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...the house gets emptied !

We have boxes and stuff everywhere and we need all of that gone so we can put the house up for sale.

They will empty :

- The living room
- The laundry room
- The furnace room
- The two basement apartments
- The two sheds in the backyard

Leaving only the furniture.

What's left we will move in June when we move into the new house.

My website is now hosted on Starlink since yesterday.

It seems to work fine.

It is still IPv4-only until I figure out how to make IPv6 work.

I figured out how to make it work with my router.

I had set the "Next Hop" of the static route to "192.168.100.1", but I needed to set it to "0.0.0.0".

The app works fine now.

When I setup the Starlink antenna, I pointed it to the most visible part of the sky.

Yesterday, I got the router I bought on Amazon and plugged it into the antenna's power supply. (I have the "enterprise" antenna)

This allows me to make tests without connecting it to my network.

Fortunately, the app works with that setup. (It didn't work with my ER605 router. I will look into that later)

We discovered that the antenna was pointed opposite to the way recommended by the app.

After aligning it, I'm getting 150+ Mb/s download and 25+ Mb/s upload.

(But it worked too with the antenna pointed the other way).

The antenna is close to the house so it cannot be seen from the street.

Me and my dad spent three hours hooking up the supply and drainage of the second story bathtub.

For the drain, we initially thought of doing it all in ABS.

But it was getting complicated and hard because of 90°s we have to add before the P-trap. The drain of the tub is not over the pipe we left in the floor when the bathroom was being done. And it is above a beam.

Then I remembered that the tub came with a flexible drain. Fortunately, not only did my dad not throw it away, but was also able to easily find it and also had the fitting to go from it to the ABS P-trap.

This made the installation way simpler for us. We lifted the tub, screwed the flexible drain with teflon tape, lowered the tub and then we glued the ABS P-trap.

Hooking up the supply lines was hard. The flexible pipes were very rigid and hard to bend to align them with the screw fitting.

Then, my dad wanted to add a support so the P-trap is not touching the drywall. While he was trying to attach it, the drain came apart further downstream !

It was an east fix, just glue the join that was not glued.

I'm sad I can't access the http://192.168.100.1/ address, even with the static route on my router. But the service works anyway.

I have an ER605 router that allows me to have both Vidéotron and Starlink uplink at the same time.

I have plugged in Starlink and it works. The devices on the LANs I setup all had IPv6 addresses.

But I have unplugged it. I still have to properly setup IPv6 on my server so I can make it safe, now that my server will be directly exposed to the Internet.

(I plan to only allow certain ports with ip6tables).

I also want to setup qBittorrent to go through NordVPN, so that Starlink does not see what I torrent. I plan to setup a SOCKS5 server on my main server that then goes through my VPN. I will then enter that SOCKS5 server in qBittorrent's settings. "Split tunneling" cannot work on my iMac.

I am posting this post over Starlink !

I have both IPv6 and IPv4 working !!!

Me and my dad moved the shower head higher and then put up drywall.

We removed the old towel and toilet paper supports.

We also removed the pot lights. We originally planned to replace them with recessed LED lights, but it will be way simpler to just repaint them.

We're selling after all. If they don't like the pot lights, they can replace them themselves.

My dad then plastered every wall.

All that's left are the vents.

Today, me, my dad and my mom went to the new house to assemble the two chandeliers that will be above the living room.

We are assembling them so the electrician can install them this week. We assembled them in my bedroom and my office.

It took us over three hours to assemble them.