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

Back in July, it seemed that Thunderbolt 4 was just around the corner, but now its September and none have really appeared. I’m sure the chip shortage has been part of it. That along with the various requirements that Intel has put on it. But to review, the big advantage of Thunderbolt 4 isn’t speed…

Well, last year with the pandemic, the prices of 2019 television really fell, but through most of 2021, the prices have been high with shortages, but in the last few weeks, this about to be old stock, is falling again so it is not a bad time to buy. When looking at Rtings.com, there is…

Well, now that we have Hyperbackup working again, it’s time to make some fixes to the Synology volumes. In many ways, Synology is not super obvious how to work because they have their Control Panel and their applications and they spray various settings all over the place. Synology Working with the interface: Maximize windows The…

Well, for nearly a decade I had a single pair of Sidi cycling shoes and they lasted amazingly well. And to that, I used two sets of SpeedPlay X2 (steel) and X1 (titanium spindles) and I still use these today after 20 years which is kind of incredible when you think about it. And over…

OK, here is what they don’t tell you about pairing an AnnePro v2. The manual says that you should press the FN2 and then either the numerals 1, 2, 3 or 4 to get up to four bluetooth connections to any keyboard, but they are super unclear how to get it to work. From Reddit,…

ARgh, I somehow lost my Garmin 1030 bike computer in the haze of the COVID pandemic, it’s in a box somewhere, so what I have left is my Garmin 520 Plus and an old Garmin 800. I’ve actually gotten the 520 Plus to work pretty well, it doesn’t have a touch screen and because it’s…

Ok, I’ve been using Synology Hyperbackup for nearly a year now to end-to-end encrypt and backup all my personal photos to Google Drive. This is slow but a low cost way to have archival backup done. However in the last month, suddenly the backup started to fail so I tried to do another oauth to…

OK, if you have been moving things around your world, sometimes, you will do a ssh myserver and you will get a public key does not match, could be a man-in-the-middle attack. Well, this could be it or it could be that you’ve just rebuilt your network. If so, then you need to remove the…

OK, now that I’ve gotten Unifi up and running, here are some more minor details that have taken me a while to get right. The first is how you can refer to devices in your local network with a nice text name rather than an IP address, there are two mechanisms for this using the…

OK, if you have an old burglar alarm, it is probably throwing all kinds of false alarms and everything, so time to get an updated one. Before I had recommended Simplisafe as a low-cost alarm system with a low monitoring fee, but when you’ve used it for a while, it’s pretty clear that a better…