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If you absolutely insist on narrating my posts for tiktok (which I'd prefer you didn't for the record) please blur my username and pfp. Pleaseeee.

Sorry that this isn't hate mail as requested, but; what do they even put on the CompTIA certification exams? I've been in IT for technically like 10 years since college with zero certs to my name and am thinking it might be worth stuffing one under my belt (or not, if I've gotten this far without, I even have "manager" on my name tag!) but I have no idea what exactly the cert even covers. And also Five Hundred United States Dollars??

IMO, the triad is pretty easy (A+ Sec+ and Net+) if you've been in the industry this long I hesitate to say theyre worth it, but I also wouldn't say they're not worth it. I think I'd recommend them to someone trying to get into IT since it shows a fundamental understanding of ITIL concepts, and since I did get those certifications I'm now stuck getting a new one every three years lest I lose the ones I've attained 😭

They have the exam objectives available (but they're kind of buried tbh) here are the exam objectives for the A+

https://www.examcompass.com/comptia-certifications/a-plus/core-1/comptia-a-plus-220-1201-exam-objectives.pdf

If you do pursue these certs, I would highly recommend Professor Messer on YouTube, he's got really really great videos on YouTube that cover everything, has a podcast where every week or so he goes over a bunch of questions and offers pop quizzes, and I would recommend shelling out the $50 for his practice tests. My metric for knowing I'm ready for a comptia exam is whether I can consistently score 90% on a Messer exam (they're really faithful to the content and style of the actual exams without exactly replicating the questions). He even offers discounted vouchers (hence why mine is the low low price of $500 instead of the actual price, $600.

Should you pursue these certs? I'm not going to say yes. Should you not pursue these certs? I'm still not going to say yes. I feel like they're great if, like me, you dropped out of college twice and started working in an organization doing IT adjacent work without the IT team giving you the time of day to actually switch into that work directly. I got my certs because I was supporting doctors with the Epic medical records systems, and after getting those certs I became a junior Epic database administrator for a while until I took an ironically higher paying job for a different medical company on their helpdesk lol.

Sorry, word vomit right there, but these certs have been beneficial to me, but I don't have super optimistic opinions on CompTIA certs, and now that I have them it feels a bit like a guillotine hanging over my head every three years because without getting a new cert or going through the very arduous and expensive process of renewing your certifications individually, you lose all of them.

Updating my legal name with CompTIA was a little more intrusive of a process than I'd like, but it was so quick. Sent the request at like 11pm and dude was on the case at one in the morning and got it fixed before 8am today.

Now if they could just charge less than five hundred freaking dollars for an exam

I love the summer, but if the pollen could stop for just a little bit that would be so cool. Tempted to see if I can make it through a full workday on benadryl without falling asleep or telling a user something crazy

Going to be the coolest cat in all the IT meetings

goth-queen

track-maniac

what hellsite is this from where even "stole" is too much for people to handle

utopicwork

Lets go

zoey-nerd

@kde-plasma-official

kde-plasma-official

I envy those eyelashes

In school I didn't realize I was "weird," but in hindsight I spent a whole lot of time hanging around the kid writing a Runescape-like in batch and the kid who wouldn't shut the fuck up about Homestuck.

Definitely was a weird kid with my refusal to get a haircut and my prized, homemade Blender t-shirt.

stackslip

we're moving to an internet where children would be banned from reaching out for help and friendship online but abusive parents can post their children's every second online to humiliate and expose them for money with no pushback

mousidy

the state does not need to assign you a sex, nor does it need to keep inalterable record of it btw

bugged-ubuntu

For the vast amount of human history they have not, and even in shockingly recent history many many people did not have it recorded with the state, and for those that did it was not nearly as readily accessible as it is today.

estro-boi

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

estro-boi

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

macleod

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

> remote onto a users pc

> open task manager

>"mouseJiggler.exe"

>pretend I don't see that

>kill offending rdp process

>close ticket.

God damn. If there ever were a more perfect vector for a keylogger... But is the paperwork worth it?

Its the worst when I bend the rules but then a larger issue comes to light that puts eyes on my ticket.

"So how did you get her into her iPhone?"

"Uhh.... Well... I um just reset it via intune"

"Without verifying her identity?"

"Well, yeah... But after her laptop shit the bed we can safely confirm that the woman now standing in front of us is who she said she was on the phone, so no foul, right?"

They'd never have known if her laptop didn't shit the bed.

Spent three years being lazy and now if I don't pass this cert exam in like two months I'll lose my comptia certs. Not doing wonders for my chill attitude necessary for taking a test.

I can only aspire to be this scrungly

My girlfriend has been making me want to develop games again, but god, my real programming skills have atrophied an insane amount. I can script no problem, python is pretty easy for me, and not to brag, but back in highschool I wrote a pretty okay little java game engine for my own amusement, but fuck, I just don't know how to do it anymore.

A few years ago I used Godot a lot to make video graphics because it was easier for me to create complex visuals via code, but its like visiting an alien world now. Hopefully getting back up to speed won't be too painful, I've been really really really wanting to make a lucasarts style adventure game, and I think if I can relearn the rudiments quickly it should be fairly easy to get the fundamental systems in place that I can whack graphics and story on top of.

Very tempted to spin up eclipse and create a new engine again because my brain is fucked up and its easier to wrap my head around janky systems I built myself instead of learning a prebuilt environment.

Maybe I should just grow my hair out again, because clearly I don't have the attention span to keep it neat short. I remember yo get a haircut like every six months so twice a year for a few weeks I have a nice cute haircut, and the the rest of the time I'm spending my entire waking life pushing it out of my eyes.

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