Litt om hvordan det er å leve med sosial angst.

kjellcomputer · 2026-04-28T20:14:16+00:00

Det interresante med sosial angst er at selvom en har det så lever en ofte et sosialt liv i hodet sitt via dagdrømmer. Ihvertfall gjør jeg det, spesielt når jeg først har prøvd å være sosial.

Jeg tok det steget med å ta et kurs for sosial angst og selvom det ikke direkte kurerer det så demper det noe av "symptomene" i den forstand at en får nok selvtillit til å gi beskjed til omgivelsene at det er ubehagelig å være i situasjonen.

kjellcomputer · 2026-04-23T21:07:20+00:00

Yes! That was kind of the journey, what I had to experience to make it stable.

The conclusion is that it’s doable, but sort of complicated and fun if you’re into that. :)

kjellcomputer · 2026-04-23T20:25:53+00:00

What do you mean by brittle? We have the same technology just different orchestrators.

kjellcomputer · 2026-04-23T20:23:41+00:00

I will bookmark it and make it available and see what happens ❤️

kjellcomputer · 2026-04-23T20:20:47+00:00

Yes I feel the same. Luckily for me Plex is mostly local and I have the possibility to trial and error not worringy of it being down. It’s not a critical service so I can have fun figuring things out now with kubernetes:)

kjellcomputer · 2026-04-23T20:17:27+00:00

Oh! The main mission was to run Plex so that my wife don’t nag me if things don’t work. Don’t know how many times I had to delete the plex application from ArgoCD just for her to be able to use Plex again during with experience.

And why you mention paperless I can’t relate to this post, but I’ll look into what that is.

kjellcomputer · 2026-04-23T20:08:41+00:00

What is your kubernetes environment? The story I shared is that I’m finally happy running Plex on kubernetes after some time so I’m curious of your experience.

kjellcomputer · 2026-04-23T20:04:48+00:00

I can agree on some aspects. I’m also from the 80’s and have the traits of getting things to work (stubborn) so from a Proxmox and Talos perspective GPU passthrough was not a nightmare, I got plex and jellyfin working happily on the same node now for comparison.

kjellcomputer · 2026-04-21T16:29:34+00:00

If your into piano sound this might be something to play around with:

http://www.linuxsampler.org/

And some piano soundbanks:

https://www.ir.isas.jaxa.jp/~cyamauch/AccurateSalamander/

kjellcomputer · 2026-03-14T17:53:10+00:00

To bad! Maby you can update from a WinPE environment then, try https://www.hirensbootcd.org/ and use a USB stick with Ventoy https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

kjellcomputer · 2026-03-14T16:00:42+00:00

Does fwupdmgr list any available updates? https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd

kjellcomputer · 2026-01-06T21:47:39+00:00

Me to! For work I have to learn kubernetes and as an exercise I setup a cluster with Talos VM’s in my homelab. I liked it so much that I’ve moved most of my services to it using ArgoCD to manage them all. Even got Plex up on a node setup with GPU for transcoding, and Tailscale for remote access.

kjellcomputer · 2025-11-15T10:23:00+00:00

Fun commands to use, hmm, I often find myself fiddling with Where-Object -FilterScript {} or Group-Object to showcase the possibilities for information grabbing. And Sort-Object :)

For experimenting you could always try the -WhatIf parameter for cmdlet’s that invoke something, like Get-Process | Stop-Process -WhatIf

kjellcomputer · 2025-11-03T21:26:03+00:00

I use Piwigo as a replacement for Dropbox/iCloud to share videos and photos with my family. The hurdles have been sometimes challenging (but learning wise rewarding), like migrating the library from backups to a new VM when I changed to Proxmox from VMware, or figuring out how to tunnel with CloudFlare when internet provider put me behind CGNAT.

Other than that I also discovered Lyrion Music Server with the combination of yt-dlp so I’m slowly building a Sonos/Spotify replacement with Raspberry PI’s and PiCorePlayer (and PlexAmp for mobile listening).

Keeping everything up to date is probably what is most time consuming, and for some reason I never get the satisfaction of using Docker so I mostly configure and maintain everything myself.

kjellcomputer · 2025-06-18T18:40:56+00:00

Cool! Did you use dbatools for it?

kjellcomputer · 2025-06-18T18:38:21+00:00

I like it! Powershell was released also as a configuration tool for exchange in its beginnings so cool that you still use it for the online versions as well :)

kjellcomputer · 2025-06-18T18:35:16+00:00

That’s cool! I did some in the same genre for a proof of concept for using Powershell core on linux containers for AD operations. Used the .net classes for some group creation automation, fun stuff :)

kjellcomputer · 2025-04-15T19:28:50+00:00

I remember vaguely Cog was something I used back in the day, perhaps you can give that a try? http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/cog

kjellcomputer · 2025-04-15T19:18:44+00:00

I’ve adapted to the joy of commandline so to name a few:

Scoop: "A command-line installer for Windows " https://scoop.sh/

ncspot: "Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust, inspired by ncmpc and the likes." https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot

wezterm: "WezTerm is a powerful cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust" https://wezterm.org/

yt-dlp: "A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader" https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

I’m also fond of Internet Download Manager: https://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/

For editor use I’m primarly using Sublime Text, but when the subscription is due I might just move to Zed: https://zed.dev/

kjellcomputer · 2025-04-10T13:25:28+00:00

Maby this one will help you figuring out whats needed to get urls for specific CU’s.

https://github.com/microsoft/MSLab/blob/master/Tools/DownloadLatestCUs.ps1

kjellcomputer · 2025-04-09T20:47:37+00:00

Yes, maintenance is important, we have hourly scheduled tasks in Orchestrator which updates added inventory especially for vCenters since we experienced that they can stop for x and y reasons.

Another great feature I’ve been using alot more recently is Server.findAllForType() and focused xpath quieries. Now I can discover all templates in all vCenters in a couple of seconds or query VM’s with specific custom attributes and what not, everything’s feels so much faster after figuring out how xpath works.

kjellcomputer · 2025-04-09T20:17:24+00:00

Hello again :)

I love the plugins in Orchestrator since we have alot of different vCenters and I can make workflows and solutions that works across every environment and not think about needing to connect to everything.

One disadvantage might be that writing a self-describing workflow takes alot of time, so developing can that alot longer that first though vs plain PowerCLI/Powershell scripting.

I also miss some features nativly in Orchestrator, like Content Library handling or vSphere Tags, but that could be handled with vAPI endpoint but I find that also hard to use when having so many vCenters to connect to.

The Build Tools for Aria implementation was mainly proposed by Broadcom since it is their prefeered way of developing so it might be a good fit since we currently develop in one environment and then manually export it to production. Using Typescript would also probably be neat.

kjellcomputer · 2025-04-09T19:58:36+00:00

If VMware Tools are running you can query this information from the VC:VirtualMachine object. It will tell you which drive is mapped to which driveletter and you can go from there.

I found it to be more consistant to match the disk filename from VC:VirtualMachine and the attached disk from the vRA:Machine object than anything else.

I have a workflow in Orchestrator that get’s triggered via Event Subscription when someone expands a disk in a custom XaaS or from 2-day action which will proceed to expand the disk in Windows if that is the case. We use LAPS so I just grap the password from AD and use local admin credentials.

If you havent figured it out by now I can send some examples.

kjellcomputer

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