u/noam99

I've been having chronic issues with Spanish subtitles being unavailable or really out-of-sync, especially for Spanish-language movies or tv shows. I have OpenSubtitles, OpenSubtitles 3, and Open Subtitles 3+, and Subscene Subtitles by Dexter21767 addons installed. Are there any addons that provide more accurate and better synced Spanish subtitles?

From 2023-2025 I worked as an IT Help Desk technician in the IT department of a university faculty in the Canadian city in which I lived. It was a great job and, in a way, I stumbled into it. I don't have any formal education in IT, I actually don't possess a university degree. After high school I started working in the Audiovisual/film production industry and that is more or less what I'd consider my "trade". I worked freelance for a number of years but eventually decided the environment was too stressful for me. My first "IT gig" was part time at another university in the city: It was running the audiovisual equipment for classrooms—lectures and webinars and things of that sort. Since it wasn't really a computer-focused role, my experience was pertinent. I really enjoyed this role and it buoyed me during Covid when a lot of the film production industry was shut down. I worked there for 4 years and, with some "IT department experience" eventually managed to get a full time job which was my last post. This also involved servicing classroom technology systems, but a large part of my job was doing Level 1 tech support for staff, professors, and students. As you can imagine, a lot of solutions I figured out through YouTube videos and reddit threads. What was beyond my pay grade I escalated. I gained exposure to hardware maintenance, device deployment, life cycle management, and light-exposure to networking and system administration. I know my way around Active Directory, Microsoft 365, and Intune. Like my work in the film industry, everything I learned I picked up on the job.

After two years, I left that job and moved to another country in Europe where I am now. It was something I had been planning for a while and I made the choice to let the gig go even though, as someone with my qualifications, I may never make that much money or have that type of job security ever again. I've been job searching for a year and feel that my lack of formal IT training is hampering my prospects. I feel like I know a little about a lot of things but don't know any one thing that deeply (other than the AV side of things). I don't really have any exposure to coding or scripting. I'm turning 30 early next year and I don't have an appetite for going to school for a protracted length of time.

I'm looking for advice on ways I can gain some focus on a specific facet of IT—like systems administration—or working towards becoming what many jobs descriptions describe as a "Microsoft 365 expert/sharepoint wizard" (or something to that effect). My goal is not to compete against people for tech-industry jobs. I'm perfectly happy working in an internal IT department of a company or institution, doing similar work as before. What specialties do people view as most useful for this type of environment? What experience do I need to move up from L1 support to L2 or L3 support?

From 2023-2025 I worked as an IT Help Desk technician in the IT department of a university faculty in the Canadian city in which I lived. It was a great job and, in a way, I stumbled into it. I don't have any formal education in IT, I actually don't possess a university degree. After high school I started working in the Audiovisual/film production industry and that is more or less what I'd consider my "trade". I worked freelance for a number of years but eventually decided the environment was too stressful for me. My first "IT gig" was part time at another university in the city: It was running the audiovisual equipment for classrooms—lectures and webinars and things of that sort. Since it wasn't really a computer-focused role, my experience was pertinent. I really enjoyed this role and it buoyed me during Covid when a lot of the film production industry was shut down. I worked there for 4 years and, with some "IT department experience" eventually managed to get a full time job which was my last post. This also involved servicing classroom technology systems, but a large part of my job was doing Level 1 tech support for staff, professors, and students. As you can imagine, a lot of solutions I figured out through YouTube videos and reddit threads. What was beyond my pay grade I escalated. I gain exposure to hardware maintenance, device deployment, life cycle management, and light-exposure to networking and system administration. I know my way around Active Directory, Microsoft 365, and Intune. Like my work in the film industry, everything I learned I picked up on the job.

After two years, I left that job and moved to another country in Europe where I am now. It was something I had been planning for a while and I made the choice to let the gig go even though, as someone with my qualifications, I may never make that much money or have that type of job security ever again. I've been job searching for a year and feel that my lack of formal IT training is hampering my prospects. I feel like I know a little about a lot of things but don't know any one thing that deeply (other than the AV side of things). I don't really have any exposure to coding or scripting. I'm turning 30 early next year and I don't have an appetite for going to school for a protracted length of time.

I'm looking for advice on ways I can gain some focus on a specific facet of IT—like systems administration—or working towards becoming what many jobs descriptions describe as a "Microsoft 365 expert/sharepoint wizard" (or something to that effect). My goal is not to compete against people for tech-industry jobs. I'm perfectly happy working in an internal IT department of a company or institution, doing similar work as before. What specialties do people view as most useful for this type of environment? What experience do I need to move up from L1 support to L2 or L3 support?

If it's not already, y'all should make it a thing.