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Rented a short serviced apartment in a quiet estate & the rooms were studio big. Selfcon that would cost 1m+ to rent in lagos or 40-80k per day as serviced apartment. Didn’t spend up to 10k. There are expensive places in IB also but you’ll get your money’s worth. Not the expensive asf claustrophobic monkey pen houses common in Lagos.

If you’re street wise, you can have the best of both worlds. Quztan suites , Academy , hotels inside UCH when bar dey or enter Ayotoz if you dey kaku. Don’t forget the women.

Iwo road or challenge/apata for traveling.

Shopright food or Ola mummy / amala skye all with reasonable transport fares. Lagos ehn. By the time you reason fare/stress from oshodi to jibowu/ketu cos you wan save money. You go rest!

I sha ate abula & took night car home. Wish the imbe I exchanged words with on that Ogun politics thread could come & see how the roads have deteriorated badly since his beloved eleyi entered office. Phuls supporting bad governance.

Oyo still has the best roads in SW. Eleyi, Imole & the others are just jokers. Nothing will make me pass Osun at night again. Your vehicle is most likely to spoil around that axis.

Phew! Almost done with the GCP courses. That’s a reduction in stress. Altafrica first semester won’t be hard for those with a comp sci background.

Took some days off, went to IB to chill. The way that city blends urban & local trends together never ceases to amaze me. Ultra modern looking house, ground floor is a local rowdy mess because it’s used by market women.

Make we no lie sha, IB is sweeet to live in if you earn in $$$ remotely. Higher quality of life, less traffics hotspots

Can’t find the screenshot but something like this happened. The child belonged to another man.

Pregnancy draws from so many factors; psychological factors, the emotions of the mother, the environment,The person she sleeps most with ,so many things can imprint. Consider it like a blank state with basic details. There’s a reason so many rules existed for pregnant women in the past in traditional settings. But as usual we’ve forgotten the why and see it as ceremonial stuff.

So yes, the child might look like you but not belong to you. Only DNA can truly confirm.

A woman can also give birth to twins and they belong to different fathers.

Register on Grey, geegpay, chippercash etc.

Buy one of their virtual cards. Fund it with your provided nigerian account details and convert.

All done from your laptop

It’s easier than all this stress. Only bad thing is the exchange rates

Dual boot finally fvcked me up. I woke up on the wrong side of the bed and stupidly decided to vanish my linux partition. Laptop booted into grub rescue! Ha!

And I have a project presentation tomorrow , tried 3 youtube solutions.

Grub rescue (ls, set root;prefix)
Bootrec (fixmbr,fixboot,rebuildbcd & diskpart)
Even directly loading from windows disk partition

None worked, had to go outside and get a bootable flash drive to recover the system. Before I open eyes, it’s 6pm.

Damn, Thank God for AI.

No more dual booting, I either use vm or a separate standalone device for linux. This shit made me remember our project defense in school. Laptop that contained our files/apps bricked on defense morning, Thank God for backups.

And it’s good to have your stuff especially documents stored on cloud services. You shouldn’t have to lose important files if your device fails

Almost thought you were the last born. Too gentle. I would have shut her up with one side look. Won’t sit down & listen to any nagging from any woman whether they mean well or not.
Most don’t understand what men go through daily.

Peace of mind is very important if you must make bastrd money.

You might want to look into monetizing your facebook pages.

https://roadmap.sh/cyber-security

Or aim for the redhat certification
https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/enterprise-linux-skills-path-brief

Or find a reputable bootcamp & join one of their courses.

maasoap:
For the unmarried, that advice not for everyone.
And taking prep daily! That's fvcking insane

I don’t think OP knows such drugs have crazy side effects even when used only once

Abstaining from sex no suppose be number 1

Ogun state is notorious but see that Ibadan ehn. It’s something else entirely. It’s only Ibadan I’ve seen dead bodies by the roadside or dumped on dividers, sometimes missing parts.

That’s the reality in nigeria. Quite sad when you talked about your friends. I know & have the typical asking types but I also have a few who understand friendship is more than financial benefits.

As for spending on hotels, checkpoints, transportation. I understand you can afford it & was concerned about security but you overspent big time especially in lag and Oyo. Seems you ran it alone. Ride sharing is way above most nigerians pay grade nowadays but you could easily have hired.

