Category Archives: New Toys

Making Room In Office

Posted on August 2, 2026 by larry

Been cleaning up my office and getting some new ways to organize it. On thing I added to my office was something from Ikea called Skagis, basically a pegboard. Kind of cool. Haven’t done my walk yet, been pretty busy. … Continue reading →

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No Parkrun Today

Posted on August 1, 2026 by larry

Clearly need to recover, if I run outside I risk life threatening breathing issues. I think I am getting better, got some stuff going for me again. Also got a lot of things done around the house, starting to remove … Continue reading →

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Personal Maker Space

Posted on July 23, 2026 by larry

Fell into an interesting rabbit hole today, I want to my personal maker space equipped and organized. Here is what I was thinking (with the help of chatgpt) I have most of these items, but wanted to list them here … Continue reading →

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More Fedora Fun

Posted on July 21, 2026 by larry

Got a lot going now with my Fedora Linux Laptop. Got it connected to my Internal Samba shares and am able to connect to the primary password database. Still struggling with mTLS though, aka client side certs. Office has been … Continue reading →

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Almost Disaster

Posted on July 18, 2026 by larry

I was replacing storage on a linux RAID, I was going to resilver my disks and go from 4TB to 8TB. Disaster hit though and a ran the wrong command and zerod out a drive. Luckily this is RAID but … Continue reading →

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Continue With Fedora Build

Posted on July 16, 2026 by larry

Found out something new about my wifi, the default is to rotate the MAC, I needed it the same so I chose permanent which used the hardware wifi. Also got wireguard working. Looks like there are two ways, wg-quick and … Continue reading →

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PR Tied today

Posted on July 11, 2026 by larry

I did not PR today, but was so close. I basically tied my last one. Daughter said I was moving, felt like it. After that I did a bunch of errands, got a LOT done. Went to Harbor Freight today … Continue reading →

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Really Bad Sleep

Posted on July 10, 2026 by larry

I just could not get to sleep last night. I went to bed at 6AM, I super exhausted. Took a 2 hour power nap and was able to finish the rest of the day. This evening I was able to … Continue reading →

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Fedora Desktop and Laptop

Posted on July 9, 2026 by larry

I am hooked, liking Fedora, this is probably going to be my distro. It uses rpm packaging which I am familiar with and has roots with Red Hat. Going to be playing more with encryption and any password vaults. More … Continue reading →

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My Fedora Laptop

Posted on July 6, 2026 by larry

Got my new toy in today, I admit, I opened it up and started an install of Fedora 44 on it. Here are the specs, a little moderate I got it running with both Secure Boot and an encrypted Hard … Continue reading →

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