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New Phone
After four years of good service, the battery on my iPhone 8+ finally got to the point it needed replacing. After reviewing the options and expecting my new phone to survive for four more years. I decided to get the 256GB iPhone 12 Max. The bigger screen is excellent. However, it is taking some adjusting […]
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Reasonable Options for Backing Up A NAS in 2021
What are your reasonable options for backing up a 16TB NAS in 2021? External Hard Drive? Pros: Interface Portability. You do not need any new software or hardware. Ability to reuse older hardware: Assuming you have a used drive large enough to hold all your backups. Cons: Interface instability: USB3 drives especially are bad at […]
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Fifth Two Weeks Posting Review
I missed the fifth two weeks outright and only got a few articles in during the fourth two weeks. Adjusting over to my new job has been difficult. A lack of non political topics really hasn’t helped either.
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Matomo: Impressive and Useful
I discussed migrating from Google Analytics and Jetpack to Matomo in a previous post. However, I haven’t used it for a significant amount of time. I am finding it very useful. There are two ways you can self-host Matomo. As a plugin for WordPress or as an independent web application. The WordPress plugin is the […]
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Explanation for the Absence.
I spent last week working on passing my Life Provider exam for Oklahoma. I have now passed it. It will take another week to get my license but I will be a licensed life insurance agent soon.
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Goodbye Jetpack
After doing some research on alternative analytics options, I have removed Jetpack. Matomo can do everything Google Analytics and Jetpack can without any data sharing.
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Automatically Starting Exactly One ssh-agent
I use SSH keys to protect all of my SSH logins. The following shell code starts only one ssh-agent and adds all ssh-keys to that agent. I recommend adding it to your ~/.bashrc file, so the proper environment variables are set up.
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Third Two Week Posting Challenge Review
For these last two weeks, I have posted eight days out of ten applicable days. I am running out of ideas that don’t involve politics, and training for my new job has impacted my free time. Most of the problem is finding nonpolitical topics.
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This isn’t A good move.
Shame on both DELL and AMD for this. It doesn’t improve security and makes ewaste an even bigger problems.
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Job Changes
A day or two after I posted my complaint about businesses not training employees, I accept an offer at a company that does train their employees. Yay. I am not sure how it is going to affect my post rate here though. —Robert