This year the guys and I decided to hike the perimeter of Frontenac Provincial Park! This was our trip.

Route

Here is a map of our route. It was a total distance of 46.6 km.

We stayed at the following campsites:

• 1a North Buck Lake
• 10b Devil Lake
• 7c Birch Lake

The nice thing about Frontenac is that all the campsites had a firepit, picnic benches, bear boxes and dedicated areas for tents. One of the sites (10 Devil Lake) even had a raised wooden platform for tents in addition to the regular tent site.

One thing took me a while to get running was qBittorent with a VPN on TrueNAS Scale. The community application of qBittorrent doesn’t have that functionality, so the solution is to manually install it instead. This is how I did that!

Overview

Regardless of what you want to torrent, its probably a good idea to run it through a VPN. It masks your IP address so that way it shouldn’t be linked back to your usage. Typically, if you were torrenting on your computer, you can turn on your VPN app and start the torrent. But with servers that may run in the background, it is a little more complicated. Especially on something like TrueNAS which doesn’t do the typical “installing applications” like on a computer.

The guys in the lab and I started a book club together and the first book we read was Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan.

Summary

The story follows Takeshi Kovacs, an ex-private military, now-turned-investigator hired to solve the mystery behind someone’s suicide (or murder?). It takes place in the future, where humans have the ability to upload our consciousness to chips called stacks. Since the mind can be separated from the body, bodies are referred to as sleeves. This system of switching sleeves and putting your stack in storage are key parts of this world, used in the criminal system, for fashion and as backup plans. As the story unfolds, we learn more about the world, about Takeshi and about the mysteries of the crime.