Backups for family photos when iCloud is full
iCloud nagging you to upgrade is not a backup strategy — it is a subscription. Your photos deserve copies you control.
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Notes from the bench
Practical IT notes for homes and small businesses in Ireland. Networks, privacy, repairs and backups — without the hype.
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Leaving Google Workspace as an Irish sole trader
Your invoices do not live in Gmail — they live wherever MX points. The move is boring DNS and honest timelines, not drama.
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When your Eir or Virgin Media router keeps dropping
A router that drops every evening is rarely “just Wi‑Fi” — but it is often fixable without a week of hold music.
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Pi-hole basics for a quieter network
Blocking lists at the DNS layer is a scalpel, not a chainsaw, and the query log teaches the difference in a week.
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Repair or replace your old laptop
A five-year-old ThinkPad and a five-year-old ultrabook are not the same kind of "old."
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Leaving Gmail without losing email (or your mind)
You can take your threads with you, but the cutover window deserves more respect than a single Sunday afternoon.
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Why your Wi‑Fi “dies” around 8pm
When the whole street turns on streaming boxes and the smart plugs wake up, your router is not lazy — the air is full.
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Backups that actually save you
A NAS on the kitchen counter is not a strategy until you have proven you can pull a file back from it after a bad day.
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