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Well in the old days, there was a thing called SLI which basically had two video cards and they each took a line of a display, so you could get(Continue Reading)

Auto blog has good advice. We had never leased before and were completely noobs. Lessons are The lease Company has a contractor who inspects your car. Meet them in person(Continue Reading)

It’s a little confusing, but Amazon has no less than three different places to buy things. From someone who used to work there, here’s how you should think about where(Continue Reading)

Kodi (formerly XBMC, formerly Xbox Media Connect) has been an awesome tool for us to have a nice front end so that handles all the DVDs and other things we(Continue Reading)

ARgh, yet another fall out of the Corona Virus that they don’t talk about much, but if you are buying from Amazon, getting things from China doesn’t seem to be(Continue Reading)

OK, when you have terabytes of data at home, you definitely will. have losses. I’ve had a bad RAID array that corrupted a bunch of JPEGs and it is super(Continue Reading)

OK, lots of opinions will vary about the ultimate effects and so forth, but here’s a collection of various people’s opinions about the extent of it. Some are pretty technical,(Continue Reading)

I never really understood where iMovie Theater was coming from. Once you make an iMovie, then it went into a separate video sharing system called Theater. Well, that has all(Continue Reading)

OK, now that I’m all btrfs on this Synology, there are ton of implications. The big one is that this is a Copy-on-write file system. That means, that, normally when(Continue Reading)

OK, I finally got a message I’ve been avoiding for two years. One of my disk arrays is finally at capacity. So time now in 2020 to think about what(Continue Reading)