Feel ya.
Always have to contain my laughter when sitting on the company shitter and people entering the stall next to me, just to unleash hell into the innocent opening beneith them.
Don’t know why but the earth shattering sound of the musical orchestra some people give out for free on the shitter is amazingly amusing to me. :3
Yes. Documentation. Documentation aaaalll the way.
You are right. In two months you wont remember the shit you had to enable/disable to make things work.
Doing things that arent a reocurring doing should be documented. Not crazy. A basic how to set up is enough.
Common/reocurring errors/situations? Document 'em
Got a semi permanent fix for problem, so that it will most likely never come up again, but possibly in 5 years? Document it fella.
You’ll kiss your past self on the head and say thanks when you have an critical ticket in 5 years and remember nothing about the doing itself but that you wrote some documentation.
It will save your ass and possibly you might come out as the hero of the day for having a solution right away for a super nieche problem.
I’ve making a private hosted documentation for stuff, tricks and problems i learn at work.
I’ve had plenty of situatuons where i remembered that i already encountered such a situation yeeeaars ago at my previois employer and that i’ve written somtehting down in my personal documentation. Bam and just by a few mins I’ve got either a really good or at least a shittysysadmin-style solution that works.
For cool features: xWiki
For conveniance in setting up: if you got a synology, use the synology notes app.
You are welcome!
Yepp multiple users is a whole different but also great area.
Using the work apps feature thingy you wont have to switch profiles and push messages are more readily available (not as much delayed as if you chose to use a guest profile).
Well then, lemme give you something more specific to look into:
Most Android Phones kinda hide the option to turn the Work-Profile on. But it is implemented at the core of android and should really be available on any android device thats from the last 5 years.
Once you turn it on once you will be always able to see it. And you will also get one of those buttons available in your notification center. Just like those, that turn on and off your Wifi - this one will turn on your work profile. Or off - if Off, alllll the apps installed in the work profile will be disabled completely until you enable the work profile again.
Very handy for splitting private and work stuff - since you can just turn off work profile when you walk out of the office and wont be bothered anymore.
Lets get to the turnings thing on part:
You simply need one app to activate the work profile.
“Shelter” –> this app is not on the google playstore.
This app is in the F-Droid Store. Since this is also a new thing lemme explain this real quick. F-Droid is an store just like Google Play Store. You can download and install apps from there. It comes as an app for your device, or you can just simply browse it in the webbrowser and download the apps you want from it from there. The F-Droid Store is well known in the Opem Source Community and is the Go-To Place if you want privacy respecting apps. - I am saying this to make sure you can trust this new and to you unknown store.
Soooo. Back to the topic. Download either the complete F-Droid Store and in this app then search for the “Shelter” app - or simply download the shelter app once from the Website of F-Droid directly. Keep in mind if you go with the downloading F-Droid route: on its first launch, F-Droid will take ~30 secs to update its repositories and you wont find any apps in the search menu. So let it stay put for a few secs before starting your search.
To make it as less of a hassle as possible ill go forward and describe the route where we will install the app directly from the website.
I hope this helps ya!
For the case that you use synology: already built in in the storage analyser feature
Otherwise: no clue tbh
Tbh. Its highly unlikely that you will face anything that disrupts business and can prove it being from this machine.
Even if you get hit by a trojan that encrypts everything: if you have AV on clients and servers and update their databases regularely, noone could or would blame a dude thats 3 months in the job for it. I mean you have no prior experience. Thats also why i would not try to escelate it further. You will get fucked by management if you fall in the back of a higher ranking position. They dont appreciate people calling stuff like this out. Especially in small family owned businesses. Trust me. I’ve been there.
You will most likely find even more hazards in the future. If it gets worse, make a list. If you can, put in the CVE Codes and their explanation about the issue and the potential risks.
Put it in a monthly report-email regarding IT Topics. Also put different stuff in there, so you dont only appear to be whining about the system that they obviously have been taking care of in a lackluster way. This way you show that you are doing your job for the case that there might actually be a hazard and if they ask, you can simply point to your monthly report and say you did your best and did not get enough ressources/coworkers/ or the so very much needed new Firewall Appliance.
In terms of futur vision: write up your daily systems you work with. I’ll make some examples for your Resume:
And so on.
Also make a second list with projects, what your role in them was (most likely project lead), and what situation you had and the target. Also in which timeframe you are working on it (March/2024 - Today)
Don’t tell anybody that you are keeping your eyes out for a new job. Wait till you have landed a new job with administration work (dont do First-Layer Support Jobs. They get you stuck on your career ladder)
Also have a look at job portals like Kununu and check Ratings of companies. Since you are already in a kind of dispute with your boss I would suggest to not leave a review of your current workplace, whilst you still work there. Attention would be immediately brought to your end.
