Also how pretty is the server rack now.
Did a 2 terabyte Time Machine backup to the Synology in 65 minutes. Nice to have a 10Gb backhaul now for at least the access points and my workstation. I’m at this desk 16 hours a day 3-4 days a week so it’s a good place to be. Need to do cable management.
Happy with this. Moved to the CalDigit TS5 Plus so I’m 10Gb to my switch and 10Gb to My Synology. Seeing 450 megabytes a second to the NVME storage onboard which is marvelous.
One of my Unifi U7 Pro XGS APs was DOA. Ubiquiti support was fantastic. they asked all of the right questions and I have a pre-paid return label to send it in for a swap. It was for the finished basement so not a critical in place now thing.
Before the upgrade to WiFi 7 and after. iPhone 17 Pro.
I think that’s good for tonight but more tomorrow. Huge upgrade.
Time for cable management
Noice.
In my defense, this is a before image.
I know this looks bad. I’m doing something about it.
UniFi G6 180 is pretty amazing.
I should have started composting years ago. That would have helped.
Beer for the new kegerator secured
M1 Pro to M5 Pro. Heather was thrilled. 18 core model. Her old laptop had 8% storage remaining and only 16GB of ram.
Included are some of my grandmother’s porcelain dolls for Matilda. She had many dozens of these in her home.
My grandmother passed away in 2024 and my father mailed me a box of her things. Finally opened it up now that we’ve moved in and there are hundreds of well preserved photos. Time to scan them all in.
I’ve dug up a Thunderbolt cable. Heather has no idea that we’re replacing her M1 with an M5 14" MBP. …she’s also getting new motorcycle tires.
Got a blog post in tonight. Every day, so much to do around the house but I’m chipping away at it.
Hmm. I just noticed there are “Reddit Achievements” and I’ve used Reddit every day for 723 days. Cool?
I also worked for Om for a few years as a writer back during the GigaOm days. He treated the writers with respect. that was a rare thing.
Om Malik was a kind hearted man who blogged nearly every day. His words and photography so were personal and I’m going to miss his art in my RSS reader. I met him nearly 2 decades ago and his demeanor and self was so warm and friendly. A bright light in the often times dark technology space.
I always said to myself I wish I bought Apple Stock. In 2026, I wish I had stock piled more Apple hardware. Truly an appreciating asset outpacing the stock price.
I’m seriously blown away. 16" MacBook Pro + Nano-texture M5 Max chip with 18-core CPU, 40-core GPU 128GB unified memory 4TB SSD storage 40% increase over what I paid 2 months ago.
The M5 Max MacBook Pro I bought in April for $5,674.00 is now $8,149 on Apple.com. A $2475 increase in just 2 months. (Updated since I forgot to elect the 4TB SSD as well)
So if there’s an Apple product on Amazon with the old pricing, grab it now before they notice.