I wonder when they did that. I've never updated my kindle, it's never even been on the internet so I'm stuck in 2021/2022.
Either way I have KOreader now and it's amazing. Just reading that I can connect it to the internet for more features and reading how to do that while blocking amazon. I still might not connect it or I'll put it on my IOT wifi that doesn't have internet access.
Question: how to get a job as SysAdmin in 2023-2024?
We've been "moving to the cloud" for the last 4? years. We've all had training on it and most of us have accounts in "the cloud". However, I'm supporting a legacy piece of healthcare software that they're trying to move customers off. Dev's have a POC that we COULD work in the cloud but it's more a lift and shift then it is anything else. They're going to have a HARD time getting Doctors, Hospitals signing on to be "in the cloud", never mind the provinces. ALL health care data legally needs to stay in Canada so that'll be fun too... Anyway, We're not actually hiring your standard sysadmins, everyone they're looking for needs cloud experience and they'll be expected to at least support some 'legacy' software also.
it sounds like it's the current work environment.
It is and it isn't. I get ~$30 a day to carry the phone which is 1 week on 4 weeks off. If anyone calls me I get minimum 3 hours pay per day. This is on top of the 7h days if I worked that day. OT is a little weird math wise but I get 1.5* pay basically every time I'm called out. I've read this is MUCH better then a lot of places out there.
After hours work is planned but again, healthcare means I have to do it at 2-4AM usually. During the first year of covid was nuts. needed Director and in some cases VP approval for all work. why I have no idea, they don't know what we do. It's not so much the planned downtime that gets me, It's when the unplanned stuff happens or I have to fight with a different team.
A couple months ago ~50% of our sql replication from one DC to another stopped working over the weekend. After an hour of fighting with the networking team I installed wireshark on both ends, wrote a quick while true nc to port 3306, captured this and showed them the packets were NOT making it to the other end. Going out A but not getting to B, it's NOT ME. only then did they trace the fucking things to find a bad route on a device they were working on a couple hours before.
I'm a SysAdmin and I'm drained. High school and college my story was similar, I got into C programming, wrote some annoying programs and installed them at school. Got Local admin on the windows boxes from messing around.... Domain admin was the same password..... Shit like that made it fun. I'd selfhost websites, games, etc, etc. I wrote a simple chat app in college to talk to the other guys in the class.
Now that I've been a Linux Admin for ~12 years I want out. On call, after hours work, stress of downtime, all of that is too much now, there no joy in selfhosting because its just more work.
I don't want to be rich, I just want a good life, you know? House, kids, vacation once a year. This isn't really possible these days like it was for my dad. I wish a cabin in the woods would work for me.
Yeahhhh, I did not care for the "Santa toys" as much as I did the ones from my parents. I still regret that to this day. If it stopped working or I lost it I'd think it was okay because it was free.
Though, in grade ~2 i told everyone i could go work in Santa's work shop if I tried more new foods....
The ol' plzza party to make the office "fun"
If work gets done, why do you care what I have on, where I work, what I'm doing during my day? Sure, SOME people can't be trusted, call them out with some metrics, say they're doing less work at home, ASK them if something the problem! "You good Jane? I notice your work isn't getting done, something going on at home? Your wellbeing is important to us at $GetYourAssInTheOffice and we'd like to help if we can" and if they still can't be trusted, fire them. We All have our problems, we all make mistakes and need help some time.
Nah "fuck you, we have pizza, this is fun. Ruin your mental health further sitting in traffic and getting your picture taken unwillingly. You know you need money to live, you want to be homeless?"
Yeah, you're an asshole.
I have a DIY NAS... Not sure of specs any more. Some micro-atx board with a cheaper AMD CPU. All it's for is an NFS share and I use almost no resources on it.
I have a bunch of PI4 8GB and lenovo m92p tinys that I use for the compute. Their storage is the DIY NAS.
If I was starting out and planned on growing m'y setup, id go option 4. Just do an all in one thing, run everything on it. When you run out of ram/CPU consider a pi or mini like I have. When you need more disk, add it into the NAS.