Plenty of secured hotels in Lagos and Oyo that don’t cost up to that and still maintain decorum and 24hrs electricity. I can’t pay 40k and expect the light to go off or get nonsense water. Most are hidden in quiet estates & not popular, was surprised to meet house of assembly members in an unassuming hotel in Ibadan. Very affordable too. And absolutely no one would ask for a dime. Use google reviews next time or ask sure guys, Try and avoid too high and too low prices, they tend to be shitty from experience. Too popular/yahoo boys hotels also fall into that category.

As for checkpoints, Carry a street wise person follow body next time. Only truck drivers/transporters give out that much. My uncle in US doesn’t give a dime whenever he comes around.

DarlingtonC:
Thanks.

What will pigvest do with the money?

Same thing traditional banks do with your money.

Majority of men will never ever abandon their children. Check well, if they decide to run & cut ties totally, that woman was a toxic entity. If she’s supported by family & won’t let go of the children. He obviously has nothing to lose.

The children will grow up brainwashed and unless they really have strong characters , will not bother to hear their fathers side of the story. Even at that, most children will still gravitate towards their mother, toxic or not. The neutral ones are rare.

Men are really alone in this world. Put yourself first. Nobody sends you

Go and tie him as long as you can deal with the consequences. Just say you want to marry a robot

Lock it up, piggyvest also has that feature.

collect the interest upfront and use that to experiment.

No play with person money o.

Checked the introductory courses on altafrica. Not bad.

Checked my personality type on 16personalities.com. INTJ-A, Lol

So I basically don't send, think stress is the same as worrying- useless most times, try find time to blow trees, chop peppersoup with something cold, after all something must kill a man You see say I no mention woman, peace of mind dey important.

Only thing I slightly disagree with is even tempered. Maybe with age, it used to be simmering hot and most times it's just under the surface. Mostly avoid situations and morons that would let me erupt though. I like to be thorough.

Been here since last week.

Do I understand the concepts? Yes

Can I interpret 90% of the code? Yes.

Can I finish the module successfully? Definitely

But, my problem is, I can't seem to grab the big picture, how does one step run into another? If given a real life challenge, How would I know which steps to take, which services to put up. This isn't something you do once, unfortunately, we're limited to 5 lap practice tests.

Cloud CLI stuff is akin to real life mechanic work aswear. Even on the GUI, the way you navigate and search for so many things is enough to confuse you if you don't have a template or know what you're supposed to be doing.

Load balancing, health checks, url maps connections are convoluted in GCP CLI, still I'm sure the GUI alternative is more easier

Finally. Let me finish the remaining assessments for this current training.

Going to be hard but ideally My plan for the future should look like this.

AWS certification- in the next 3 months
Internship- 6 months
AltSchool -12 months

Paying for the first and last so I can’t afford to waste my money. Getting a good place to intern might not be easy. Comes with a lot of personal costs, especially if it ends up being on the Island

I really really hate lagos traffic!

Spykey:
following

what learning path are you currently following?

Linux > Cloud > Devops

roadmaps.sh has a lot of guides for each path

Load of bullcrap. Please avoid africans like this who think we are inferior due to several so called legitimate reasons. Might not even be a brown person sef

Apart from Internet and electricity, Nigerians are one of the best when It comes to working remote jobs and many foreign employers can testify. We work twice as hard and take stuffs the whites won’t blink at twice.

If you relate, see it as your own personal failings, una dey stylishly demarket yourselves if you don’t know and the foreigners will take full advantage. Imagine a white person telling you shit like, I know the normal rate is $2400 but I’ll pay you $1200, after all it’s a lot in your country. Na this kind jaga jaga talk dey lead to am.

Nonsense

Hmm, Just found a solution to my head breaking course modules on reddit while doom scrolling . Beginner friendly

Updated link is on the first page under resources.

Let me go & rest in peace

We continue tomorrow

So, Where am I currently in my learning phase

That would be
CI/CD (Gitlab)
Containerization (Docker)
Orchestration (kubernetes)
Infrastructure as a code (Ansible)

Done one thing or two in the above but hmmm, Understanding is one thing, practicals are another.

The GCP courses have gotten harder. Starting to think nobody writes those codes I see offhand but either copies it from somewhere or use GUI templates. Especially them Load balancers stuff

Why should I use the CLI when I can just use the GUI to create instances, health checks, templates groups etc. Shogun laye ni?

