Posted on 2024-03-30 in misc • Tagged with technical, home automation • 4 min read
We have two, basic, Eufy robovacs in our house. I have them set on a schedule to run (well, it's a little more complicated than that, but let's just go with that), but that's about the only automation I have with them. I decided I wanted to keep track …
Posted on 2023-11-21 in misc • Tagged with technical, home automation • 4 min read
For many years, I have had some form of home automation in my home. I used to have a few x10 devices that I used on my aquarium to control lights. We eventually purchased a security system that had z-wave support, and then we had a few devices connected …
Posted on 2023-02-01 in misc • Tagged with technical, howido • 2 min read
Almost a year ago, I had posted that I had been happily using mutt and davmail for all my mail. I was mostly happy with it, but doing calendar appointments with people, getting HTML emails, and too many people sending me screenshots, I ended up going back to Thunderbird.
Another …
Posted on 2023-01-17 in misc • Tagged with technical, how-to • 1 min read
After running a basic restic backup script that I randomly found on the internet at some point, I decided to make it a bit of my own. Specifically I wanted to get matrix notifications working, but I also added some error checking and a little bit of lock handling …
Posted on 2022-11-21 in misc • Tagged with technical, rant • 6 min read
It's apparently official, the Teams progressive web app is now available. There is nothing particularly magic about this "release", so everything I have already bitched about is still going to be that same suck fest. But now there will be even new ways to suck, as it will be …
Posted on 2022-11-09 in misc • Tagged with technical, how-to • 4 min read
For many years, I had paid for a CrashPlan home user plan and backed up all my systems with that. It was pretty simple, had a basic "set-it-and-forget-it" kind of thing going for it. 5 years ago, they ended the Home user version and were only offering a small …
Posted on 2022-10-14 in misc • Tagged with technical, how-to • 6 min read
One of the main reasons I wanted the Keycron K8 pro instead of any of the other Keychron options was the QMK firmware. Updating macros, and normal keys using VIA is handy, but doesn't let you do the more complicated things like MOD-TAP which I wanted for my CAPSLOCK key …
Posted on 2022-10-14 in misc • Tagged with rant, technical • 46 min read
Note
I originally wrote this on 2021-03-11. I have kept this up-to-date with my various gripes and frustrations (and even the few things that have been fixed) as I come across them.
I have used instant messaging programs essentially since the world wide web began. I have used IRC …
Posted on 2022-09-27 in misc • Tagged with rant, technical • 2 min read
Like many Microsoft products, I do not care for OneNote at all. I dislike the text placement box, I hate the organization that is vaguely skeuomorphic and mimics a physical notebook. I just don't like it. But today I am going to present some absolute stupidity. This stupidity may be …
Posted on 2021-07-21 in misc • Tagged with technical, howido • 4 min read
Email is one of those "necessary evils" in the world. There is pretty much no way around it, though things like Teams tries (and fails because it's a giant POS). Until Teams, Outlook was my most-hated MS creation. I think it is a jumbled mess of crap that complicates email …