Hi everyone! I need some help. I’m in my mid-thirties, and I had a growing career that, since covid, has gotten so flaky I can’t properly provide for my family anymore. I have always been interested in tech, and would like to start a career but I’m not sure how to....
I’ve got some college but no official degree as well. I did a bootcamp for a CCNA with 0 experience in 2012. It was like learning a foreign language. I had to buy the official cert guide and studied hard for a year, I eventually got the CCNA cert in 2014. After that I kept getting additional Cisco certs, CCNA - security, CCNA - cyberops, and now am working on the CCNP. Once I got my CCNA I was able to get into a help desk position, and have moved up to analyst, and engineer. With each job jump have increased salary 30-50%. Honestly in tech I’d recommend moving around every 1-3 years to get that pay bump.
If you have a good manager, they will recognize that a college degree in IT and security specifically is not really necessary.
Some certs to look at for entry level network security, Cisco cyberops associate or CompTIA security+
I quit smoking via vaping a few years ago. Idk how easy it is now, I know some laws have been passed regarding the availability of different juices.
But essentially it just gives you more control. You can gradually step down your nicotine content over the course of like a year or more if you want. At the end I had a bottle of 3mg/ml and a bottle of 0, and I would mix them to get even smaller amounts. Eventually you’re just not using nicotine anymore.
For some people tho it goes the other way. Lots of times it ends up being the case that nicotine consumption goes way up, or people end up vaping + still smoking anyway. Which is…pretty bad lol
So yeah vaping can be a very convenient way to quit. It worked for me. But there’s a reason doctors don’t recommend it
Just a word of caution for other people: The latest iOS 17.1.1 might break wired charging and touch screen functionality on the 15 Pro Max. I was one of the unlucky ones, for whom charging and touch screen stopped working after installing the update and rebooting. Side buttons work fine, but touch screen does nothing and the...
Same here on the iPhone 15 Pro (no Max). Reboot fixed my charging issue but then I got the touch screen issue. Let phone drain to 0% and let it boot from an empty battery. That seems to have fixed it for me, although it got quite hot for a while next to the bottom of the camera bump, near where the microphone hole sits.
I’m getting increasingly frustrated trying to get my printer calibrated. I’ve done a bed calibration using screws_tilt_calculate, and that’s all nice and good. Got a bed mesh variance of 0.19mm which seems great....
2 1/2 weeks ago, I started going for short (25-40 minutes) daily morning runs. Right now the temperature is mostly 10C or higher, so I can just wear shorts and a t-shirt. One day it was below 8, felt a bit cold, and so I got a functional (=plastic) sport long sleeve. That works well, and I can even wear a t-shirt under it if it...
How many digits? 3. Numbers? 100 is one number. Factors? 1,2,4,5,10,20,25,50,100. Prime Factored form? 2•2•5•5 Numbers from 0 or 1 to 100? Uncountably infinite amount. Sum of the integers from 0 or 1 to 100? 5050.
Happens when your enemy has 0 regard for using their civilian shields. And Hamas purposely does it because they know white leftists on lemmy and reddit adjacent communities to go insane over it. You’d think that at some point the Palestinian population would get rid of the only real existential threat they can get rid of. Hamas and their associates.
I was playing a game, alt-tabbing froze my system so I waited a bit and then rebooted by using the button on the case, since I couldn’t do differently....
Also since I’m now out of Instagram, this is going to be my biggest audience. Knowing Instagram thought, more people are probably going to see this here either way....
I have, but I haven’t just gotten into it yet. This is posted there too but I get even less engagement because I have 0 followers unlike the whopping 30 I had acquired on instagram
…und warum sollte man diese Politiker dann noch extra bezahlen? Vergessen wir mal nicht: Die ARBEITEN FÜR UNS - entsprechend sind Dinge wie Vorträge und Interviews, die ein Politiker während seiner Tätigkeit in IRGENDEINEM Parlament tätigt, Teil der normalen, parlamentarischen Arbeit und somit mit der normalen Bezahlung bereits abgegolten.
Gern kann man die Diäten um einen gewissen Betrag erhöhen, aber dafür dann eben Nebeneinkünfte verpflichtend auf genau 0 setzen. Nur so ist wahre Unabhängigkeit und Unbefangenheit sichergestellt.
deswegen sag ich ja: Nebeneinkünfte komplett auf 0. Gar keine mehr. Gar nichts. Wenn man einen anderen Posten in der Wirtschaft inne hat, dann hat dieser während der parlamentarischen Arbeit zu ruhen und kein Gehalt, keine Spesen und auch keine Vorteile mehr zu fließen.
