Category Archives: Technical

Anker Solix C1000

Posted on October 20, 2024 by larry

Unpacked my Anker Power Station today. Looks impressive, I haven’t hooked up my phone to monitor it yet. But will review it a bit The box could not be sent to an Amazon Locker, it had to come to my … Continue reading →

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Too Loud Too Hot

Posted on October 19, 2024 by larry

My plex media center my be getting evicted. It is pretty loud, there is a start difference in noise when it is off. Worse, is that the heat is still there and drives are getting hot. Great concept bad design. … Continue reading →

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Garage Door Sensor

Posted on October 16, 2024 by larry

Got a new Zygbee sensor It sends a message via Zigbee to Home Assistant and in turn homeassistent sends an MQTT message. Been a long day, kind of quit early, needed it. Weight: 333.2

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Repairs After Power Outage

Posted on October 10, 2024 by larry

Bunch of actions still need to done after the power outage. So far Still want to go physical on a bunch of things, and there are still two more devices that are offline. Weight: 334.0

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Doing Personal Stuff

Posted on October 6, 2024 by larry

Finally got some time to work on some personal stuff. Got my finances to work with MariaDB SQL server, also got nagiosxi working. Did get my walk in too, but did not swim. Weight: 328.4

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Sleep Reset

Posted on October 5, 2024 by larry

Had an unusually long sleep today, I was incredibly tired. Went to bed around midnight and woke up at 11AM. I did go out to lunch after that, cleaned the house a bit, but figured out better ways to do … Continue reading →

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All Parts for New Laptop

Posted on October 3, 2024 by larry

I got all the parts I need for my new laptop, I may upgrade to 16GB of RAM, but for now I got 2TB Samsung EVO NVME that should work and is more expensive than the rest of the laptop. … Continue reading →

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New Personal Laptop

Posted on October 2, 2024 by larry

My new (used) Dell Latitude 7490 arrived yesterday. Remember that Dell 7290? This one is a bigger brother. I will configure it like the other one, but this one will have a bigger hard drive, wanted a smaller 1080P model, … Continue reading →

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Another Power Outage

Posted on September 25, 2024 by larry

Not even a week and there was another power outage. My main file server is showing problems. Hoping it is just a race condition where it booted up before other services were available. One thing is clear, I need to … Continue reading →

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Working On A Saturday

Posted on August 24, 2024 by larry

Can’t say too much because of opsec (Operational Security) but we were hit with a cyber attack. It is fascinating what goes on inside of an organization fighting an attack. Unfortunately I can’t say much, also I need to go … Continue reading →

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