That was what I thought five years ago. I was on the verge of removing it, and the android Facebook app killed my phone’s battery, so delete it went.

And suddenly all my family drama stopped and if someone needs to get in touch with me, how surprising that they still found a way.

I switched to Linux a few years ago and you are not wrong.

Windows is a nightmare with directory organization.

Saved games can go:

• My Documents/
• My Documents/Games
• My Documents/My Games
• <app>/saved-games

Doing minor “crime” in school was how I became a programmer!

Losing their jobs? Uh what?

This is a very rude question, but on this subject of being lean, I looked up your 990, and you pay yourself less than … well, you pay yourself half or a third as much as some of your engineers.

Yes, and our goal is to pay people as close to Silicon Valley’s salaries as possible, so we can recruit very senior people, knowing that we don’t have equity to offer them. We pay engineers very well. [Leans in performatively toward the phone recording the interview.] If anyone’s looking for a job, we pay very, very well.

But you pay yourself pretty modestly in the scheme of things.

I make a very good salary that I’m very happy with.

That’s pretty cool. But knowing the number would matter.

Oh nice!

Then it’s really just a bad name. Volunteer ambassador implies a lot of other responsibilities.

Other industries call it like VIP or Insiders Club. And their responsibilities for being a part of it is to also share the excitement of the product.

Average Linux solution.

“Got an emergency? It’s so EZ. Just open up the terminal and copy/paste [long string of unreadable text]. Btw fuck windows.”

as a chronic documentation reader, the best advice i can give is to document everything Anything that the user can and will potentially interact with, should be extensively documented, including syntax and behavior.

I don’t know about that. I’ve read some terrible documentation that had everything under the sun. Right now in the library I’m using, the documentation has every available class, every single method, what it’s purpose.

But how to actually use the damn thing? I have to look up blog posts and videos. I actually found someone’s website that had notes about various features that are better than the docs.

There’s a delicate balance of signal vs noise.

I used to mock people who make YouTube videos that literally just walk through the documentation. Like bro, get some reading comprehension!

But then when I fumbled with some self hosting tutorials, those YouTube videos were the only thing that made sense, because they’re explaining why and how.

Sorry y’all.

Haha normal setup to run critical systems at a small business

That works?!

Edit: ah I stupidly read NextCloud, which is kinda a resource beast.

They do? The handful of conservatives who smoke weed libertarians I work with are absolutely using Linux.

I’m confused by this.

Certifications will absolutely get your foot in the door if you have zero experience.

Don’t think of it as “affordability”, but rather an investment in your future. In the US, you’re spending $400 to study and successfully get a cert in a few months versus $80k doing a college program.

But lets say you seriously can’t afford it at all, then the $10 udemy courses to train you is pretty good to at least know the lingo, and then a few years setting up your own self hosting.

Yep. You should absolutely know how all the pieces connect.

One IT responsibility is setting up servers. You should at least know how to get a website running off of a Linux machine at a basic level. But what we judge you on is your ability to manage and secure it.

Nah. That’s like bragging that you memorize a lot of Pi digits.

Some on the IT team in my company use vim, some use nano, some probably use notepad or something ridiculous.

It’s just a text editor and knowing vim doesn’t automatically make me assume you’re competent at anything.

Have you just been chmod 777 everything all this time?

Oh man, I ran into a dev at a meetup who proposed this solution.

And I had to do a polite, “Oh wow maybe that works but I don’t think that’s a solution in my company” because YIKES.

Hopefully God AND some with a lot of subject matter knowledge. It’ll only get worse.

Depends. It/tech is a massive space so not certain if you’re applying to tech support or like server architecture. So some specifics would be nice.

One thing to point out:

I thought I was a freaking wiz kid at Windows because I knew about the registry and how to modify settings. But then I learned a lot of the “hacks” on the internet are bad for the enterprise.

On Linux, it’s even worse, with so many blog posts recommending sudo this, and install this app that. And if you don’t have a background of WHY, you can do a lot of damage. And with AI, it’s even worse. So many bash script kiddies asking AI to write the ugliest code I ever seen.

Now that Im a senior engineer, I realize I know nothing and leave much of the IT space to trained professionals.

Nothing in my city and the crypto element gives off weird black market vibes.