Our house came with outdoor speakers installed but there wasn’t a way to play music on those because there wasn’t any audio receiver connected. These are passive speakers so would require an amplifier (or full blown audio receiver) to power them. Buying a receive is …
I recently grabbed an Intel Arc A380 GPU for $99. This was on a whim after learning from the forums that this card actually excels at transcoding, and popular among Plex enthusiasts. Decided to try it out. The setting up of card and it showing …
Configuring NFS is a simple but can be a frustrating experience esp. if you are trying to export an NFS root. Here’s step by step instructions that helped me. On the server where NFS is configured, path is /storage. Let’s call this server nas. This …
While trying to create a brand new zpool from Proxmox GUI, I was facing an error. This was partly solved by New SSDs not showing correct Serial# in Proxmox Disk Manager so at least in Proxmox, correct Serial#s were showing in the zpool creation screen …
I faced a weird issue. I added 5x identical brand new consumer grade SSDs to my DL380P, and inside Proxmox disk manager, they all showed up as having Serial#s as 0s, see below. Upon looking further, it appeared that Proxmox is using ID_SERIAL from udevadm. …
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I recently had to reset admin password for my home network switch. I had to look around on multiple forums on the internet for instructions, and was finally able to figure out how to do it. I thought of sharing the instructions in this post …
After moving to our new house recently, I decided to go all Apple Homekit for my smart devices. Our previous homes were all Z-wave and Zigbee. In the first house we turned into a smart home, it was Wink, then came SmartThings. There was a …
I picked up this monster size monitor a year ago. It is truly ginormous and gives me plenty of screen real estate. I had it hooked up to my MacBook and everything worked perfectly fine until I upgraded macOS to Ventura and lost the Scaling …
I came across this visual just recently, and it has quickly become my favorite visual to depict organizational complexity and ambiguity. If you are like many of us, who have had to deal with that, then you know the countless hours spent debating about things. …
Steve Jobs on the intersection of thinking and doing: “My observation is that the doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker and doer in one person. And if we really go back and …