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Continue reading →: gw: Adding aliases with Google WorkspaceI don’t really know why they’ve made this so incredibly hard, but if you have a startup and want to save a little cash, you can forward rich@coolstartup.com to rich@gmail.com and all your mail there arrives in Gmail and you don’t have to pay for an additional account. The setup…
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Continue reading →: cell: Transfer T-Mobile One to US Mobile Unlimited Flex
This was a hard decision, but thanks to Mike at T-Mobile, we had a nice plan which was basically $30/month with unlimited data in the US. However as T-Mobile One degraded (first we lost unlimited data roaming so it is only 2G roaming, then it was capping of bandwidth, then…
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Continue reading →: life: Credit Card RecommendationsOne of the great life hacks at least in the US is figuring out what credit cards you should have. Getting a credit card early (and never using it) is one of the easy ways to get to the magical 800+ credit card rating, so here are some recommendations (by…
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Continue reading →: dev: 1Password lockout and asdf direnv get out of Jail CardHappy New Years everyone, some quick notes on things I’ve fixed in the last two days. Nice to really clean things up. If you lose your 1Password Well, Paul lost access to his 1Password (brand new) and also to a 2FA’ed Google Workspace. Here are the notes about how this…
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Continue reading →: tech: Cool things Brompton C-line and ZWO Seestar S50Well, it’s holiday time and some things to keep an eye on. We got a Brompton bicycle over the summer (thinking we would need it at Burning Man, but sadly didn’t go). Anyway, it’s an awesome bicycle and Amex right now has a $300 off if you spend $1500 at…
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Continue reading →: sw: Passport Photos Redux and OBS Screen capture and Mac Compressor 10008 Error fixesOK, the last 12 hours have featured lots of frustrations. Basically, we needed to get a passport photo taken and in the past its been pretty easy to get a shot done, but this latest round, they really upped the criteria, there has to be no shadows whatsoever and we…
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Continue reading →: pen: Christmas is Cool Pen Season!Well every year, there are huge ups and downs, but in the end, I hope we are all grateful for what we have and have a plan for the future that makes it even better. To that end, I started to collect and use fountain pens and it has been…
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Continue reading →: buy: Luggage for a LifetimeWell, we’ve actually had pretty good luck with luggage. We mainly use the two wheeler rollers and an old eBags one has lasted 20 years (I admit about three were during the pandemic, but still). It is fraying at the edges, but having an expandable 22″ bag is just really…
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Continue reading →: hw: Battle of ASM246x Controllers ZikeDrive Z666 vs Hagibis ASM246x and Cables and docks matterWell a few months ago, I got the really terrific (but expensive at $119) ZikeDrive Z666 and it has held up well with its AM2464PD controller, with a nice 7GBps drive inside of it, it has reliably delivered really great performance with the AmorphousDiskMark, I was getting these numbers. Note…
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Continue reading →: dev: Ngrok + open-webui + ollamaWhat a great setup, you can nearly duplicate all the stuff that requires the cloud on your local machine. While open-webui really likes using docker, I have to say that the overhead is pretty big particularly when all that is really going on is the need to isolate python environments.…
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