Family members' Apple Music tastes kept mixing under one Apple One plan. The fix is two settings that must match. Here's how to untangle it.
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Threshold-based humidity automations never quite work. Why I replaced mine with a behavior-based Home Assistant blueprint for exhaust fans.
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UniFi Wi-Fi 7 APs flood Synology Log Center with bogus 'emerg' alerts. How to silence them with custom syslog-ng filters, step by step.
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How to keep a SmartDry dryer sensor working after the cloud shutdown, using an ESP32 with ESPHome to pull its BLE data into Home Assistant.
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How to feed Tesla solar production into the Home Assistant Energy dashboard with an integration sensor that converts watts to kWh.
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How to connect iotty smart wall switches to Home Assistant so you can control lighting and build automations alongside your other devices.
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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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Your Raspberry Pi prints £ instead of # because Raspberry Pi OS defaults to a UK keyboard layout. How to switch to US in raspi-config.
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Apple TV can't log in to hotel captive portal WiFi. How to get it online by spoofing its MAC address from a Mac in Terminal, step by step.
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Watching Pixar's Onward with my son on World Down Syndrome Day, during lockdown, and what Mindset, Grit, and 75 Hard taught me about belief.
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How to recover a lost Admin account on macOS when you have FileVault 2 enabled
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How to reclaim disk space with macOS High Sierra's Storage Manager. Deleting old .ipa files and iOS backups freed over 100GB for me.
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The UniFi Security Gateway registers DHCP clients in DNS under garbage Client Identifier names. How to work around its DNS limits.
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Mailman CGI scripts download in the browser instead of running under Apache 2.4. The fix is enabling mod_cgid with a2enmod cgid.
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