If you just want something simple option 1. USB will 100% limit transfer speed but what kind of speed do you actually need? What will you run?
After you add a show, You can hit the search icon within the show in sonarr and have it look for old EPs. It'll do all of this automatically but you do have to click the search icon and tell it to go look for the old stuff.
After that initial add+search it'll keep all your stuff updated. If a new ep comes out in the middle of the night it'll grab it for you.
Radarr is Movies only. You'll add your indexer username/password into it for it to search for movies you want. You'll add sabnzbd for it to automatically download the movies. The download folder will need to be the same folder radarr has access to to move it to the complete folder.
The complete folder will be where Plex/jellyfin/whatever library is.
Sonarr is exactly the same thing but it is for TV shows.
I'm out until tomorrow evening. Once I get back home I can look at my setup and provide more specifics.
Basically you add everything into sonarr/radarr and it should do all the work for you. You just tell it what you want.
The problem is the parents and inlaws are already setup with plex and dont l'île change. I keep thinking about trying IPTV but its almost pointless with thé *arrs
Do you have a particular client (sabnzd/getnzb etc) you would reccomend?
I use Kubernetes (k3s specifically) to host
so I guess I'd recommend sabnzbd. However, I've heard that others are "better". I've had no problems with sab.
would you know if that one is good?
So, This is where I'm not 100% sure myself. I know there are a LOT of resellers and I'm not sure how up to date this map is but it's worth looking at. Anything on the same backbone should have the same file available.
An EU server that observes NTD is suggested as per this post. From my understanding they're slower to remove copyright infringing files. I only download linux ISOs so this doesn't matter to me.
“longest retention” isn't really a big deal. It seems that the hard to find and old shit are not on any Indexer I have. Meaning there's not NZB file for me to even try to download... I usually fall back to Torrent and jackett but there's also bin search that can turn up files some times.
A lot of people will get a primary provider for the year then buy a "block" of data from a different provider on a different backbone. You can set the priority in sab to only use the primary unless some files are missing, then look at the backup. Personally I have a yearly sub of NewsDemon (SUPER cheap offer so I cant leave) and usenetserver. Neither of them have 100% available requested articles. YMMV.
I just signed up for DS, but I’ll be paying for it probably friday, just gonna get the unlimited, the price diff is worth it and I like to download so I’d probably hit limits. Eweka isn’t the cheapest it looks like but it seems they have a deal right now.
I have no experience with DS but everyone seems to love it. I'll be using the free account when my other indexers do not have what I'm looking for... nzbgeek and nzbplanet have lifetime accounts and nzb.su seems to be another good one people suggest.
I just like, go to DS and search “Mars Needs Women” and click “download .nzb,” then unrar it if I have to and move it to my external for permanent storage like on a torrent site?
The process would be
As for the *arrs, do I need them,
you don't need the *arrs. if you do not get them, then I'd suggest staying with the free DS account. The paid is more for automation.
seem to suggest the *arrs are maybe necessary but I can’t quite figure out if they really are or not lol.
Usenet without the *arr's is basically saying "I've paid for the bus but I'm going to walk".
I do nothing. I sleep at night and go about my day. when I want to watch TV I open up Plex and go to "recently added" to see what the *arrs have got for me. I use to get my stuff manually but waking up Monday Morning to Futurama ready to watch is very nice. When someone says "have you seen XXX" I say nope but I'll add it to my list. Open up *arr and add it. Couple hours later I have all of it. I'll add a movie I want to see that's not out yet. When it is, It'll be in plex.
Happy to answer any more questions you have. Just ask away.
I've read a lot of mixed reviews for Mikrotik. Does yours run hot at all?
The problem with all this, I'm not hosting much from my house so why upgrade? I have symmetrical 500Mbps and sure, 10G would be cool but for what? So my Linux ISO or Game download is super fast? Then I'll need to get an NVME cache disk, or upgrade my storage raid to SSDs... Where does it end?
My little ~$250 CAD Netgate 1100 handles the 500 Mbps. That's really all I need. I only ever hit the limit on Usenet anyway.
I feel personally attacked. I use an SSH config file so its not a problem (anymore) but wow.