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

A couple of folks have asked me should I buy now or wait. It’s a complicated question. We are kind of right now in the iPhone 4 world. Things are getting better but for most people the rate of change is high and it’s still inconvenient compared with gas. The latest Tesla shareholder meeting however…

OK even with the best hard drives, you will get failures, right now we are running our main disk array with btrfs against shr2. Last night one of the 4TB disks failed and it immediately sent an email which is pretty cool. Here is how you remove the old drive and fix it. It’s a…

OK, this really isn’t about starting a company, it’s about creating a presence for a new organization. While there are many ways to do this, here is a simple method that will give you. Bootstrap secrets, email and phone One question is how to deal with passwords. You want to start secure so download a…

We seem to be in major home focus these days, but we have a set of chairs that are really hard on the hardwood floors. Well there are some easy things to do. The first is to get a felt protector that glues on the bottom. The main problem here is that you want to…

When you live in a spot where the sun comes up at 5AM and sets at 10PM, a good set of blackout curtains begins to look pretty good (that or use eyeshades but they are a little uncomfortable). So what are some good ones to try, well there are review sites like some unlikely places…

I hadn’t realized these tricks, but as I use the thing more, I’m learning, but for MacOS, here are some good things to know First is that you can actually add faces to the system. It is a little complicated, but in Mac Photos, what you do is to go to a Photo, and then…

Well, my trusty (like 10 year old) Datacolor Spyder3Elite is finally obsolete. Not because the sensor is bad, but because they don’t support it anymore. How sad is that! I’ve actually found color calibration is getting better, particularly if you use sRGB as the default. On this Benq 3200PT, Tom’s Hardware actually gives reasonably accurate…

OK, there is another urban myth which is, well it is obviously far better to keep my gasoline power car for as long as possible instead of getting a new EV. Or to ride the bus instead or take an Uber hybrid Urban myth #1: I should keep my old gas car This makes some…

Ok I’ve heard this a few times that since EVs use burn more carbon in making lithium ion batteries and the electricity uses coal and is dirty. In looking through the lifecycle analysis a few things fall out But the short answer is that EVs do have a higher footprint in manufacturing but because they…