Getting started with thai script, a daunting task because it’s a tone language and my hearing is shot after years of listening to metal at harmful volumes :]
Continuing the painful wait to hear on the outcome of two final interviews this week.. :s
I really really really hope the second of the two comes through as I felt I vibed with the people and the work sounded pretty damn interesting considering the field. Naturally my brain is doing everything in it’s power to convince me I don’t stand a chance. Hurrah. To counter this I’m diving into a bunch of games as I’ve stumbled on a few gems recently to pull me away from cough-SP-cough Tarkov.
I did get, and have already accepted, a new job, but still need to pass the security vetting process. Having been around both the country and the world does not hurry things up, 10 weeks in and they haven’t even contacted my references yet.
Getting up to speed with Microsoft Graph, guess I finally got tired and/or worried enough by all the deprecation warnings in the older modules.
Glad I waited this long, because now things mostly just work, which was not the case the first time I tried.
Doing research as I’m preparing to revive, or rather redo, my derelict homelab. The current one consists of the single surviving NUC with plenty of memory, running vSphere 6.7, and a selection of ansible controlled Ubuntu servers.
This time around I’ll be using an Asus PN51, with less memory and a slower CPU, but a significantly faster NVMe drive. While I do have a full VMware vSphere license through VMUG Advantage, I hate not being able to use the internal NICs, and would also like to see what Red Hat has been up to since RHEL 6, my last experience in that universe. So I’m going with Rocky linux, and will check out Podman so I don’t need all those full VMs.
Will still be using Ansible, which seems to have changed a lot since I last did any active playbook development, and considering the differences between Ubuntu and Rocky, I’ll get to relearn a lot of things =)
As for non-IT stuff I’ll be doing my bike riding a lot earlier in the morning because of the extreme heatwave, bake sourdough pizzas, and set aside the evenings to watch Formula 1.
Went from free Gmail to paid Proton with a custom domain for privacy and ownership reasons, and because good services are worth paying for. Soon got weaned off the Google amenities, and now have unique addresses for most services. The biggest problem so far has been services that won’t let me actually change my email address, at least not without contacting support. Oh, and that one idiot that got upset because “I was hijacking his brand” when using shittycompany@mydomain =)
It has been fun to see reactions when people believe I’ve premade addresses just for them - during a covid test I actually had a doctor’s assistant ask me for a date, which was the first time any sober stranger had asked me on a date since, well, my birth =)
Bought Inventory & Deploy licenses almost a decade ago, real life savers! Also love(d) the whisky shows also known as PDQ & A’s :)
When the pandemic hit and “everybody” suddenly worked from home we had to scramble to get a real MDM, and dropped both Inventory & Deploy for Intune (and Autopilot).
Intune isn’t all that bad nowadays, but now that PDQ Connect is just around the corner (open beta i january!), we’re definitely moving everything but policies and drivers away from Intune and into Connect.
All the nice tech stuff and horrific abuse potential aside, I’d love to be able to just put in a succint text instead of wading through tons of cruft when I only want an image to spruce up my blog post or boring documentation.
Reclaiming 900GB+ of disk space on a Pg server after dropping a JSONB column from a table with 2.5B rows. We’re using pg_repack to avoid extended downtime. After that, burying my work computer in the garden while I take a week off.
Race a dinghy on Sunday morning, and celebrate my birthday in the afternoon.
This is almost exactly how I document any workstation or snowflake or PoC server installation.
I try to also document the how and why of decisions and forks I make, for example that I picked apache2 over nginx simply because I found an out of the box usable hardened config at this or this url, and just went with it, or that rbenv have these pros and cons compared to rvm or asdf.
Getting started with thai script, a daunting task because it’s a tone language and my hearing is shot after years of listening to metal at harmful volumes :]
Thanks for the writeup, had no idea this was possible, a nice surprise.
Also went to visit the thin-send-recv utility mentioned, and can’t say I’m a fan of locking information inside Slack/Discord:
Having a few days off I’m playing with my new esp32 boards, and drinking whisky while watching shows at the Inferno festival.
I loved the original, have to give this a spin!
Updating my devices, and trying to not think about the fact that I’m going back to work on monday after a long and relaxing vacation.
I’ve installed ruby 3.3, want to take it for a spin.
I’ve podmanized Forgejo in my homelab, and started migrating my repos. Need to set up backups to B2 too.
