francis-io

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by francis-io 5y ago
The highest education I have is secondary school (highscool) and what you say couldn't be more right in my expirence. I got some CompTIA certs while working a night shift to get into IT and prove I knew the basicis. Everything beyond t
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by francis-io 5y ago
I've been using an i5 nuc for the last 5 or so years as a desktop pc attached to a kvm switch for a work laptop when forced by workplace IT. I'm still surprised how far integrated graphics can get you.
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by francis-io 5y ago
This is speculation. Just because the process had been made as easy a possible for you does not mean it was easy to implement.
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by francis-io 6y ago
Down for me in the UK for the past 30 mins.
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by francis-io 6y ago
I know that as a fact here in the UK with certain agencies that I will leave Unnamed. I've essentially been told as much by people I've worked with. This is obviously a special case that I don't really have a solution for. I
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by francis-io 6y ago
In my first paragraph I mentioned that if it was not possible to make this situation happen then at least not work towards it. Everyone should be able to put 10% of a salary away into savings to work on getting the freedom to do this. If we
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by francis-io 6y ago
I'm sorry for the situation you are in but you allow this to happen. You can vote with your feet and leave. I know its harder for some people, but that's just life. Decisions like this are never easy. If you can't afford to l
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by francis-io 6y ago
I setup bitwarden_rs recently on my own server with traefik in front. I use the android app and browser plugin which point to my own instance. Currently it's only working on my home network, but I'm working from home. This setup s
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by francis-io 6y ago
As a cloud engineer in the UK, it's almost required these days to know K8s in one form or another. I wish it wasn't the case, but I think the battle is over.
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by francis-io 6y ago
I trialed setting up my own nextcloud instance a while back. It's still very complex to get working in docker. From memory, the card/caldav traefik rewrites are still not working. SSL was complex to setup with Collabora, and still
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by francis-io 6y ago
I have no nice memories of going outside as a kid. I was a shy kid and was always more comfortable inside. I think I had to learn that being outside on my own terms was actually good and had value.
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by francis-io 6y ago
Slightly off topic: Growing up I never valued outside spaces. I never spent time in nature. In my 30s, and now living outside of a city, I walk every day and try to make it through a forest of wooded area. It really calms anxiety over the p
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by francis-io 6y ago
Fair has nothing to do with it. We want to remove risk from as many people as possible. If you can do a job from home, do it from home. Lets not put people at risk just to increase "fairness".
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by francis-io 6y ago
As a general rule, never disclose current or old salary. Just because you get asked, doesn't mean you need to tell anyone. I usually politely sidestep the "what's your current salary?" with a "in rolling to accept a
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by francis-io 6y ago
Managing fonts is not great on Linux in general. I'll make sure I give this a go. A good font can make a big difference if you are in the terminal or editor all day. It's a pain to get unity between them though.
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by francis-io 6y ago
I personally use syncthing to push audiobooks to my mobile device and "smart audio book player" on android to play them at double speed. I even sync back up the played location. Being able to resume playback on device, I'm no
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by francis-io 6y ago
When looking for a CPU for a server that sits in my living room, I went down the thought process of getting a low tdp. I don't have a quote, but I seem to remember coming to the conclusion that tdp is the max temp threshold, not the co
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by francis-io 6y ago
Anything dumb and oled? I'd like to upgrade my LG 1080p but not yet found a top quality image but with dumb internals. So far, I just don't connect to Wi-Fi. Something I have noticed with my smart tv is that it takes a significant
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by francis-io 6y ago
I set up a public facing nextcloud server on my own domain. The login got hammered within days. I took it down and plan to only bring it up behind a wireguard connection. Lesson learnt.
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by francis-io 6y ago
This is kind of my story too. I stick with ubuntu LTS just for an added level of confidence things are compatible, but Arch might be a good idea to look into. The arch packages are a big plus. Do you find many compatibility issues?
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by francis-io 6y ago
If it's hard, mentally taxing work then likely around 4 hours total a day. The funny thing is I also can't really do menial, brain dead work for long either. It seems to drain a different "tank" but its much smaller.
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by francis-io 6y ago
How can this be "de-googled" but I can also use "all my favourite apps"? I'd love to step away from Google, but I have some requirements on apps from the play store for work (slack, okta) and personal communication
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by francis-io 6y ago
I do agree your first point about keeping things simple. The problem comes when you grow big enough to then need these complicated things, it becomes hard to "turn the ship" re-engineering everything. I could easily argue that lay
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by francis-io 6y ago
I used to do this with pfsense to route all traffic from a specific internal IP over a VPN. If I remember rightly I set up multiple VPN connections (across multiple geographic locations) and set up a way to link them all together as a logic
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by francis-io 6y ago
Can this approach still use google apps when needed? I need to use certain things like 2FA apps used by my employer. I want the freedom to be able to quickly install X app if needed.
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by francis-io 6y ago
The tone is a bit silly, but I do agree that getting a personal domain is a good idea. I've had one for business for a while now, and just got a new "personal one". I guess I now need to recreate all the accounts I care about
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by francis-io 6y ago
Traefik reverse proxy can be hosted using docker compose, which will deal with fronting each container and offloading ssl. You can communicate between containers using hostnames. I personally have a container keep DDNS updated for my home s
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by francis-io 6y ago
k3s looks like it removes some of the "moving parts" from Kubernetes, but for a single node setup, docker-compose might be simpler to manage.
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by francis-io 6y ago
For me, the only machines I log into and use are my own, so I use ansible to manage local configs.
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by francis-io 6y ago
Buy a small NUC and run some docker containers. You might end up sinking 100 hours into it, but I have the same concerns and self hosting (with some cloud backups, but encrypted) is the solution for me. https://github.com/ht

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