I know that everything will probably be fine. It's just that I've seen so many people despairing over voice training. I don't want to feel despair, I want to be happy, so that always makes me worry a little bit. I'm willing to put in as much effort as it takes, so fingers crossed I do well. :)
Echoing @LoamImprovement@beehaw.org, I don't anymore. My second biggest priority for the future is getting the fuck out of this country as soon as I have enough IT experience to find work overseas.
I'm okay. I was super tired toward the end of last week, to the point where I ate PTO on Friday just so I could go home and sleep. This week is whatever. I'm starting voice training which I'm super nervous about, and other than that it's the same as always. I didn't even get an extended weekend because I don't work Mondays. 🥹
Curious question: what does the business internet plan get you over the home plan? I'm on Comcast Business right now, but I'm always looking for better options (plus we're looking at getting a 5G failover at work).
I'm doing okay. Last week was filled with a lot of little frustrations, but I got through it. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow and, barring any weirdness with my labs, I'll be starting HRT! :D I'm nervous, but also very excited!
Edit: Insert that video of Linus Torvalds giving NVIDIA the middle finger, but replace NVIDIA with Regence.
Easy answer: I don't. My first and last relationship ended about 5 years ago with me getting cheated on, and since then I haven't really bothered. I'm just trying to focus on myself.
The good: my older sister and I went to see my biological dad for the first time in a decade.
The bad: my weekend is over and I'm physically and mentally exhausted.
The bittersweet: I found out from my dad that my baby sister, who I hadn't seen since she was born, was taken into foster care and then adopted by a family in Alaska. I'm super bummed because I really wanted to be a part of her life again. He says he has contact information for the family, but I'm not holding my breath.
Going okay so far. We've had a lot going on this week, so I didn't want to touch any of our critical systems for fear of adding even more shit to the plate for my coworkers. The non-critical system upgrades went smoothly. You can't upgrade from 2008 R2 straight to 2019, so I do an intermediary upgrade to 2012 first (hooray, the Windows 8 start screen!) VMware's mouse driver seems to break during the upgrade, and my RDP doesn't like connecting to 2012 servers, so I have to navigate by keyboard to the file explorer to start the upgrade from 2012 to 2019. There's probably a better way to do this, but I can't be bothered to find it.
I'm in a weird transition phase right now because I deprecated my big boi server when I moved into my new studio. I have a dumb Lenovo NAS with a mini pc that acts as the "brains" of the setup. (I actually need to do a reinstall of my OS because I've been having issues with my Debian setup.) This serves my Jellyfin instance and handles the brunt of my data hoarding activities. I also run a Nextcloud instance, but that's currently running on my cloud seed box while I wait to build a new home server.
My biggest goal for this year is to get my new server built. It's going to be the do-everything server for me. On top of NAS functionality, I also want it to serve a KobaldCPP instance. The biggest challenge there is going to be hardware selection, particularly trying to find a graphics card that has ludicrous amounts of VRAM without bankrupting myself in the process. I was considering doing some home networking stuff, but I really don't need anything more than my ISP's router for what I'm doing right now, and I'm pretty space-constrained since I live in a studio. We'll see, though!
I love working on servers. My home lab is the one thing that I can sit down and actually work on for hours on end. I never really got into software development, probably in-part because my brain is mush, but deploying and maintaining systems is something that I love and am grateful to be able to do as a hobby and a career.
I also enjoy reading and writing, but recently I've had a lot of trouble staying still long enough to get anything done in that department. (I'm jealous of Alyaza's incredible ability to churn through reading material.)
The most important of these is undoubtedly the studio founder Swen Vincke, who still heads Larian to this day - but not only as managing director, Swen also makes creative decisions. Because Swen also owns the majority of the studio - the Chinese publisher Tencent holds only a minority of the shares - Larian is immune to the waves on the stock exchange, to which CD Projekt, for example, is exposed. (Translated from German to English using Vivaldi.)
In our case, there are a bunch of benefits and reasons:
Active Directory (plus certificate services, but I don't personally touch those at all)
A lot of our software here in healthcare is legacy stuff that works on Windows and only on Windows
My boss is used to Windows and is far too busy and old to want to learn something different
Windows Server is generally okay and comes with some handy management features built-in
We do have some systems that are on Linux (Photon OS for VMware stuff, a couple of vendor-implemented Ubuntu systems). We don't really have much to do with these system, though. I'm the only one here who's familiar with *nix stuff, and while I've tried implementing stuff like our Intranet server on Ubuntu Server, I eventually moved over to Windows Server with IIS because it was just easier for my coworkers to access and use.
As for containerization, we have so many servers that do one thing and only one thing. Docker would be awesome, but it's sadly just really not a thing in our slice of the healthcare and IT sector. We do plan to start moving to a hybrid cloud model with Azure, but that probably won't be for a few years.
MangoKangaroo @ MangoKangaroo @beehaw.org Posts 11Comments 291Joined 2 yr. ago
Now there's something I can relate to.
I know that everything will probably be fine. It's just that I've seen so many people despairing over voice training. I don't want to feel despair, I want to be happy, so that always makes me worry a little bit. I'm willing to put in as much effort as it takes, so fingers crossed I do well. :)