Anyways, I’m nearing the end of my 3 months training. Need to find somewhere to intern. Might need to move back to lag since cloud computing/DevOps only elicits vacant stares here. Smh

I’m the type who doesn’t mind not getting paid as long as I get value so i need to sort out my finances & take some risks to balance that out.

No suffering and smiling biko.

Got an half scholarship to study at Alt4Africa Cloud engineering Course. Need to start saving ahead.

Must prepare and also get a cloud certification by Dec/Jan

Omo, something must kill a man. Reason one must be quite ruthless in choosing a partner.

Can’t fathom going through a lot, running a business on the side, balancing family issues, trying to understand GCP CLI codes only to log out and be having relationships drama.

But most tech bros are so naive, Damn. Them go chop shege, no be by having only money. Having a kind and mature partner is a blessing.

Got banned over some comments in the politics section. I suppose cuss his entire generation, Hiss!

When will people understand bad governance would touch everyone eventually. Why support it or cover up for it? Especially when you don’t really benefit?

Osaretin Asemota on twitter once told a story of how he almost died in a nigerian hospital due to negligence , The hotel bathroom glass he lodged in cut into his leg (poor quality/no safety precautions), Why won’t he run from nigeria?

Death doesn’t really bother with us because the nigerian government or society would do its work for it sooner or later.

This is not a sane society. But come to think of it, you can’t tell me whoever created this world was a saint. We’re just mini versions of our creators.

It’s a dog eat dog world. And we might just possibly be in Hell already but naija na special section. Lol

Well, practice makes perfection. There are two ways to learn Linux File permissions.

Words nomenclature +-wrx ugo
Number = 777/ugo

wrx means write, read, execute
ugo means user, group, others

So to assign write permissions to a user for a file e.g u+w filename

I prefer the numbers though
4 - Read
2 - Write
1 - execute

And you just add or subtract based on the needed permissions.

So if I needed to add read and write permissions for a user tayo, execute only permissions for lola and read only permissions for 5 other users.

- I simply create a group, add them all to the group.
- Set ownership of the file to the user with the most permissions tayo and the group -

Chown tayo:groupname filename

Then add permissions (4+2) for tayo(u) , 1 for lola(group) and 4 for others(o) in the group
Chmod 614 filename

Easier to remember

Enter ijebu-ode and you will leave with a downcast feeling, that place is in perpetual disarray/poverty. Spits!

We shouldn’t be applauding govt leaders for doing the basics required of their job roles

Wrong, find someone who has sense & was brought up well. Most men are blinded by yansh or crazy nragbu

Nigerians are not anywhere near the real yahoo guys in this world. We’re just loud & ended us as scape goats

Do you know there are government sponsored yahoo? But no, the media won’t ever tell you that

Why? the syntax i specified started with useradd not adduser. Went back and forth before I noticed, little details ehn. Also learnt how to restrict the use of some commands. The tom_admin account for example couldn't run visudo. Else anyone with sudo access can easily access the sudoers file and change access rights.

Now I need to practice how to create a user account that expires in a week. I've understood the 2 methods
- sudo adduser -e date -m username
- sudo echo "userdel username" |at -t date.time

But i want to use the Ansible tool since I have no idea how it works. Jump in headfirst eh innit?

Finally solved a task I've been battling with for hours.
I was to create an account for a Team leader and grant him admin rights (create, del, modify user accounts for his team)

The TL user account I created at first, Since I added him to the sudo group, it could also access even encrypted files with the sudo command which is a security risk.

MetaAI and the info I saw on the web confused me even more. I left it for a while.

Then I noticed it seems I had to pay more attention to the sudoers file info. So I accessed root, then ran visudo and applied what I learned.

Steps:
1. Created a user account: sudo adduser tom_admin
2. Added tom to wheel group = sudo usermod -aG wheel tom_admin
3. Headed to visudo and modified the following: Command alias, User privileges & sudo group privileges

- Created command alias = Basically assigned a (set of commands that can be run) to an alias TEMPADMIN
- Assigned user privilege rights to tom_admin
-Then assigned the ONLY commands tom_admin as a member of the sudo group (wheel) can run with sudo preffix

Basically, dude can only modify user accounts and groups on his own end. Anything else would be met by permission denied: user tom_admin is not allowed to run this command as root on localhost

Funniest thing was when i logged into the tom_admin account and tried using sudo adduser tom2 It didn't work

microlincoln:
I'm glad i stumbled on this. I hope i am not late starting this journey

You're not. Start with linux basics