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Continue reading →: Different control keys and Natural scrolling on Windows
OK, since I’ve been using Windows a bit, the hardest thing for a Mac user is that different order of the CTRL, Windows and ALT keys for Windows vs. the Mac use of Ctrl, Option and Command. The big issue is that the copy and paste are in different places…
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Continue reading →: Getting back to realistic Milsim and Naval Simulators
OK, I have not been playing computer games for a long time and in the beginning, I just loved realistic simulation games like Harpoon (boring to look at, but so interesting), F-15 Strike Eagle, and F-16 Fighting Falcon. In that era in the 1980s and 1990s, there was a big…
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Continue reading →: Trying to get on new WiFi networks with captive portals first disable ad blockers
Wow, what a pain, every time I end up at say Alaska Airlines WiFi, airport WiFi or the UW WiFi or Hilton, there is a so-called captive portal that needs to turn on. And with all the security and threat management, it is hard to figure out what to disable…
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Continue reading →: Doing Github PR merges from the command line and fixing Pipenv files
OK, so the good thing is that GitHub generates all kinds of updates on Python packages which are pretty low level. For instance, it will look at PIpfile.lock and tell you for instance that Pillow needs to be at least version 9.0.1 or that a notebook needs to be at…
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Continue reading →: Doing UHD Blu-ray backups with Handbrake on an M1 Max Pro
Well, this is pretty amazing, right now, I’m doing a live Slack and also a full UHD Blu-ray backup. And it is running at an incredible frame rate, the CPU is at 80% and the GPU is at 20%, and 57% of the RAM (of a 64GB machine). Here are…
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Continue reading →: US Mobile for low cost data access
OK, I finally decided to try a different provider for work. For our home, T-Mobile has just been awesome as a nationwide carrier, but for work, we can’t just use T-Mobile, we need Verizon coverage as well, in looking at the options, US Mobile is an MVNO that is backed…
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Continue reading →: Argh the nightmare of a remote UniFi installation understand POE power and broken Mac Unifi Controller
Ugh, I feel so silly right now, I spent the last week trying to make a remote installation of UniFi work without a UniFi Dream Machine (or UniFi Router) as they are both out of stock. This is going to be a mobile installation that uses UniFi WiFi 6 Enterprise…
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Continue reading →: Backup Strategy 2022 Now USB Copy and BackBlaze
OK, I finally am close to having our key family photos backed up properly, but I’m getting there, the goal was to get storage at the minimum 3:2:1 level, that is 3 backups with 2 local and one in the cloud, so here is where we are and it is…
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Continue reading →: Kodi with Synology Password Protected SMB Shares on Unifi networks
I’ve used Kodi for a long time so that I can get my high bit rate 4K HDR films off a dedicated file server. It actually works great for really full quality home movies and things when you don’t want compression artifacts. The truth is that most 4K we watch…
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Continue reading →: DJI Mavic 2 Zoom and Enterprise with Smart Controllers Strangeness
OK, I’ve been using drones for a long time, but there are some really confusing and really complicated, but this was my first time using these two drones with the Smart Controllers. I’ve been using my trusty DJI Phantom 3 and DJI Mavic Pro for a long time, so this…