Lol wut?
I currently get paid in the bottom 15-20% for my role + experience in my region.
I received a "raise" (effective pay cut) a few weeks ago that was lower than the base inflation rate, dispite all the work I had done for the company and my great reputation with my prior manager and the employees there. (My company got bought out by a shitty competitor last year, the new management and policies suck)
So guess what? They are getting bottom 15% quality work, which is hardly anything. If they want to bring me up anywhere near the average wage in my area, I'll start performing like it, but until then, I'm having fun bringing my personal laptop into work, playing RuneScape, watching YouTube, working on a side business, getting coffee constantly, and just roaming around "checking in with users." Oh yeah, taking 1.5 hour lunches is fun too. ๐
Instead if 40 days, let's try 40 months.
Linux Mint OS, QBitTorrent for the client, Proton VPN for the VPN with qBitTorrent bound to only that interface and port to ensure no IP leaks.
Works Awesome.
As somebody who works in IT at a Windows-only environment, I know exactly what you mean.
I have to fight with Windows on a weekly basis. Driver issues, firmware issues, software crashes/lockups, performance issues, etc etc.
Just this week, I have two users experiencing issues with their monitors. Identical enterprise grade laptops, identical drivers, identical docking stations, all totally up to date on Windows 11. Their old Windows 10 computers worked fine. Still trying to figure out what's wrong.
Sounds right to me. Here's a link to some useful Tailscale documentation that helped me when setting up my own home lab: Tailscale Lockdown UFW
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Do you need to access the rest of your network? If you're just using that machine as the file server and gaming server, just run Tailscale on it, that way only that machine is accessible.
That being said, as long as your server is locked down to only allow connections from outside via your Tailscale network, then you shoukd be pretty safe. Your point of failure becomes the security of that netbook, if it becomes compromised, the attacker has access to anything on your Tailnet too.
Make sure you implement 2FA for your tailnet, and practice good security for your netbook if you go that route.
I play Lichess on my GrapheneOS Pixel6a, works well. Same with Signal, Firefox with several mobile browser extensions.
Bitwarden, NewPipe, Tailscale, Duolingo, Uber, Discord, Matrix Element, all the Proton mobile apps, Backblaze, etc etc.
Pretty much every app I try works flawlessly. On rare occasion I'll experience minor bugs, and twice I've had to use GOS's extra privilege mode to get an app to work.
Overall, Love GrapheneOS and I'll use them as long as they are around and making an awesome alternative to Google's garbage.
For what it's worth, I'm strapped in right next to you.
I've used two, NameCheap, and PorkBun.
Hated Namecheap, would never use them again. Janky pricing, tons of email spam, terrible UI.
Porkbun has been pretty great. Simple, solid prices, easy to use, no issues for about a year and a half.
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