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Mr. GM

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Another win for the block lists!

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September 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM

Mr. GM

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I'm p. sure this means I'm not allowed to get up

#CatSky #CatsOfBlueSky

Mr. GM's cat with one of her front legs on each side of Mr. GM's left leg, she is resting her body on Mr. GM's right foot.

September 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM

Mr. GM

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Attn: Internet

There is a ball of fur peacefully napping against my legs.

That is all.

Mr. GM's cat, curled up into a ball of fur and napping peacefully

September 27, 2025 at 7:08 AM

Mr. GM

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Took a very close up picture of the back of what will be a router PC to look at the port labels, I think it looks kind of neat.

#homelab #networking

Extreme close-up of a Lenovo m920q tiny PC with a two-port 10G SFP+ NIC installed. There is a copper ethernet cable plugged into the main port and a copper Twinax 10G cable plugged into the left SFP port. The right SFP port is open.

There are a few small bits of... something at the edges of the 3D printed bracket, it's touch to tell if they're small hairs or small bits of plastic from the bracket itself.

September 26, 2025 at 6:02 AM

Mr. GM

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Working on documenting everything on my home network so I can plan out what VLANs to set up. It's a long and slow process and there are lots of devices I rarely use and services I haven't set up yet, but it'll be good to have it all down while planning this out.

#networking #homelab

Screenshot of a spreadsheet listing Service/Device name, Service or Device, IP, Static or Dynamic, Wired or Wireless, and In Use columns. Service/Device names are below, the full table exceeds alt text maximum length:

tiny01
tiny02
Brocade ICX-7250
Living Room TV
Main Phone (S22 Ultra)
Onkyo-TX-NR787-EEEEEC
SLZB-06M
Office PC
Thinkpad Carbon Laptop
Workbench PC
Gaming PC
ONN 4K Streaming Box
Playstation 2
Sega Dreamcast
Nintendo Gamecube
Microsoft Xbox
Nintendo DS
Nintendo 3DS
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo Wii U
Xbox 360
Playstation 3
Xbox One
Nintendo Switch
Dial-up VM for Dreamcast
Console Server Switch
Cisco Lab Layer 2 Switch
Cisco Lab Layer 3 Switch
Cisco Lab Router 1
Cisco Lab Router 2
Cisco Lab Firewall
TP-Link BE4800 Router
TRouter (OPNSense Router)
ThinkCentre M73 PC
tiny03
tiny04
tiny05
tiny06
tiny07
Bigtower
nMediaPC
Raspberry Pi 4
Xlink Kai Host
Authentik
Former Home Assistant PC

September 21, 2025 at 12:49 AM

Mr. GM

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Local box inspector has decided to nap on the job, and apparently my ankle is a good pillow.

#CatSky #CatsOfBlueSky

Mr. GM's cat napping on an extended footrest, she is using Mr. GM's ankle as a pillow.

September 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM

Mr. GM

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I didn't get a chance to play clean-up from the troubleshooting before someone decided that Dad is being boring staring at that TV, it must be time to hop up and take a nap.

#CatSky #CatsOfBlueSky

Mr. GM's cat resting on his lap, in the background there is an unplugged network switch that happens to be bricked, a Lenovo m710q Tiny PC, and on the screen the GUI for a FS.com switch that's physically in the living room upstairs.

September 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM

Mr. GM

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Purchased a new box for my records while I was out as it was on sale. My local box inspector immediately had to check it out to be sure it was up to code.

#CatSky #CatsOfBlueSky

Mr. GM's cat turning around inside of a newly-assembled record box

September 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM

Mr. GM

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Finally fixed that janky fiber run across the hallway! I was thinking of designing something and having a 3D printing place make it for me, but the more I thought on it the more I realized that I already have all of the parts I need. It looks much cleaner now!

#networking

A zoomed out picture of the hallway connected to Mr. GM's living room. There is white conduit along the ceiling on the left side, with an opening formed by two outside L pieces letting the speaker wire cross the hall to the other living room wall just offscreen.

After the opening there is more conduit going around a corner, then the blue multimode fiber is run very close to a popcorn ceiling to an outside L shaped piece going into a short bit of conduit going straight down. There is also a conduit joining piece at the bottom for aesthetics, then the blue fiber goes into the doorway of the office.

A closer view of the conduit going around the corner, there is an inside L piece, a very short piece of conduit that is covered in this picture, then an outside L pieces. A coaxial cable for a flat wall-mounted antenna leaves the conduit and goes to said antenna. A blue multimode fiber follows the contour of the outside L pieces and goes off-screen to the right.

A view from the office doorway showing the fiber running at nearly ceiling height and entering the conduit via an outside L piece.

September 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM

Mr. GM

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"Dad, no more computer. [Mr. GM's cat] time now." - my cat earlier, probably.

A close-up of Mr. GM's cat, she pestered him until he flipped his laptop closed, then she immediately walked on to of the laptop to ensure it stays closed. Below the laptop is a lap desk with a mouse next to the closed laptop.

September 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM

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Word Cloud by @bskyinsights.com. Since I'm up to December in the old pro wrestling stuff I'm watching, I figure over time 1996 will catch up to - and possibly overtake - 1995.

A Word Cloud by bskyinsights.com, showing my most frequently used words on Bluesky.

My top 10 words are:
one (133), wrestlesky (127), 1995 (126), song (124), wcw (115), when (100), she (99), just (94), cat (92), back (90)

September 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM

Mr. GM

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For less than a dollar I now have my first 3D-printed computer part by the local university: it's a bracket for a Lenovo m920q tiny PC that's still in the mail. I was even able to get MOST of the support material removed by hand, I plan on finishing the job when I get home.

