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 Tesla app and look
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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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I'm starting this years "What I've Read" post with a few disclaimers, just to
make my style for these posts crystal clear. First, the links below are Amazon
affiliate links, there's no impact
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Recently my family and I went on vacation and stayed in a condo that had "Complimentary WiFi". We had packed our AppleTV because my son knows how to access all of his purchased movies (way too many) and it has my wife and I's current programming for the evenings.
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Today is Juneteenth [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth]. It has several
"also known as" names, including "Freedom Day", "Jubilee Day", and "Liberation
Day". It is a commemoration of Union army general, Gordon
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This weekend, Disney released a new movie for download. That by itself isn't
remarkable. What's remarkable is that this is a move that was just released to
the theaters two weeks prior. That
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2019. I'm not sure where to start this post. 2019 has been difficult for
everyone in the United States, I want to say 2020 will be better...so I
will! 2020 is going
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How to recover a lost Admin account on macOS when you have FileVault 2 enabled
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2018. What a year. My family moved from Cupertino to San Jose, where we
purchased a new home (don't even get me started on housing prices). I
started in a new role at
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My family and I just returned from a week in paradise, in Ko'Olina, Oh'au,
Hawaii. Why Oa'hu? Because in Ko'Olina there is a relatively new resort, Aulani
[https://www.disneyaulani.com], that was
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This afternoon I was doing some network maintenance around the house. While
inspecting all of my wireless clients, I happened to find a host that I didn't
recognize (I name all of my
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As most people who know me and lots of my readers know, my son has Down
syndrome. Down syndrome "also known as trisomy 21, is a genetic disorder caused
by the presence of
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