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Continue reading →: tech: Boneheaded manuveurs to avoid for USB and SynologyOK, I’ve two boneheaded things I’ve done this month. This is embarrassing because my last silly mistake was burning out half the USB C ports on my MacBook Pro 2017 by buying an off-brand USB dongle. Synology Loops Creation and RSTP and not STP OK, this is a strange one,…
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Continue reading →: home: truly bizarre problems, never move your HomePod to New house without removing it from Apple Home
This works be obvious but amazingly I’ve not found it noted on the internet. But one issue is that if you move Apple home devices from one home to another some truly bizarre things happen. I moved three HomePods, an Aqara hub and a safe alert fire alarm. The confusing…
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Continue reading →: tech: NuPhy Gem 80 on 2.4GHz USB RFI’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…
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Continue reading →: av: Paradise found Thieaudio Monarch Mk II, Schitt Audio Vali 2+, Modi+, Shure TW2, Moondrop VARIATIONSOk, 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…
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Continue reading →: home: Sense power monitoring analysisWell 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…
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Continue reading →: goog: Automatically adding meetings to calendarThis 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:…
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Continue reading →: wp: Cloudways vs Digital Ocean roll-your-own vs Full Hosted choicesWell, 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.…
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Continue reading →: nas: Synology disk operations go fasterOne 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…
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Continue reading →: ops: Mandatory 2-Factor Verification (aka 2-Factor AuthenticationWith 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…
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Continue reading →: scan: New 2024 workflow with Vuescan and Silverfast and GIMPAnother 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…
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