In my last post I talked about losing photos and the false sense of security that comes from having "a backup." But even if you have copies everywhere there's a quieter problem that nobody warns you about. Your files are degrading right now and you probably don't know it.Bit rot is realEvery file on every storage...

I lost years of photos. Not to a hard drive crash or a fire or a ransomware attack. I lost them to my own mistakes and to friction.The migration chainMy photo storage has been through a lot of migrations and each one was a chance to lose something.It started with Apple Aperture and a USB hard drive over 15 years...

I try to keep my smart home appliances in the Apple HomeKit orbit, but I have couple switches around the house that don't support it. As a result I've been running a Homebridge VM in Parallels on my Mac for a while now. It works but I wanted to remove Parallels subscription from my setup. I started looking into...