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Cake day: June 19th, 2023
  • There are the Linux Foundation certs, some of which (e.g. Certified Sysadmin) are well respected, relatively hard to get, and also very expensive. There are some cheap and some free ones as well, but I don’t know if recruiters care about them at all. They are just a formal way of showing ‘I know <thing>’ instead of you just saying it after all.

    Depending on your domestic laws you may be able to deduct them from tax, or even get some kind of government subsidy for doing them. I would look into that if you wanna go after the really expensive ones.

    There is also Red Hat, I don’t know if those are worth it thought. Probably not the worst to have either.

  • I would ask her parents for approval and spend as much as I feel comfortable doing. Which is definitely below 10k, because at that point I would worry about someone walking up and just chopping her hand of (or following us home, maybe slightly more reallistic).

    I think plain gold rings are fine. Otherwise just anything that looks decent. Rule of thumb: Your wedding rings shouldn’t dictate your outfits.

    I just realized you said ‘engagement’, not ‘wedding’. What the actual fuck man.

  • I have experienced both first hand.

    Pixels are much higher quality / ‘premium feeling’ devices, but not nearly as ethically sound or repairable as Fairphones (duh). I don’t know about the latest generation, but I was not impressed at all with their FP5.

    GrapheneOS is amazing if you are willing to spend some time reading into its features and why they matter. Pretty much everything requiring Play Services is just working. /e/OS also has strong privacy features, but to my knowledge they offer less frequent updates, less involved hardening and MicroG rather than sanboxed Play Services.

    MicroG (in the past at least) was much less reliable than sanboxed Play, as the latter even allows for device integrity checks to pass. And I mean genuinely pass, not ‘with hacks and workarounds kinda pass’. You’re only in trouble if you stumble across one of the few apps that use the v2 Integrity API, because that works with Google certified devices only.

    Edit: As for /e/OS upsides: Slightly nicer looking, with a slightly nicer featureset out of the box, including a cemare app that crashes phones to this day.