Ich will, dass mein Arbeitnehmer für MICH arbeitet - und für keinen anderen sonst. Insbesondere dann nicht, wenn dieser “Nebenjob” mehr einbringt, als der Hauptjob oder gar noch ein potentieller Interessenskonflikt bestehen könnte.
Anmerkungen: insgesamt sieht der Plan 24 für die Bundesministerien ca. 6,1 Mrd EUR weniger als 23 vor. Insbesondere die erheblich geringeren Budgets für Wirtschaft und Gesundheit sind wohl auf auslaufende Corona-Effekte zurückzuführen. Da hinter den Prozentzahlen teils erheblich unterschiedliche absolute Werte stehen (Buschmanns +1,9% sind absolut gerade mal 60% von Lindners +0,3%, 18 bzw. 30 Mio EUR) lohnt auch ein Blick auf die Veränderung in absoluten Werten:
Weiterhin ist durch die per se unterschiedlichen Budgets/Anteile am Bundeshaushalt der Ministerien wohl die aussagekräftigste Kennzahl die Veränderung des Anteils am Bundeshaushalt. Hier lässt sich unabhängig von absoluten Größen und Volumen ablesen, welches Ministerium seinen Anteil ausbauen kann oder einbüßen muss:
Das führt zu folgenden durchschnittlichen Veränderungswerten der Anteile der Minister pro Partei: (Edit: falsch gerechnet, die FDP hat +0,36 statt +0,07)
SPD +0,49 FDP +0,36GRÜ -0,15
Das bedeutet: im Schnitt konnte jeder SPD-Minister den Anteil seines Ministeriums am Haushalt um 0,49 erhöhen. Jeder FDP-Minister durchschnittlich um 0,36, jeder Grüne hat durchschnittlich 0,15 verloren. Die Grünen haben also am schlechtesten verhandelt.
That math is so wrong on so many reasons. Let’s compare it
Device
Steam Deck
Xbox
Cheapest official price
339
549.99
Subscription fee
0
14.99/month
Initial games
all of your steam library (800+ games for me)
0
Emulator support
Yes
No
Base cost after a year
339
729.87
This means that I have 390.87 to spend in games before we break even. Let’s see how many games I can buy with that, to do that in a way that’s as impartial as possible I’ll look at the top most played games to try to not put my bias for games I prefer and add their lowest recorded price (since steam sales are common place) on steam until I reach the 390 I have to spend. This gets me to number 33 on the top 100 most played games. It’s worth noting that if I add emulators, free games, and the fact that I personally prefer to buy a lot of indie games than spend 120 into two football manager games, I can easily make those 390 get me a LOT more games. But here’s the biggest kicker, if one month I’m short on cash I can play any of the hundreds games I have, you unfortunately if you don’t pay gamepass are out of games. Also in a few years when you need to buy a new console you’ll lose all your games except the ones Microsoft allows you to keep playing, so in the long run you get to where I’am, i.e. having a large curated list of games that you like and can play without having to pay.
To add insult to injury, I get to play my games on the go, and the suspend/resume midgame feature means I’m back in my game within seconds, not having to wait until my Xbox finished playing the Call of Duty ad
Yeah it’s important for me because I have shit handwriting. I also draw zeroes with a bar in the middle because one of my college teachers used to subtract 1 point on tests for every zero with no bar.
We all hated that but tbh I’m glad I have that good practice ingrained in my brain now because I can’t accidentally mix up 0 and O
Cancer cells are cells that keep growing even when they are told to stop. They continue to grow even when they are a detriment to the body. They consume a large amount of resources and they have no regard for the future even though their unsustainable growth will always lead to the death of their host and to themselves....
You just discovered the philosophy of most lazy boring movie villain ever made, congrats!
Yeah, let’s ignore that most of humanity has 0 choice in the matter and only the absolute billionares with investments in every company doing wrong are the ones with the power to stop the damage and because they are encouraged to seek the fastest easy profit they just don’t care.
The fact that ONE private jet trip contaminates more than a single US family does in a YEAR.
But yeah, humans are cancer cell, every human. Even the kids and the persons with Down. Sure buddy.
Indeed, in your case acquiring uBlue through its ISO was probably the best option; but I’m glad to hear that it worked out in the end!
Anyways, doing it the hard way is helping me learn the intricacies of an immutable system, so I am having fun.
Well said!
Just in case; consider the following:
Pin your current working deployment with the aforementioned sudo ostree admin pin 0 command. After which it remains accessible regardless unless you unpin it later on. This should allow you a working deployment if all else fails and thus a safe haven to rely on.
I didn’t. I meant it, to use another terminology, as ancestral/derived traits. Maybe you get that.
I didn’t, also you can’t prove absence of something as you should know.
