I’m excited about Kumail Nanjiani being on the next season of Taskmaster.
I just realized my first blog post that I still have record of (I think I had a Blogger blog that I never imported into WordPress) was in October of 2004. I’m old. I still remember using WordPress 0.7.
Starting a new blog with longer posts about my experimentation with self-hosting, open source, gaming, Linux, gadgets, and general technology. Welcome to my Home Lab. Feel free to subscribe if you’re at all interested.
Trying to set up a new blog on Micro.blog for some longer form posts for a new project. Also testing out Ghost in a Pika Pod. So far, Ghost is winning. The post I made on the new Micro.blog site isn’t showing up. There’s something weird going on with it. Emailed Help. We’ll see what they say.
I’m working on some website stuff this evening. Playing with some HTML and CSS converting one site and then playing around with Ghost for another site. I haven’t done web work in a long time and I’m really rusty.
Installed Immich on a PikaPod as a backup for all my photos. The downside to being in the Apple ecosystem is what could happen if something goes wrong.
99% of the times I launch the camera app using the camera control button is on accident. Finally disabled the button completely.
The Christmas gift for my dad, made by my cousin’s husband, using an actual Jack Daniel’s barrel.
I never knew I needed a Cake Christmas album until I saw this ‘Twas the Distance parody.
I have a 2012 Mac Mini that was my media server. I have a newer mini PC handling that now. I’m thinking about installing Linux on the Mac Mini while I have some time off later this week but not sure what I’d use it for yet.
Kumail Nanjiani’s new special Night Thoughs, on Hulu, is great. I’m glad he’s back to doing some standup.
Updated the firmware on my Meshtastic radio today. New firmware is nice and updating the Heltec v3 was a breeze. I’m hearing the v4 firmware updates are a pain.
I really enjoyed Wake Up Dead Man.
I did enjoy playing with other Linux distros, especially Zorin 18, but it’s nice to be back to the stability and performance of Linux Mint. Fedora Plasma was the worst. Of course, it could be the hardware I was running it on, but it was really slow and buggy. Plasma would crash constantly on me.
Just installed iOS 26.2 and already had one springboard crash.
FYI, if you’re an Apple One Premier subscriber you can get Peacock Premium Plus for the price of Premium when you subscribe through the Apple TV app.
Picked up a Dream Router 7 during the Black Friday sale. So far, I love this thing. So much geeky stuff to play with. Also upgraded the OS on my Pi Hole and set it up from scratch. Set up conditional forwarding so I can get device names too. Last step was setting up Tailscale to use the Pi Hole too.
Fedora KDE Plasma was not for me. Decided to go back to the trusty Mint for now. Zorin 18 had too many bugs that were annoying me.
My top podcasts of 2025. No surprises here.
