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I’ve been bombarded as of late with a huge number of email alerts from my security plugin about blocked attempts to login. Fortunately, I have a decently cryptic password, the admin account is disabled and 2FA as well. So there haven’t been any successful ones, plus the plugin was banning user after 3 unsuccessful attempts….
I finally got around to cleaning out the garage this weekend. This is good, because a number of my tools had been lost in the mire, and I actually found a decent percent of them again. On the other hand… I really need to start wearing an N95 or something when I sweep out the…
So I’ve been borderline obsessed with power monitoring since we started our solar panel installation – and to an extent before that. I installed an Efergy Elite several years ago and figured out how to tap into its RF signal and pull that data into my Home Assistant instance to track power usage. But recently…
So you probably noticed that up until the update earlier today, it’s been quite a while since the previous entry. I struggle between remaining private and not wanting to publish the details of my life online and feeling like the lack of an outlet for such things stifles my creativity. For now I’m feeling like…
It’s been the better part of a year in the making, but as of yesterday morning our household is a little less reliant on grid power. Yes, our solar panel install is finally active. Unfortunately, being November now, the best time of year for full solar collection has passed for 2022. It should help a…
I recently came into ownership of a 2008 unibody MacBook. One of the first aluminum ones. It’s been serving me well, and I recently replaced the unused DVD-ROM drive with a drive caddy containing a second SSD I had lying around. I didn’t really have a use for the space so I thought I would…
The Phantom Menace may have sucked as a film, but it gave us The Saga Begins by @alyankovic and it’s worth it for that, if nothing else.
People who smuggled food into the theatre: there’s a reason chips aren’t sold here. #whyyoucrunchsoloud
The nice thing about having an unheated garage in winter is that it becomes a large, walk-in refrigerator.
Just heard the “batman voice” from Howl in Howl’s moving castle. IMDB says Christian Bale was English voice of Howl. Mind blown.