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Exiting the freak show X
I’m joining the crowd rushing out the door at X. I will no longer post at the freak show, but I plan to keep my seat to lurk until the sports accounts I follow find the exit sign. I’m now learning how to get the most out of Blue Sky and Threads. I’ll probably settle…
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Riding out Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina
Today, two weeks after Hurricane Helene it is hard to comprehend the scope, scale, and fury of the storm that hit western North Carolina, East Tennessee, the Upstate in South Carolina and parts Georgia and Virginia. Social media posts are little tiny pieces of a jigsaw puzzle with thousands of pieces, each with their own…
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DIY: How I converted a dumb home security system to a smart system
This month I replaced an ancient security alarm system with a combination of DIY solutions. The result is a cloud-connected system that can be armed and disarmed from anywhere and that sends push alerts and texts on an intrusion. And just like the old system, it has a loud siren to alert neighbors. An Ademco…
