Recap March 2026

Apr 1, 2026 | Recap

Stuff I Did

NC Trip – My wife and I headed to NC and celebrated her and her mother’s shared birthday.

OneDrive – I migrated the last of my personal files from OneDrive to my TrueNAS.

Mint Mobile – I migrated my Google Voice number to Mint Mobile.

Return to WordPress – I migrated the site from Drupal back to WordPress. Divi 5 is so freaking good.

OpnSense – I acquired a Moginsok MGCN50N firewall appliance, installed OpnSense, and put it into production.

Mattermost – I setup the community Mattermost app on my TrueNAS server to easier manage notifications from client systems.

Got Crafty – Visited SouthEnd Brewing in Greensboro, NC, USA; Box Office Brewing in Strasburg, VA, USA; Twin Irons Brewing Company in Newark, DE, USA; and Slate Farm Brewery in Whiteford, MD, USA.

 

Stuff I Tried

Birb’s the Word – I installed PikaOS KDE Plasma on my work laptop. I spent some time troubleshooting a couple issues that prevented me from running it at home, figured out they were related to missing packages, and submitted bug reports. There was a small discussion on the bug reports and they were marked as fixed within the day.

CachyOS – After moving on from PikaOS KDE Plasma I’m now taking CachyOS with Cinnamon for a run. It’s my first physical install of any Arch-based OS.

CachyOS running Cinnamon. A wavy teal wallpaper. Two panels. Guake terminal open with fastfetch.

 

Stuff I Watched

My wife and I watched season 2 of Cross. We’re also catching up on the Chicagos so we can eventually watch the crossover event.

We watched Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice and Solo Mio. Both enjoyable.

I started a rewatch of How I Met Your Mother. I’m also watching Farscape. I’ve never made it all the way through the first season. Hoping to this time.

Christian. Husband and uncle. Network Administrator. Liberal. Advocate of Linux, Open Source, and privacy. A fan of Stargate, Star Trek, and Green Lantern.
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