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Continue reading →: photo: Argh Canon Pro 9000, Passport Photos, and HP Color LaserJet M478What a pain, I’ve had a really high-quality printer, the Canon Pro 9000 for years now, but Canon has unfortunately stopped supporting drivers for it. I have probably $200 worth of ink left and like my other Canon (which died some horrible hardware death). There was a rumble that the…
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Continue reading →: wp: InMotion WordPress and Restore from CloudwaysWell, I am now spending $30/month on Digital Ocean, $60/month on Cloudways and I can’t update my Digital Ocean Ubuntu 20.04, the dist-upgrade keeps failing and the Cloudways thing is just unbearably slow. Ironically, I’m finding the $10/month Inmotion Hosting to be much faster than a virtual server, but I…
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Continue reading →: apple: Utterly confusing sharing AirPods from a single iPhone or iPadThis is such a cool gesture, but I have to confess I simply always forget how to use it. No, you can’t find it in settings or anywhere sane like that. Even the Apple instructions are super unclear but here is exactly what to do: So that’s not too bad.…
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Continue reading →: tvl: Tessan 140W, Satechi 145W and Anker MagGo blinking and Cable StrangenessOK, I’ve been trying to reduce my kit while traveling a lot and the Tessan 140W Universal Travel Charger seems like a wonderful thing if I can figure out how to make it work as does the Belkin 3-in-1 Travel charger with the same issues. Tessan 140W Universal Travel Charger:…
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Continue reading →: Blog: Life Beyond WordPress to JAMStackAs I’ve mentioned, I’m trying to get to a stable WordPress for a long time and maybe this time I’ll do it. JAMStack is creatingly better for vanity sites, but maybe this time for my blog as well. Well, just before the pandemic, I tried to get out of WordPress…
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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 SynologyOK, 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 →: tech: NuPhy Gem 80 on 2.4GHz USB RFI’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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