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Well, if I have frustrated by all that horrible spam and Bluehost have been great but even with Spam Experts and Spam Assassin, we still get way more spam. I originally just wanted to make Gsuite just filter messages and send them back to Bluehost for deliver, it turns out that…

Hat tip to my Tesla friends, while Washington doesn’t have nearly the incentives that California does for electric vehicles, they do have $500 off of a level 2 ev charger. Hard to find, but once you do super worth it. Also you can get power strips that reduce vampire draw…

I have not seen this discussed too much, but we use iCloud Photo Library extensively to save old photos. We try to stay in the free 5GB tier, so the algorithm is: Use iCloud Photo Library like the old Photostream, but it saves all photos up to the 5GB limit.…

If you are getting a new car, here are some indispensable accessories to go with it: Tire Pressure Gauge. It’s huge but it is reliable and easy to use. All analog and no batteries. LED Flashers. Yes you need batteries, but they are way better than flares Flashlight. You need…

If you have a company and you are merging or getting acquired, then what’s the easiest way to get the data across. Turns out this is a little tricky. But the basic things to understand are: There is the concept of an owner for a file. This is the user…

You would think there would be an easy FAQ if you have an Electric Vehicle, turns out that after navigating through all the many sites, here are the easy steps, if you aren’t lucky enough have the plug and play Tesla. First the plug nightmare As usual with the start…

1. Right now the easiest thing to do is to get a NAS box which supports 4-12 bays. I personally use Synology for this, they are reasonably cheap and they keep their linux based system up to date. (You can even run docker containers on it). Idk how much future…

Wow now that UltraHD is now a thing and you can buy UHD Blu-ray, how do you think about encoding all of this. Well here are some of the things to know: X.265 (aka HEVC). This is the latest encoding format. Think of it as life beyond X.264 (aka MPEG-4).…

If you like your spiffy new mechanical keyboard but want to use it on a Mac, you need to map the Command key and Option key around because on a Mac, it goes Control, Alt or Option and then Command whereas on a Windows keyboard it is Control, Windows-Key and…

Google Drive has some pretty hard to understand semantics when it comes to sharing folders and files. When a file or folder is shared with you, they are not synced to your desktop, they live in a special place called ‘Shared With Me’ So they do not take any of…