Well, we’re less than a month until Sakura Con, and I’m looking forward to it! My friend Mike is flying in again, so it should be a fun time, long as I don’t twist my ankle again… I’ll be more careful this year!
I took some time earlier to repost some convention reports from years past from my LiveJournal to this blog, so it now goes back to March 2005. It seems I didn’t make proper reports for several years, which is kind of unfortunate.
I also dug my Acer C720 Chromebook out and reinstalled Arch Linux on it. This particular machine was slated to be disposed up when I was preparing to move, but since it was what I had written my resume on back in 2017, I decided to source a new battery for it and keep it. Some things have just enough sentimental value not to mention were modified sufficiently such that they have no real value on the used market. I’m using i3 for my window manager, which is what I had used before, though I won’t be installing VMware Workstation and setting up a Windows 7 VM this time. I was very fortunate to locate my dotfiles, so i3 is configured how I want it.
This machine served me super well on work and personal trips in 2016 and 2017, bar one, as well as being a good machine to have “couchside” when watching F1 and soccer with my dad all those years ago. The first work trip I took it on was a trip to Orlando in the summer of 2016, and its size and weight was very advantageous on this trip.
The only trip I didn’t take it on was to Milwaukee in September of 2016, but that was the first week-long business trip I ever took and I wanted to be able to play FF14 while I was on it. I ended up not being able to play as much as I wanted, but that wasn’t a huge deal: there was a bar within stumbling distance.
In other news, Apple announced the MacBook Neo which is very much giving me second thoughts as to what I want to get for my new personal laptop. I’m still probably going to go for the 13″ Air or the 14″ Pro, but the Neo is quite tempting regardless.
I took the time to locate the Supermicro 1U I was using when I was colocated with Coloblox the other day, booted it up, and got it updated all the way to the latest OPNsense build. I also set a WireGuard peer up so it would connect to the home firewall as a temporary measure. Obviously once I’m colocated I’ll work to set WireGuard peers up and disable the one on the home firewall.
I’ve been conversing with Wowrack over the weekend, so I’ll probably be colocated by the end of the summer with them or maybe another place, if not sooner.
Until next time!