Category Archives: Technical

Easter 2025

Posted on April 20, 2025 by larry

Just needed to chill a bid, weather did suck. I just wasted time most of the day watching Youtube. But I did get the zigbee coordinator working on whit will be my mom’s home assistant instance. Here is what I … Continue reading →

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Good Friday 2025

Posted on April 18, 2025 by larry

As I post there are about 2 more hours left before midnight. I am still going strong though with the fasting. But it has not been an idle day, I embarked on upgrading an ancient Mediawiki circa 2016 to something … Continue reading →

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Back From The Past New Shoes

Posted on April 17, 2025 by larry

Wife and I went to Road Runner today and we each got two pairs of shoes. I been rocking Brooks Glycerin GTS 20s the past few months (Recall I got two pair from Outlet store) This time around I got … Continue reading →

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In Need Of A Permanent Lab

Posted on April 16, 2025 by larry

I am thinking of rebuilding the mobile lab and making it permanent. Not sure what is going on but it is not connecting. I think I am going to have to connect a monitor and keyboard to see what the … Continue reading →

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Planning Trip

Posted on April 15, 2025 by larry

Recall April 2 I was planning a trip to Molokai to do some work. One of those things was a Home Assistant install. Today I got my tickets and purchased the UPS. I have not posted on the box itself … Continue reading →

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More repairs

Posted on April 14, 2025 by larry

Got another thing that broke recently fixed, my kodi box. Purchased an extra box this weekend and got it build today. I imported the config from the old box but it didn’t look quite right, I had to recreate the … Continue reading →

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Chair of Theseus

Posted on April 12, 2025 by larry

Recall this chair I purchased in 2021? New Office Chair Which broke in 2023 Chair Can Be Fixed It broke again Going to replace enough parts that this will be a new chair. Got the parts in, unfortunately we could … Continue reading →

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Dead Kodi Box

Posted on April 11, 2025 by larry

I had a Dell Optiplex acting as my Kodi box to play videos. Yesterday (I did not know it when I posted) it died, mostly like likely done in when the power flickered. It was on a UPS but the … Continue reading →

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Kickstart Rocky 9 KVM Host

Posted on April 10, 2025 by larry

I am putting together a kickstart for a KVM host. It basically grabs a kickstart from the cloud http://my.apolonio.tech/linux/kvmhost95.cfg And builds a KVM host running MATE. Still doing some testing, will do a video. Weight: 342.0

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Couldn’t Sleep Last night

Posted on April 9, 2025 by larry

Didn’t sleep again last night, but wasnt too tired today. I wonder if it will hit tomorrow. I got my new USB card in, looks like it can support an additional 4 ports. Tariffs are big in the news lately, … Continue reading →

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