Coding is okay, but the flagship free models usually crush whatever and to have decent memory you need hella VRAM Doc analysis is okay if they’re small, Home assistant isn’t bad but kinda overkill with an LLM when you can just set manual automations, Journalling, gaming, music, DJ’ing, elder care, imagine and video generation, are all relatively bad even on flagship models

Quick overview of searches is fine but I’ll use a free flagship model for that, in depth research tends to not be great

People tend to dislike this, but I LOVE gnome. It runs a lil heavy, but damn it’s clean, smooth, fast, easy & decluttered.

No dot files, no config, and it’s intuitive

Yeah essentially the other tools you had to use API keys, and none of them were FOSS, mostly paid only tools.

This lets you self host both the application interface itself (which can also be an IDE) and use a self hosted LLM

I kinda loved his “you should self host to decentralize from big tech” and “run graphene and Linux to avoid data collection” content, but idk what the local ai stuff is any good for

Tbh I just fanboy any FOSS company like that

Y’know what, I never thought about that! I just figured I had to put my verbatim title on there. I think my current boss wouldn’t mind whatever title I choose either, so it works out for referrals?

Makes sense!

You’re the coolest! AND you used Ai as a quick lightweight researcher, which is what it should be used for. You’re fucking AWESOME! so thanks for your contributions!!

that’s valid, but would you rather spend $8/year on a domain and spend an hour setting it up, or pay a monthly subscription to a closed source plex server?

Also, there’s *arr stack applications for helping non-technical users get set up on your jellyfin server, even helping them get set up with request apps too. JFA-GO is also a jellyfin native option for sending user invites.

more details about use case plz. how much storage do you think you need, how many users, how many concurrent users, is this a node or the entire server, is this the sole exclusive use case, do you not want to add more services later, etc

Do you mean 3 CLI formats? Like bash or fish or whatever?

That’s my concern, I believe I’m likely qualified for and could demonstrate the ability to do a lot of these things, but they’re not on my resume as a full time DevOps Engineer @ Tech Company & Co, so my resume gets passed over before I’d ever be able to demonstrate these things in an interview

Arr stack / media server stuff is more of a background task that I wouldn’t mention or put in a resume, and it’s just a personal use case that I’d eventually want if I’m building a server anyways

Ohhh good move! When you say tier iii roles, though, I only have about a year’s experience as a systems engineer, although my boss would let me change my title if I want. Should I list myself as a software engineer or computer engineer instead?

Thanks! I’ll look into garage

Thank you! I know a chunk of the *arr stack isn’t useable anymore.

I’m trying to get the resume experience so that I can actually land an interview! I’ve gotten an offer from every job I’ve ever interviewed for in my life (mid 20’s) but I can’t seem to land DevOps engineering interviews :./

Thats a long list of things to cover, how much free time do you have?

a lot? I’m working about 30 hours/week + wrapping up my undergrad in Computer Engineering online, but should be done with that this year. With that in mind, I need to get as much viable experience as possible in between now and graduation so that I’ll actually be qualified when application time comes

I’ve set up my server before as a remote desktop running Ubuntu, but essentially didn’t really use it other than tinkering. Then I set up a NAS, then nuked it and set up Proxmox + Ubuntu server and would just SSH into it to tinker.

Now that I’ve played the game and I’ve seen that i can do it, I want to dive in the deep end of what enterprise grade stuff should feel like. In terms of certs, I’ve done a few AWS courses from AWS but they all seemed pretty… useless? Almost entirely common sense information from the beginner certs and I learned nothing. So I gave up on that and will be aiming for project experience instead.

upon further review, I think I’m going to just set up everything in Grafana due to the vast utility it provides and it’s enterprise capability and adoption. Any thoughts on replacing a purpose built homelab dashboard with custom built grafana dashs?

Ahhh that makes sense! I think I’ll just search for some of the other music alternatives mentioned in this thread

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