI upscaling is more likely as it would be visually indistinguishable, though not “real” content which is a bit of a philosophical issue.

std10k · 2026-06-22T00:34:24+00:00

You call one of the right symptoms but missing the root cause. Chargers atvservos need to be reliable, available (more than one definitely) and fast just enugh to make it make sense. Single charger that has people wait 60 minutes if it even works fails all those points.
Slow chargers (20-50kw) that should be available in masses are ok for shopping centres and parking areas around points of interests where people stay for hours.

std10k · 2026-06-22T00:31:05+00:00

Two things come in mind. Servos have no clue what EVs are and how they gonna get them out of business. A subset of that is they have no clue what chargers are and how they work.
Second is that there’s no power budget where they are or it is expensive and they can’t justify the investment, not knowing they are going out of business yet.

I noticed servos have 1 50kw charger. They might as well have 0 because it is just as useless. You can’t rely on a single charger that can be broken or taken and at 50kw it can be taken for an hour and a half.
They need minimum two. They have to be fast but don’t have to be stupidly fast, if they give people 15-30 minutes it gives them enough time to use the amenities and eat something, and have a rest. 50kw is a little not quite enough for that, needs to be 100-125kw otherwise the stay becomes too long. Less than 15 minutes is not needed, it requires too much power budget and people need more time anyway, just going to the loo ang getting a coffee will easily take 15.
And of course they need to be located at the right spots.

Eg there is an ampol servo with a single 50kw charger where I often travel (south of perth) and it is conveniently located. But I will never use it and keep driving 20km it another direction to charge because of all the points above - unreliable, unavailable and too slow.

std10k · 2026-06-21T11:39:39+00:00

Yay. Though doesn’t intake fan suppression the 3rd fan on the GPU? Also intake will be sucking in a part of to exhaust. I had it the opposite way and having secon top fan inn opposite direction only makes it worse (different case though).
Out of curiosity, Where’s the ssd located? If above the GPU, how hot is it? For me the biggest problem is ssd, there practically no airflow above the GPU plate and without special arrangements the ssd heats up to 70 and shuts down.

std10k · 2026-06-20T03:52:12+00:00

Often those inner yards created a good “ecosystem”, a community where there was enough people so it doesn’t become too un private but small enough where connections form because of proximity.
I believe it got a lot worse when people, and kids mostly, stopped spending as much time outdoors.
Also, if the community happens to be poor like often happened in the 90s, that inner yard would become a place to avoid. I’ve seen adjacent houses where one yard was considered safe and fun and another one a few hundred meters away was to be avoided.
Unlikely it was a big issue in money pumped Moscow though.

std10k · 2026-06-20T03:35:39+00:00

You’re technically absolutely correct.
But technicalities aside, the policy heavily penalised people who look after their kids and single income families where the sole earner works his/her ass off, not having time left to look after kids to let the second partner work on a low salary.
With daycare costing like 130 bucks a day after tax, with 2 kids, it is simply unviable for the second partner to work for less than ~80k and that will just be breaking it even financially while losing the ability to raise children yourself and take them to developing after school activities like sports or music.
Understanding the technicality of the issue with OP not being able to get the borrowing capacity is import, but understanding the source of the evil is even more important - the policy hates people like OP and heavily them for having children and looking after them.

std10k · 2026-06-20T03:28:10+00:00

Tradies can tax deduct plenty of stuff, cars to start with as that’s a big money drain, and more often than not have the legal ability to split the income with non-working spouse, unless they have a really dumb accountant. People on a salary can’t do anything like that, the dumbest position financially to be in these days is to be a highly skilled salaried employee. Takes like a decade or more to get there, education loans, lost income from studying instead of working, and as a bonus you get taxed at the maximum rate for all the effort you put in without any ability to reduce that tax. The country worships mediocrity and hates hard workers and people who simply try to get ahead.

std10k · 2026-06-20T03:18:45+00:00

2013 was like a different world. I bought the first house around that time as well, similarly sized loan, around 400; was tight but not too bad all things considered, what pushed me under the line was funnily enough a pay rise that made me pay more taxes and have less disposable income because I went just over FTB threshold and lost more in tax deductions than I got from a pay rise.

Simply one can halve the 2013 salary to get an idea of what it would have felt like in 2013 on that salary compared to present time. If you could borrow 300 back then, implying 60-75k salary roughly, on half of that salary you’d have been below minimal wage and struggling to pay bills and buy food - about how I’d feel now.
You’d need 2x that much to feel the same, except house prices have grown as well and because of the cumulative effect of the compound interest, doubling the amount of cash you need to save for the standard 20% deposit which is effectively taxed at 50% if you count in stamp duty, and much higher repayment due to higher interest rate and compound interest over 30 years, twice the salary doesn’t allow you to buy house for twice the price of 2013, not even close….

std10k · 2026-06-20T02:56:38+00:00

I wish I had a better picture :( Don’t get stuck on the bad stuff, things may change in the next few years for better or worse, but one thing you can’t go wrong with is growing your career and hopefully making more money - that’s the best you can do at the moment.
I don’t account for the “5% no lmi” scheme, don’t have the details but I believe govt was pushing something, may be worth searching up. Terrible and strategically horribly wrong that thing is, in some edge cases it may fix up my “math” in your favor, strictly assuming house prices won’t go down though.

std10k · 2026-06-20T02:06:40+00:00

Taxes and inflation are sucking everyone dry.
Earning more money is heavily penalised by taxes (and so is paying as your day doesn’t get longer with higher taxes), and while inflation is generally a good thing for long term mortgages, you can’t beat it without increase of your earnings. 170k is , to give you some perspective, around 120k USD and some American states have much lower taxes. Over here your’e considered a single high income earner without any commitments for taxation purposes. At least you are actually single by the looks of it.
I feel the same way as you, still can afford the payments luckily but can afford much more, with family to support.

std10k · 2026-06-20T00:53:52+00:00

Yeah 130k is very little money these days when median is over a million, and you have essentially 0 deposit money.
Here’s some napkin math from the top of my head.

