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You Need A Password Manager

02 December 2022

Just, make sure it’s not LastPass. They have once again suffered a breach in their security today (December 2022) with their last breaches occurring just a few months ago in August 2022, and another one a few years earlier. For a security based company…

I Just Lost All My Data, But It’s OK.

12 August 2022

The inevitable happened to me today. I had something fail, and it’s wasn’t just a “little” something, either. My Synology DS1515+ NAS just won’t power on. This is the device that houses basically all of my data. I’ve got it configured in a RAID setup (…

Schools Spy On You.

01 August 2022

Chances are that you, one of your children, or at very least someone you know is taking school classes online. This number has obviously exploded with the pandemic and basically the entirety of the world’s schooling being virtual, however at this point…

Laundry Is Dumb. Make It Smart.

24 January 2022

I’ve automated a good portion of my own home and that of many others over the years. Rarely it’s an easy task, complications come quickly, and navigating endless integrations is near impossible for people who aren’t tech-savvy. That’s arguably one of t…

More Expensive Than Gold : Printer Ink

09 January 2022

Have you ever owned a printer, more specifically anything that called itself a BubbleJet, InkJet or any one of the other ridiculous names they used? You’re probably already in pain reading this. However if you own a LaserJet, maybe you’re still smiling…

Why The Facebook Outage Should Be A Wakeup Call

08 July 2021

If you haven’t heard about this, I think I am deeply envious of you. It likely means you live a life that has next to no contact with the news at large, and especially social media. But, for the other 99% of us we all know Facebook (and it’s child…