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Continue reading →: What the heck is an Uno Lamp?
Ok, I have a great we have an Ikea light that is a little strange. The shade disintegrated. It is ten years old and had a plastic shade that literally got so brittle it just broke apart. The system is really different, rather than having a harp, the shade actually…
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Continue reading →: My NAS is full a hard disk review on to Seagate X20
OK, during the pandemic, I’ve been putting off the day when I need to fill up my drive again and now I have 10GB free in a 42TB disk array. Yikes. Fortunately, the disk system (a Synology DS2413+) has 12 drive bays and there are two free ones. The system…
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Continue reading →: Keyboards Revisited and the new top rankings
OK, I got a bunch of keyboards over the last week and here now is the review of my favorites in classic reverse top 10 order. It is actually hard to review this since keyboards are a combination of three things, the keyboard itself, the key switches which make the…
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Continue reading →: The Matrix Screensaver
Well, with Matrix Resurrection out, I’m just shocked at how good it looks in HDR. A great reason to get a new television with these HDR focused films like No Time to Die or Dune coming out now. But it reminded me that I loved the Matrix screensavers when they…
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Continue reading →: Headlamps 2020 and the Zebralight H600 and stuck batteries
Well, I have a collection of sort of bright to super bright headlamps and four years ago, I got the Coast FL85 which is a 600 lumen super bright headlight that uses three AAA batteries. Sadly although it has a lifetime warranty even while used indoors, the switch finally failed.…
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Continue reading →: Superhuman hidden commands to top and bottom are gg and G
Argh, this has been frustrating for two years, I’ve looked and looked for the Superhuman commands that would take you to the very top of a mailbox or to the very bottom and nothing seems to list it. But finally, I had the inspiration to just try the Vi equivalent…
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Continue reading →: Synology Video Server and Hyperbackup
OK, I have a Synology and I have to admit I use about 1% of the applications that are there, you can run docker containers, they have all sorts of dedicated applications, but to reduce the attack surface area for various SmartHome devices, I like to have purpose devices since…
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Continue reading →: More Vimism with z and g commands
OK, it does seem like such a deep product but there always seem like a few new things to learn with vi. Here are some really useful ones. The g and z commands arrived because they were relatively unused. So here’s a quick list of useful ones zz. I’ve always…
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Continue reading →: In for a penny, fully custom keyboard with U4T, YMDK 117, and Keychron K6 (K8 Pro)
OK, I’ve been spending way too much time in the keyboard hobby, now that I have basically every variant of factory-made keyboards, it’s time to go off the deep end and build my own keyboard, so here is what I’ve learned for those of you who want to dive deep.…
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Continue reading →: MacBook, iPad, and iPhone purchase recommendations Winter 2022
OK, so all the Apple announcements last year, it’s hard to know exactly what to buy but here are some recommendations thinking about a typical user who does mainly browsing and using the Internet and then a more hard-core user who is into video editing, photography, etc. The main resource…