🔒 Switching to Proton VPN

With recent changes that Mullvad had made to service, mainly removing their port forwarding, it was time to look for a replacement. I landed on the VPN service from Proton, which I had used their Free tier on multiple occasions in the past. I had been a fan of Proton for a long time ( Though I never could commit fully to using them, I still liked what they were doing.) so when it came to start looking they were on the top of my list. ...

July 20, 2023 · 2 min · 249 words · shelby

AirTags, and what to do with them?

I picked up some Apple AirTags a while back and put one in my laptop bag, on mine and Nicole’s keychains, in my wallet, and even one in my truck (_Figured it could help with finding my truck in a parking garage or something lol). However, I now have 3 more sitting here gathering dust and I haven’t the slightest idea on what to do with them. I have thought about hiding them in the kid’s backpacks just in case they misplace them, also attaching them to our bikes as well but I feel they would end up getting lost somehow, and then there would be a hunt trying to find the lost AirTags. ...

December 2, 2021 · 1 min · 194 words · shelby

📷 Wyze IP Camera

It’s been a while since I had an IP camera setup, but recently came across the Wyze IP Camera which is only $20 …. The price was kind of a deterrent at first until I looked at all of the features packed into this small/affordable IP camera. Wyze had just released version 2 of their camera so I picked up a pre-order, it took a few weeks longer to arrive than expected due to some issues with the production due to dust on the new CMOS sensor, but the wait was ok by me as it was more of an impulse buy rather than something I really “needed” to get by on a daily basis. My first thought, once it arrived, was that it had an Apple feel to the packaging. It was very minimal, clean, and simple. The setup was also very easy and done with all via my iPhone 8 plus. You simply power it on, wait a few seconds then hold the setup button which gives you an audible prompt to continue the setup which is

April 11, 2018 · 3 min · 506 words · shelby