Oct 8, 2026, 6:38 AMAll the parts are here! I am so excited. We have a company event tomorrow night - watching 1984 Ghostbusters under the stars. And then my long weekend begins with the build.
Also got a Samsung G55C monitor for wifey. She’s happy with it, so I am happy.
Oct 9, 2026, 12:52 AMGhostbusters let’s go!
Oct 10, 2026, 12:38 PMSo, the first day of my long weekend spent on putting this together. It’s not POSTing, and I can’t figure out why. My fingers are sore, especially my thumbs. I am just curling up next to the light on my favourite chair now.
Oct 10, 2026, 5:39 PMI got a few hours of sleep. Shaved, ate breakfast, had coffee. I am now at Micro Center hoping to walk out with a working computer today 🤞🏼
Now that I am here.. maybe one more fan?
Oct 11, 2026, 5:44 AMI installed Ubuntu 26.04.1. Everything seems OK. There was an error message at boot, 'RDSEED32 is broken. Disabling the corresponding CPUID bit.' I am going to ignore it.
So many things are done over the Web these days, so one of my first steps was to get LibreWolf. I only had to copy over my profile folder to retain all settings.
Wifey is raiding tonight, so I don't want to eat up the bandwidth. I'll download the games overnight (WoW, BG3, Big Walk).
I'll look at restic tomorrow, after a good night's rest, which will be difficult until I have backups set up. And then I'll deal with the cables, boxes, screws, parts, moving things in and out of the garage, etc., when I am tired in the afternoon.
Little one asked if they would be getting the PC (my old one) tomorrow. I had to say no. I still have so much to do. I am aiming for next weekend, realistically. But the goal is to get the new PC in my room tomorrow for daily use; and my old one to the dining table, which I have commandeered for now.
Good night, masto.
Oct 12, 2026, 7:25 AMIt is past midnight, but it has been a productive day. I've restored most of our living space and moved the leftover parts back to the garage in three consolidated boxes. I want to clean the carpet this coming Friday, so this is good timing.
restic + Backblaze is working, sort of. There's something wrong with my shell script. I couldn't get it to read backup scope properly from a file through --files-from, but replacing the argument with a simple backup for a single file worked. Running the same argument outside of the shell script also worked.
Anyway, I'll figure it out. Just need to sleep and wake up again.
Oct 15, 2026, 11:30 PMI realised this morning (when plugging in a USB stick) that I forgot to hook up my F_PANEL USB 3.0, which in a strange way, also made me realise how much I miss the overall DBZ process. So, I have an idea... There is a WTS channel at work where people sell (and buy) stuff they don't really need. Sometimes, random parts pop up, usually at great prices and in working condition. There is that additional layer of conscience of selling to coworkers. Maybe I can put together something for mum & dad?