Continuing the painful wait to hear on the outcome of two final interviews this week.. :s
I really really really hope the second of the two comes through as I felt I vibed with the people and the work sounded pretty damn interesting considering the field. Naturally my brain is doing everything in it’s power to convince me I don’t stand a chance. Hurrah. To counter this I’m diving into a bunch of games as I’ve stumbled on a few gems recently to pull me away from cough-SP-cough Tarkov.
Good luck, just hang in there!
I did get, and have already accepted, a new job, but still need to pass the security vetting process. Having been around both the country and the world does not hurry things up, 10 weeks in and they haven’t even contacted my references yet.
Work: Converting former GUI operations to PowerShell scripts with the help of Graph X-ray.
Home: Playing with Godot 4.2, relearning some of all I have forgotten since I spent time with 3.x.
This weekend I’m afk, at the excellent Back in Time Live 2023, a retro game music mini festival in Bergen, Norway.
Documenting my PowerShell stuff so I can eventually hand it all off and quit.
Getting up to speed with Microsoft Graph, guess I finally got tired and/or worried enough by all the deprecation warnings in the older modules. Glad I waited this long, because now things mostly just work, which was not the case the first time I tried.
Going to bike in the forest around a lake with my spouse. Then I will play music and video games.
Now I’m regretting how I spent most of my day ;) enjoy!
Thanks, I did! Hope your weekend was good as well. :)
Doing research as I’m preparing to revive, or rather redo, my derelict homelab. The current one consists of the single surviving NUC with plenty of memory, running vSphere 6.7, and a selection of ansible controlled Ubuntu servers.
This time around I’ll be using an Asus PN51, with less memory and a slower CPU, but a significantly faster NVMe drive. While I do have a full VMware vSphere license through VMUG Advantage, I hate not being able to use the internal NICs, and would also like to see what Red Hat has been up to since RHEL 6, my last experience in that universe. So I’m going with Rocky linux, and will check out Podman so I don’t need all those full VMs.
Will still be using Ansible, which seems to have changed a lot since I last did any active playbook development, and considering the differences between Ubuntu and Rocky, I’ll get to relearn a lot of things =)
As for non-IT stuff I’ll be doing my bike riding a lot earlier in the morning because of the extreme heatwave, bake sourdough pizzas, and set aside the evenings to watch Formula 1.
Went from free Gmail to paid Proton with a custom domain for privacy and ownership reasons, and because good services are worth paying for. Soon got weaned off the Google amenities, and now have unique addresses for most services. The biggest problem so far has been services that won’t let me actually change my email address, at least not without contacting support. Oh, and that one idiot that got upset because “I was hijacking his brand” when using shittycompany@mydomain =)
It has been fun to see reactions when people believe I’ve premade addresses just for them - during a covid test I actually had a doctor’s assistant ask me for a date, which was the first time any sober stranger had asked me on a date since, well, my birth =)
Good old PDQ!
Bought Inventory & Deploy licenses almost a decade ago, real life savers! Also love(d) the whisky shows also known as PDQ & A’s :)
When the pandemic hit and “everybody” suddenly worked from home we had to scramble to get a real MDM, and dropped both Inventory & Deploy for Intune (and Autopilot). Intune isn’t all that bad nowadays, but now that PDQ Connect is just around the corner (open beta i january!), we’re definitely moving everything but policies and drivers away from Intune and into Connect.
Nice for the 27 of you who can afford those, but I’d rather be able to have dual external monitors, and wouldn’t even cry if they maxed out at 1440p.
6K is cutting edge, but there are cheap 4K displays now. For text even a TN 4K panel will be better than any 1440p display.
Sure, but I’d still like to be able to use two of them.
Have you checked out the option of using a DisplayLink adapter? They seem to work fine, but of course it’s an added expense.
24” displays do get a bit small though.
Gotta sell more 14-inch Pros..
All the nice tech stuff and horrific abuse potential aside, I’d love to be able to just put in a succint text instead of wading through tons of cruft when I only want an image to spruce up my blog post or boring documentation.
Reclaiming 900GB+ of disk space on a Pg server after dropping a JSONB column from a table with 2.5B rows. We’re using
pg_repackto avoid extended downtime. After that, burying my work computer in the garden while I take a week off.Race a dinghy on Sunday morning, and celebrate my birthday in the afternoon.
I’m pretty sure that JSONB column is my fault, happy to see you’ve found a way to get rid of it!
Never again
Understandable :)
This is almost exactly how I document any workstation or snowflake or PoC server installation.
I try to also document the how and why of decisions and forks I make, for example that I picked apache2 over nginx simply because I found an out of the box usable hardened config at this or this url, and just went with it, or that rbenv have these pros and cons compared to rvm or asdf.