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Continue reading â: nas: Synology Disk Not supported by this version of DSMArgh, what a pain, I had thought I could just swap disks to different Synology machines, but it turns out my software on my flavors of Synology NAS (RP2423+, DS2413+(Continue Reading)
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Continue reading â: photo: Plustek OpticFilm 8200i with Silverfast 9 vs Vuescan 9 and ProPhoto and 10-bit HEIC rulesI’ve been using Vuescan forever and get the many quirks, but since my dear old Minolta Dimage 5400 died, I needed a new scanner and the Plustek OpticFilm 8200i is(Continue Reading)
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Continue reading â: wp: Amazify is dead long live Auto Tagger for Amazon and Cookie handling
OK, I discovered my Amazon Affiliate application Amazonify died silently, and suddenly I am not covering even the modest $20/month hosting charge. That’s not a big deal, but I thought(Continue Reading)
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Continue reading â: wp: Fail at WordPress on Cloudways vs Digital Ocean (and Bluehost)OK, wow that was pretty easy, migrated to Cloudways with their migration tool and I was shocked at how simple this was, it ported with their plugin including the Cloudinary(Continue Reading)
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Continue reading â: gt: Wow Grace’s Dance was great!Well Grace Tong continues to rock it. Back on March 30, 2024, Zoo! by Grace Yi-Li Tong happened at the Flushing City Hall to a really nice review. I’m biased(Continue Reading)
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Continue reading â: wp: Migrating to Cloudways from DigitalOceanOK, I’ve been managing my WordPress instance on a DigitalOcean droplet for the past four years. It has been faster than my old Bluehost, but costs have been rising, so(Continue Reading)
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Continue reading â: tech: Time Machine Backups to Synology again and Gregory Alpaca Duffels
Well, since I’m now rebuilding my MacBook 2014 for the third time and the MacBook Pro 2010 for the second, it’s time once again to think about backups. I have(Continue Reading)
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Continue reading â: tvl: Overseas making and receiving calls like a localSo if you are traveling around the world things have gotten a lot better. Most phone plans have global roaming (the T-Mobile 5GB/month of free international roaming is great). But(Continue Reading)
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Continue reading â: edc: Hobonichi Notebooks deep, deep dive
OK, this is only for true nerds, but I was listening to April’s Stationary Cafe podcast and saw on her Penguin Creative and then directly to Hobonichi Notebooks. I had(Continue Reading)
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Continue reading â: tech: Authy 2FA failed me now onto 1Password and iCloud Keychain
Argh, what a stupid thing I just did! Authy which is now owned by Twilio is discontinuing their desktop versions. That is a real pain for me as I do(Continue Reading)
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