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NerdWriter:
Can their virtual cards be linked?

It's a Dubai Paypal.

Just checked, You only need to link the checking US bank accounts

Connect it to geegpay or grey account.

Withdraw and exchange. Not sure if you need their virtual cards because I have on both

I saw one that said she agreed to date the guy because they were in tune spiritually, she so loved that aspect especially when they joined hands in prayer blah blah blah anything they joined hands to do works. They got abroad & madam later reveal she abhors him sexually, that she can’t get wet when he starts touching her. The eleribu was now asking for advice whether she should leave him, note she’s told the guy and he’s also been begging her to co-habit at least for some months before she makes her decision.

Lol, women are smart but like I always say, they know not who to mess with. If you like be a gentleman.

Back to shell scripting. The hard part isn’t writing the script, it’s figuring the algorithm first then testing before creating the script. Still easy.

Linux permissions that I thought was easy wan run me street. Had to take a more deeper look when I locked myself out of a file by giving the ownership to another user (chown). It’s more trickier than I thought especially when 2 or more people need to have different types of access to a file/folder

One had to consider sudoers list, user lists/user groups , access rights , shared directories permissions and yourself the admin.

What do you mean access denied ! I created you just now na?

Erm, guy, Don’t tell finance I’ve locked myself and everyone in that department out of the payroll files and only the Gateman and CEO have access. Say it’s temporary maintenance

Look for opportunities and they will find you. Twitter and reddit are treasure troves if you know how to search.

Stumbled upon 3 different intern / training opportunities . Applied to all, let’s see which one would work out. If it doesn’t, I’ll still find others.

Had to review my relationship with one of my close guys. Guy always seems happy when he thinks I’m broke and might need updates from him. Decided to indulge him and he didn’t disappoint, gave me vague details and promised to drop the full process in my dm. Empty air!

This is someone I always tell and drop full details for whenever I see earning opportunities, and check up on, me wey no really send like that.

No problem. I’ll stick with my broke sob stories. Gotten rid of my so called best friends anyway, people tend to hate you secretly if they think you’re doing well/not like them. Think it’s my spirit though & the fact I don’t complain to anyone.

Some are married, earning well more than me yet still hating because I refused to get forced into the same society pressure corners they ended up in.

No be me send you make you no live life on your own terms.

Feeling annoyed throughout this week. Phcn did their worst but once bitten twice shy. My laptop powerbank is always charged. Need to buy a bigger one sef.

Back to my source of annoyance, what’s with showing people how to use AI to solve their problems for free and they still want you to help them do it? Youtube is there, google is there. Still feeling lazy? Ask meta ai or chatgpt. The worst ones are those that studied any kind of computer related courses in uni and completely forgotten some things. Ladies especially.

How will you forget how to install a program? My low tolerance to people like that is starting to manifest. Don’t care if they stop talking to me.

If I’m choosing a team, shit like this is what I’ll look for, can you do your own research? Ignorance is not an excuse.

Women are usually shallow adepts of anything spirituality. Only a few ones ever go deep like a man would. The ones we ignorantly call witches etc

Those ones can really really show you verifiable workings. You will know if you meet them.

The rest just jump on whatever current sm trend from time to time. Ask them deep questions about how it helps their financial acumen or how it has helped them solve any real life issues and you’ll get stories.

FitCorper:
😂😂😂😂😂 I laugh in Urhobo. Bro if you think the spiritual doesn’t control the physical, then you still have enough to learn and gladly you can do that for free by praying for understanding and studying your Bible. Wizardry is real and Necromancy is real. The creator has already set these things in motion and wether you are aware of these laws governing our universe or not it doesn’t stop them from being effective, ignorance is no excuse. Return back to Jesus, Him alone is the way.

You and the poster below misunderstood the OP. As expected. You’re the typical religious adherent so I won’t even bother

I just want say one thing. We have over 500,000 Gods and religions , much more before this our civilization even came into existence.

So you mean Jesus alone is the right one? The christian way is the only right way, the rest are headed for blazes right? So there no other right spiritual pathways for a human being?

In a universe like ours, you think Earth is the only planet with life?

It’s the height of self-delusion especially for a black man. Abrahamic religions are part of the scourges on this earth.

Klass99:
The sentence in bold has me LOL. You dey vex sha! Why don't you just ask for what you want to be pleased and satisfied in the other room?

In a symbiotic mature relationship where you treat each other well & try to understand your partner , what you’re saying will work. You wouldn’t even need to ask sef.