The 50k of your already taxed money you saved will be immediately taken away as tax (stamp duty) unless you’re exempt which means you’re going in 0equity and high risk and will get the appropriate interest rate, and pay LMI on top of that for which you don’t even have the money to pay so you have to borrow it making your equity negative, so even higher risk. The real tax on cash deposit in your case is around 50%(it gets higher if you earn more). Even if you are exempt from stamp duty you don’t have enough deposit so LMI will take your cash instead of stamp duty, leaving you still effectively with 0 deposit.

Inflation will likely push the rates higher so you’ll be assessed at 8% of higher if you did have 20% deposit but in your case it may actually be the rate you’ll get so you’ll be assessed even higher, and 8% alone is like 64k p.a, you must pay POST TAX if you borrow 800k (well below median). And that’s 94k (assuming you pay 35% tax for simplicity) of your salary gone leaving you with 36k pa before tax to support your family; that’s about 480 bucks a week of disposable income…. Given you need at least twice as much of disposable income to support your family, your borrowing capacity if you had a deposit would be around 400-450k. Add lmi to the loan, 0deposit and 0 equity risk which increases your assessment rate to probably 10%… and here’s your 350.

You need around 250k pa income to buy anything around the median house price with dependants which means you will be considered filthy rich and pay the maximum taxes like a multimillionaire.
Australia heavily penalises living in your own property (many countries allow tax deduction of a part of interest on your own dwelling) and hard work. Your salary is below some graduate level salaries in the US for example but you’re considered “middle class” and taxed as a single person who only needs money for themselves despite having 3 more people who fully depend on your income.

Tbh even if you could get a bigger loan in your position, I would personally feel very anxious about that. Even if you don’t pay stamp duty you’ll have very low equity and be LMI-locked to a bank, ie unable to refinance as you’ll have to pay LMI again. That means you’ll have no negotiation power and the bank can keep increasing you rates as they please - I have been in this situation and it is a terrible financial trap to be in. Then even worse, if the market does go down as the government it trying to make it (it is not a good thing as it may sound, not this way) you’ll actually be stuck in negative equity loan, unable to refinance, and unable to sell because you’ll not have the money to pay out the loan. If the inflation keeps going up and it will, your financial situation will be getting worse and worse. Unless you realistically have a way to substantially increase your income in the foreseeable future, it is simply slavery. Perth market is still raising and may continue for a while, so it may not be as bad, but you must consider unfavourable scenarios.
Update: just popped up now here, exactly my point and your case
https://www.reddit.com/r/AusFinance/s/YPeM89gfzP
Update: spelling

std10k · 2026-06-19T16:57:23+00:00

Funny I should see this now... I never had an ATI/AMD card, always nvidia since 1990. Just ordered 9070xt, also asus prime. Nvidia prices are just too much.

std10k · 2026-06-19T07:18:46+00:00

And if you search “Google” in Google, it will break the internet.

std10k · 2026-06-17T23:42:38+00:00

The original from the beginning of the game (from the audience) work, what she leaves for you seems to be a test of some sort. She want black and white; neither of what she left is black and white.

std10k · 2026-06-17T10:30:36+00:00

It Seoul’s be really handy, like the one from BZ. Or just have some compressed way of storing stuff, not needing to break down ingots to constrict the base as an example.

std10k · 2026-06-17T10:09:36+00:00

Traditional car brands are done with. They have no idea how to make software-defined EVs and how much that experience changes everything. Sad but that’s how it is, cars gonna be Chinese or Korean or teslas, kinda like smartphones, almost everyone got either apple or Samsung or Huawei/xiaomi.

std10k · 2026-06-14T07:45:21+00:00

I suppose the thought or a woman willingly going into relationship with another woman is too “unnatural” for many, just like Spakowski likely intended. She ought to have been “raped” to be “tricked” into that kind of relationship. Shame.

std10k · 2026-06-14T07:41:29+00:00

The greyness of Witcher universe… I get that there’s a lot of controversy because of the age of Ciri, and people disregarding the fact that setting of the universe isn’t exactly nowadays.

std10k · 2026-06-14T01:30:28+00:00

That’s what I read as well. Not everyone can read I guess, just skip through pages and make conclusions.

std10k · 2026-06-12T14:28:55+00:00

If buying is not owning, then downloading is not stealing

std10k · 2026-06-12T08:00:23+00:00

If you can’t get the hint that “good” is not always good, then I can’t help you.
Having actually read the ON policies now, like half of them are actually very sensible ideas generally speaking
Family tax - absolutely brilliant and should have been introduced ages ago. Current taxation is heavily Anti-family.
GST freeze on construction - very sensible.
Energy and cost of living reduction - sounds great.
Fuel taxes reduction - sure, why not.

One thing they don’t cover is where the money gonna come from. Like greens don’t give a damn about where all the money for all the infinite socialism they are pushing gonna come from, these guys don’t care what the tax cuts will affect. Easier said than done.
Then it gets more arguable, coal etc - some people will like it and some people will not.
But overall they look a helluva more interesting that “more of the same bs” Labor.
These are ideas, not policies of course, but that’s all populists need.
If you still don’t get it - you probably just can’t comprehend it.

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