It's unfortunately a fairly sparse space. With that said, I'm not sure how much automation benefits. Books take a very long time to read compared to watching a series/movie. It's ok to spend that little extra time to search Anna's Archive bc the time spent attaining the material vs consuming it will still be higher than just about anything else. Having scoured the space myself just recently, Anna's Archive is really the best option, with myanonymouse as great backup. usenet is honestly garbage for ebooks and music.
The self hosted music ecosystem is really terrible unfortunately. The main technology is airsonic or whatever it's called. You host it yourself and download a client on your phone or whatever. I tried all the free ones and they were unusable to me.
I have a couple. The first one is the easiest. Absolutely not a god damn thing. I just chill. That's gotten me offers. That works for me because when I over think it or over prepare, the part of me that's actually good kind gets buried under all the shit I'm trying to remember.
I've never once had slamming leetcode shit do a god damn thing for me.
For the "culture fit" aka behavioral interviews, they almost always just ask you to describe some projects, and then poke around so to speak. Sometimes they ask dumbass questions but it's fine, it happens. This is where preparation is helpful if you're anything like me, because for me, once a project/feature is done, it's on to the next thing. I don't spend time writing down my accomplishments and I think it's gauche. But if I did, it would be very helpful for these interviews. What I've begun doing since the market has been so garbage is organizing using a note app (logseq). I make an outline with sections for types of projects or type of positive attribute the project/task would showcase. then I write myself a little story (they basically just want to hear a story that confirms what they're looking for). I have examples for being able to "hit the ground running", mentorship/leadership, and projects. For projects, my most comfortable flow is to describe the business practice before hand, the goal or reasoning behind provisioning the feature/change, the part I had in it, and the impact it had. Here's the trick. Just make it up if you don't remember. Embellish. Don't be moron because they will ask clarifying questions. for example they love to hear concrete specific numbers. They're not gonna check but it adds that extra something. Just btw make sure you're very comfortable with the embellishments you make. Like don't make up that you invented a compiler for rust that improve efficiency by %2,000. But don't diminish your own accomplishments just because every last detail isn't crystal clear to you several months or years after the fact.
Hate alcohol but some klonopin an hour or two before is magical. I swear it's been the reason I've gotten offers. CBD tincture or a joint with like 9:1 CBD:THC can also do wonders.
Hybrid Backup, Snapshot Replication, and Active Backup for Business seem to be a solid set of remote backup options which I couldn’t find simple, non-proprietary alternatives for
I assumed there was some great open source alternatives to any of these. That's surprising to be honest. And yes Synology is very simple, and this has pros and cons. It doesn't your shit can't get rocked. I had some issue with certificates and it took two weeks of downtime to get back up and running.
NUCs provide fairly good value for the machine but ultimately you don't avoid any of the work adding a synology to the mix. But if it seems like a good value why not pick one up for a rainy day?
I only use SHR-1 which has one parity drive. This is for a 6 bay. It's just as performant as raid. The benefits are being able to add new drives without wiping all the data first, and being able to have multiple drive sizes. in raid, if you have multiple drive sizes, each drive is cut down to the size of the smallest drive in the array (at least from what I know).
was making 125k. Got laid off. Interviewed at another company and asked for 200k. Ended up with 185k. Got laid off again and still haven't been able to find a job. Ups and downs :/
You already sound like you're down the rabbit hole! If I could restart I would probably do a DIY server instead of a synology NAS. It's just really satisfying how much stuff you can offload onto the NAS itself. And Synology are notorious for using weak components for that type of thing. Transcoding can be particularly weak depending on the model, which if you're wanting to host content with Jellyfin, may give you some regret. That said having a synology NAS and a NUC could be a great solution. Or you could just make a DIY with a jonsbo case that can handle most anything you can throw at it and be extensible when you go further down the rabbit hole. All things considered if I could redo it all, I would go this route.
Some advantages: can upgrade CPU, slot in GPU for transcoding and other types of work, upgrade ram, no hacks to use NVMEs as a volume, can probably find a board with native 10g networking to avoid using up a pci slot, more pci slots.
Disadvantages: easier to footgun, no shr raid but you seem set on raid 6 anyway.
Love Insomniac so much. Not many companies have such a stellar track record. And there's never been a single mtx in any of their games that I've played.
bad news my friend. Valve is owned by a billionaire dickhead.