Network Switch UPS: Fixing a Nagging Frustration
Do you live in an area that has power outages more often than you’d like? I do. Our power lines are above ground and we have lots of trees in the neighborhood. …
Start Using A Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) Key
Cybersecurity is paramount these days. It seems like every day a new breach exposing personal information, including credit card numbers and passwords, is in the news. If it’s not a large company …
What’s In My Smart Home Toolkit?
When you start installing, configuring, and maintaining smart devices you start to realize there are some tools that can make the process easier. Sometimes you need to test smart home devices. Sometimes …
TerraMaster F5-221: The Best Budget NAS?
Although I was happy with my home lab rebuild, it still left a glaring hole around storage management. I have internal and external hard drives spread across multiple machines to serve all …
The Best Choices For Home Assistant Hardware
I’m a big fan of Home Assistant. There are many reasons it is the perfect smart home hub for me, among many smart home hub choices. If you are reading this article, …
What’s In My Home Office?
2020 changed the world in large, obvious ways and in some smaller ways. One of the ways it changed my world is that I needed to focus more on the comfort and …
The Best Chromebooks You Can Buy Now (2021)
Chromebooks have risen quite a bit in popularity over the years and for good reason. They started off as low-powered glorified web browsing machines. Now they run all kinds of web apps, Linux …