Once the Apple Vision Pro became available I instantly ordered it to test out 3 use cases: work monitor: use headset to be able to work in any place/condition with a comfortable large monitor gaming device: use headset as a streaming gaming platform anywhere personal IMAX: use headset to have unmatched movie-viewing experience anywhere. I’ve been using it on and off for about 3 weeks now. This post summarizes how it went for me.

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In this post I go over my move to Unify router, over a top-of-the-line Asus one, even though I got a new one just about a month ago. I used to like my Asus routers: they stroke a balance between performance, reliability user-friendliness and maintenance. “Balance” is a very important word here, because they did neither well. In fact, as my routing needs grew, even “well” became an issue. Commonly I’d need to run a couple networks: main network for all secure devices, guest network for, well, guests :), isolated guest network for all the non-US-made IoT thingies and one for gaming/mining/whatever.

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It started as an innocent idea concluding my 2022 Canada ski trip: what if we went to Japan for ski trip, instead of Canada? Indeed, sometimes the border crossing and car travel time would amount to a length of a direct SEA->HND. Japan was locked for travel at the time and we decided to commit to it softly, putting little hope on this actually coming to fruition. jumping ahead, a piece of contemporary japanese art Lo and behold: mid 2022 fall Japan has re-opened for tourism and the place we booked for stay did not go out of business because of Covid.

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My series 4 apple watch was purchased something like 4 years ago, just to help with running. With the release of the new Ultra and the battery on my trusty friend starting to show signs of wear, I was seriously considering an upgrade. That was, until a great deal on a Garmin 6s watch swooped in and I “took a bite”. This post serves as a recount my personal experience with the two, since they are truly different devices.

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Long time ago smart homes were hyped and the next generation of home automation. Beyond your analog timers and motion sensors, wouldn’t it be nice to have something a tad more sophisticated to manage all these signals? For the last couple years I’ve been growing my smart devices set and hopping between platforms. This post summarizes the journey, currently at Samsung Aeotec Hub stop. In place of intro… The moment one has an electrical device or switch, 2 maintenance problems arise, somewhat tied to each other:

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In this post I go about my journey into VPNs and conclude TailScale is the GOTO for anyone who needs a nice cheap connectivity tool asap. History Sooner or later one needs a VPN. Various reasons: test out UX/behavior from a different part of the world access your test server DMZ, while away from your test server LAN verify prices in other country pay your bills through your bank, while abroad Most people today, though, get it for privacy reasons.

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Few things motivate me more, than exciting new hardware and music. My last post has been over a year ago, and that was when Synology released new exciting NAS options. Side-tracking a bit, 920+ turned out to be well worth it’s money: a year later it’s still as performant as day 1, though I did have to disable the RW cache on it :). However today the new M1 Pro Max takes spotlight.

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Back in 2013 I got myself a Synology DS413j, which has proven to be a reliable companion for me though these 7 years. I used it for file backup, media streaming and as a TimeMachine destination pretty successfully. Any such station needs good drives to provide value, and drives, as many of us know, are pretty unreliable. In 7 years I replaced about 6: 2 were bad right after arrival, and another 4 went bad as the years went by.

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Учітеся, брати мої, Учітесь, читайте , І чужому научайтесь , Свого не цурайтесь! [Т. Г. Шевченко] На днях на очі потрапила чудова стаття, що непогано підсумовує міркування багатьох людей навколо мене(не дарма поширена більше 9 тис. раз). Текст відносно короткий, проте коментарів викликає чимало і, щоб, як то кажуть, “три рази не вставати”, я вирішив викласти свої коментарі сюди… Але, з початку, невеличкий ліричний відступ :) До появи інтернету щоденним джерелом інформації була газета, радіо, чи то пак телевізор.

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It’s rare that a blog has 0 images. Hosting them on the same box as the blog instance is the easiest solution, but it comes at a cost: disk space and page load speed. Unless you are a professional blogger, you are also not ready shell out many $$ for a CDN, so what options are there?

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