Raspberry Pi 5 Family Info Sign

Terrible photo, but you get the idea… Does your toddler* ask ‘what are we doing?’ all day? Is your partner constantly at meetings, soccer, baseball, pub or work and you want to know where they are without being a stalker? Are your kids vague about...

Synology Insufficient Space to Upgrade v2

System partition cleanup… We’ve had some issues with Synology updates failing, migrations failing and just general issues when trying to do simple things. A lot of this stems from the fact that Synology limit the system partition down to 2GB. Here’s...

Synology Recovery Mode- telnet!?

This info is not new*, not my own work, and not super useful right now- can you make it better? Links at bottom.*ok the bash script is new. I couldn’t stand the thought of having to compile a C function to convert a DATE into HEX…thanks ChatGPT! Backstory...

Company Moving? Don’t Make These mistakes!

We now have over 30 years of experience in helping companies move their IT infrastructure. Here’s a few tips we’ve collected along the way that could save you a lot of money and stress! Some of these things won’t be important to you, so…...

Synology- ‘greyed out’ Folders in macOS

This is not my solution- thanks so much to ‘Wayne C.’ at Synology for providing this answer! Issue Client opened a ticket saying they could not access a couple of folders inside a share. But- the permissions were correct! After a few attempts to fix we...

Adopting TP-Link Smart Home Devices into Home Assistant

Recent versions of the Kasa app require you to have a TP-Link account to adopt them. This wasn’t always the case, and many of us chose this brand specifically because we didn’t need to hand over our credentials to make the devices work. Thanks to a huge...