I went on a date with a girl who said she was going to school for communication.
We were at a bar and grill, so I misheard her and started deep diving into networks, fiber, PTP and OTA, my favorite switches and routers, why I hate and love Cisco, but why I prefer Brocade and Ruckus, was even starting to get into AM and FM when she finally stopped me:
not communications, communication. Like, you know, talking.
Oooooh. That’s cool.
And somehow I saved the date and we were together for a good five years.
Didn’t even get to satellites. She did really appreciate that she didn’t have to pay to have her macbook repaired, or any other IT shit.
I just really hate the mass illusionists who fuck up the world in defense of the status quo. I am absolutely sick of clever people mediating perception to defend the privileged.
God, I agree so hard. And they rename shit rather than sticking to IEEE standards. And while GSM3 is free, the firmwares aren’t.
It is cheaper to buy a $100 48 port brocade off eBay than a $5000 24 port that then requires you to pay to learn how to use it.
Cisco is the network devil, as well as Fortigate, Juniper, and Sonicwall. Ubiquiti is almost getting to be as bad but in a different way: let’s make shit so user friendly that CEOs love it, but user unfriendly so that network guys are like, "dude, this should be fucking simple! I have to dig into all these menus and then find the field buried in a pretty format.
“Just give me the terminal. Oh, I can ssh in but I don’t have sudo. Nope, you need to use the convoluted web UI to so that.”
As someone who wants to get into networking and also doesn’t want to give Cisco money, what do you suggest I do. I currently have some of the comptia certs (net and sec). With my 2-3 years in IT (workjng with networking and servers), how can I improve myself to get another job?
I went on a date with a girl who said she was going to school for communication.
We were at a bar and grill, so I misheard her and started deep diving into networks, fiber, PTP and OTA, my favorite switches and routers, why I hate and love Cisco, but why I prefer Brocade and Ruckus, was even starting to get into AM and FM when she finally stopped me:
not communications, communication. Like, you know, talking.
Oooooh. That’s cool.
And somehow I saved the date and we were together for a good five years.
Didn’t even get to satellites. She did really appreciate that she didn’t have to pay to have her macbook repaired, or any other IT shit.
propaganda
What?
The common term for “Public Relations.”
I am not asking what your definition of propaganda is. I am saying I am missing your frame of reference.
She doesn’t do propaganda. We would have never, ever dated. She ended up working at a hospital.
So I guess raising awareness for women to check themselves and how to for breast cancer (literally what she did) is somehow now propaganda.
You don’t like boobs and human lives? Are you one of those anti-breast-checkers? Breast cancer denier?
Well, I am drinking the kool-aid, Alex Jones. /simply being facetious, not mocking you, so please take no offense.
So I do computers/networks/programming, and I have a big white board in my living room.
She was finishing her bachelors and I came home one day to find she wrote “I am so sick of talking about talking!”
I didn’t erase it. Just worked around it. And I would point at it anytime I had to repeat myself. I am obviously a charmer.
But we aren’t together now, actually, because she didn’t want children and I did. So it goes.
I… well, it’s good that you got some of that out.
I just really hate the mass illusionists who fuck up the world in defense of the status quo. I am absolutely sick of clever people mediating perception to defend the privileged.
Do tell me your opinions on Cisco. My work is somewhat adjacent and sometimes there’s an overlap but I know very little about it.
Overpriced. Overrated. And I hate dealing with their licensing.
God, I agree so hard. And they rename shit rather than sticking to IEEE standards. And while GSM3 is free, the firmwares aren’t.
It is cheaper to buy a $100 48 port brocade off eBay than a $5000 24 port that then requires you to pay to learn how to use it.
Cisco is the network devil, as well as Fortigate, Juniper, and Sonicwall. Ubiquiti is almost getting to be as bad but in a different way: let’s make shit so user friendly that CEOs love it, but user unfriendly so that network guys are like, "dude, this should be fucking simple! I have to dig into all these menus and then find the field buried in a pretty format.
“Just give me the terminal. Oh, I can ssh in but I don’t have sudo. Nope, you need to use the convoluted web UI to so that.”
As someone who wants to get into networking and also doesn’t want to give Cisco money, what do you suggest I do. I currently have some of the comptia certs (net and sec). With my 2-3 years in IT (workjng with networking and servers), how can I improve myself to get another job?
Its hard right now. Fortinet is one of my favorites for hardware. Tailscale for SDN. Ruckus is underrated.
Edit: For a career move, do Tailscale.
Do you recommend fortinet nse certs?
Nice, I’ve actually been using tailscale in my homelab
Who _doesn’t_have shitty licensing?
I loved Cambium, buuuuut they just got fucked.
Proprietary network protocols
e.g. VLAN trunking.
If you use Cisco anywhere in your infrastructure, then you kind of need to use it elsewhere.