Ohh that's super exciting. I haven't realized Microsoft made one.

Okta's offering was garbage last I attempted to poke it. And 3rd party IAM tooling can be completely hit or miss (and let's not even start about LDAP over the web...)

There is one last major bit once you have RMM and EDR in place - centralized identify. Until Okta, Ping, Azure, and Google all have a pam module that allows for remote identity management without depending on LDAP, enterprise endpoints are restricted to desktop/server machines (or orgs where you can get a waiver and only have local login).

Two thing to add. First slightly older eggs peel better (aka what you get from the supermarket). Second: use the ball of your fingers not the nail to avoid ripping up the white.

I use the same soap for washing my floors as for washing me. However I don't use it's toothpaste function. Dr Brokers is amazing.

And fiber optic cables!

IMO there are two main Linux camps, and most users fall somewhere in-between. Rolling OS lovers who want to tinker (eg Arch). People who want stability over everything (eg Debian).

The only truly wrong answer is paying for RHEL.

Others have linked Wikipedia, but Stanford has a great repo of philosophical thought that you can read. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberty-positive-negative/

I'll keep this short and sweet.

The two hardest job interviews in IT are getting into the help desk, and getting out. Assuming you want to climb the ladder (it sounds like you do), does this new role set you up to get out of general help desk type roles or not?

Oh as for certs. One or two is useful if your trying to jump up rungs without experience. That said your get past HR and land with someone like me who won't even spend 20 seconds looking at your certs in the interview.

Oh God. Story time.

I had an important CICD pipeline that published a dinky little web-thing that was important for customer experience. The first line of the final docker file was from company-node:base. I had all the source code. I had all the docker files. At no point was there ever a container named company-node let alone a tag of base.

The one and only version of this container was on the CICD server.

Casks are as a rule GUI applications. So if you want to install Firefox with homebrew would need to install it via a cask.

It's not going away. But I could see someone smart figuring out isolation.

Frankly it all three are logical next steps. With the way windows is going, valve needs to decouple it's store from the windows dependency. The deck was the tester, now we get the not so cheep next generation