No guy that knows his worth likes a woman that lays like a Log of wood or nonchalantly tries to please you.

Best option. Don’t reveal your stand. Blend in. Anything else and they would just find ways to bring you down. There’s a reason most people live in the shadows.

We’re humans but we still run mostly on basic instincts, pack animals scenarios. If you’re different from the pack, expect to get eaten, exiled or hounded. That footballer guy goofed, you think most of his sponsors/his colleagues like the woke nonsense? But nope they have to conform for profit/career sake.

It might seem admirable to speak out against wokeism but look around, its just like speaking out against corruption in nigeria, you’re out-numbered. Not worth getting ruined over when your finance is on the line. Keep your head down, do your bit and find ways to go to places where your ideas are shared or at least tolerated

It all depends on your savings. Would it last you enough till the hotel pays you? What about food? Transport?

Guess the pay is more than the security job. Else think am well.

The problem with women, you give them an inch, they would take a mile.

Help a sensible wife out at home sometimes and she would appreciate and understand why. But see the rest, they would start feeling entitled. Before you know you’re still paying all the bills and doing most of the house chores. No be say dem go still please you for the other room.

I saw a statistics of married couples that shared chores/bills abroad, it was always the guys that ended up loosing because you can’t really satisfy a woman. It’s a trap.

Guys never start what you can’t finish. If you can afford it GET A HOUSEHELP! Nonsense

MacDodger:
CASA is a module on flexcube to manage customers account info the ID is STDCUSAC this should give a better result on google , what you saw on google is the actual core banking interface, they don’t care about aesthetics in the banking industry but functionality. Top banks in the USA also use the same software we have flexcube and finnacle as the main core banking applications . I dabbled a bit into fintech that is how i got to know about this too.

Oh! Thanks for clarifying Bro. Don’t mind the UIUX designer in me, Guess it’s the same with many computing GUI’s, my last physical experience with networking/servers/telecom stuff was years ago in Uni and I always wondered how outdated they looked.

If there’s one thing I have come to understand in this line it is:

‘If it works, just leave it’ especially codes.

Logged in to my zenith bank account to see “CASA Balance migration”

Got me curious. Went online to search, Was only able to see some info on FLEXCUBE & PHOENIX on some obscure small blogs. Google has been quite useless for some years now in terms of bringing relevant info.

If what I saw online is still the current interface of those banking softwares, I smh.

Anyways Gpt told me Oracle Flexcube was available on cloud platforms & could be deployed as Iaas, Paas and Saas.

Seems Opay/palmpay leveraged more on some cloud services unlike traditional banks using legacy systems. That API course really made me understand somethings.

Still, not going back, will only use Zenith to collect local/foreign inflows when i have no choice or need Master/Visacards. Their services are abysmal.

In the above screenshots, The first image is the API explorer, you basically just copy and paste your details in order to create and modify buckets and objects in them. The OAUTH2 tokens etc are below on that form.

The notepad screenshot shows the steps you have to take to do the same in the CLI using curl

Creating a cloud storage bucket
1- One has to create a json file first using nano or vim (equivalent to request body on the API form)
2 - Get the Oauth token from the OAuth 2.0 Playground
3 - Assign your token to a variable "OAUTH2_TOKEN"
4 - Do the same by substituting the command to get your Project ID for Variable PROJECT_ID
5- Then use curl to create a bucket using the above details.


Uploading,copying a file from one bucket to another, deleting the object & bucket
7- Uploaded an image using the cli dashboard function
8- Used gsutil ls & realpath image.png to get bucket name and image.png file paths respectively
8b - Repeated step 4 for both OBJECT AND BUCKET_NAME
8c - Used curl to copy from one bucket to another and also delete objects.

Gave public access to the image I uploaded
9 - Created a json file name acl, added parameters
9b- used curl to update the permissions on the image

So basically you're modifying the acl json file (public access permissions) of the object (image) in a specified bucket (BUCKET_NAME) while authorizing it with your gmail account (OAUTH2)
- File parameters
- Authorization
- Content-Type
- File path

No be beans, This section cemented rest API's and RESTFUL API's in my brain. E wan kpai me, make I go rest, watch jude oc videos small.

Get Started with Cloud Storage & Use APIs to Work with Cloud Storage.

I learnt how to create a Cloud Storage bucket, how to use the Cloud Storage command line, and how to use Bucket Lock to protect objects in a bucket. I asked gpt to explain API's for me as usual. The Cloud data object retention/event-based holds & retention modes was also very interesting.

