We’ve all experienced the failure of a home electronics device at one time or another. Often it’s not worth the repair cost or the device just cannot be repaired. But sometimes there’s an option to fix your failed device. When our original HomePod failed after only 3 or 4 years of use, we just assumed […]
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Tailscale is Magic
I’d like to tell you about a magical application/service that solves a problem most of us have. I’m using it to solve a problem that is perhaps off of the beaten path but still within the realm of a NosillaCastaway. The mainstream problem to be solved is that you’re away from home and you want […]
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The Great Synology Migration of 2022
Synology Migration Assistant showing wizard to transfer data A few weeks ago I told you that I’d made the decision to buy a second Synology. My plan was to back up the new Synology DS1522+ to the only slightly older DS1019+ and decommission my Drobo 5N2. Drobo appear to be frozen in time after going […]
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Security Bits — 30 October 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. It’s official: Elon musk now owns Twitter, and he’s already cleaned house and fired top executives — appleinsider.com/… Related Opinion: His letter to advertisers is surprisingly sensible — daringfireball.net/… 🇫🇷 Clearview AI image-scraping face […]
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More USB-C Charging Ports with Satechi GaN Charger
I bought my first USB-C Mac in 2015 when the MacBook Adorable first came out. That was seven years ago and I’ve been a huge advocate of USB-C ever since. I’ve gotten into flame wars on the topic as recently as this week from people clinging to the old and undeniably irritating USB-A connector. These […]
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Prowlithin USB Vacuum Solves My Cat Problem
Grace Uses My Stream Deck as a Headrest I don’t know what it is about a computer desk, but cats simply love them. Even cats that are normally standoffish will leap onto your desk and try to lie on your keyboard, and helpfully drape their tails across your trackpad. Our cat Grace, named after computer […]
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Automating Conversion of Transparent PNGs to Opaque
Last month I told you about a really cool service called the Noun Project, which for a small fee gives you access to thousands of really nice line art icons. I’ve been enjoying jazzing up blog posts with Noun Project icons when I don’t have a suitable screenshot to keep readers from getting bored. When […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 16 October 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Last time Bart & Allison waxed lyrical about the DART mission, but we didn’t know yet if it had worked, now we do, it did 😀 — www.nasa.gov/… The Matter home automation standard has […]
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Scan Your World in 3D with Scaniverse
The hallmark of a good NosillaCast review is that we must start with the problem to be solved. There’s one exception to this hard and fast rule. Sometimes there’s something that’s just cool and doesn’t solve any problems at all. The other day I was listening to a podcast where they were droning on and […]
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The Day the Drobo Died … Again
A Walk Down Memory Lane Over the years I’ve regaled you with tales of our various network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Steve and I use our NAS for storing sensitive financial data that we don’t want to be stored in the cloud, along with hosting our PLEX video library Steve has ripped from our DVD/Blu-Ray collection […]
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