Port 1 On Tesmart KVM

Today it is clear to steer away from Port 1 on the KVM, I had my work laptop which all I do is VPN and RDP, yet the KVM still bricked. I posted a review on Amazon with what I did to fix it.

Speaking of Amazon, today I signed up for their affiliate program, I don’t know if I did it right and am still learning, but we will see.

From now on I will post affiliate links on my website.

Weight: 339.6

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Unrelenting Day

Felt like the day would not end, one thing after another. But I am looking at my schedule, there is still so much to do.

I was hoping to go swimming again but not dice.

I am posting at about 11PM and I know a got a long day tomorrow. Need some sleep.

Weight: 347.8

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Fat Tuesday 2025

Another start of Lent

Giving up sugary drinks for lent

Anyway normal day, I think it will help lose weights

Weight: 341.0

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Body Sore

Did 10k steps and 10+ floors today and my body does hurt.

TBF my body was hurting before because I spent a lot of the day yesterday in weird positions.

Speaking of which, I had to move the office around and reconfigured a few things. It does look a lot better.

Weight: 338.0

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Fourth Rack

Got a fourth rack in the house.

This is meant more as a shelf that has a PDU and the KVM.

What a pain moving that KVM was. Good news is I think I can get away with the cables I got. I may order one to replace the extension but if I am correct, somewhere in this house exists a required 10ft USBA to USB3 cable.

I have to call it quits for the night, I spent about 9 hours trying to set this up and recable.

Still a mess in the living room.

Weight: 340.6

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New SMS Gateway

Got the parts for my new SMS gateway

SMS Parts

Here is how it looks assembled

SMS Assembled

I had to go through resetting it

First ran this

Then unplugged and replugged the unit and ran some additional commands.

Weight: 340.6

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Derailed Weekend Plans

I was expecting a rack today so I could do some work over the weekend.

Went from this

To This

But this explains it

Ontrac not the greatest when you are expecting a package.

Yikes over 340, that is motivation to start losing weight.

Weight: 340.2

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Starting New Project

Yes I know, I haven’t finished couple others.

This new one is a simple keypad and LCD display to enter in my weight, since I cannot figure out how the scale broadcasts the weight on it.

I did get parts for the other projects I am working on, ordered screws for the SMS Gateway and the RJ11 jacks did come in for the Lastman project.

Weight: 336.8

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US Citizen

I was born in the USA so I am a US Citizen, but today I helped a relative become a US Citizen.

What an interesting experience

We left my place at about 11:20AM for a 12:10 appointment. We were informed not to get there more than an 1/2 an hour before the appointment.

We got there and parking was interesting, there was a a kiosk to pay, but opted to use the mobile app. Parking was $8 but on the app it it was 8.50.

Security was like going through the airport, take off jacket and belt but everything in a bin and get it scanned.

Then you stand in a line and check in. Upstairs there is a waiting area, I can’t speak to what happens, cause I was not allowed to go in, but they went into a room when their number was called for an Interview. What was interesting was that the people next to us got there before us yet got called in after us.

Recall it was a 12:10 appointment, we missed the 1PM ceremony so we hung around till the 2:30 Swearing in ceremony. The waiting continued in the auditorium but we were doing stuff like swearing in and got the certificate by 3PM.

Treated them to a celebration late lunch.

Weight: 338.0

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Wasted Test Prints

Went through a lot of filament getting the right print.

Check this gridfinity lids I printed

This is the bottom of the lid, the first two on the left were printed upside down, but the 3rd one was using tree support. It made things way worse, settled on the last one, mild stringing but people will not see it.

Here is the top view, the first two show why I didnt go that route, it is ugly. The last one was the way to go.

Haven’t been sleeping right, did not sleep well at all today. Called in sick to work. Sleepy all day.

Weight: 339.2

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