Personally for me it’s that it’s not as resource heavy as windows whilst offering a similar out of box ‘it just works’. Sure it’s not the best tool for the job in a lot of regards but for example I have two laptops from early 2014. A macbook air and a windows laptop running windows 10. The macbook air runs smoothly when browsing the Web, or studying whereas the windows laptop ends up slowing down a lot and chugging.

I will say I am a fan of the best tool for the job approach though. Doing a lot of office based work and need word editing or spreadsheet editing? Windows. Gaming? Windows. Server work? Linux. Music/video production? Macs

After my first job as a printer technician I can believe some of the horrors to expect. Training on a nice shiny new printer vs one that had been installed upside down, backwards and whilst drunk…20 years ago haha

Ah it’s on three bits of wood screwed into the wall. Can still unscrew it and flip it over though so I may do that.

They have, but you can still find them on the second hand market. I m not looking forward to the day they stop supporting them however

Chocolate and pistachio tart I made a couple days ago

Ah this isn’t the chromecast streaming devices I’m talking about. It’s the older pucks that plug into an aux cable that you can stream music from your phone to

Thanks! I’ll check it out

I’m going to shore it up

Oh no the left picture is the before… Its gone downhill in terms of the mess

Honestly… I might get some pushback for this but Chromecast audio. Being able to get full home audio streaming for a fraction of the cost of a normal system with a few of those and a few old hifis. Worth it for me

Well it’s night here so sleep. But after that I’ve got work then I might study a bit, eat some cake. Nothing much really

Good luck on retraining!

Honestly, throw a couple services running on ubuntu servers on the proxmox machine. It’s not the same as book learning, but it does help a lot with the basics and patchy knowledge I found. Not saying I’m an expert or anything, but I do know a lot more about managing Linux servers now than I did 5 years ago from running 15 of them on Proxmox

This is actually my second foray into IT work. I went to college for software development, failed that, went to work as a printer technician, left that, went into retail and now I am here. Thanks!

Those are the best places to find hardware to be fair. That and ebay/Facebook around the end of the financial year

Hey that’s my old CPU which I just retired from my old pc. If it wasn’t somewhat set aside for a pc for my SO it would be my new video encoder. The two servers I do have running do have some issues. The proxmox machine has a dead RAM slot and several dead fans or dead fan connectors. (Enough run to keep it cool at least). The Truenas box keeps showing an error with the second PSU and the vga out does not work (Either on front or back). Both work well enough for me.

Prism is my go to …it’s allright but I am still looking for new options. Have heard good things about Immich so might look at that

Now and again I jump on for niche information for my hobbies. But only on desktop, and only on old.reddit.com

Nice! That is a decent setup, what are you using it for?

Ah it’s all good it’s holding on with the power of sheer will… Plus it was flexing that bad before the hardware got put on it and barely moved after… I hope…haha