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

Seems like semi-aero is the way to go and I’ve got a bunch of standard tubes that don’t have enough stem to inflate properly. You need about 10mm to make sure that a presta tire pump works. ENVE has a nice table for this but basically Standard rim is 25mm…

With all the notes on security, figuring out what a good vpn has been hard and you probably do not want to use those $50 for life services, seems to be good to be true, so in looking over reputable providers: Private Internet Access. We’ve been using them for year,…

iOK, it takes forever, but I finally have the complete decoder ring for what you need to charge most EVs at home. TL;dr If you have a Bolt EV In stall a NEMA 14-50R plug (these are $8 parts, but you want an electrician since you will need a 50…

It has been at least 15 years since I last built up an AMD machine. We’ve looked at it over the years, but although AMD has been cheaper, they never had the single core performance that was even close and they chewed up power. Now however things have changed with…

Suddenly all of the managed sites I have have gone “white”. That is WordPress just returns nothing to a curl. This is apparently a very common thing and there are three common issues: You are out of PHP memory You have a bad plugin You have a bad theme. Change…

I’ve been using a combination of bluehost.com with phpgallery for private photos plus iCloud Photo sharing, but there are two problems: Bluehost.com shared hosting is just unbearably slow for this purpose, not surprising given the low fee, even with unlimited storage it takes a long time to load and managing…

Well I haven’t crashed the drone yet, but now it’s time to get the most quality video and photos from it, first some dumb things: For a long time I could not figure out how to change the resolution of the camera. I kept on going to the upper right…

I’ve been having this strange problem with Ubuntu 16.04 in VMware Fusion where it eventually fail with a graphics mode failure, it was horrible to debug but this is what helped: First when you have this kind of hang, see if you can get just a terminal windows with CTRL-ALT-F1.…

Wow this has gotten way easier thanks to cooksillustrated.com, sweethome.com and consumerreports.org. Subscriptions are required for the first and last but totally worth it: Tramontina. This is the Walmart.com has a knockoff Allclad triple-ply pans that can last a lifetime. For a limited time $109 gets you a set of…

Suppose you want to use Gsuite, but for low volume accounts you do not want to pay the $10/month. Here is what to do: Sign up for Gsuite for your vanity domain. Go to Gsuite/Apps/Mail/Routing and add a custom route with an additional recipient which is a free personal gmail…