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- Comment on Almost 30 years later, Fallout 1's depth of choice, chance, and consequence is still an RPG gold standard 2 days ago:
My first attempt to play was only a couple years ago on a modern pc. It didn’t work out. I figured it was just not running correctly. I’d bought them in a bundle, and just figured they were pieces for my collection, not actually games anymore.
- Comment on Don't do it 2 days ago:
Oh, you’re fine. It took me 4 1/2 years to get over sobriety and back to normal life.
You’ve wasted much less time. - Comment on Don't do it 3 days ago:
I say, go with the intrusive thoughts.
- Comment on Anthropic’s Claude ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI agents. 3 days ago:
How could you not?
Image - Comment on Where can I learn about networking? 6 days ago:
Cisco offers a whole lot of free online training as well, on several different websites.
Its kind of a pita to get access in the first place, but its definitely free, comprehensive, and starts from the ground up.
And of course, they have paid training options on those same sites. - Comment on Where can I learn about networking? 6 days ago:
Well … How much do you want to learn? How serious are you?
If you want to know networking, the authority is Cisco.
I’m scheduled to take my CCST Network exam tomorrow. That’s an entry-level Cisco cert.
I’ve been studying for about 3 months. Wish me luck …Junior NetAdmin Cert
The CCST training is online and entirely free.
www.netacad.com/career-paths/network-technician?c…Access
You’ve got to jump through some hoops. You need to create an account and go through some verification.
They need to figure out if you are ‘overseas’ and whether you should be able to download encryption products.
I think its probably easiest if you use your work email, that’s what they are really looking for.Cisco U
There’s a shit-ton of classes at Cisco U as well.
Most of those are not directly cert-related, but a large amount of them were created for people studying for the CCNA, so they are certainly helpful. There’s all sorts of rando training, keep ya real busy. Here’s one I’ve started.
u.cisco.com/…/understanding-cisco-data-center-fou…Lab Environments
The whole study program uses Packet Tracer for the labs, which you download from them.
I also got a copy of Cisco Modeling Labs running. That was a bitch, had to shoe-horn an OVA to run on Proxmox.
And I got an older edu copy of the Cloud Services virtual router, if there’s anything these other lab environments can’t handle. (This version can be freely downloaded … csr1000v-universal9.03.12.00.S.154-2.S-std.iso) - Comment on Almost 30 years later, Fallout 1's depth of choice, chance, and consequence is still an RPG gold standard 6 days ago:
Look, I love Fallout. I did my best to play 1 and 2. I own em.
I guess I’m doing something wrong. Unplayable. Literally.While I’m at it … New Vegas is ok. Meh. Fallout 3 was better. :]
- Comment on It would be cool if after you died you could see the top 5 times you almost died 2 weeks ago:
Man. I know what they were. I don’t want to review them. Water and my adventurous spirit, aka dumbass kayaker, almost took me out twice. You’re pretty fukin exhausted after fighting for your life. No fun. And then the motorcycles and booze over and over. Right. No, I don’t want to review any of that. Made it through once. Enough.
- Comment on The tech world is sleeping on the most exciting Bluetooth feature in years 2 weeks ago:
Fuk this post.
- Comment on JD, is that you!? 2 weeks ago:
This is the most disturbing thing I’ve seen on Lemmy. Like, oldskool I need eyebleach disturbing. Gawd. Why.
I think I’m gonna start working now. You’ve disgusted me that much. I’m gonna stop screwing around and go work. Bleh.
- Comment on The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization 2 weeks ago:
Well, the more of youtube we import … the more of youtube we import. Part of the reason we aren’t flooded with crap on the fediverse is that we are too small to matter. And perhaps we are small enough to effectively police our own. So … why would we want to import youtube at all? Bigger is not better.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 2 weeks ago:
That’s not really true.
You came off combative with an attitude right from the start.
You got smacked back down repeatedly.
Certainly some of it is because of your opinions, but mostly it was because you’re a jerk. - Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 2 weeks ago:
It’s also really good at making humans dumb. Can you tell us more about that aspect?
- Comment on The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization 2 weeks ago:
That’s a link. They also call them URLs. We learned about them in web class, back in the stone age.
