After an invigorating visit to the PNW, I came back with a focus on my health. B started the Old Age New Age Accountability (OANAA) group to keep the discussion among our circle of like minded generational cohorts.
I'd like to keep active, and focus on inflammation fighting foods. B also showed me her bullet journaling methods which I think could be useful in my own life. Below are some resources for posterity
I finally installed a dash cam, and the process was more difficult than it should have been. There were so many choices, and options-- the analysis paralysis was real. After much googling and youtubing, I refined my requirements below.
I orginally bought a Kenwood dashcam from Bestbuy. It was roughly $200 and garbage from the beginning. I had difficulty getting the camera to sync with my phone. When I had finally installed it in the car, it stopped working altogether. I returned it for a refund after having it for only 3 days.
After much Youtubing, and Googling, I decided on the Garmin Dashcam 57. It was easy to set up out the box, the app connected fairly well, and the installation was easy. I bought the Garmin ODB2 power cable to power it up. I tucked the cables under the headliner and trim. I had to stop by Autozone to get a plastic auto trim tool to pull the plastic part of the A-pillar on my vehicle just enough to tuck the power cable under it. This made for a very clean look.
Don't know what an ODB 2 connector is? Check out this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEklm9V6xYE&ab_channel=AutoFun
This video has decent example of how to tuck the wires under your trim. I did not remove any paneling like the guy in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0qzgboJkKk&ab_channel=CarTeckNow
I've had the Garmin 57 for 3 weeks now, and I'm happy with it. The mobile app isn't perfect, and from what I gather, pretty much all the dash cam apps are ok at best. I thought having a cam that synched with mobile app quickly was important, but I've found they all are sub-optimal. If you want to grab video from your camera, the best way is to just hook it up to your computer with a usb cable. It's quicker. The Garmin desktop apps don't look all that great, but they do work.
Even though Garmin is not usually rated as the best dashcam, I feel they do place enough emphasis on it to fund the teams developing the cameras and apps. Kenwood, for example, has a reputation for excellent hifi audio, but the dashcam development seemed to be an afterthought. Get the Garmin 57, you'll find it adequate, and you won't have to fret like I did, and get on with your life.
This video by Linus Tech Tips gives a great technical breakdown on why dashcam shopping is so frustrating.
Cristian Cornea has a cool threat intelligence mind map on Linkedin. I half listened to the Sans Summit two weeks ago. I'll post my very sparse notes on it here later, maybe.
Steam had HackNet on sale for $2.99 last week. I only played around with it for a few minutes, but it seems fun.
I'm not even in the discovery or requirements phase of building the lab. Brainstorming some things for the lab:
Instead of spending time and money on that, maybe I could try TryHackMe, HacktheBox, RangeForce, or OccupyTheWeb.
This page is a work in progress, just like anything else I do.