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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 + ollama
What 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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Continue reading →: wp: giving up on Cloudways SSL last straw
Well, I’m nearly through my journey, the new Digital Ocean site is working well. It is sad I couldn’t upgrade the old one, but that’s the price of bare metal. The site I’m giving up on is Cloudways. I finally navigated through most of the problems, but the one that…
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Continue reading →: usb: Best USB C Cables and Magnetic adapter for a MacBook AirDave asked me what to get, well, I’ve been going through USB C cables like crazy and finally have found a reasonable combination for a MacBook Air is: MacBook Air Maximum Charging with iPhone The last thing to think about is the charger size. The default MacBook Air charger is…
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Continue reading →: wp: Redis Ubuntu Installation and PHP Opcode cacheOK, I spent a lot of time trying to figure both the Redis cache which caches various HMTL elements and the lower level PHP Opcode cache. For instance making sure there is no swap file so that Redis doesn’t thrash caching to disk instead of memory. Right now depending on…
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wp: InMotion Hosting 508 Resource Limit and VPN Blocking Cpanel
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Continue reading →: wp: InMotion Hosting 508 Resource Limit and VPN Blocking CpanelWell, I found the first issue with InMotion, I’m trying to auto post from tongfamily.com to three other servers (calvintong.com, richtong.com and richtong.org) and I got a 508 Resource limit error. I’ve never seen this before, you can look at Inmotion AMP > Cpanel > Resource Usage and it says…
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