So if I set an object data records retention hold duration for 5 years, i can always update it to 5 months except if it's in Locked mode. Totally irreversible. You can replace object with database, financial, profile etc.

And it was actually easy learning how to find the Google cloud storage JSON API, make sure it was enabled and use the API's Explorer to create and modify cloud storage buckets. Easy innit?

My body calm down after I failed the closing section challenge 4 times You already know why, this time we had to do everything manually using the CLI. I went to lie down on the floor when my brain start to dey pain me then searched for those who already solved it before. Was able to pass it on the final attempt.

Funny thing is I got all the steps right but I made some small mistakes when setting up the cloud environment, things like not accepting the google terms and conditions, slight changes in PROJECT_ID and setting some default authorizations eventually had me crawling up the wall with my fingernails. Lesson learnt. Pay attention to the small details

That Alausa course really put me ahead. I don't have to worry about my physical class, I'm ahead most times anyway and even missing a day or two doesn't affect me.

Anyways, the attention is taken by the GCP essential courses, completed the first 2

-Get Started with Cloud Storage
-Use APIs to Work with Cloud Storage
-Networking Fundamentals on Google Cloud
-Build a Website on Google Cloud
-Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud
-Deploy Kubernetes Applications on Google Cloud
-Develop Serverless Apps with Firebase

So I discovered if I wanted to go the SysAdmin route I should go for RHSCA certification or Cloud Architect if I want to continue in the cloud path.

A quick search on Linkedin jobs and I was like lol.

Changed my location to US and compared jobs. Do you know there was an entry level job in Linux admin that only had 3 applications, something you could easily apply for and get if you had the RHSCA, but it's equivalent in nigeria is looking for heaven and earth

Checked out redhat website RHSCA certification study guide and noticed I have touched almost every aspect except for the last two. Shouldn't be hard to pass for me but don't think I'll be getting that for now. $400

Lol, Don't you think that amount is too much for that type of simple task? You know subconsciously it's a scam but greed ehn.

One hint though: 99% of jobs that take you to telegram are scams

Godspeed001:
Your doing great sir, but if you don't mind my asking, what kind of scholarship is this and how did you go about it? Is there opportunity for people interested in this scholarship?

I get most scholarships offers from tech twitter & telegram groups especially if you follow those who regularly post about your stack.

If you’re interested in one, you have to search for it & apply to many as possible. Alt4africa has regular scholarships for tech stacks

Completed the network balancer section. I understand what load balancers are but the code na die. If I say I understand half of what I did, na lie.
I can read the code but knowledge of the process it undergoes is denied access into my brain for now. Lol, can't escape that documentation las las

And I was right, They are introducing the manual aspect to us first through the cloud CLI, I went back and tried to do one of the sections using the gcloud dashboard and I swear it was far way easier.

Starting a car using the ignition = Gcloud dashboard
Starting the car from inside the engine= Gcloud CLI

Obviously the latter can steal a car because of his knowledge of the innermost workings of the car engine and wires.

This Llona song "Another day another problem" really captures my mood at this moment, facebook ads just dey reject my ads for my business back to back. Reason? Fraud,scam/deceptive practices.

Hiss, dia papa.

Phew! Saved me a lot of time. The time I would have spent reading the documentations (I'll still read them later to get in-depth info) and still not fully not understand shit has been cut short by ai. Love the examples.

Now let me find that AI that summarizes info.

The brain is a funny thing. I took some days off, binged watched some movies on my list. Then tried the kubernetes section again...and I somehow understood it. Even the syntax I was complaining about seems to come easy to me. The - & -- was confusing

I practiced creating a GKE cluster,
- deploying a containerized application to the cluster,
- Then deleted the cluster.

Only thing I didn't understand and reading up now is that highlighted line (container registry documentation), although it looks familiar, I remember it looked like calling up an image resource in html.

Problem with reading documentation is the damn archaic phrased info. My brain is overclocking biko

Chatgpt to the rescue, Now I understand what kubernetes is finally

fobrain:
Nice inside and write ups. It's never easy @ starting but become so much fun @ the end.

Keep it Up. Wish you all the best

Thanks Boss

Anyways, enough of my rant. I'm using 2/3 resources, now I've gotten to the same section in all

Kubernetes. No escape again.

