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buy: Luggage for a Lifetime
Well, we’ve actually had pretty good luck with luggage. We mainly use the two wheeler rollers and an old eBags one has lasted 20 years (I admit about three were during the pandemic, but still). It is fraying at the edges, but having an expandable 22″ bag is just really reliable. About six years ago,…
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hw: Battle of ASM246x Controllers ZikeDrive Z666 vs Hagibis ASM246x and Cables and docks matter
Well a few months ago, I got the really terrific (but expensive at $119) ZikeDrive Z666 and it has held up well with its AM2464PD controller, with a nice 7GBps drive inside of it, it has reliably delivered really great performance with the AmorphousDiskMark, I was getting these numbers. Note that on the M4 Max,…
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dev: Ngrok + open-webui + ollama
What a great setup, you can nearly duplicate all the stuff that requires the cloud on your local machine. While open-webui really likes using docker, I have to say that the overhead is pretty big particularly when all that is really going on is the need to isolate python environments. So instead of that I’ve…
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wp: giving up on Cloudways SSL last straw
Well, I’m nearly through my journey, the new Digital Ocean site is working well. It is sad I couldn’t upgrade the old one, but that’s the price of bare metal. The site I’m giving up on is Cloudways. I finally navigated through most of the problems, but the one that finally was the last straw…
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usb: Best USB C Cables and Magnetic adapter for a MacBook Air
Dave asked me what to get, well, I’ve been going through USB C cables like crazy and finally have found a reasonable combination for a MacBook Air is: MacBook Air Maximum Charging with iPhone The last thing to think about is the charger size. The default MacBook Air charger is 30W, but if you get…
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wp: Redis Ubuntu Installation and PHP Opcode cache
OK, I spent a lot of time trying to figure both the Redis cache which caches various HMTL elements and the lower level PHP Opcode cache. For instance making sure there is no swap file so that Redis doesn’t thrash caching to disk instead of memory. Right now depending on the host, I’m using three…
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wp: InMotion Hosting 508 Resource Limit and VPN Blocking Cpanel
Well, I found the first issue with InMotion, I’m trying to auto post from tongfamily.com to three other servers (calvintong.com, richtong.com and richtong.org) and I got a 508 Resource limit error. I’ve never seen this before, you can look at Inmotion AMP > Cpanel > Resource Usage and it says You have reached the entry…
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wp: More headaches PHP 8.3 on DigitalOcean Ubuntu 22.04
OK, as I finally get the following configurations in order. Note that from previous experience, we need at least a 2GB RAM server to not constantly run out of memory Upgrade 22.04 to PHP 8.3 for the system How to make the PHP 8.3 work is a little complicated, first make sure it is up…
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wp: Digital Ocean Reserved IP Strangeness even if not the DNS Server, Litespeed fail, Cloudways ugh
oK, this is a strange one, so a quick note if you hit it. I’m trying to get a Digital Ocean WordPress up and no matter what I did it didn’t see to work. I”m using Netlify as the DNS Server but it would never recognize the new IP address that I had set up…
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photo: Argh Canon Pro 9000, Passport Photos, and HP Color LaserJet M478
What a pain, I’ve had a really high-quality printer, the Canon Pro 9000 for years now, but Canon has unfortunately stopped supporting drivers for it. I have probably $200 worth of ink left and like my other Canon (which died some horrible hardware death). There was a rumble that the old High Sierra CUPS driver…