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Continue reading →: tech: 1Password for Safari hangWow, what a strange problem. 1Password has been pretty reliable for me and the Safari extension has never given trouble, but two days ago, I got to the point where Safari would open, then the keyboard would lock and the Safari menu bar changed to the 1Password menu items. Very…
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Continue reading →: bike: Rebooting bike electronics Lumos, Stages, Garmin, HammerheadWell, I haven’t ridden my bike outside in over 18 months and with all this electronic gear, it is a mountain of work to get it running again, so here are some notes on getting: Shimano Dii 11-Speed Shifting Shimano DII 11-speed Derailleur. This one is a little cranky. You…
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Continue reading →: tech: USB RF Dongle Keychron Q2 MaxOK, I had this problem where the high-speed USB RF dongle failed on my Keychron. Those folks have great support and asked me what the serial number is. Just beware that unlike many products, the Q2 Max doesn’t have a serial number on the keyboard itself, you have to make…
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Continue reading →: tech: Too many Keyboards Keychron, NuPhy, GMK…
You know you have too many keyboards when you forget the four builds you’ve done and how they are constructed, so here’s a review of current keyboards and this is an update to my 2022 rankings of my daily drivers: So here are the keyboards that I’ve been using by…
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Continue reading →: net: On UniFi, do not turn up RSSI too highWell after that long post about RSSI levels, I learned something important which is that if you set the RSSI too high, I have too low a value then you have the following problems: So the net is that I turned up all the APs to -67 and the result…
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Continue reading →: net: A day spent fixing three (subtle) UniFi network bugsOK, I spent a very profitable Saturday finally figuring out some things about the Ubiquiti UniFi network that we have. As UniFi has become more focused on enterprise deployments, the interface has become more powerful and also harder to figure out how to use for simple cases, but here are…
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Continue reading →: tech: Boneheaded manuveurs to avoid for USB and Synology
OK, 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 RF
I’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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