Daily - 2025-11-10

Previously…

Gratitude

• It was as chill of a day as it could be yesterday. I didn’t have to go anywhere, no jobs waiting for me, and no expectations to get anything done.

Yesterday recap

Up eary, for a Sunday, and started chores. Every Sunday I have a routine to try to make the next week a little easier. Went through my list and then reviewed my calendar to see if there is anything I should prep for now. I’ve written about this process before. I like to call these chores little gifts.

Spent the rest of the morning and early afternoon watching NFL football, hanging out with the kids, and doing little tasks around the house. I can’t sit for more than 20 minutes.

In the afternoon I worked on this Dell Latitude 7490 to configure as a lite version of a portable homelab, mobile entertainment hub, and EDC laptop. I’m gonna carry it for the rest of the month and fill in gaps. I did a Clonezilla transfer from the Panasonic laptop to this Dell and then made some small tweaks. It is also on the drive I took out of child no. 3’s PC, so I did even more testing to make sure the drive is okay.

My emphasis is being able to be a portable homelab while being offline. I don’t have enough data on my mobile plan to rely on having internet while hanging out in the truck for a few hours. I want everything local. Transferred data, including all my Kiwix archives, custom zim sites I’ve created, and my full apt clone. Also added my flatpak and docker archives.

The other thing this laptop needs is to play games, something my Chromebook can’t do. I setup Heroic Game Launcher and downloaded the games I play frequently to test performance. All of the games I enjoy are low spec, so all play fine. Finally got the gamepad working and I’m in a good spot. The current game list:

• OlliOlli
• BroForce
• Stronghold (loved this game since 2000)
• Slipstream
• Slime Rancher

I did not get to writing the cyberdeck documentation. I just didn’t want to. I’ll get to it sometime this week as I have a light week for work.

Dinner, more hanging out, and the the wife and I finished Armour of God. All in all a chill day.

How are you feeling today?

Tired. My brain is rested, my body is exhausted. I’m ready for some extended vacation.

Todo

Chores

• 4 winterization appointments. All are our existing clients and not part of the commercial contract I’ve been working on all last week. These are bigger properties and will include a lot of walking and will put me home late.

Fun

• Watch WWE Monday Night Raw with fam.
• Carry over from yesterday: Make a list of holiday movies to watch. There are 3 buckets: Takes place at Xmas, Xmas action movies, and actual Xmas movies. Think Lethal Weapon, Violent Night, A Muppet Christmas Carol.

Projects

• Remove UpSnap from the homelab. I had this idea I would use low powered portable devices and then connect via rdp to my desktop when I need something more. I like to have my desktop off, so I setup an easy way to wake it from any device. I’ve used it exactly once in 2 months. I clearly don’t need it.

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