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In order to follow a proper 3-2-1 backup strategy, you should have three copies of your important data: two local on different media types, and one off site.

On whether LLMs and agentic AIs are a positive and beneficial invention, I tend to lean more toward optimism.

I recently switched from Namecheap shared hosting to Cloudflare Pages.

I have music collection of over 12,000 tracks.

We all have that friend or family member that believes in the most ludicrous things, convinced of a conspiracy that doesn't fit into the reality shared by the rest of us.

One of the most challenging things about the CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) exam isn't subnetting, spanning-tree, routing protocols, ACLs, or calculating longest prefix match.

Reddit is now requiring you to have an account and be logged in to use old.reddit.com, the less cluttered and bloated desktop website.

I picked up a Palo Alto Cloudgenix ION 2000 off of eBay and decided to try and stick OPNsense on it.

I was recently handed down a D-Link DNS-323 NAS which I thought would be great for my brother to use.

A few months back, Ars Technica published Password managers' promise that they can't see your vaults isn't always true.

This post is not about electric vehicle hesitations like range anxiety and more complicated trip planning.

We're in the process of moving and it's eye-opening just how much stuff we've accumulated over the span of just two and a half years.

During my holiday break, I built a Stratum 1 NTP server in my home lab.

"Ignorance is bliss" usually has a negative connotation, a way to refer to someone who is ignorant on some topic that someone else has deemed very important (sometimes meant as an insult).

Updated: 2026-01-09 Other than looking cool to your friends, owning your own domain increases your digital self-reliance.

I have an NVMe base for my Raspberry Pi 5 and it's been running for a little over a year without any issues.

This is a follow up from something I wrote in 2020 titled The End of Ownership in a Digital Age where I discuss (ie complain) about what it means to "own" something in the modern digital age.

A few years ago I published a post about aliases, one of which I set up to allow me to SSH into a shared web server.