JR Tashjian @jrtashjian@talos.link

Too many ideas and projects, not enough time.

Finished consolidating the thousands of photos and videos from the past 12+ years and got it into a manageable state. They are currently stored on my NAS (with Plex), rsync’d to my desktop (because it was easier to sift through on it), and rsync’d to an external drive as a secondary backup.

Next step is offsite backup, probably using Backblaze. Soon I’ll need to update my NAS to a custom built server as well. I’ve been using a WD EX2100 for years but I need moar powah! 😀

fdupes and exiftool are amazing for sorting all these photos and videos.

Took a variety of tests to build confidence that I wouldn't lose anything, glad I took the time though.

After all these files are sorted, I can start organizing the albums. Thinking of using Plex as the viewer because tagging people in it (generic tags) is very easy.

I haven't been great at organizing my NAS drive and decided to start making that effort last night.

Specifically my media organization hasn't been great. I have a folder structure that works really well I just haven't been diligent at sorting them.

I have backups and various copies of photos in different locations, probably duplicates galore but I've been afraid to delete any of them.

Time to slowly go through them once and for all.

We constantly redefine good and evil for our own convenience at the expense of others.

I'd like to have the QoS feature working so that I can make sure my work is not hindered by what other devices are doing (I've been working from home for 8+ years). A lot of the other management and monitoring features are nice too.

I was going to setup a Raspberry PI with Pi-hole and PIVPN but it looks like these new routers have VPN support built in which seems neat. I'm still going to have Pi-hole setup and use the VPN on the router.

My Apple Airport Extreme was the best wireless router I ever had but died recently.

I've replaced it with a Netgear AX1800 but the QoS stuff doesn't work and I've had to disable all features to figure out why internet speeds are so slow to no avail.

I just ordered a Linksys WRT1900ACS to replace that now and will be returning the Netgear. Hopefully I have a better experience with Linksys.

I don’t care for either candidate. I feel like we’re all the parents playing judge in a disagreement with our kids.

It doesn’t matter what either says you’ll never find a perfect candidate to vote for, just one in enough alignment with your values and beliefs while compromising on others.

In my view, they all answer to a higher authority anyway. I’m just doing my part as a Christian to promote the common good as I believe it should be.

Bought a set of Comply foam tips to replace the silicon ones on my AirPods Pro. They would often slip out of my ears and I’d constantly be pressing them back in, didn’t matter which size I put on.

In only 10 minutes of using these Comply foam tips they feel so much more comfortable. They don’t feel like they are slipping out of my ear even when my jaw moves while talking.

So far, 300% satisfied with the $30 purchase.