Category Archives: Technology

Thoughts on Tesla’s Full Self Driving 12.3.3

Elon has done us Tesla owners a solid and given us a free full month of self driving. To me, the current 12k price is pretty outrageous and the 199 monthly subscription is a bit more interesting … but free … Continue reading

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Tesla Model Y – Best charging practices

Earlier this year, I joined a fairly large segment of the population in purchasing a Tesla Model Y. It’s currently the best selling car in the world by some accounts … so it’s certainly not unique. But it’s new to … Continue reading

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How to fix Ubuntu 20.04 on the Lenovo ThinkCentre M920q / ThinkStation P330

I mentioned a few months ago that Ubuntu 20.04 was unstable on my Lenovo ThinkCentre M920q. 18.04 worked fine, so I kept it on there until development circumstances forced me to upgrade. I took a gamble that the issue might … Continue reading

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Working around pfSense Unbound DNS race condition on startup

I previously wrote an article on how well pfSense has worked for me.  I’ve so far managed to get it to do everything I have thrown at it, short of integrating fully with my UniFi based network. There is one … Continue reading

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Adventures in cooling the UniFi US-8-150W

After hearing about Apple discontinuing further development of the Airport Extreme, I decided to switch to Ubiquiti’s UniFi line of wireless gear about a year and a half ago.  The internet is full of great reviews, so I didn’t need … Continue reading

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iPhone 6 thoughts

I honestly didn’t find much compelling in the way of features on the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.  The industry seems to be reaching a bit of plateau in the innovations they can bring to the mobile phone market.  But … Continue reading

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Airport Extreme bugs (and guest network performance problems)

The Airport Extreme is my favorite consumer grade access point.  I’ve had well over 10 different models go through myself or to various friends and family, and all of them are still running. Unfortunately, while the hardware and firmware are … Continue reading

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Quick revisit of pfSense

pfSense on the Intel NUC continues to impress. It turns out that in the past few months some of the newest Intel NUC’s got full pfSense support.  I also discovered that booting pfSense off a USB drive works really well, … Continue reading

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Playing around with the Nexus 7 (2013)

                  I scored a 129 dollar official refurb of the latest generation of the Google Nexus 7 off eBay.  Granted, it’s probably about to be refreshed any day now, but it’s still … Continue reading

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