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Samsung Odyssey G9 49″ Monitor macOS Settings

February 4, 2023February 4, 2023 by Vik

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 …

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Data Recovery (macOS)

December 29, 2022December 29, 2022 by Vik

This is a quick reference of different data recovery software (macOS). I had to use these after I accidentally deleted quite a lot of photos on my external drive. Many of the photos were from our recent India trip incl. birthday celebration for Oliver, and …

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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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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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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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Hostname Pings Don’t Work Post Eero – How to make ’em work

June 12, 2022May 30, 2020 by Vik

Just got Eero to replace Google Onhub Routers. Quickly found out that Eero lacks a DNS server which means I cannot access any of my home servers using their hostnames. Also, all my home servers were not showing any hostnames in Eero App which was …

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Trick 3: Bulk Download 4K Wallpapers (Updated)

June 12, 2022August 24, 2019 by Vik

Way way back in 2015, I wrote this post about auto downloading huge amount of 4k wallpapers. That trick worked very well. Now this trick is essentially an enhanced version of that trick. Previously, with downloading, the file names were pretty insignificant, representing only the …

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Fixing Net View on Windows 10

May 20, 2022June 8, 2019 by Vik

I had a really frustrating time fixing errors related to Windows “net view” command as well as seeing  other computers running SMB service in the “Windows Network” explorer. Issue Network explorer will not show any Computers “net view” command would result in “System Error 1231” …

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