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As my Plex setup and my Home Theater have evolved I am always looking for new ways to improve the usability and function of the combined experience. I actually did this a while back and just now got to documenting it, but the requirement I had was to operate the …

Today I got an unusual call (not a text) from Verizon Wireless, which frankly never happens, so I decided to let it go to voicemail.  What I learned after the caller left the message is something I wanted to share so that others can learn from this and hopefully Verizon …

I’ve been a major fan of Plex since someone got me on the kick a few years back. Anyone that knows me my setup is no joke. One of the best aspects of the entire infrastructure is Ombi which is so well written and useful it’s amazing it’s open sourced. …

It seems I have had a number of the same conversations in recent weeks about a very particular topic, and some could argue a design flaw, with the most basic of VMware vSphere deployments. This has to do with using an overly simplistic deployment whereby the ESX host is only …

I woke up today, in a sense, hating myself. I’m going to disclose something only a handful people knew about 8 months ago when I wrote the post below. Today was to be my last day. My last day working in technology. My last day on any and every social …

Updated 2/18/22: Today I got a notification that the company has filed a “General Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors“, which according to Cornell Law School is basically an alternative to bankruptcy. So guess that means nothing is going to matter about this company after all. The Shine Bathroom Assistant …

I have lived in my house now that we built for just about 8 years. Something that always bugged me was the performance of the dual Rinnai RL94 units the original plumber installed. For some reason this has been the year of “water” for me and I started paying more …

There are many of us that create content for our company’s channels. We always end up having some bloopers, but they are usually rarely compiled and posted. This past summer our team recorded some light board videos, many of which are live on the Cohesity YouTube Channel now, but here …