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Updated: Backup Network Storage using Backblaze Personal

Please note this is against TOS I do not take responsibility if you get banned. Backblaze Personal, as most of you know, is my recommended cloud backup platform. It’s cheap and has unlimited storage. The thing is you cannot use it on storage that isn’t direct connected to

Microsoft Parental Controls also Dark Patterns you Into using Edge

I set up Microsoft’s parental controls on someone’s account a while back and I manage it for her. Last night, she was panicking because she couldn’t access the internet. At first, I assumed it was due to time limits I might have set and forgotten about. But

Linkedin Verification

Had to use a verified LinkedIn profile to continue using the Action1 Free plan. What the actual fuck, they do a full scanning of your passport and then profile photos of you in order to verify. Felt like I was going through border patrol. We live in a world . This

Incompetent IT

I don’t know why there are so many incompetent IT people, especially in Israel. But there are. Here’s a quick documentation of what happened. My friend reached out and said that his Surface Pro with Snapdragon couldn’t be upgraded to Windows 11 Pro for Active Directory. I

Hoarder/Karakeep in Casa OS

I’ve been trying to get Hoarder, now called Karakeep, up and running on my Raspberry Pi for months. Every few months, I would go in and try to get ChatGPT or Gemini to code the correct YAML file for Docker. I couldn’t get it to work, and no

How to Sign up for Free Trials and not Get Screwed

I was under the impression this was common knowledge but apparently not. So here is how I no longer set 50 thousand calendar reminders, and still forget and get charged by my free trials.The trick is virtual credit cards. You can use any virtual credit card but I will

Voice-to-Text on Windows with local Processing

I’ve been going down a rabbit hole trying to find a good way to do transcription on Windows so I could do voice-to-text on Windows using local AI processing. Local processing is cool since it doesn’t destroy our environment ….. as much XD. After a bit of searching I

The Impending W10 EOL Apocalypse

Windows 10 going out of support is gonna be a shitshow. I don’t even know how to communicate with friends and family, that are going to miss the boat that the time is now to figure out what the plan is. The tariffs almost feel like collusion from Microsoft

WordPress Frustations

More and more WordPress shit seems to hit the fan, from constant founder drama, to everything being broken after updates, to everything needing to a be a plugin. Well here comes my icing on the cake that pushed me to doing a test version on Ghost. Yesterday I logged to

April 14 2025

It’s been a while since I last posted. I’m not sure why. I have a lot of things to do. I’m working on an advertisement for my editing services, and I might update my editing website. I need to improve my Obsidian workflow and daily task management;

Tech Literacy is at an All Time Low

I was reading an article this morning from The New Oil about how scams are evolving and how to avoid them. Inside the article, he writes, “as another interesting note, while people ages 34 to 44 tend to get scammed more often, people ages 18 to 24 tend to lose

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Remember its Steam Next Fest so you can try out a crapton of games for free

This is day 8 of #100DaysToOffload

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Framework Announcement

I don’t usually spam out blog posts when the news hits about things, but I am making an exception here as I found this super exciting. Framework, for those of you who don’t know, is the computer company that makes repairable and truly upgradeable products. Framework announced three

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Tools that just work: an Ode to my 13 year old kindle

A few different things all came together to write this post today. My Kindle’s battery died. The Kindle hubbub (though not relevant). A failure to find a self-hosted Instapaper alternative. And Juan’s article—Tools That Just Work. A bit of context, my everyday workflow for reading, as mentioned

Photography

WeekNotes Feb 2-14

Been a wild couple of weeks. Was having stability issues with my PC. Spent hours going in circles for a Notion+Obsidian alternative. Moved CRM’s for my editing business and drinking way too much coffee. PC Stability Issues I was having tons of memory issues in Battlefield 2042, and

Technology

A Spotify Alternative - Though you will no longer be part of the Navy.

Please support the artists you like by donating to them directly Following up on my wildly successful post about Netflix/Stremio. This is my current music stack and how you get rid of paid music streaming services. Please support the artists you like by donating to them directly Exporting your

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Incompetent It Technicians

I don’t claim to be the worlds greatest technician. I claim to be competent. Unfortunately the average technician I run into is incompetent. Wondering if other IT people reading this have the same experience or if it’s specific to where I live. My friend reached out to me

Site Update

I fucked up: Cleaning up your corner of the world

For years, I have been recommending Honey. I was under the impression they were tracking your web and purchasing behavior and selling it for advertising. Which, for me, was a fine tradeoff, as most people are already being tracked, and at least now they got something useful. Well, it turns

Site Update

2025 Moving Forward

Yes another 2025 post to spam your feed with . I split this and the previous post up as it was too overwhelming as one giant post. Some things I would like to post more about: * Self Hosting/My Homelab * Interacting more with the Indie/Smol web community with things like

Site Update

2024 Year In Review

It’s been a pretty good year for the blog, and I’ve implemented some stepping stones for a better year in 2025. In terms of writing I took on the 100 days to offload. I didn’t even get close, but I did end up writing way way more

Site Update

Site Optimiziations

Tweaked some stuff yesterday and loading speeds seem to be improved significantly . Removed these plugins Gwolle Guestbook – No usage so was removed Insert pages -cant remember what this was for Simple Guesbook – was installed for testing forgot to removed Site kit by google – Wasn’t doing anything for me Ultimate

Android

Why is visual voicemail not the standard on Android in 2024?

Is there some technical reason that this isn’t built in a feature to android? Why is it either a cell providers POC app (usually with a addon to your bill) or just not there? Actually drives me mad. And if you know of an app or service that I

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My Default Apps at the End of 2024

Following the rest of the blogosphere thanks to Robb Knight . I have also stolen Kev’s title please don’t sue me. I have a huge list of Techreccs as well with way more stuff than whats here. Please go check it out as I have spent an enormous amount