Google is forcing G Suite legacy free edition accounts to upgrade to paid Google Workspace Business plans.
After almost 16 years, it’s the end of an era. Google G Suite legacy free edition is no more, and it’s time to start ponying up for Google Workspace Business Starter. Luckily, the price per user per month has been discounted for the first 12 months. I’ve outlined the discounted upgrade process over at Hamor […]
Is It Too Late To Invest In Cryptocurrencies? Not Even Close…And We’re Just Getting Started.
Plant Your Tree Now Whenever cryptocurrencies are in a bull run, my friends, family, and coworkers reach out to me to ask whether they should invest. And like clockwork, whenever cryptocurrencies are bearish, those same friends, family, and coworkers usually make a comment or jab about how they’re glad that they didn’t invest because “Bitcoin […]
Attempting to Transfer Cash From My Checking Account to a Crypto Exchange Only Increased My Dislike of Banks, and Reinforced My Support For Cryptocurrencies Like Bitcoin
Your Money Is Yours To Do With As You Please, As Long as You Keep It With Us Consumer banking workflows appear to be designed to hoard as much client money as possible within a single institution, and to prevent consumers from moving their money elsewhere. I can instantly transfer as much cash as I […]
macos Big Sur 11.1 — ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
A while ago sudo gem update started throwing the following error: This wasn’t a big deal, as I wasn’t doing any any active ruby development, but it was still a minor annoyance. Missing directories reported in mkmf.log hinted at the cause: Searching for fixes resulted in a bunch of dangerous cargo-culted answers suggesting to curl […]
It’s Not a Conspiracy Theory — USPTO Just Doesn’t Like Facebook’s FBCLID URL Tracker
An acquaintance on Facebook was sharing some interesting information about the US Army’s Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process. It was a fun read, and a few sections paralleled Maat Magik’s take on astral projection, and the binaural meditation tapes that my late father, who was an instructor for Dale Carnegie, had me listen to […]
How To Get Wi-Fi Working on a Dell XPS 13 9343 (Broadcom BCM4352) Running Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)
The Dell XPS 13 9343 is the second-generation Sputnik Developer Edition laptop that came pre-loaded with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr). As a former Canonical employee, I was one of the first lucky folks to put that machine into production. And now, over five years on, it’s still one of my favorite ultra-portable workhorse laptops. […]
We Hire Bloggers Who Immediately Stop Blogging
Years ago in 2007, when I first joined Canonical as a staffer, I attended their yearly in-person all-hands meeting during my second week of employment. During the opening plenary, after the icebreaker where all new employees were asked to stand up and explain the history of their IRC pseudonym, the presenter lamented, “We hire bloggers […]
Create Shell Scripts to Implement Your Own Local Fix for Poor App UI/UX
Repository: Sean Sosik-Hamor’s Snippets-Collection on GitHub.com – Newsvoice.com I’ve recently started submitting summary posts to Newsvoice.com to expand my journalism portfolio for Hamor Photography in Pelham, NH. But, like many web-based services, the web app doesn’t implement the same feature set as the smartphone app and vice versa. More frustratingly, neither app seems to allow […]
Configuring a TFTP server on Ubuntu for switch upgrades and maintenance
Note: Community TFTP documentation is on the Ubuntu Wiki but this short guide adds extra steps to help secure and safeguard your TFTP server. Every Data Centre Engineer should have a TFTP server somewhere on their network whether it be running on a production host or running on their own notebook for disaster recovery. And […]
Is Google Chrome running obscenely slow on your obscenely expensive Mac Pro or Retina MacBook Pro with 4K or UHD monitor? Fear not…
My shiny Mac Pro just arrived along with a pair of Dell 28 Ultra HD (P2815Q) Monitors (2160p). I anxiously plugged everything in, fired up Google Chrome, and waited…and waited…and waited…and waited. The dreaded spinning pinwheel of death greeted me and it took minutes for each page to load. Not even the chrome://settings/ or chrome://version/ pages would load. Chrome was basically unusable. […]
