HP Elitedesk 800G3

What a pain to get set up, but I needed it for my projects. This will have 32GB of RAM and , 500GB NVME and a 500GB SATA disk for long term storage. I may upgrade it in the future.

It was bios locked, the NVME is hard to access, and although it can just use 65W, my HP proper 65W adapters do not seem to work.

Weight: 343.0

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Building Qemu Podman Machine

It is becoming clear that I need to create instructions on building a separate stand alone Qemu Podman machine.

I need to document its maintenance and monitoring.

I can squish it all into one box but it is making it more complex.

Today found some hardware that may do the trick.

Weight: 342.8

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Updated Prime Build

I think I got a good update as of today for my PRIME build with the latest home-assistant, cloudflared and pihole.

I also got a quick setup build going on. It should be validated by tomorrow.

Ironed out isssues with podman and qemu-kvm networking.

Weight: 341.8

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Rebuilding Lab

Setting up my lab demo for 2025. Finally got it out and slowly setting it up. With my new 3D printer and the gridfinity system I think I can make it better.

Need to look at what my goals are for 2025.

I actually got my ST400 to build systems.

Interesting day regarding my steps, I got most of them 8500 and the 10 floors by 11AM and the rest of the day up till about 9:30 to get my final 1,500 steps.

Weight: 339.6

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Rocky 9.5 PRIME Server

Been a while since I built a prime server, also I am behind on some things, most of my stuff is demos on Windows 10 I should show on Windows 11.

I do have a bunch of cool things I have worked on. So I will spend the next week or so on what I am good at, setting up a new lab.

I did a test run today with the chuwiliki.com domain. Certainly rusty.

Weight: 340.6

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Starting 2025 Improvements

Actually started already, the inside of the house is really improved. This is the outside though. One of the things I wanted to have a good look is the outside presentation of the front of the house.

The above picture was when we were halfway laying out the sod, below is how it looks like as I post.

I want to add more but there is fear that the lawn will be destroyed again by crows.

We did spread some things to kill the bugs to make it less desirable for crows to dig up our lawn.

On another note, I slept great, had a nearly 12 hour sleep.

My weight is officially over 340 again, time to get serious with the weight loss.

Weight: 342.0

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Yard Work

Ah, 2nd day in a row off, much more rest today, didn’t do much. I know tomorrow will be even more rest than today.

Slept late yesterday, but woke up early today to give the dog his insulin.

Later took a nap.

But we did do the yard today, yes this is the title for today’s post, but spent an hour buying materials and then about an hour putting it in.

Not a major activity of the day.

Weight: 343.6

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Long 4 day Weekend

Took today off because I had couple diagnostic scans. Good thing too, there was a backlog of people.

So I got out of there late.

There were other personal things we did today, was fun.

Keeping it short, day not done, have to bring son back to PLU.

Weight: 343.2

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Surprising Gift

Wife got this for me today

Moto G Stylus 2023

This wasn’t incredibly expensive, came to about 59.99+tax

This will NOT replace my Samsung Galaxy 24 Ultra, but it will replace my 2019 Samsung Note.

Weight: 340.6

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Decent Tech Progress

As the office becomes more streamlined I feel like I can focus on more stuff.

Today I got the WWAN unit to talk to the internet.

Also forgot to mention I got the iodd ST400 unit running as well. It is a bit confusing.

Weight: 339.6

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