Do you actually believe ants have closely similar cognitive abilities to humans? Where does this idea come from? At the beginning of the century entomology textbooks actually featured flowcharts to predict insect behaviour. We found out that there is more individuality and adaptability but it’s still not comparable to animals with more complex brains.
You have provided effectively 0 evidence to prove anything as wild as ants forming some elaborate society that would be even nearly as complex as that of humans. Show me this research that you speak of or maybe try to lay off the pop-sci a little.
Dressed uniformly in black, the protesters with Jewish Voice for Peace gathered on the pedestal shortly before 1 p.m. when they dropped massive banners with calls for a cease-fire and other slogans, such as “The Whole World Is Watching” and “Never Again for Anyone.” The group sang “Cease-fire now” and occupied the...
You mean during this war or before? If during, then yeah probably (although Hamas won’t release the numbers of terrorists/civilians killed) But again, that’s just war, and war is horrible. We can all agree on that.
Absolutely! I meant during this outbreak but I don’t think it matters. It’s always the same.
That is to say, the escalation in violence was in the west bank, not in Gaza. Gaza was a relatively quiet area for months up until the attack (except for disturbenceses on the fence which Israel stupidly disregarded)
This is true but obviously it’s related.
Then by that standard there have been 0 cease fires in Gaza since Hamas took over. Rockets are fired from Gaza at least once a year - is that peace in your eyes? Calling for it now after all those years is just ridiculous. Maybe a pause for humanitarian aid, but ceasefire? Basically giving Gaza back to Hamas? What sane Israeli would live in one of the slaughtered Kibutz while Hamas is still in power?
No it is not peace. Plus with the iron dome the rockets are pointless and stupid. But Israel has been blockading Gaza for 16 years, it’s an open air prison. A cease fire would be to help the civilians trapped. You ask what sane Israeli would live in one of the slaughtered Kibutz: imagine if you couldn’t leave because a superior power is keeping you by force. It fucking sucks. But nobody will help you because we aren’t sure if your neighbour is a secret terrorist, so we may have to bomb your house. Sorry.
The only way to actually achieve peace is for Israel to recognize the human rights of Palestinians and allow a Palestinian state to exist. If you oppress people you can’t be surprised if they rise up, and acting like the victim is misleading at best.
War != Genocide. They both have massive civilian deaths - but it’s an important distinction. The 7/10 attack does indeed justify entering a war - where sadly lots of civilians are killed. Poor Gazans have both Israel and Hamas to blame for allowing this war to happen.
genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Israel has undoubtedly done the first three. Only one is required. You might argue intent but this doesn’t fly in my opinion. They have told people to leave to the south to be safe, then bombed the roads south and bombed the actual south. Cut off water. Bombed densely populated civilian areas. The hospitals cannot function now. I refuse to believe this is not intentional killing, and this is not a regular case of war where “sadly lots of civilians are killed.” The only monsters worse than Hamas are Israel and the IDF. We will look back on what’s happening here with horror.
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Hi everyone! I need some help. I’m in my mid-thirties, and I had a growing career that, since covid, has gotten so flaky I can’t properly provide for my family anymore. I have always been interested in tech, and would like to start a career but I’m not sure how to....
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iOS 17.1.1 Breaking Touch on 15 Pro Max (discussions.apple.com)
Just a word of caution for other people: The latest iOS 17.1.1 might break wired charging and touch screen functionality on the 15 Pro Max. I was one of the unlucky ones, for whom charging and touch screen stopped working after installing the update and rebooting. Side buttons work fine, but touch screen does nothing and the...
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2 1/2 weeks ago, I started going for short (25-40 minutes) daily morning runs. Right now the temperature is mostly 10C or higher, so I can just wear shorts and a t-shirt. One day it was below 8, felt a bit cold, and so I got a functional (=plastic) sport long sleeve. That works well, and I can even wear a t-shirt under it if it...
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How many numbers are in the number 100?
Investigation disproves Israel claim of Hamas tunnel under Gaza hospital (www.aljazeera.com)
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I was playing a game, alt-tabbing froze my system so I waited a bit and then rebooted by using the button on the case, since I couldn’t do differently....
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Also since I’m now out of Instagram, this is going to be my biggest audience. Knowing Instagram thought, more people are probably going to see this here either way....
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Humans are similar to cancer cells
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Statue of Liberty Shut Down by Protesters Calling for Gaza Cease-fire (nymag.com)
Dressed uniformly in black, the protesters with Jewish Voice for Peace gathered on the pedestal shortly before 1 p.m. when they dropped massive banners with calls for a cease-fire and other slogans, such as “The Whole World Is Watching” and “Never Again for Anyone.” The group sang “Cease-fire now” and occupied the...