u/NeedleworkerOwn9723

Hi there,

I have this old retina Macbook Pro 13 inch late 2013 - https://support.apple.com/en-us/111946 I already upgrade my primary driver to be M series MBP now.

This old MBP will be secondary/spare one to learn something (mostly Linux - I'm working in Software but I'm shifting myself to be DevOps/SRE for now)

I'm not new to Linux and I know some way around. But anyway, just want to know about a good distro with less headache on my rMBP as I heard about Wi-Fi and Bluetooth that are not working out of the box.

Personally, I love many "hardcore" distro like Gentoo and Arch, but I feel if it is something too headache, time consuming, and not something that using in actual corporate environment like Ubuntu, Debian, and RHEL (Fedora).

I have my homelab with i5 8th Gen CPU, that install Gentoo just for fun, with quite time consuming for compiling all the things. I'm not sure that would be 2 or 3 times with Haswell CPU on my rMBP.

I would love to install Desktop Environment on rMBP too, probably would pick something that has many games (just casual game), my ideal one would be KDE Plasma.

Any one has any experience with rMBP 13 inch late 2013 (Macbook Pro 11,1) ? Could you please share experience and help me pick distro for my mac?

Thanks very much.

An immigrant here, have been living in Sydney for 10 years. There were many times that I dealt with these people on the phone or even sometimes on the street.

As a very polite and shy Asian person, I’m quite a bit uncomfortable to say like “No, I’m not interested” unless it is obviously the stuff that I’m not interested such as fundraiser (I donate on my own), health insurance, etc.

For scammers that randomly called on my phone, normally I did a prank like to made them scream - keep repeating that I can’t hear them and tell them to speak louder and louder.

But then, there are many cases, that I started approach on my own, and I have legitimate interested in that products.

Recently, my work just introduced car novated leasing, and I made a quote on the website. He called me back with details and we had a conversation which very useful in my decision.

However, it seems like he was pushed to close the deal (might be commission incentive). I just need more time to made decisions, while I don’t want to ruin relationships as I might need to deal with him again if I want to make the deal.

Then come to my question, how can I refuse him politely? Normally, back in my country, I just said like “I’ll call back later” which it is indirectly implied that not interested. But here, normally, he will ask back something like “when is the best time I reach out to you again?” And I just have no answer for this.

Sorry, it might not that Australian related, it might be kind of language problem related, but still wondering how usual Australian do this for this case?

Cheers.

I'm in IT industry. I have been looking for a new job for a year. I wasn't that active last year though (applied for only 10-20 jobs), hence, the calling back rate wasn't that good.

Anyway, I stopped applying jobs for a bit because I don't know what I really want to do with IT, I don't want to do coding anymore, especially with the AI Era that competitive is quite very intense, and the bar of entry is rising, including grinding medium to hard Leetcode.

I just found myself after I played with AI (yeah, I need to adapt into it), and also when I am playing around my homelab server and infrastructure as a code tool like Terraform and similar tools. It's like the flame coming back to myself, after I feel tired and fatigue with IT careers for many years.

I started applied for DevOps/Infrastructure/SRE roles again last month, still, calling back rate quite really low comparing to when I applied for a new job in 2022 that I got a call almost everyday when I applied for something.

Recently, I saw one of colleague at work is leaving for a new company. Normally, I would happy if people who deserve better place are leaving - like earlier this year, I saw one person with quite expertise in C#.Net, and another person who has 10 years experience of Python are leaving, which I really cheerful and congratulate them.

However, for this person, it is quite surprising and a little bit hurt to myself, because literally, he doesn't that competent in my opinion, something like, our system mainly on Linux, but he seems to not that competent in Linux.

Even many management level complain a lot about him too as per briefly hearing and chatting with my closest manager.

Also, what I observed it is like he didn't initiate to study or research by himself, but rather keep asking someone else, which actually, I feel it quite doesn't work within IT careers, but I might be wrong.

Anyway, that comes to my question, how can people (especially in IT) get call back and interview these days?

It's like, majority of job applications that I submitted were ghosted. I don't mind about rejection, but just only want a chance to come for an interview, or any technical assessment.

Recently, I had only 3 interviews (Software, Developer roles), which I really not good at and got rejected, which is fine, these roles not in my target anymore.

Also, I got recent interview in SRE role, which alright, I got rejected, but it is about I have lack of experience and not matched their requirements rather than I am quiet or cannot grind the interview comparing to the Software roles.

Like, I really don't know what they are looking in a candidate for IT roles these days. Any idea that your guys might want to suggest?

I have full working right, Australian citizenship. I'm an immigrant though (not Indian, from a popular tourist country that Aussies visited the most and Jetstar is flying to that country)

Thanks very much