Cisco offers a whole lot of free online training as well, on several different websites.
Its kind of a pita to get access in the first place, but its definitely free, comprehensive, and starts from the ground up.
And of course, they have paid training options on those same sites.

Well … How much do you want to learn? How serious are you?

If you want to know networking, the authority is Cisco.
I’m scheduled to take my CCST Network exam tomorrow. That’s an entry-level Cisco cert.
I’ve been studying for about 3 months. Wish me luck …

Junior NetAdmin Cert
The CCST training is online and entirely free.
https://www.netacad.com/career-paths/network-technician?courseLang=en-US

Access
You’ve got to jump through some hoops. You need to create an account and go through some verification.
They need to figure out if you are ‘overseas’ and whether you should be able to download encryption products.
I think its probably easiest if you use your work email, that’s what they are really looking for.

Cisco U
There’s a shit-ton of free classes at Cisco U as well.
Most of those are not directly cert-related, but a large amount of them were created for people studying for the CCNA, so they are certainly helpful. There’s all sorts of rando training, keep ya real busy. Here’s one I’ve started.
https://u.cisco.com/paths/understanding-cisco-data-center-foundations-20705

Lab Environments
The whole study program uses Packet Tracer for the labs, which you download from them.
I also got a copy of Cisco Modeling Labs running. That was a bitch, had to shoe-horn an OVA to run on Proxmox.
And I got an older edu copy of the Cloud Services virtual router, if there’s anything these other lab environments can’t handle. (This version can be freely downloaded … csr1000v-universal9.03.12.00.S.154-2.S-std.iso)

I prefer to think we are all shrinking as the universe’s energy runs down. That makes more sense than an infinite space expanding.
But that’s whacha get when internet morons like me comment on cosmology. :]

Do ya get the feeling he’s stirring some shit?
The glee with which he states his truths and challenges the reader to defy them…
That’s performative. You don’t have to act like that just to make a point.
He’s looking to jostle some jammies, as far as I can see.

Look, I love Fallout. I did my best to play 1 and 2. I own em.
I guess I’m doing something wrong. Unplayable. Literally.

While I’m at it … New Vegas is ok. Meh. Fallout 3 was better. :]

Man, I support Ukraine, and I’m all about throwing some mud at ruskis. But there’s literally nothing to this article. The Ukranian president said the other side was weakened. Right. He does that every day. Its his job. Gotta keep up morale and all. This is a nothing sandwich.

Man. I know what they were. I don’t want to review them. Water and my adventurous spirit, aka dumbass kayaker, almost took me out twice. You’re pretty fukin exhausted after fighting for your life. No fun. And then the motorcycles and booze over and over. Right. No, I don’t want to review any of that. Made it through once. Enough.

Well, it was an interesting article, and I agree with all their points. I’m not sure what I expected. The article was a bit more wide-ranging than just a list of facts. Yes, it did predictably start off with climate denialism, but it went other directions too. Worth a read.

Edit … Heh. I’ve rescanned it a few times. I love the way the guy shits on AI on the way out the door. Good work.

More edit … um … this guy’s a freeeak. Love it. He’s got a podcast called Starts With A Bang. He looks like Dr. Robotnik.

Fuk this post.

The impression I got was that this is a long straight thing that is spinning. “14 nearby galaxies rich in hydrogen gas, arranged in a thin, stretched-out line about 5.5 million light-years long and 117,000 light-years wide.”

You don’t have to think about that very long to see something strange. A line spinning around a common point must go slower in the middle and faster on the ends, just to keep up and even be a line of things.

If the whole line maintains a uniform speed, the middle will complete a rotation much faster than the edges, and what was a line shortly becomes a spiral.

Or, that’s the way shit is supposed to work. Unless you’re a galaxy. And in that case, people make shit up to explain your non-Netwonian dynamics. There isn’t enough info in the article to understand if they are implying a vast halo of dark matter to support this rotating structure. Christ. Something that big, spinning, with lobes, would send out gravity waves. The whole set of ideas here is just a fraught mess.

This is the most disturbing thing I’ve seen on Lemmy. Like, oldskool I need eyebleach disturbing. Gawd. Why.

I think I’m gonna start working now. You’ve disgusted me that much. I’m gonna stop screwing around and go work. Bleh.

Well, the more of youtube we import … the more of youtube we import. Part of the reason we aren’t flooded with crap on the fediverse is that we are too small to matter. And perhaps we are small enough to effectively police our own. So … why would we want to import youtube at all? Bigger is not better.

That’s not really true.
You came off combative with an attitude right from the start.
You got smacked back down repeatedly.
Certainly some of it is because of your opinions, but mostly it was because you’re a jerk.

It’s also really good at making humans dumb. Can you tell us more about that aspect?

That’s a link. They also call them URLs. We learned about them in web class, back in the stone age.

wat

I’ve posted here and had it deleted. So I don’t bother.
The instance I’m a member of had an unused selfhosting comm, and I started using it. Other people did too. Thanks for the shout out.

Damn. It took me 3 paragraphs to say that. Good job.

Ok, I quibble with much of what you just wrote, but your first line contained a lucid point.

In essence, you propose that a federated monetization scheme would direct the bulk of the pie to the participants and not to the big corporate interests.

Now that’s a damned interesting thing to consider.
I think its obvious that it would/will go awry. Any time you get non-profits screwing around with money, somebody figures out how to steal it.
But if even a bit more went to the participants and paid for infrastructure, that would be a positive thing.

But again … non-profits and coops never handle money correctly. Watch this get all the way to the goalpost and then swoop, it all gets handled with GooglePay. Its doomed. DOOM.

Youtube was a lot more fun before it was flooded with professionals out to make a buck on advertising. This thing you seek … it is not good.