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  • eli@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlLPIC-1 resources?
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    2 months ago

    Ex-hiring manager here.

    We preferred certs that were tied to specific software solutions.

    So the A+, Linux+, Sec+, LPIC, etc. were fine but those are generalized.

    We looked for Red Hat certs, vmware, aws, etc. because that was the software we used.

    Of course general Linux skills are sought after, but less training was required for the specific certs to a certain sense.


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    I used to be a hiring manager for a Linux team(I enthusiastically stepped down because upper management sucks) and we valued tech certs, especially if you could talk the talk.

    We had dudes come in with degrees in CS or Cyber and had zero command line knowledge. Of course there were more knowledgable folks but… yeah. Degrees weren’t required either just “desired”.

    We never required, but definitely listed specific certs that were relevant like the RHCSA. However, if you had like the A+ and some years of help desk experience we’d interview you and we got some good hires that way because they hadn’t learned bad habits by then like some…more experienced applicants had.







  • I’m about to make the switch myself. I have a Pixel tablet and a P9 Pro. I swapped my tablet over just so I can test things out. I want to deGoogle completely. No play store.

    So far I’ve had to make a list of all my apps I have on my phone and go one-by-one seeing if there’s an apk for it somewhere outside of play store, and if not, then if there’s an alternative app, and then website or PWA it is.

    I’ve come to realize I have a lot of unnecessary bullshit on my phone to begin with. Think I’ll make the switch this weekend, just need to find a few more alternatives to specific apps.




  • It’s hilarious how Apple was caught off guard to begin with.

    Just going off of the triangle of “cheap-fast-good”, the Neo literally hits all three categories really well.

    The majority of standard users only need a web browser nowadays. I’m not sure if it can view/sign PDFs and send print jobs, but I’m sure it can, and all of this covers the 99% use case for a household device.

    I’m the tech guy of the family. Linux nerd, GrapheneOS on my phone, blah blah blah. If my mom needed a new laptop I would 100% recommend the Neo and be done with it. No frills, no bullshit. Shit I want to pick one up just to play around with it because it’s CHEAP, even though I dont like Apple’s ecosystem.

    I’m not sure how it would fare as a college device(test taking, remote screen sharing, proprietary programs, etc) but even for middle schoolers and high schoolers this should cover most, if not all, bases.



  • Read the article, just a bunch of morons who have zero self control.

    Isaacs specifically pointed to the 1990s as a time with “a lack of phones, more personal experience, but also still some of the ease of modern technology.”

    Just this alone shows they have no idea what the 90s were like.

    “Waaah my phone does too much, I just want an iPod!”

    Delete social media, download Spotify and boom, your phone is an iPod again. Or turn off all notifications on your phone and buy one of those iPod clones.

    “Gen Z” acting like the world was better before social media but they have no idea how to function without social media. If they went in the theoretical time machine back to the 90s they’d have a mental breakdown trying to find their way to the local McDonald’s.




  • Just had a conversation at work about using Linux full time. Coworkers asking me what issues I have and what games I can play.

    I mean it’s not all sunshine and rainbows…but I told them my Start Menu opens every time I need it. I don’t have explorer.exe randomly crashing. I can search in my Start Menu for things and they actually come up properly. Oh and with btrfs snapshots I can update whenever and if it breaks I just rollback and wait for a fix. Which has happened…once in the last 5 months of using Cachy+Plasma.

    I feel like I can actually use my computer now. With Windows I dreaded doing updates. With Linux I update whenever I want and it doesn’t fucking bother me at all.