The first page of my resume covers my technical skills, a summary of myself, and my most recent jobs.

When you go past that, it gets to older jobs that are still relevant, then into school, then to side projects, volunteer, etc. basically, if you liked the first page, the rest of it gives them more about who I am.

I think at this point it’s either 3 or 4 pages and every time I’ve gotten a job it’s been one where they asked me about the hobbies on the bottom of the last page, which meant they liked what they saw and liked my interview well enough.

When I update it for my next search, I’ll take my first internship off because it’s no longer relevant, but most everything else is.

+1 to JetBrains.

I started using them like 8 years ago and have never looked back. My dad introduced them to me when I was doing some homework on a family trip and my laptop was dead. After that, I used them for every class in college, then used them at a job where they didn’t provide an IDE but I had the subscription.

Even when I’m not developing at home consistently, it’s just so much better to have it than not.

Hey, some of us are trying to do a huge server migration before we switch so that we can make sure all of our stuff is backed up properly.

I can’t wait to go back, especially since proton is so much better.

Hopefully my Nvidia card doesn’t suck too bad.

I’m starting to switch over to Proton. I haven’t paid for it yet but my plan is to start paying and potentially grab usernames on other sites so I can have a consistent email across any site I decide to use.

I think a drive like that is pretty much perfect. If their current usage is low enough that it’s still well above a consumer drive, then it would probably work.

Guess I can grab a couple of those and slot them in so I can start my server migration.

Yeah so for the actual data, it’ll all be HDDs. I’ve got a couple 8tbs I shucked from some EasyStores, got a 3rd WD Red and will be getting a 4th soon. So actual data is all gonna be stored there. This is specifically the OS/Programs stuff, which (and this may be my ignorance) I understand that I’d want to run Proxmox on the SSD. I just want them to be in a raid1 config here so that I have redundancy similar to the rest of the system, but I only need the one.

So yeah I’m just looking for what SSDs I should go for as my OS/Program drive, under the assumption I have to run Proxmox on that drive. If I’m mistaken then let me know, but that was my understanding. Like I said I’m somewhat new to self-hosting stuff so my current system is just Ubuntu for desktop that I pretend is a real server by SSHing into it with my desktop terminal.

God I hate Xfinity. The other day I kept having my Internet go down and I thought it was my network switch but I could still see other devices, I thought it was the router but the router only noticed it after 30 seconds, and then I thought it was the modem until I saw in the app that there was an “outage” to my service.

I called them 3 times before someone finally stopped trying to blame me for using a 3rd party modem and that they had to fix something.

The day another company comes in and provides fiber, I’m out.

Yup. Buy CDs, vinyl or digital from Bandcamp or from the artist direct and then host it on Plex.

I’ve thought about trying jellyfin but Plexamp is just so nice that I don’t think I could leave it.

I think that, to this day, the only item I have ever bought because of an ad was my eargasm ear plugs. I may have seen them somewhere else first but an ad popped up and I happened to be in the market so I got them and don’t regret it at all. Otherwise I buy things because I do the research, not because they push the ads out.

This is part of the reason I haven’t gone back to Linux for my gaming PC. I had zero desire to try to set a fan curve in the terminal.

It would be great, but think about it for a second. Russian bots and trolls that are operated by the government will still exist, it’s not like they would cease trying to spread misinformation or destabilizing opinions. So that won’t change at all. This would primarily affect the people in the country who would now be unable to see real news or learn things the government doesn’t want them to.

I’m all for giving Russia the finger, but I do fear that it won’t actually make anything better for the rest of us and would just make the people worse off.

But picking all instance is so hard

I mean actually kinda yes. I’m pretty techy and I spent a few days trying to figure out which one I would use. Ultimately landed on .world because I didn’t want to do an interview. Other people might be turned away from that, but maybe it’s a good thing.

Where I work has a local instance of GitLab that is completely off the grid from the internet. In addition, we have things like Atlassian tools and some other various things with offline licenses.

Every day, we hop in a big channel to ask “okay what’s down today?” “Can’t edit Confluence” “Great, not like I needed to do all of my documentation today.”

Best one lately is “someone revoked all permissions on Confluence and they don’t have a backup so we have to manually add all 1400 of you.” I got given admin perms though, so that’s nice.

If you use Steam like most people, check out protondb. It’s not perfect as it only really shows off Steam games, but it’s a good start. Steam will also let you add a non-steam game to your library and Proton will attempt to work with it, and in general it seems pretty good. The only issue you’ll have is when you get to your super old games as the layer that Proton/Wine uses may not work, but for those you might as well just grab a VM and put a version of Windows on it that the game was built for.

The only thing preventing me from hopping back over to Linux is trying to reinstall my games. I’ve used it on and off for a few years and I loved it, but last time I had some issues with power and thought maybe Linux was doing something wonky (ended up being a PSU issue) and then Halo Infinite dropped and I wanted to play that.

In hindsight, both reasons were bad and I should have stayed on Linux.

I didn’t even use Twitter, so no.

The only reason I’ve held on to Instagram and Facebook is I do like to see updates from friends I haven’t seen in a while, especially as a lot of them are getting married and having kids. I’m not close enough to them to reach out and text them for an update, but close enough to say “oh hey, they just had a baby, that’s nice” and then move on.

Facebook I actually don’t even do that, I just use it for a music gear swap because they post cheap stuff sometimes. If there weren’t such good deals, I’d drop Facebook instantly.

I realized that at work today, I didn’t even check reddit at all beyond my initial opening of it. Checked Lemmy the rest of the day.

That and did actual work because everything was fucked at work but that’s beside the point.