Just over a year ago I wrote about a trip to Champaign Illinois to visit a friend who lost someone in the line of duty. The experience was humbling for me to say the least. In light of all the things going on in the world, for me the Police …
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How To Automate Lighting With Plex Playback
As my Plex setup and my Home Theater have evolved I am always looking for new ways to improve the usability and function of the combined experience. I actually did this a while back and just now got to documenting it, but the requirement I had was to operate the …
Read More »How To Identify a Verizon Wireless Scammer
Today I got an unusual call (not a text) from Verizon Wireless, which frankly never happens, so I decided to let it go to voicemail. What I learned after the caller left the message is something I wanted to share so that others can learn from this and hopefully Verizon …
Read More »How To Migrate Single Ombi Docker Instance to MySQL/MariaDB
I’ve been a major fan of Plex since someone got me on the kick a few years back. Anyone that knows me my setup is no joke. One of the best aspects of the entire infrastructure is Ombi which is so well written and useful it’s amazing it’s open sourced. …
Read More »The Most Common Mistake Made in VMware vSphere Networking
It seems I have had a number of the same conversations in recent weeks about a very particular topic, and some could argue a design flaw, with the most basic of VMware vSphere deployments. This has to do with using an overly simplistic deployment whereby the ESX host is only …
Read More »Did I Let Myself Down?
I woke up today, in a sense, hating myself. I’m going to disclose something only a handful people knew about 8 months ago when I wrote the post below. Today was to be my last day. My last day working in technology. My last day on any and every social …
Read More »Shine Bathroom Assistant Review (They’re Dead)
Updated 2/18/22: Today I got a notification that the company has filed a “General Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors“, which according to Cornell Law School is basically an alternative to bankruptcy. So guess that means nothing is going to matter about this company after all. The Shine Bathroom Assistant …
Read More »How To Properly Install Dual Rinnai Tankless Water Heaters
I have lived in my house now that we built for just about 8 years. Something that always bugged me was the performance of the dual Rinnai RL94 units the original plumber installed. For some reason this has been the year of “water” for me and I started paying more …
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