Rich's Tongfamily (Richtong.net add-on)

In 2017, we got a bed online via Amazon. It turned out to be a great purchase with great satisfaction. So now it’s time to refresh the analysis and see what has changed. Using both Amazon reviews filtered by Fakespot.com we see: Nod for Needle & Tufts Full Sized. They were one of the pioneers…

Mark just asked about VPNs and here’s the quick scoop. First is that the main reason to get a VPN is for privacy reasons. There are really two choices. If you want your own personal VPN server, I’m not sure $20/month is the cheapest but some folks are offering preconfigured personal servers. The advantage is…

OK here is a strange one. On one of my MacBooks, suddenly neither Authy nor 1Password One Time Passwords were working. They would be completely different from my other devices. After spending time with Authy support and not being able to find anything, I saw one strange thing. The clock on my MacBook was off…

Why does every device have their own idiosyncrasies on this? Ok, here are the instructions for a Sony WH-1000MX. Turn the thing off with the power button Press and hold the button for seven seconds Look for the blue LED to blink rapid twice, then wait, then twice again. If the headphone is just one…

Ok this is confusing, in the old days a PAR30 meant and halogen light that was 30 1/8″ of an inch (that is 30 * 0.125″ = 3.75″ wide). And they use the medium sized socket called the E26 base you see in a regular light bulb (technically that is called an A shape with…

Well the Bluehost site was a pain, but didn’t have this kind of instability. So now trying to figure out what is wrong. This took a long while, but tl;dr, look at your DNS configuration sometime. But here is the debugging and the main notes are to use curl -v extensively to look at Apache2 rewrite,…

Well it’s complicated to explain what to think about when buying a car. First of all it’s the second largest investment that anyone is going to make and it is not like a phone. It is an asset that will last years. But, advice has never been more important because so many things are changing…

Well, that was easy. If you get an invite at https://www.apple.com/apple-card/ then you pretty quickly get an email allowing you to enter. It is really just a few clicks on your phone. You get it by hitting + in your Apple Wallet. It gives you 3% back on Apple purchases and 2% back on Apple Pay purchases.…

This has got to be the most undiscoverable feature with the iPad. You can create a split screen by just dragging a tab to the right side and you get the split screen. But how do you turn it off. It turns out that the trick is long press on the tab button and you…

We keep getting asked, what are the good Chinese restaurants. Well YMMV, but here’s our current list of spots that we love: Dough Zone. They actually have five very different locations in the area. The International District one is super convenient for Mariners games and so forth, but they have a long wait list. The…