In macOS 11 Big Sur, Apple added APFS support for Time Machine volumes. APFS has some outstanding features for backup purposes such as snapshot cloning, volumes sharing space in a container, space reservations and quotas, and improved space sharing/linking. However, Time Machine is a hog and wants to use…
So, yesterday I upgraded my Raspberry Pi from Raspbian Jessie to Stretch using this helpful post on the Raspberry Pi site. Everything went smoothly, except my Sonos couldn’t connect afterwards. This is a critical issue in our household, as the Pi hosts our brown noise mp3. Everything worked before…
I subscribe to Craft Coffee, a coffee delivery service from New York. I’ve been pretty happy with the quality for the price and the customer service. One their site, they ask you to rate the coffees, and I had been brutally honest with my ratings. I had been feeling…
This past weekend, I felt like undertaking an old school nerd project. I decided to see if I could host my websites on a $5/mo DigitalOcean VPS as well as I can on my $10/mo DreamHost shared hosting site. Turns out to have been a huge success. DreamHost…
I’ve been messing with the backend of the site for the past week or so. Today I noticed that my oldest posts are from 2005. Here’s to 10 years of running a blog without posting to it except for about once a year!…
So, last night was the first time I've ever been creeped out by something on the road. I've only been doing this 3 years, so I don't know if I'm ahead or behind the curve on this. Last night, had an uneventful…
via youtube.com I’m not one to care much about celebrity stuff, but, Amy Winehouse’s death makes me sad for modern music. Ignore the “video” – the music is the point.…
via [wilwheaton.tumblr.com](http://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/6856289065/me-omg-ryan-he-man-is-on-netflix-ryan-have)No comment necessary. Just watch.…