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Continue reading →: av: Paradise found Thieaudio Monarch Mk II, Schitt Audio Vali 2+, Modi+, Shure TW2, Moondrop VARIATIONS
Ok, 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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Continue reading →: home: Sense power monitoring analysis
Well a few years ago, we got the Sense utility monitoring system. This has induction rings that go around the mains power of your house and then it transmits via WiFi to the cloud. This thing is great and has been really reliable. It attempts to sense various devices by…
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Continue reading →: goog: Automatically adding meetings to calendar
This by default doesn’t happen which is why I’ve been missing events, but if you want to automatically a meeting invite that appears in your calendar, you have to explicitly enable it. I’ve been missing a lot of meetings because I didn’t realize this. You have to do two things:…
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Continue reading →: nas: Synology disk operations go faster
One of the problems that I’ve been having is how slow the rebuild times and data scrubbing are. For instance, a rebuild of 12x20TB took 2 weeks! Turns out there is a parameter to get it all running buried inside Synology that is not just for RAID Resync speed, but…
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Continue reading →: ops: Mandatory 2-Factor Verification (aka 2-Factor Authentication
With the many ransomware and other hacks, it’s pretty clear that having more end-user security in addition to other things is vital. But the convenience of the password is still very high, but it’s time for even small organizations to tighten things up particularly if you have customer data floating…
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scan: New 2024 workflow with Vuescan and Silverfast and GIMP
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Continue reading →: scan: New 2024 workflow with Vuescan and Silverfast and GIMPAnother day, another dollar. As you know, I got a new Plustek OpticFilm 8200i and I had to learn the new SilverFast AI Studio and also GIMP so I can now export to 10-bit HEIC. The last time I tried HEIC, Preview wouldn’t generate it in 10 bits, darktable would…
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tech: Shure TWS 2 Adapter and Keychron Q1 Max interference
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Continue reading →: tech: Shure TWS 2 Adapter and Keychron Q1 Max interferenceOk, here is a weird one for you, I have a Shure TWS2 Bluetooth adapter which actually works great with my Moondrop VARIATIONS in-ear monitors. But when I use Bluetooth with my Keychron Q1 Max, I get stuttering and buffering issues. If I hook in the dedicated 2.4GHz wireless dongle…
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Continue reading →: pen: Cleaning your fountain pens
The one thing about the fountain pen world is that when you get one, they sort of expect you to know everything about it and half my pens don’t have instructions at all (Pilot is different that way). And I admit it, I’ve not cleaned these pens in three years,…
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Continue reading →: nas: Folder and file comparisons when moving and deleting
Well, one problem with all my data migrations is how to know what’s really in a folder. I want a kind of graphical indication of what is different and it should be a low-level check first with date and time and size and finally with a CRC. I’ve used GoodSync…
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Continue reading →: it: UniFi Switch turns off if DHCP IP conflict
OK, I returned home after a few weeks and discovered for whatever reason that the DHCP server in my UniFi DreamMachine Pro had shuffled all the addresses. This means that my three servers are now conflicting because of two problems: Solution: Set static IP addresses for the servers with DHCP…