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A Day Trip to Port Austin

June 12, 2022May 17, 2022 by Vik

Just randomly the Chauhan household minus the dogs decided to make a day trip to Port Austin, and The Thumb area of Michigan. If you don’t know what The Thumb is check this out. Port Austin is about 2 hour drive from Chesterfield, and the …

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Dresser Makeover

June 12, 2022May 30, 2022 by Vik

Before Our dresser as shown above in the photos went through a major makeover. This was always the plan, when we bought this used dresser off Craigslist. The original tan color was all worn out, and had marks all over. Worse thing is that the …

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Move from Plex to Apple Music

June 12, 2022May 29, 2022 by Vik

Over the weekend I decided to try out Apple Music. We’re invested in Apple ecosystem – have 2 Apple TVs, both wife and I have iPhones, and Apple Watches. I own MacBook Air, and a Mac Pro, and recently we bought a HomePod mini getting …

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Getting rid of Hot Tub

June 12, 2022May 19, 2022 by Vik

For a long time, the hot tub in our patio was a luxury that we could never enjoy. When we bought our Chesterfield house, we had high hopes that the hot tub will work, but it never did. When we got it looked at by …

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Create user, group and edit group membership in macOS

May 20, 2022April 9, 2022 by Vik

Quick commands to create user and group in macOS with specific uid and gid, and to add a specific user to newly created group. Add group sudo dscl . -create /Groups/<name> gid <gid> Add user sudo dscl . -create /Users/<name> sudo dscl . -create /Users/<name> …

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Every Little Bit Matters

May 16, 2022January 6, 2022 by Vik

Many a times we believe there is a secret special sauce to being a leader, and to motivate people. Reality is that, there is no single sauce. In fact, there are many tiny droplets of flavor into play, and that many of those we already …

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2021 Reading Challenge

May 16, 2022January 4, 2022 by Vik

My 2021 reading challenge was 8 books. I ended 2021 with only 6 books read, that’s 75% of the goal and 1 book every 2months. I seem to have failed in my challenge and for sure I would be considered one of the slowest readers …

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Restarting HDHomeRun Quattro

May 20, 2022January 4, 2022 by Vik

If you have an immediate need to reboot your TV Tuner but are feeling lazy to not go down to basement to your server room, then fear not, there’s a CLI called hdhomerun_config Download the binary from HDHR site: https://info.hdhomerun.com/info/hdhomerun_config Run the command hdhomerun_config 1076C29C …

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My Homelab

June 22, 2022January 4, 2022 by Vik

Current Modem Xfinity xb7 Firewall / Router / DHCP eero 2nd gen mesh wifi (6x units throughout the house) Local DNS & Ad Blocker (pi-hole) Dell 9020 SFF Intel i5-4570 8GB RAM 120GB SSD Network distribution HPE V1910-48G JE009A Switch (48-ports Gigabit) for wired ethernet …

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Wondering Why Settings aren’t getting saved in HP V1910?

June 12, 2022January 4, 2022 by Vik

HP V1910 is an excellent enterprise grade managed switch for homelab usage. You can easily get it for cheap on eBay. Now, as I was messing with management UI, I noticed my settings weren’t being saved. Well, it turned out that I needed to hit …

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