Checked the google cloud essentials also, Set Up Network and HTTP Load Balancers is after the kubernetes sections. Reading the theory is easy, setting it up on the CLI is something else, the template alone na die.

Better get to reading. Understanding how it works is key. I'll sort out the rest on the way.

What Oyinbo considers peanut is life changing money to us here, so if you're highly skilled and still charging peanuts on fiverr/upwork, you're just mad or full blown ignorant. Learn the art of negotiation and make sure you know the value of what you're offering. Most have the money. I once asked for $1500 for a domain name, sold it at $1000. I learnt a lesson that day, ask even if you're doubtful, try.

We have to work twice harder for lesser pay, while our equivalents get employed with the basics abroad. Employers here and even the white ones will exploit you if you're not sharp. In fact na dem scam pass.

Saw a lady get admission to study BSc in a uni, went for IT (Cloud computing) during her second year, they gave her a desktop, laptop, headphones, backpack among many other things and still paid her a substantial stipend. I know it's not applicable to most abroad but opportunities like that abound. Compare that to the sufferhead nonsense we have here

Please tell me how that kind of individual won't achieve a lot faster and more than her nigerian based counterpart who has to sort out his/her training, data, device, power etc bills and still enter the job market to meet nonsense job's and mad employers. No wonder everyone is running, banks are not left out either.

Nigeria is just a quagmire

On a lighter note. I also learnt how to use RDP(Remote Desktop protocol) to connect to a VM windows server.

I'm an IT guy, heard of it, seen it around settings but this is the first time I actually utilized it, Nice. You no fit sabi everything finish. Still prefer ssh.

Made me think of so many uses, So if I have a friend abroad/get access to a server, I can sort out this IP/locations issues wey dey dodge person steps on so many platforms. Yeah ID verification etc still dey but ways always dey.

If you know the amount of survey sites, small earnings sites that are available to most people from the US/UK and what they make but pays peanuts to africans/outrightly bans/doesn't want us, you'll be shocked. One white dude made $7400 just from 3-4 survey sites in 3 months as a side hustle o.

Those that have 2/3 remote jobs sef dey, call themselves over employed

And I'm here Damn

Guess na to keep looking, Some Nigerians are on some of those sites with a go-around but before you go see person wey go share you update ehn. We can gate-keep things die. Don't blame them though. We tend to spoil things

Basically you're recreating your steps in the dashboard inside the CLI

"gcloud compute instances create gcelab2 --machine-type e2-medium --zone=$ZONE"

compute = Linux VM/Windows Server
instance = ec2
create gcelab2 = name the instance
machine type = device specs
zone = us-west-1

I understand it but ah, to remember this & type this out offhand is something else entirely.

Same thing with the setting up of firewalls. Although that one is a bit easier, done it on Linux (ufw) but look at updating a firewall rule on gcloud, I understand if someone prefers to use the dashboard lol

"gcloud compute firewall-rules create default-allow-http --direction=INGRESS --priority=1000 --network=default --action=ALLOW --rules=tcp:80 --source-ranges=0.0.0.0/0 --target-tags=http-server"

Seems we would be using the Google cloud platform for the duration of this course. Seems some parts are cloud newbies friendly.

Well, learning the fundamentals of linux really helped.

Learnt how to navigate around the google cloud lab,
- set environment variables
- create a vm instance
- use rdp to sign into a windows server.

Creating VM instances using the Gcloud platform was similar to that of AWS, but I also had to learn how to do the same using the CLI. Damn
Please how am I supposed to recollect all this codes?

It's like showing you how to start a car using the key (Dashboard), then starting the car from inside the engine which requires you to know everything works (CLI)

Tasks choke ehn, says a silent thanks to AI Even my course videos I put them on x1.75 or x2, extract the info I need and move on to the next. man must chop biko.

I see some of my people still jumping from one stack to the other looking for which one go pay fast, lol. Everything is hard. Nothing wrong with moving around. Just make sure you know the basics instead of being half baked in the process. If I run abroad and get offered a juicy UIUX opportunity, It wouldn't take me 2 weeks to lock back in.


Anything not making me money now or very soon should park, I don't have the time or zeal.

maternal:
With all the instability in naija. How long with it last with a wife and child in naija ?

If he knows what he’s doing. Way longer than abroad.

Else, He & the wife would reach there just to start struggling, doesn’t seems like he has transferable skills also. The only person who will eventually benefit is the child.

Unless he has good chances abroad he’s better off staying. That 26m won’t last at all abroad.