[-] PastorHaggis@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

The first page of my resume covers my technical skills, a summary of myself, and my most recent jobs.

When you go past that, it gets to older jobs that are still relevant, then into school, then to side projects, volunteer, etc. basically, if you liked the first page, the rest of it gives them more about who I am.

I think at this point it's either 3 or 4 pages and every time I've gotten a job it's been one where they asked me about the hobbies on the bottom of the last page, which meant they liked what they saw and liked my interview well enough.

When I update it for my next search, I'll take my first internship off because it's no longer relevant, but most everything else is.

[-] PastorHaggis@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

+1 to JetBrains.

I started using them like 8 years ago and have never looked back. My dad introduced them to me when I was doing some homework on a family trip and my laptop was dead. After that, I used them for every class in college, then used them at a job where they didn't provide an IDE but I had the subscription.

Even when I'm not developing at home consistently, it's just so much better to have it than not.

[-] PastorHaggis@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

The PWA app works decent, but, unless I did something wrong, it would open links in itself instead of my main Firefox window which wasn't what I'd want normally.

I still use it, but it's definitely not as nice as I'd want it to be.

Definitely one of those things that's minor and I can look past though.

[-] PastorHaggis@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Hey, some of us are trying to do a huge server migration before we switch so that we can make sure all of our stuff is backed up properly.

I can't wait to go back, especially since proton is so much better.

Hopefully my Nvidia card doesn't suck too bad.

[-] PastorHaggis@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Sure, and there's also an extension to install a web page as an app similar to Chrome. The point is that, out of the box, it lacks some features that I enjoy. Extensions are great and I use plenty of them, but that doesn't mean that Firefox has those features, it just has extensions that have them.

Firefox is great, don't get me wrong, I'm definitely preferring it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have all the features that I wanted up front.

[-] PastorHaggis@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I wasn't a fan of Firefox either and personally lived using edge. When the whole web integrity thing started happening, I felt like I should switch to Firefox and haven't looked back.

I still have some complaints, like you can't install sites native app which I used a lot. I don't think tab groups have been implemented yet, which isn't a huge deal but very useful. And there were a few others I can't remember off the top of my head. In the end I value my privacy a bit more so I've decided Firefox is worth it.

Plus mobile ad blocking is a god send.

[-] PastorHaggis@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Interesting. I might have to get Jellyfin set up and run them simultaneously for a bit. Like I said my favorite Plex thing is Plexamp because it's so clean and simple and I'd rather use a dedicated app for music instead of the main app.

I do like that it's FOSS though, so that's pretty great.

[-] PastorHaggis@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Is jellyfin that much better? I've seen people throw it around a lot and I've yet to try it. The big thing I like about Plex is Plexamp as a music app and it seems like Jellyfin lacks that for the time being.

[-] PastorHaggis@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I'm starting to switch over to Proton. I haven't paid for it yet but my plan is to start paying and potentially grab usernames on other sites so I can have a consistent email across any site I decide to use.

[-] PastorHaggis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not my favorite. He's got a couple solid songs but the rest isn't my jam. My style is more Death in the death metal genre, or Metallica in thrash.

[-] PastorHaggis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I love death and thrash metal a lot. I can occasionally write some really solid riffs that I feel are representative of what I like normally.

However...

My best work is the simple acoustic stuff I write when I'm bored and don't feel like plugging an amp in. I don't even like the kind of music it ends up falling into normally, but I guess I can write it.

[-] PastorHaggis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The last time I pirated a game was for Freelancer. Couldn't buy it anywhere except a CD and there was no guarantee it would work so I pirated it, it wasn't what I expected, so I removed it.

I also downloaded a Halo CE crack for PC but I owned the physical disk and just used it to play with friends at a LAN party.

Otherwise there's no reason to pirate anything gaming related, short of protest or something.

TV, movies and music are so hard to find. Lots of people will tell me "no just use Spotify". No. Go try to listen to Turn the Page by Bob Seger, and not a live version. The only versions Spotify has are the live and the Metallica versions. Try to find Whitesnake's Deep Purple cover album. I used to never pirate music because I could buy the few albums they didn't have and upload them to Google music. Now, there's no option for that. I'd rather have a smaller library with the music I want than a massive one that's missing my favorites,

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by PastorHaggis@lemmy.world to c/homelab@lemmy.ml

Hello!

I'm (kinda) new at self-hosting stuff and have been running off an old gaming PC with 8gb RAM and an i5-3570k and a couple 8tb drives in a raid 1 configuration.

A few weeks (months maybe) ago, I bought a Dell PowerEdge R720XD for a decent price and the only thing it didn't come with is drives. I've got another 8tb drive and will be grabbing one more to do Proxmox with ZFS and do a raidz1 configuration for 24tb of usable space.

The big question I have here is what type/size of SSD should I go with? I currently just have an old 120gb SSD that's running Ubuntu with things like Plex, Kavita, Foundry, and whatever else I'm using on it. A buddy was telling me to use "data center SSDs" due to the amount of work hypervisor tools will do. I've also read other posts from Reddit and similar that mention that consumer-grade SSDs should be just fine but then others point out that if they only have 80-100TBW which means they'll fail quicker, but if they're cheaper than data center or enterprise SSDs then it would still be cheaper.

My plan for Proxmox is basically this:

  • ZFS Pool with a raidz1 vdev (made of hard drives) with the goal to expand it eventually
  • Plex instance (I'll probably point my cache to the vdev via symlinks because one time I had a 50gb cache when setting up Plex so I don't want to do that again)
  • Kavita instance
  • Linux instance just for dev work and funsies
  • Foundry (D&D tool) instance
  • I also run some random website stuff but that'll probably be on the Linux instance. None of it is very big
  • HomeAssistant

So with that, are there any things I should consider? Is a pair of $30, 480gb Kingston drives more than plenty? Should I go for some mid-range Microns? Do I find something way more expensive and just eat the cost up front instead of over time? I'm just trying to figure out how I should price it out because I want to get this server up and running so I can steal my old desktop back for other dumb reasons.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Side note, if you have a good way to migrate data where I have to get 4.5tb off my 8tb raid1 group, set up ZFS with those same drives, then put the data back on it, let me know. The current plans are to either piecemeal out the data to all the machines on my network, or just get a 6tb external drive.

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