Woot! I had BlockFi credit card rewards locked up in the bankruptcy. Happy to see those sats on their way home*! --- *(they said withdrawals could take up to 90 days! 🤣)

Proxmox round #2 is going much better this time! Started from scratch w/v7.4 and haven't had any networking dropouts so far. Created a debian 11 lxc to run bitcoind. Carved out a separate 1TB mount point for it to keep block data out of the container's backups. Created a second debian 11 lxc to run tor. Got bitcoind proxying out via tor AND listening for incoming bitcoin p2p traffic over tor. Overkill to put ZeroMQ in its own container? Fulcrum container def on deck once IBD finishes.

NUMBER GO DOWN!!! 🔥 Body fat reading was exactly 13.0% this morning! Down from 20% on June 2nd. Absolutely amazing to fit comfortably in my smaller t-shirts again! Continuing w/intermittent fasting (16/8) + keto. You can see a mini vacation blip in there, but solidly back on track now. Tracking weight is a bit bullshit. I haven't been this light (~138lbs) since I was about 17yrs old. BUT a few years ago, even though I weighed more, I was much stronger AND had a lower body fat percentage. Better in both dimensions.

Mixed up drywall mud for the first time and did my first patch today!

Sys admin shit is hell. Proxmox and its first VM working great... until it isn't. Spontaneously. Looks like everything is still running but the networking is getting knocked out. Googling... specific ethernet controller + specific driver release = these failures. Sure, yeah, that classic "r8168 vs r8169" gotcha. How do I install/revert to r8168? Enable `non-free-firmware` apt sources. But, what... can't resolve the domains? Total DNS failure... Oh, DNS server is set to localhost? Update to 8.8.8.8 (this is shit I'm surprised I know and am not happy it's taking space in my brain). Ah, now able to resolve DNS. Cool, back to apt. Can't update from an unsecure repository? Okay, googling... edit `/etc/apt/sources.list` (again). Nope, not there. Ah, remove the proxmox enterprise repos... (endless spiraling sys admin hell continues)

Running proxmox ↳Running Ubuntu ↳Running bitcoin

I have successfully closed the laptop lid but Ubuntu running on proxmox is still working! (every little victory feels like a big deal right now...)

Whoa, this is pretty wild. Created a VM for Ubuntu 22, running the interactive Ubuntu installer in that VM, via the Proxmox web UI... 🤯

WE ARE GETTING SOMEWHERE!

No clue what I'm doing. Let's go!