Atlanta can be a very busy place. Even with good bicycle-travel infrastructure, that doesn’t mean it’s a quiet and tranquil area (a nice day on the beltline will be crowded with lots of pedestrian and bicycle traffic). That’s why I was delighted to find this area yesterday when I was running an errand down to … Read more
I started out with just thousands of picture files when I loaded it all into Synology Photos. I’ve been playing with what it can do for a while, but initially missed the face detection when I setup my account and just turned that on this morning. Initially my login showed a new People folder to … Read more
I have several web sites and other information or entertainment resources on my local network. Since it’s all mine here, it seems silly to not be able to use my own stuff just because the internet is down! But that’s exactly what would normally happen, all because of just one thing…DNS lookups. Let’s say I … Read more
Either way the awesome tools in Synology DSM 7.0 have you covered completely for free and with minimal fuss 🙂 I’ve had a burr in my butt around the need for multifactor authentication on my server, especially for an admin account that if stolen, would be awful needless to say. It’s equally important for other … Read more
If you have a Synology NAS then you can have pretty much everything that Google Photos has, with none of the (no longer free) cost. You also don’t have to give your photos and videos away to google or anybody else that you don’t want to. At the same time, you can share select photos … Read more
My Synology NAS (DS-1520+) has been running DSM 6, which is showing its age. I starting building this in 2018 and recently migrated to this new hardware. The server has been built from scratch with this one major release of the operating system. A few months ago DSM 7.0 was released and I’ve both been … Read more