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  • No longer available I guess, but I got this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0DDX1K5S1

    Only complaints are that it will thermal throttle on long workloads (e.g., transcoding or facial recognition on my entire Immich library), and the SSD slots — it comes with an mSATA drive in the first slot which is 4 lanes (I think?) and supports mSATA and NVME. The second slot is slower (1 lane?) and only supports NVME. So I had to put my nicer NVME SSD in that slot if I wanted to use the included mSATA drive, but consequently the NVME speed is slower than it should be. (I could swap it to the fast slot but then I couldn’t use the included mSATA drive.)

    For my use case, both minor issues.





  • The amount of money you save (and invest) isn’t accurately depicted with this though. Living expenses don’t necessarily grow with take home, if you keep lifestyle creep to a minimum.

    So what this means is that if you make $100k and save $10k/year, if you start making $200k you can save the same $10k/year, plus the entire additional $100k after taxes (let’s just say that’s $50k+). So you doubled your salary but your savings went up 6x+.



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    6 days ago

    “Chain migration” is how many people — myself included — get jobs.

    I went to a very good school, and while I like to think the quality of education is what makes a school “good,” let’s be honest — the value is largely in your connections. Friend lands a good job, recommends you when there’s an opening, and bam, you’re already at the top of the pile of the CVs (better yet, they’re the hiring manager).

    Friends from school — peers and mentors alike — are a great place to start, if you can. Ask to grab a coffee and chat about their career, and be clear that you’re in the market. Most people are happy to chat (at the very least, it’s flattering).

    It’s the way the world works…




  • I switched my home server from ARM SBCs to a $140 N100 (16GB) and honestly it’s a real improvement.

    I love the original concept of the SBCs — affordable and efficient, with hardware acceleration for compute-heavy tasks. But the reality for me lately has just been more trouble than it’s worth, and running a mainline kernel on x64 is such a better experience. (I’m mostly griping at the Orange Pi I had — RPi tend to have better SW support.)








  • Exactly — this is ~10GB every 6 hours (which is probably a reasonable amount of time to run a backup while not interfering with active Internet use).

    Basically the only backup-worthy content I generate is casual photos and videos, and these are nowhere near that size (Immich database backups also take up a bit but I could certainly be smarter about how I handle these backups).