Lenovo Thinkcentre M75q Tiny vs GMKTec K8 Plus
Last Updated on December 16, 2024 EST by Jordan Introduction I found myself defending Lenovo ThinkCentre against some of the mini-pcs that are going for absolutely insanely low prices on Ali-Express and sometimes on Amazon. So I thought I would provide my take on the situation, granted it will be biased towards Lenovo. This is …
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Canadian Black Friday Deals 2024
Last Updated on November 29, 2024 EST by Jordan Introduction I’ll update this page regularly from deals I see online. I mostly find these deals on https://redflagdeals.com Things to consider on Black Friday Important! A lot of manufacturers and retail stores now sell ‘Black Friday’ models that are lower quality, or have some tradeoff. Additionally, …
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My Road to Video Editing in 2024
Last Updated on May 10, 2024 EDT by Jordan I posted this on Facebook, because I had to clean up my Google Drive due to lack of storage and sort through dumps I did onto Google Drive. Some of the dumps included video footage. I’ve been going through video footage from 2015 and putting up …
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Home Lab Proxmox Upgrade and using Lenovo/AMD DASH
Last Updated on January 9, 2025 EST by Jordan What is DASH? This is what Lenovo says Dash (desktop and mobile architecture for system hardware) is a set of specifications developed bydmtf, which aims to provide open standards based web service management for desktop and mobileclient systems. Dash is a comprehensive framework that provides a …
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Archiving Facebook Messages and Facebook Marketplace Messages
Last Updated on June 13, 2023 EDT by Jordan Too many Facebook Messages I had a ton of Facebook Marketplace messages that I was annoyed with and wanted archived. So I found many resources online on using the Chrome console to run javascript to archive the messages. Javascript Gist and More I found a gist …
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Importing Large .ics file into Gmail or Google Workspace Calendar
Last Updated on June 13, 2023 EDT by Jordan Importing a large Gmail or Google Workspace calendar that, when exported as a .ics file and larger than 1MB, will fail. This is due to the Gmail interface’s 1MB limit on processing .ics files. The solution is to split up the .ics file, which you can …
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Using Cloudinit and Netplan with IP’s on a different Network and Gateway
Last Updated on June 13, 2023 EDT by Jordan If you’ve ever had to utilize a hosting provider that offers the option to buy extra IPs or failover IP addresses, you may have observed instances where these IPs shared the same gateway as your original IPs, rather than being part of the additional IP network. …
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Using Monit Environment Variables with exec
Last Updated on January 11, 2023 EST by Jordan If you read the Monit documentation, it tells you exactly how to use Monit environment variables when using exec. No environment variables are used by Monit. However, when Monit executes a start/stop/restart program or an exec action, it will set several environment variables which can be …
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Large Mail Folder and imapsync Error “NO Server Unavailable. 15”
Last Updated on January 3, 2023 EST by Jordan I was having issues migration the “Sent Items” folder on a hosted Exchange 2013 account to Microsoft 365. The hosted Exchange 2013 server was returning a “NO Server Unavailable. 15” error when trying to select the “Sent Items” folder with 33,000 messages. Digging further, I couldn’t …
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Cheapest Cold Storage Backup
Last Updated on December 29, 2022 EST by Jordan Introduction Someone posted on a Facebook group looking for the cheapest means for cold storage backups. I did some research and collected some data. Response Tapes All depends, if you have a petabyte or half a petabyte it might work. It might be cheaper to just …
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