Category Archives: New Toys

Return To Work From Home

Posted on November 1, 2024 by larry

It has been 2 months, but some of us returned to work from home. Today I got to work from home and got stuff done. Nagios XI is looking promising. Did go to the office a bit to get my … Continue reading →

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Halloween 2024

Posted on October 31, 2024 by larry

It is 8:11PM as I post and there are zero kids that came by. I wish at least 1 kid comes by. In the mean time I am playing with some new toys. Yes that is an ipad with airtags … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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Too Tired To Clean

Posted on August 12, 2024 by larry

A lot of things still need to be done in my office, but too much to do. Just got done at gym using weights On the tech front got a replacement MiFi. Brand is inseego No review yet. Weight coming … Continue reading →

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Bedroom Looks Great

Posted on August 10, 2024 by larry

Not done yet, need to put essential stuff in there, but it had the effect of cleaning out our bedroom and starting from a blank slate. The essential things are in there, now like the bed dresser and my desk. … Continue reading →

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Bad Day to be in IT

Posted on July 19, 2024 by larry

So there was some update for EDR software from a company called crowdstrike that messed with a bunch of Windows machines. This took down a lot of machines in the world. There are reports that this is one of the … Continue reading →

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