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 to come.
Weekend is almost here, going to slow down on the home work. Sunday will probably be a chill day.
Weight: 315.0
Wow, just posted yeterday’s post. I must have been really tired. But I think I was ok today, lead two meetings and got a bunch of stuff done.
I did forget to submit my timesheet, so I logged in and did it.
But I did run a 60min workout on the treadmill. Wasn’t as bad as Monday but was going slower but longer.
Weight: 314.6
This is officially posted 7/8/2026 but this is a very late post for 7/7/2026
Not sure why I missed it, but here it is.
Woke up early went to the office, got home did some work, walked with the wife and dog.
Was a pretty exhausting day, so one of the rare ones (I think this may be the first) I actually missed a day.
I actually went to bed before midnight.
Weight is a guess from memory.
Weight: 318.4
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 drive via TPM
This laptop is not a workhorse, just something to connect home securely and provide documentation.
Note the yubikey, I am also using it to test my logins.
Need to mention today’s workout, not sure what the heck was going on, I was not right.
My rate wasn’t crazy but it was the first time I had to grab the rails to finish. I had 90 seconds left so I didnt want to stop
Weight: 316.4
DONE!.
Big task off my plate
Need to add a bit of telemetry monitoring and backups as well. But it seems to be ok.
Today was a nice day, stuck inside getting FW done but it is DONE
This other shot was from yesterday, I have already posted but it is what I want, nice summer evenings with a heater on the deck.
Calling it good for the day. Tomorrow a bit of clean up and Fedora work.
Weight: 319.0
Mostly work free day, I did watch my daughter run some hot dog 5k and my son hit the gym to try and PR a bench.
Got home and was lazy pretty much for most of the day.
Got my mile in before Bar B Que dinner, and will eat after this post. Hope I don’t gain too much.
Will be testing the deck heater tonight when it gets cooler, but it was a nice nice day.
Tomorrow and Monday will be work, got that firewall upgrade.
I intend to get a great nights sleep.
Weight:
Weekend starting off right, I came home late and didn’t have much sleep, but I got up early, knocked out finance Friday and got all my gym and walk done before noon.
Got a lot of errands done by 2PM as well. But I hit a wall after that. Took a nap that lasted couple hours.
Not done though, cleaned up the living room. Looks fine, just a few more tweaks.
Resting tomorrow, just doing a walk. Need the recovery.
Weight: 312.4
Pulling the trigger on a Linux Laptop with Fedora on it. This will be my main travel laptop.
I will put a Windows VM on it, but I want to be able to run everything on it.
Will have 3 ways to log in, ssh, openvpn and wireguard. On top of that it will have access to the travel router.
Looked into full disk encryption as well, also looking at logging in without a password. Will definitely leverage yubikey.
This is a 4 day weekend, I am planning on doing a lot of the weekend work tomorrow, clearing off my plate as much as possible.
Saturday will be a bar b que and watching my daughter do a 5k.
Sunday I will reserve to migrate off of pfsense and on to opnsense. That will be the bulk of Sunday.
Monday I hope to have the new laptop and be able to do this travel laptop.
Weight: 314.6
I was finally able to kickstart Fedora because I put the entire repo on a 500GB drive.
This provides me with the flexibility to install whatever I want. Fun stuff.
Had a good workout today, felt strong running. Did well. I will admit, I was worried I would struggle.
Weight: 313.4
My first step to get an automated install of Fedora was through PXE boot. It works for the most part, normal like others.
Now I am trying to build a custom USB, then will work on a custom iso last.
Kind of a long day, had to work late. Short week.
Weight: 316.2
