Backing up TrueNAS to a second remote server with Tailscale
It’s been quite some time since I had to abandon using CrashPlan Pro for backups when I found out that the limit of “unlimited” is 10TB per system. I would have simply sharded my...
Author: Jesse
Didn’t we all hate middle school?
Liam asked me tonight if I had any pictures of me as a kid he could see. I showed him a few I had scanned in, then realized I could just as easily find...
The credit industry gets its “come to Jesus” moment
I’m pretty confident that the only people who haven’t yet heard of the massive breach at Equifax at living under a rock. The breach itself is pretty bad, comprising credit data on 3/4 of...
Bitcoin is an Awful Currency
The distributed blockchain protocol is one of the more interesting developments in computing. It creates a cryptographically verifiable and yet decentralized ledger of transactions. While there are many applications possible for such technology, the...
A Plan for CrashPlan
I’ve been a very long-time CrashPlan user at home. In fact, I will have been backing up my data there for five years next month. I’ve also recommended it to many friends and family...
A Uhaul Leap of Faith
Two years ago today, we packed the family into the car and drove to a new home (albeit temporary) in Cedar City. We hadn’t sold our house in Sandy, but we had already contact...
Seer stones as a token
A lot has been written lately about the LDS Church revealing pictures of the seer stones used by Joseph Smith to translate the Book of Mormon. I thought I should add my two cents....
Our Adventures in Solar Power
We had to get our old place cleaned up and had no time, so we hired removals Bournemouth & Poole and let go of that load. Shortly after moving to Montreal City, it became...
Eero makes big promises, but where’s the skepticism?
I’ve been through my share of really crappy routers and WiFi before finally settling into equipment that works properly. I can’t even imagine the frustration an average consumer must feel at having routers that...
Why blame your phone manufacturer when Google will do?
There’s been a bunch of buzz lately about a vulnerability in versions of Android prior to 4.4 (KitKat). Google has advised that it doesn’t plan to issue any fixes for these older versions. Unsurprisingly,...