Blog
Longer write-ups from the field.
October 4, 2026
My AI Assistant Went Deaf After Every Internet Blip. Here's What Was Actually Throwing My Messages Away.
Internet comes back, everything else works, and the AI assistant stays deaf until a restart. The log trail: a five-minute key cache with no fallback, plus a watchdog so the restart ritual dies.
October 3, 2026
DSM Condemned a Perfectly Good Drive: Here's How I Got It Back
A bumped Synology drive got condemned with zero media faults, and the repair wizard refused to take it back. The catch-22 in DSM's repair flow, and the way out.
October 2, 2026
Who Gets a Copy of Your Messages? The Push Notification Trail Nobody Told You About
Every notification transits Google or Apple's servers before it reaches your screen, and the public record shows exactly who can demand those copies.
October 2, 2026
The One-Flag Fix: A Bare-Metal Restore That Took a Day and Ended in a Single QEMU Setting
A Windows 11 laptop backup restored to a Proxmox VM wouldn't boot. A day of boot forensics ended at one QEMU flag, and a checklist that would have saved the day.