By employed I mean get a job in the industry either offline or online. Ideally something that would highly likely remain in-demand in the near future.

  • @[email protected]
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    289 months ago

    Try to get yourself an old switch from ebay to practice setting up a small network, vlans etc., and you’ve got a solid start.

    This is what (older) millenials had to do when they wanted to play video games with their friends, no broadband internet, we moved the computer, set up a lan. Good old time. But this is how 20-25 years latter, I have basic knowledge of network, and look at puzzled Gen Z kids when I tell them to set their IP adress and ping the hardware

    • @[email protected]
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      259 months ago

      Sure as hell wouldn’t know what port forwarding is if it wasn’t for playing lan games online

      • @rtxn
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        My entire devops career started with writing stupid E2 programs in GMOD and hosting a private Minecraft server (IIRC it was Bukkit or something similar). This is the real pride and accomplishment.

      • sylver_dragon
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        69 months ago

        I work in cybersecurity now, though I spent about 15 years in Systems Administration. I credit my career to my father buying a computer and letting me tinker with it. There were two factors that taught me a ton about computers:

        1. Creating boot disks for games (this was back in the heyday of MS-DOS).
        2. Realizing “oh shit, I had better fix this before dad gets home.”

        Nothing teaches how to work on computers quite like working on a computer. And much of that “working” is actually figuring out how to un-fuck the computer you just fucked up.

        • @[email protected]
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          The last part is a gem I will forever love.
          Nothing quite like the oh fuck.

          The job equivalent for the customer is us saying “That’s unusual” :)

    • Meowing Thing
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      49 months ago

      Your comment made me really nostalgic for the days of setting up pan parties, configuring hamachi servers, etc. Good old days