hackris @ hackris @lemmy.ml

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Of course I did. My only OS for the past 7 years

I use Gentoo on my main computer. I was just curious.

Can I see the documentation? Couldn't find it and am curious :)

How? Is there a way to mitigate this?

I only use FOSS software, protect my privacy as much as I can, both are extremely important, but people like you make it hard to convince anyone to even consider thinking about these subjects.

You'll never convince anyone to try it out with that attitude. I also recommend you don't make assumptions about people, such as someone not using FOSS at all when they ask for your favorite Discord server. I know I used Discord as the last proprietary piece of software for a long time.

Can't recommend anything that's not already known, but the thing that helped me the most is building projects. I recommend you start a homelab.

A homelab needs hardware. I don't know what kind of computer store you want to make, there aren't any around me, but I imagine it will include some sort of hardware maintenance. Get yourself a couple of broken laptops or PCs, usually sold for very cheap and try to diagnose the problems, order parts, install them, troubleshoot them. If at any point you feel lost, use your favorite search engine. You will probably land on some Wikipedia page. Read through it, and if you don't know a word, search for it. Repeat this recursively and your knowledge will kind of build itself :)

This hardware will probably be pretty old unless you spent a lot, so try to upgrade it. Get some cheapo SSDs, RAM, etc. I imagine customers would need a service like this.

A homelab may be useless without software. I had the most difficulty setting up and provisioning Windows (I've been a Linux admin for God knows how long), so since you'll have a few working machines, install Linux on at least two, install Windows on at least two (of course use something you have laying around as well), so that you can try out different OSes and ways to communicate between them. Now you have a home lab :)

On Linux, the skills I needed the most to provision my own servers (off the top of my head), disk management (mounting/unmounting volumes, formatting, partitioning, etc.) working with services (searching for "systemd" and "systemd service" should yield very good resources), basic UNIX shell utilities (cp, rm, mv, etc.). Linux man pages are also your friend. I imagine you probably won't be working with servers a lot, but there is no better way to learn Linux IMHO. Run a web server and some sort of file sharing server, such as Samba.

From the above, learn the equivalent on Windows + Active Directory. This is where you'll see your knowledge celitify.

Network them. Get a switch that supports VLANs, I recommend older enterprise switches, such as the Cisco Catalyst 3xxx or HP Enterprise switches, which you can get for cheap. They use a command line interface for configuration, but the guides for it demonstrate a ton of key networking concepts, which you will definitely find helpful when diagnosing problems for a customer, trying to imagine their network layout. Here, I recommend NetworkChuck and David Bombal on YouTube. Again, if you don't understand something, search on the interwebz, applying the recursive method mentioned above. Then run Wireshark on one machine to scan the network traffic and search for anything unknown.

I know I went a bit too far, but once you build a homelab, you will be able to fix at least 90% of problems people encounter with hardware, software, networks, because you'll naturally build a thorough understanding of the systems and networks your customers have at home and even be able to replicate them.

Hope this was helpful at least somewhat, and sorry for the long comment. If you need help, feel free to reach out to me or any other admin community, we're all happy to help :)

Wish you the very best!

Oh man, I really should be getting more sleep :D

Care to elaborate? Genuinely curious

I know, I just can't properly guess, in English, what the argument was supposed to mean

What status quo are we talking about? Sorry, my English sucks...

Greece: the cheapest coffee the world has ever seen and Καρελια cigarettes

Sorry mate, my tired brain interpreted the post in the picture as something you've written :)

Which video player did you use?

What are your reasons for using a card? Not bashing you, just genuinely interested :)

Start caring about your privacy, governments and corporations are spying on you

Cash and only cash. I live in Europe, so basocally wherever I decide to travel, my euros will be accepted, otherwise I'd rather get ripped off by an exchange than give a single piece of metadata to my bank :)

Travelling to places with a different currency outside the EU, I take my debit card and on the very first day withdraw some of the local currency from an ATM.

I always write by hand, it makes me less focused on formatting (even though little is required in this case) and lets the thoughts flow easily. I write with a mix of Demotic and Ancient Greek, English and Slovak, so this way I don't have to bother with switching keyboard layouts. Make sure you buy a quality pen to make your diary writing experience that much better :)

I usually write at the park or on the beach, but once I come home, I open up a Markdown file in my favourite text editor, type out the previously written text and save. Then I encrypt it with GnuPG and burn the paper I was writing on.

Sounds cumbersome, but for some reason this approach makes me the most peaceful, I honestly have no idea why :)