Congrats on the new gig! Six figures has a nice ring to it!

Here are some tips about salary negotiations:

• https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1392090746988208128?lang=en
• https://www.getrichslowly.org/salary-negotiation/
• https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/equity-for-software-engineers/
• https://github.com/petermekhaeil/salary-negotiating

Here is what I listen to (I also work in DevOps):

• https://2.5admins.com/ - 2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every week we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
• https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-morning-brief/ - Chief Cloud Economist Corey Quinn goes through the torrent of news about Amazon’s cloud ecosystem and strains out the noise. Then he takes what’s left and gently and lovingly makes fun of it.
• https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/ - Every week, listen to host Corey Quinn interview domain experts in the world of Cloud Computing to discuss AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud, and how businesses are coming to think about the Cloud.
• https://latenightlinux.com/ - Late Night Linux is a podcast that takes a look at what’s happening with Linux and the wider tech industry. Every week, Joe, Félim, Graham and Will discuss the latest news and releases, and the broader issues and trends in the world of free and open source software. Expect drinking, swearing, strong opinions, and Félim being trolled about AI and the cloud.
• https://linuxactionnews.com/ - Stay up to date on the latest news and developments in Linux and open source. Chris and Joe bring their experience and perspective to the week’s events.
• https://isc.sans.edu/podcast.html - A brief daily summary of what is important in cyber security. The podcast is published every weekday and designed to get you ready for the day with a brief, usually about 5 minute long, summary of current network security related events. The content is late breaking, educational and based on listener input as well as on input received by the SANS Internet Stormcenter.
• https://changelog.com/podcast - Software’s best weekly news brief, deep technical interviews & talk show.

Lemmy.world is run by an actually competent admin who has experience running other Fediverse software.

https://lemmy.world/u/ruud

I would say the UPS tier list is:

1. Eaton
2. APC
3. CyberPower

I highly recommend you watch this video by Lawrence Systems. It’s long, but worth the watch.

PSA about CyberPower. Your mileage my vary.

Also, some APC software now requires a license (not sure if this is home or business). You can use NUT as an alternative.