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Continue reading →: tech: Synology NAS performance is 200 MBps and 500/700 IOPS good?OK, now that we have our disk arrays in order, I was curious to see what performance is like. First some basics, with hard disks, performance is a little hard to understand. The short answer is that two things are going on, The first is, that you have the data…
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Continue reading →: Tech: Review list and need for Gateron MelodicsWell, I told you what I bought (Keychron Q2 Max, Alpaca V2, and GMK Muted Retro but not why I bought them). Here are all the reviews stuck on my iPhone fro that: What’s all this about the Hall effect Yes, it’s sort of the latest trend but it lets…
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tech: Crazy Keyboards Keychron Q2 Max, GMK Retro and Alpaca V2
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Continue reading →: tech: Crazy Keyboards Keychron Q2 Max, GMK Retro and Alpaca V2OK, since my Anne Pro keyboards are all in some sort of Bluetooth hell, I realized that I only have one wireless keyboard, a Keychron K6 with U4T and YMDK Shinethrough Pudding Keys. This has been a great keyboard and I really like the thocky sound somewhere between a click…
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Continue reading →: mac: More OCLP MacBook 2014 Graphics Issues no All Photos
OK, I’ve already documented a bunch of issues with the graphics support in my slightly strange Crystal Well MacBook Pro 2014 with an Iris Pro and discrete NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M processor, but as we found out the graphics display doesn’t work for things like Safari, Apple Maps and things…
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Continue reading →: tech: Synology reset, LACP move to ordinary portIf you are unlucky like me and you have 2FA on and then you swap disks, suddenly you are unable to use 2FA. So the solution is to do a Mode 1 reset. That means you find the reset at the back of the NAS and then press it for…
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Continue reading →: tech: Wait for Synology rebuild, SHR2 > RAID6 and Drive Order mattersOK, we finally have things in place and we’ve been copying files from an older SHR (Synology Hybrid RAID) system to a newly created SHR2 (this allows two levels of redundancy). The problem is that for the first week, I was only seeing 100MBps transfer rates, but the underlying disks…
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Continue reading →: Mac: Anne Pro 2 Bluetooth broken and new Keyboard Guide
Well, I have three of these Anne Pro keyboards and they are inexpensive keyboards with Jade Box White, Gateron Blue, and Gateron Brown keys. I’ve liked how small they are as 60% keyboards, but recently on my M1 Mac, they are having Bluetooth trouble. They are greyed out on the…
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Continue reading →: net: Jumbo frames for all!OK, as I’ve been moving terabytes of data around with the NAS rearrangement, I remembered that I haven’t optimized the network itself. We have a nice UniFi network switch and the NASes are on either dual 1GBe with LACP or 10GBe. So with these things, one of the things you…
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Continue reading →: tech: Broken Apple Photos, HomePod Hang, Bash Arrays, Reverse Image Search, HomebridgeOk, it’s fix things Sunday, so here are the small things that I’ve been trying to fix and their status: Programming Bash Tip While no one in the next decade will ever write a program again, here are some tips if you still are in the last decade 🙂 Bash…
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Continue reading →: Pod. Well cool, making your own Video Page
I spent too much time getting my YouTube playlists in order, but its useful to have booked marked tutorials and things since so much content is there now. The basic WordPress supports in the Guttenberg Block Editor, just the embedding of a single YouTube Video. You just copy a link…
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