I love in Atlanta and when I turned 21 (a couple years ago, but post 2020) I was kinda irritated because literally everything in the entire city was planned on Facebook Events, and I hated using Facebook.

It’s overwhelmingly popular, especially in the 30+ crowd, not even restricted to your 55+. Genuinely everyone would create Facebook events (before Partiful got popular) to invite people over on a Saturday

So that’s not what the article was saying

Let’s not forget that it’s $500 because they can’t continually profit off your personal information being harvested from the software.

Is it expensive for the hardware? Yeah Is it expensive for an android compatible device with zero telemetry? Not entirely

Brave is fine but still collects a lot of user data and isn’t privacy centric from their own perspective. Plus their fingerprint protection sucks

Apparently it was an auto complete issue that was fixed within 48 hours, but even still, there’s always something wrong with Brave multiple times a year

No, but brave “shields”, aka pre installed but shittier unlock origin, can sometimes break plex or other sites that require certain things that could look like trackers

Zen is just preselected no telemetry Firefox, also bleeding edge with Firefox updates

Brave is fine ish but they have issues, and a lot of them, which they usually fix within 24 hours but they’ve had a track record of like 8-10 issues per year, so just under once a month.

Don’t downvote me to hell cause it’s a reddit link, sorry, this is the most concise list I know of: https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/s/AErPH6iMl0

Yeah essentially the other tools you had to use API keys, and none of them were FOSS, mostly paid only tools.

This lets you self host both the application interface itself (which can also be an IDE) and use a self hosted LLM

I kinda loved his “you should self host to decentralize from big tech” and “run graphene and Linux to avoid data collection” content, but idk what the local ai stuff is any good for

Tbh I just fanboy any FOSS company like that

Y’know what, I never thought about that! I just figured I had to put my verbatim title on there. I think my current boss wouldn’t mind whatever title I choose either, so it works out for referrals?

You’re the coolest! AND you used Ai as a quick lightweight researcher, which is what it should be used for. You’re fucking AWESOME! so thanks for your contributions!!

that’s valid, but would you rather spend $8/year on a domain and spend an hour setting it up, or pay a monthly subscription to a closed source plex server?

Also, there’s *arr stack applications for helping non-technical users get set up on your jellyfin server, even helping them get set up with request apps too. JFA-GO is also a jellyfin native option for sending user invites.

more details about use case plz. how much storage do you think you need, how many users, how many concurrent users, is this a node or the entire server, is this the sole exclusive use case, do you not want to add more services later, etc

Do you mean 3 CLI formats? Like bash or fish or whatever?

Arr stack / media server stuff is more of a background task that I wouldn’t mention or put in a resume, and it’s just a personal use case that I’d eventually want if I’m building a server anyways

Ohhh good move! When you say tier iii roles, though, I only have about a year’s experience as a systems engineer, although my boss would let me change my title if I want. Should I list myself as a software engineer or computer engineer instead?

Thank you! I know a chunk of the *arr stack isn’t useable anymore.

I’m trying to get the resume experience so that I can actually land an interview! I’ve gotten an offer from every job I’ve ever interviewed for in my life (mid 20’s) but I can’t seem to land DevOps engineering interviews :./

Thats a long list of things to cover, how much free time do you have?

a lot? I’m working about 30 hours/week + wrapping up my undergrad in Computer Engineering online, but should be done with that this year. With that in mind, I need to get as much viable experience as possible in between now and graduation so that I’ll actually be qualified when application time comes

I’ve set up my server before as a remote desktop running Ubuntu, but essentially didn’t really use it other than tinkering. Then I set up a NAS, then nuked it and set up Proxmox + Ubuntu server and would just SSH into it to tinker.

Now that I’ve played the game and I’ve seen that i can do it, I want to dive in the deep end of what enterprise grade stuff should feel like. In terms of certs, I’ve done a few AWS courses from AWS but they all seemed pretty… useless? Almost entirely common sense information from the beginner certs and I learned nothing. So I gave up on that and will be aiming for project experience instead.

upon further review, I think I’m going to just set up everything in Grafana due to the vast utility it provides and it’s enterprise capability and adoption. Any thoughts on replacing a purpose built homelab dashboard with custom built grafana dashs?