You can't purchase a piece of enterprise software today without also being solicited to consider purchasing an additional Customer Success package. Companies will tell you that you need it to be
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How to Fix Family Sharing to support Apple One and individual Music Preferences
It started out simply enough, Apple released iTunes Music in January, 2001 and I started purchasing music digitally. I have
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Twelve books. After the slow recovery of 2024, that's a number I'm genuinely pleased with — the best count since 2022. The pattern I've noticed across these posts
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After the reading cliff of 2023, 2024 was a partial recovery. Seven books across five months — not great, but better. The pattern is hard to miss looking back at these lists: reading volume
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I'm writing this 2023 post here in 2026, three years late. For the last three years I've been tracking all of the books I've read, so that
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I'm writing this 2022 post here in 2026, four years late. For the last four years I've been tracking all of the books I've read, so that
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Home Assistant has a way of quietly teaching you where the edges are.
You don’t usually notice them on day one. You notice them after years of living with your automations — when
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I love my Synology, the recent controversies notwithstanding. One of the many uses I have for my RS1221+ is using Log Center to receive syslog messages from all of my Ubiquiti networking equipment,
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2021. I normally like having this article out in the 1st Quarter of the year, but here I am at the end of September, staring at a partially written blog post, so here
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Connected Life has shut down their cloud service that was required to make the SmartDry dryer sensor work. Here's how to keep yours operational.
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I've been a Tesla Solar panel owner for 4 years. I've always wanted to have monitoring of my energy in an easier-to-consume format than having to log into the
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How to integrate the IOTTY smart home switches into Home Assistant, leveraging Alexa Routines
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I recently upgraded to macOS Monterey on my MacBook Pro. Unfortunately, I immediately had an issue in Mail.app where I was seeing "Your network preferences prevent content from loading privately."
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How to fix a raspberry pi printing a British pound symbol
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