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tech: NuPhy Gem 80 on 2.4GHz USB RF
I’ve been moving devices off of Bluetooth because of this strange problem with my Shure TWS2 where I get glitching and I have no less than three keyboards each with their 2.4GHz USG-RF dedicated dongle. So I found an old USB 3.0 hub (actually two, one no longer acts as a hub but charges, and…
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av: Paradise found Thieaudio Monarch Mk II, Schitt Audio Vali 2+, Modi+, Shure TW2, Moondrop VARIATIONS
Ok, in the adventures of being a dance look alike, I ended up wanting a great set of in-ear monitors. Many people are not sure about Crinacle, but I have to say his sound tastes are close to mine. I’m not a bass-heavy kind of person and am trying to protect my high-end hearing (still…
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home: Sense power monitoring analysis
Well a few years ago, we got the Sense utility monitoring system. This has induction rings that go around the mains power of your house and then it transmits via WiFi to the cloud. This thing is great and has been really reliable. It attempts to sense various devices by their power usage and estimate…
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goog: Automatically adding meetings to calendar
This by default doesn’t happen which is why I’ve been missing events, but if you want to automatically a meeting invite that appears in your calendar, you have to explicitly enable it. I’ve been missing a lot of meetings because I didn’t realize this. You have to do two things: For those of us with…
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wp: Cloudways vs Digital Ocean roll-your-own vs Full Hosted choices
Well, I spend about $25 on Cloudways with its WordPress-managed installation and about the same on Digital Ocean with a roll-your-own system. It’s kind of a toss-up which one I like better, here are the conclusions after a month: Net, net for me it’s kind of a toss-up right now. Fixing your site is a…
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nas: Synology disk operations go faster
One of the problems that I’ve been having is how slow the rebuild times and data scrubbing are. For instance, a rebuild of 12x20TB took 2 weeks! Turns out there is a parameter to get it all running buried inside Synology that is not just for RAID Resync speed, but also for data scrubbing, repairing…
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ops: Mandatory 2-Factor Verification (aka 2-Factor Authentication
With the many ransomware and other hacks, it’s pretty clear that having more end-user security in addition to other things is vital. But the convenience of the password is still very high, but it’s time for even small organizations to tighten things up particularly if you have customer data floating around somewhere (not to mention…
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scan: New 2024 workflow with Vuescan and Silverfast and GIMP
Another day, another dollar. As you know, I got a new Plustek OpticFilm 8200i and I had to learn the new SilverFast AI Studio and also GIMP so I can now export to 10-bit HEIC. The last time I tried HEIC, Preview wouldn’t generate it in 10 bits, darktable would not as it is using…
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tech: Shure TWS 2 Adapter and Keychron Q1 Max interference
Ok, here is a weird one for you, I have a Shure TWS2 Bluetooth adapter which actually works great with my Moondrop VARIATIONS in-ear monitors. But when I use Bluetooth with my Keychron Q1 Max, I get stuttering and buffering issues. If I hook in the dedicated 2.4GHz wireless dongle no problem or if I…
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pen: Cleaning your fountain pens
The one thing about the fountain pen world is that when you get one, they sort of expect you to know everything about it and half my pens don’t have instructions at all (Pilot is different that way). And I admit it, I’ve not cleaned these pens in three years, so my bad, so here’s…