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How I Rebuilt Our Entertainment System Using Plex and Roku
Update: For specific implementation details including recommended hardware and costs, see the follow up post here. Neither my wife nor myself had cable when we met, and even as a couple we never...
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How to Build Your Own Personal Netflix
Back in April, I wrote about our decision to update our antiquated home media setup with a Roku box and Plex software, among other pieces. The motivation was simple. As non-cable subscribers, we were...
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My SquareTrade Experience
Because I wasn’t willing to spend north of $600 on a handset, it took me a few months to work out an upgrade scheme by which I could move from my aging Nexus One to its newer cousin, the Galaxy Nexus....
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Three Technologies That Impacted Me Day to Day in 2012
Every year is a different mix of technologies. Some are here to stay, others are not long for the world. But for future reference, if nothing else, I wanted to snapshot a few things that were very...
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Becoming a Sonos Household
For years now I’ve been hearing from family (my brother) and friends about the merits of the Sonos system. The advocacy isn’t quite Tempurpedic-level cultish in flavor, but it’s close. Give it few...
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The Problem With Heat Pumps (Or Why We Won’t Buy One Yet)
A year ago this month, Kate and I bought our first house together. Ultimately we’re planning for a very different configuration, but at the moment it’s a pretty standard single floor ranch. Though the...
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What’s the Deal With YouTube TV?
The last time I had a cable subscription was a decade ago. Which I bring up only because of the context, not as an attempt to claim any moral superiority. We have a local Netflix-like setup in the...
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Our New Network Solution: An Amplifi Review
Back in early January, the Nest camera that serves as our baby monitor went offline in the middle of the night. By itself, this wouldn’t be noteworthy, but the problem was that this had become...
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Twitter, Mastodon and the Fediverse: I Have Questions
Just under sixteen years ago, I joined Twitter. I did it reluctantly, because initially it seemed both trivial and self-important. Which was both right and wrong, as it turned out. Since that time, a...
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