Some years ago I made a few posts titled “Life with…”: first for netbooks, then after I got modern-at-the-time Apple hardware one for that, so here’s “Life with ThinkPad”! It’s been about a month since I put a new-to-me Lenovo ThinkPad T480 notebook computer into service as my travel machine, and I am beyond pleased … Continue reading
Computers
ThinkPad, Part 2
So far, my ThinkPad has been working well, though it does have one broken keycap: the F key. It’s not a huge deal, but I usually run my fingertip over the bumps on the F and J keys when idle on the computer, so this is personally frustrating to me. I got a cheap replacement … Continue reading
Joining the ThinkPad Cult
I’ve known about the IBM, later Lenovo, ThinkPad notebook computer line since I was very young. At some point, I decided they would be outside my interest range, so I opted for Dell, Acer, and Asus laptops personally for the longest time. Well, a need came up for a “travel” machine, and my old hacked … Continue reading
Retrospectives
In the second post in my portable networking blog’s history, I talked about the WB4HRO Digital Repeater System I was managing at the time. This was my first “real” sysadmin experience, if I’m honest. It also taught me a lot about networking and the state of servers as it went along. This all started in … Continue reading
Future Travel Considerations, Part 4
I’ve written three posts on this subject so far, each one discussing things specifically, and I’ve decided to revisit the subject today. First off regarding charging: I have been made aware of some different charging solutions that parts of the previous entries irrelevant. The push to USB-C for most new things is excellent progress, and … Continue reading
Early March Update
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 … Continue reading
Quick Update and Some Planning
The trip I mentioned in the last post went well! It was a very long day, but I survived it somehow. I upgraded my gaming PC last year, recently got a new work laptop, so I’m in the market to next upgrade my personal laptop. My current laptop is an Acer Swift X purchased in … Continue reading
Future Travel Considerations, Part 2
I touched briefly on electronics in the last post. Okay, maybe not so briefly, but I think I should do a better job of surveying what I’d be carrying and what charging I would need. Current potential devices (as of Oct 2025): – Personal laptop (Acer Swift X) – while I believe this will charge … Continue reading
Future Travel Considerations
I wrote a post on Pocket Networks yesterday about solo travel considerations related to the project chronicled on that blog, and I mentioned that actual deepdive into the actual onebag travel bit would be on this blog, so here we go. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to attain true “onebag” status where all … Continue reading
APRS Fun!
Hi folks! I’ve got a bit to report! I’ve been migrating my Linux servers to Debian from RHEL-derived distributions, and the last one to be migrated was the APRS node. I’ve had W4JDH-1 connected to APRS-IS for a long time: at least since 2011 and possibly earlier. For the longest time it was Xastir in … Continue reading