#Computers #3DPrinting

3D printed bracket for two SFP+ ports that will attach to a Lenovo m920q tiny PC, viewed from the front.

3D printed bracket for two SFP+ ports that will attach to a Lenovo m920q tiny PC, viewed from the back.

September 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM

Mr. GM

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Although I suppose on the plus side using a blue multimode fiber here makes it very easy to tell which drop goes to the living room (yellow single-mode) and which one goes to office (blue multimode).

#HomeNetworking #FiberOptic

Two fiber optic cables exiting some plastic conduit, one is bright yellow and one is light blue.

September 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM

Mr. GM

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The fiber to run to the office arrived the day after I left town, my gf brought it in while checking on my cat. Today I rand the cable and it looks nice in conduit... until the hallway and office area. Might need to re-think this run in the future...

#HomeNetworking #FiberOptic

A poorly-lot picture showing the blue Multimpde fiber exiting the corner of some conduit on the ceiling.

There are a few white speaker cables velcroed together going across this gap towards the camera for the rear surround sound speakers. The blue fiber optic cable hangs mostly freely, lowering slightly to go into the top of the doorframe of the office. There is a rear bike tire partly inside the office doorway, and further until the office is a desk with one of two monitors showing the default Linux Mint desktop background.

This is just inside of said doorway. It's difficult to see the blue cable, but it goes under the top of the doorframe to a hook installed in the ceiling off camera. From there, the cable hangs loosely as it goes across two additional hooks then drops down behind the computer desk.

September 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM

Mr. GM

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Seriously, she looks way too peaceful to wake up right now!

#CatSky #CatsOfBlueSky

Mr. GM's cat curled up and napping peacefully, just beyond the edge of his lap desk. She has her back pressed against his legs.

August 24, 2025 at 6:06 AM

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That's one laptop moved to Linux and all updates installed! I have a cat resting against my legs now so the other laptop will have to wait.

#Computers #Linux #LinuxMint

In the foreground is a Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon X1 laptop at the desktop of a new Linux Mint install. The background image has been changed to one that says "Extreme Championship Wrestling" in small letters above "ECW" in large letters. There is some kind of muted black honeycomb background as a background.

Beyond the laptop, The Man Called Sting is on TV in an episode of WCW Saturday Night from early December 1995.

August 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM

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Okay, NOW the project is done! Half-round conduit with adhesive backing is in place near the top of the basement walls and around the stairs, this looks so clean now!

#HomeNetworking #Homelab

A picture of a basement room. The focus of the picture is a yellow dual-fiber cable exiting conduit, resting on a mount that formerly held a motion sensors, then going down offscreen.

A picture of the rest of the room, looking at the stairs. There is barely-noticable white conduit running near the top of the wall. Additionally, a previous post showed this same location with a mess of cat5e and coax cable. Now those two cables have been wrapped into two near bundles and one is stacked on top of the other. There are significantly less tripping hazard now.

A picture showing the conduit running around the wall next to the stairs and then running in a straight line as the stairs rise to meet it. Before they do, the conduit ends and there is a barely-visible yellow cable containing two fibers sticking out and running up to some railing around the stairwell upstairs.

A much closer picture of the yellow cable exiting the conduit, hanging with a little bit of slack, and entering a protective cover as it runs across the living room floor.

August 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM

Mr. GM

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The super long cables are rolled back up! They're a little messy as it's been a hot minute since I last rolled a long cable, but they don't look half-bad!

50(?) ft of Cat5e cable and 50(?) ft of coax cables both rolled up into their own individual bundles.

August 15, 2025 at 2:03 AM

Mr. GM

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And by "It's done" this time I mean it's functional. Some time this evening I plan on getting something to run the fiber along the wall, then I have the annoying "re-coil the old Cat5e and coax cables from past experiments" step to complete.

#HomeNetworking #Homelab

Upstairs everything looks so clean! There is a rubber cable cover on the floor protecting the cable, and it runs from the staircase to behind a bookcase that's adjacent to the TV stand.

Looking down the stairs, the fiber is hanging out loosely on one side. This is not perfect, but it's better than the Cat5e and Coax cables doing the same, which I had previously done.

Down at the bottom of the stairs... eesh. There is a yellow fiber cable with a lot of extra slack winding around on the floor. This is *functional*, but it's a bit of a tripping hazard. I think if I run the fiber high enough on the wall it should go over the door frame to the laundry room without a problem.

Also pictured: The 7ft rack I purchased a few months ago (...and found is too tall for the basement), some old PCs, and the messy extra cat5e and coax cables.

This is a picture of the back of the rack. The thin yellow line about halfway up is the fiber cable, if I run it along the top of the wall then I'd have it drop down around here.

August 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM

Mr. GM

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Ordered some fiber optic stuff for my homelab and uh... that's certainly ONE way to package a single SFP for shipping

A single fiber optical SFP in a package with inserts for 10 of them

August 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM

Mr. GM

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And seeing Cactus Jack in a WCW Dungeon of Doom shirt is why I love watching all of this 1995 stuff in airdate order. That's Kamala, The Shark, and The Man with no--I mean Zodiac on Cactus' shirt! The back says "Dungeon of Doom," fitting his then pro-WCW personality

#WrestleSky #WCW #ECW #MickFoley

Mick "Cactus Jack" Foley wearing a shirt with stylised artwork of John "Earthquake" Tenta as "The Shark," James Arthur Harris as "Kamala the Ugandan Giant," and Ed "Brutus the Barber Beefcake" as "The Zodiac."

August 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM

Mr. GM

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While I was sitting on my old bed in the basement getting excited over old computer hardware, the blanket behind me appears to have grown a paw and it lets out a soft meow when I lean over and make the bed shift? I definitely have no clue how this could have happened...

#CatSky #CatsOfBlueSky