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Training in Quarantine – Day 324

I didn’t do my walk yesterday since I was in the office again this week. I took the Victoria Line back from the office and two people seemingly had passed out — one at Victoria, one at Oxford Circus. The heat was almost unbearable.

Oxford Circus is an oven even on normal days. At near 30degC heat it is more like a furnace.

There was immense relief in the evening when it started to rain, but that relief was soon turned in comfortable, sticky, sweaty feelings as the water then evaporated and made the air really humid, making it almost impossible to sleep. I didn’t get any decent sleep till around 2am and FitBit noticed that with my sleep pattern.

Fortunately, it seems like there’s rain forecast for the rest of the week at least.

Training in Quarantine – Day 323

Have been slacking off logging my exercise again, but there’s a reason.

It’s TOO. DAMN. HOT.

Like, crazy hot. And when the sun shines into your bedroom where you’re trying to work so you have to have the curtains closed while you work, and the fan only provides some minor relief, it doesn’t help

Meanwhile, today, my walk was comfortable — even though it was hot, the breeze helped matters a bit and made it not feel too bad.

Training in Quarantine – Day 322

No walk today as I was back in the office for one day this week. With the 25degC heat, it was not a pleasant journey. I tried to offset it by using only the airconditioned trains route (Thameslink, Great Northern, District/Circle) but that didn’t make it much more comfortable.

Still topped my step count for the day, as I normally do for the commute.

Training in Quarantine – Day 316

Found out why I couldn’t backup my new machine — Windows 10 had BitLocker setup which meant CloneZilla couldn’t clone it. Ubuntu installation on computers running Windows and BitLocker turned on – Documentation – Ubuntu Community Hub told me how to remove it. But still had a few issues with the backing up, namely Clonezilla still reporting some filesystems being read-only.

Turns out Fast Startup was also enabled by default https://help.uaudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/213195423-How-To-Disable-Fast-Startup-in-Windows-10 for disabling it.

Trying to back up the machine before installing Ubuntu

Backup was fine, completed successfully, and was able to install Ubuntu

Benchmarked both Windows and Linux on 4K, and Linux performed a bit less, presumably due to the APIs being different

And it’s been another hot day, and people have been really tetchy today, lots of horn tooting and then, inevitably, this happened

The heat really does bring out the worst in people.

Training in Quarantine – Day 315

I’ve been slacking logging my walks lately, so apologies for that.

This was should have been logged yesterday. It was very hot, so much that I didn’t even need to worry about wearing a jacket or anything while walking, and perhaps I should have worn sunglasses, it was that bright.

In other news, my laptop seems like it’s on its way out so I have got a replacement and an upgrade, and spent Saturday trying to set it up but clonezilla seems to be having trouble registering the partition labels. I had already purchased a 2TB NVME so instead of cloning then restoring, I cross-device cloned directly, making the 2TB disk exactly the same as the 1TB, but with the space at the end of the disk which I will use for Ubuntu.

Then took the rest of the day downloading my games from Steam. Warframe and Stellaris are the main ones I’ve been downloading

Streaming also seems fine, with only a slight fps drop.