Also: if you are bad at creating a resume. Use an online builder. Job portals offer them. Be advised though, recruiters will already call the number that you type in there even before you are done typing your resume. rxResume is and FOSS Resume Builder. Can be selfhost or simply used by the Publicly hosted variant.
Just checking in to say thanks for asking that question. Always had that same question as a fellow sysadmin :D
Now since i see all those ideas: hell yes. I will reach out to the maintainers of the next project that I find that could use some support and offer them my support :D
^^
Sry for disturbing this sacred doing! Thx though :D
Another homelabber checking in: u got the name of the neat managed switch already or am I annoying too early? :3
No clue why u’r getting all the hate homie.
Got a similar situation but couldn’t be bothered so far, to actually create a post.
Maybe ask the same question in the piracy community.
Having the exact issue whilst transitioning to piracy.
I mean using the apps, you get reccomendations and the new stuff gets put on the front page.
But if i am making proper use of the Seven Seas™, then I’ll have no Netflix recommendations anymore.
So where do I get recommendations on new interesting material? :shrug:
U sailing the seas or staying legal? Legal options are the usual Amazon prime, netflix and so on. Local ones would be idk maybe Pro7Max or something.
The ones where you raise the Sails and get going, there are mostly One-Click-Hosters but for direct streaming there are hosters like s(dot)to or the ol’ reliable kinox.
Have a glance at the megathread of the piracy megathread in dbozers lemmy community for more detailed infos.
Is this a porn reference? This surely is a porn reference.
Good intention, to let us know about the strategy. But i would guess everybody knows the strategy since most of us are working in IT. Hence the downvotes.
But tbh. everyone should hear about it. No backup? No sympathy. (Kein Backup? Kein Mitleid)
I ran best with: Tell coworkers you trust and you like working with. Most likely they will agree thst xyz is bad and ya’ll could be in a better situation. Some times you can even get the people you like to also get a better job or even get them into the company that you changed to - only when you already have been there for a few months or so, to know if its a good company or not.
The secured Sandbox maybe? The windows sandbox is pretty awesome for day to day use imo. And no a template VM or container isnt really the same thing. The sandbox has the task of making sure that there is nothing that can break out. Afaik the sanbox has done a pretty good job so far in that aspect. Does linux bring a comparable option to the table? Would love to find out, changig as many aspects of my life to linux is the best thing to do.
Just so you get a notification: OP added a link to the comment above.
r/opendirectories was a place for this.
SysAdmin. The OCR Feature is a blessing to get masses of text from sended in screenshots, or Webinterfaces of devices that try to fight the user when they try to copy some text from it ^^
The Always on Top Feature… fuck where do I start.
When shit gets stressful and you are just trying to fix a thing asap but your view is bloated with the applications from your previous task, it can be unbelievable practical to use the always on top feature.
Mostly use it on windows that i want to have as a small but always on top space where i can interact with application xyz or even a small fresh notepad to type down what the customer is blubbering into my phone while I try to get as many information possible and troubleshoot the problems at the same time.
Sorry for the absolute shitty written text. I’m in a hurry.
Powerrename with optional Regex (Regex only with support of chatGPT. Noone can tell me they actually understand regex ^^) Though PowerRename i use more often as a Pirate.
Paste Text only - OMFG this feature… without it i would quit my job and search for anotherone where i can deploy it on my maschine. It stripes out every non-text from the text you have copied. So formatting and all that bullshit is gone. Its’s bliss. As a regular office worker this should also be a gamechanger. Noone ever wants to copy the formatting from one document to another. You mostly just want the plain damn text.
Maybe the cut and resize feature will be also soon on my favourites list but i havent tested it that much so far.
Oh and another app i love:
ShareX.
It has never been easier to show someone what they have to click or where error xyz occurs. Just create a border that you want to record in .mp4 format, do your stuff there, klick stop and send a very nice and small videofile to your opponent. Absolutely everyone that got a video from me was thankful for not having to read 4 paragraphes of text but instead was able to just watch a 30secs video and understand everything. I sometimes even use it in documentation for other sysadmins. Very helpful if the task is complex and would take up lots of text to explain. Create a short clip and everyone understands you.
Get what you are trying to say but both are still encrypted. They simply aren’t end to end encrypted. So the messages are private. Until obviously the company servers get hacked or police raided and the keys to the encryption get stolen. You are protected against this in E2E encryption. True.
Ii guess telegram once was the alternative to whatsapp, then made maany more featutes abailable in fast time paces which led to another bunch of migrators.
Now noone wants to move away because why? For the usual end user there is no negative to them.
I am fully on your side and am using signal and matrix and try to migrate as many people as possible but its hard.