- Comment on The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization 2 weeks ago:
wat
- Comment on New Community Rule: "No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports." 3 weeks ago:
I’ve posted here and had it deleted. So I don’t bother.
The instance I’m a member of had an unused selfhosting comm, and I started using it. Other people did too. Thanks for the shout out. - Comment on The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization 3 weeks ago:
Damn. It took me 3 paragraphs to say that. Good job.
- Comment on The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization 3 weeks ago:
Ok, I quibble with much of what you just wrote, but your first line contained a lucid point.
In essence, you propose that a federated monetization scheme would direct the bulk of the pie to the participants and not to the big corporate interests.
Now that’s a damned interesting thing to consider.
I think its obvious that it would/will go awry. Any time you get non-profits screwing around with money, somebody figures out how to steal it.
But if even a bit more went to the participants and paid for infrastructure, that would be a positive thing.But again … non-profits and coops never handle money correctly. Watch this get all the way to the goalpost and then swoop, it all gets handled with GooglePay. Its doomed. DOOM.
- Comment on The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization 3 weeks ago:
Youtube was a lot more fun before it was flooded with professionals out to make a buck on advertising. This thing you seek … it is not good.
- Comment on The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization 3 weeks ago:
Ok. I can follow this line of reasoning.
If you want to avoid corporate platforms, fediverse doesn’t provide as viable an alternative as one might like.
This is clear, and makes sense. Thanks for the succinct explanation. At least I see some sense here now.I’m not entirely sure that it matters.
Like, when was it decided that the ‘making money’ bit needed to be imported from YouTube? - Comment on **How** should I properly document my homelab? 3 weeks ago:
Alright already! I’ll work on my upgrade.
I’m wondering if I should just build a new docker and then migrate the data instead of upgrading in place. I bet that’s the easier thing to do in the end. - Comment on The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization 3 weeks ago:
Hey, um … I read your article. Or I tried to.
It lost me at the point where I need to give money to somebody else. So, basically right at the start.To be more specific, your article starts of lamenting that its not convenient enough for me to give money to someone (“content creators”, a bullshit term if I’ve ever heard one) on these federated platforms. “this is a bit of a problem” There’s no examination of whether we should be doing this. Its taken as a given that monetization is a positive goal.
So … I really tried to get there and understand your point, but there’s this vast gulf between us.
Why would it be bad if nobody makes any money off the fediverse?
That sounds good to me. - Comment on **How** should I properly document my homelab? 3 weeks ago:
Netbox is a hell of a package, of which I’ve essentially only touched the IPAM, and I don’t even use it programmatically. I just use the web console to keep track of 4 subnets and about 50 IPs.
It’s got a whole virtualization section that I haven’t touched, although that would make my device mapping more sensible. I just treat em like they are all real, and only map the physical nics on the hypervisor hosts.
I do keep text notes in Netbox entries, but that’s sort of a backup. If its something I’m likely to need to know, I’ll have a note in Proxmox. Usually login links for apps hosted there and the like. And of course I’ve got a folder full of text files with all my deepest secrets.
- Comment on **How** should I properly document my homelab? 4 weeks ago:
I’m not real clear what exactly you need to document.
Infrastructure documentation starts with an IPAM.
A good IPAM can help you document all kinds of stuff.I use NetBox.
github.com/netbox-community/netbox?tab=readme-ov-…I’m running it as a Docker container on a Linux VM.
I just looked at their latest screenshots, and it appears they’ve done quite a bit with it since I stood up my copy.
It does even more now. I’ll have to upgrade. - Comment on Beijing Unveils Supercritical CO2 Turbine That Could Upend Power Tech | OilPrice.com 4 weeks ago:
This is just a turbo encabulator with write-only memory, powered by pressurized blinker fluid.
- Comment on I have a problem with my nose ... 4 weeks ago:
Oh come on now. If ur gonna be mean, you have to draw something too.
- Comment on I have a problem with my nose ... 4 weeks ago:
Lol. But I would get water up my nose!
- Comment on Update: Clinton says that Trump tried to stick finger in his butt during trash felattio extravaganza. (Read more) 4 weeks ago:
That is something you certainly want to keep track of. Good job.
- Comment on I have a problem with my nose ... 4 weeks ago:
Are you mocking my artwork? My genius??? BAH.
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