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Orbi RBR50 has been EOL for a couple of years now, so as a “review”, this post will be outdated the moment it is published. But I thought to share some of my experiences, some positives, and some negatives in using and setting up mesh routers for the first time then upgrading to another one.…
Roborock began to roll out Matter support on its latest models, and with it, HomeKit can now finally see a Roborock branded robot vacuums. So far, my experience with vacuum supports on Matter platform was it cannot completely replace the manufacturer’s official app; however, it is useful enough to automate “stop” or “pause” where it…
With the introduction of Mail app categorizations in the iOS 18, Apple is now walking the same path other email services have been on for decades and equally created a gimmick — auto email categorizations. With or without AI, I’ve never seen email categorizations work properly in any context, let alone professional one. Had any…
This isn’t the solution that will fix all synchronizations on Steam platform. Instead, I decided to keep it as a documentation purpose, as most of the posts and articles I could find on the subject hardly touched on it. If you are seeing “Unable to sync” on the Steam client for all games, you are…
More than a decade ago, I ran the ethernet ‘backbones’ for my home network: ones to connect the nodes, ones to connect workstations, and ones to connect media streaming devices. If I recall correctly, the fastest WiFi standard available at the time to be used to connect nodes-to-nodes, were either slightly slower or faster than…
I was quite surprised to see that there were inquiries into the recommendations for customizing sleep behaviors for macOS, as apparently some of the third-party apps fell short. Back in the 2000s, I would have said Caffeine without a doubt. It had not seen major updates for a while until it’s under the new ownership.…
I understand there are good scanning apps available on the App Store, but their life-time licenses are not competitively priced to that of specialized scanners for going paperless. One such brand known for book scanners and included scanning suite is Czur, and its scanner starts as low as $99 on Amazon; whereas, some of the…
Few weeks ago, I hinted a notion that I was waiting for a possible MacBook Pro update, more powerful chips and OLED displays preferably, and until then my Intel Mac Pro will have to do. Now that America has started worldwide trade war against every nations and unoccupied islands, it peaked my interest how others…
Ixion is a colony-building survival game features a colony ship. As an administrator of a space station Tiqqun, the player is tasked with the survival of the colony on the station and finding the next habitable planet for the humanity. I was introduced to the game as space-comparable of the original Frostpunk, and while I…
One of the nonsense I had to pull myself through during scanning old family albums was its lack of metadata. I could guess the date of when the photo might have been taken, but photo library apps of any kind would rely on time stamps as well to order the photos. In order to correctly…
Apple has added waterproof to iPhones since 2016. It’s been roughly 9 years since iPhones speakers had chance to be engulfed in water, yet Apple hasn’t provided an effective method to eject water from the speakers. Whereas, on Apple Watch, since 2022, watchOS has a built-in water ejection mechanism which plays specific tune of sounds…
I’m calling it a band-aid fix, because this is technically not a “fix”. As far as I could find, it is technically not possible to use mDNS (Bonjour) over VPN. Only when the remote client is bridged through VPN mDNS packets can reach the client, but it causes its own havoc, especially less useful for…
I’m still in the process of getting my photos scanned from a lab. It’s a long story; but to put it simply, it appears the lab was geared toward analog hobbyists, not mass album scanning. It would take few more weeks to get it all scanned. As for the restorative works, I don’t plan to…
I’ve talked about using dictionary in Shortcuts to handle data. If you started using one in a custom shortcut, there is one odd bit that may not be immediately obvious if you try to loop through the dictionary; it loops with the entire dictionary as the Repeat Item. It defeats the purpose of using iterating…
I recently started digitizing family albums; it was more or less a moral lesson on the importance of metadata. The lab did pull through. The stack of negative films my family had couldn’t be “scanned” in traditional sense, so we had them digitized in a photo lab. The results from the lab were underwhelming yet…