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This Week (2024-07-20) 2024-07-21T02:43:02.359819Z 2024-07-21T02:43:02.359819Z

Here's what I've been up to since the last weekly status...

New Gear

I took advantage of Prime Day to pick up a few gadgets I'd been considering:

  • Philips Sonicare ProtectiveClean 5300 toothbrush. My dentist recently pointed out that some of my gums aren't doing great and suggested that a Sonicare would likely help. Initial impression: boy this thing is loud, but my teeth do feel clean.
  • SHOKZ OpenRun bone-conduction headphones. I'd like to listen to tunes while riding, but I don't want to block any of the sounds around me... and I definitely don't want to be one of those people blasting music over my phone's speaker. Initial impression: hearing sounds in my head even when I plug my ears is wild.
  • Garmin fenix 7 Sapphire Solar smartwatch. After wearing various Wear OS smartwatches for the last ten years, I wanted a watch that was more serious about fitness tracking—and one with a battery that lasts more than 24 hours. Initial impression: it's larger than what I'm used to, but packed with features and configurable options. Currently estimates it won't need to be charged for another 14 days.

I'll probably share more thoughts on these items in the coming weeks.

New Blog Post

I've been working on a detailed post about how I'm using Packer and Vault to build VM templates for my Proxmox homelab for about six weeks, and it is such a relief to finally post it.

Of course, I did end up basically splitting the post in half. I promise I'll post a follow-up detailing my use of GitHub Actions to fully automate these template builds soon!

In Other News...

  • I survived the Great Crowdstrike Outage of 2024.
  • I finished reading What the Hell Did I Just Read by Jason "David Wong" Pargin and, well, what the hell did I just read? It was a wild ride, even by Pargin's standards. Enjoyable for sure, but it's kind of all over the place.
  • I'm now reading Truth of the Divine by Lindsay Ellis.

Top Scrobble

My most-played track of the week:

🎧 Mr. Highway's Thinking About The End by A Day To Remember

=> https://blog.jbowdre.lol/this-week-2024-07-20/ 📡 Originally posted on jbowdre's weblog