The myxfitness (aka Openfit) bike is an exercise bike similar to a Peloton or similar.  It's a well built exercise bike but with an added, large, touchscreen (usually Android) device attached.   This is what makes these bikes "cool" right now.  You can do workouts, and bike rides with others on video for a bit more motivation.   The bike is already expensive, then they charge an additional monthly fee for the touchscreen service.  One thing they do not tell you is that the android touch screen is LOCKED DOWN with MDM (mobile device management)  the same management your company phone may have on it.   So basically if you cancel their monthly service you are stuck with a brick, you can't even listen to music on it if you wanted to.   This to me is BS, I paid good money for the hardware if I want to stop your monthly service I should still be able to use the device for basic, video, music, something for when I work out! So I went on the hunt, and as suspected, if you are

I was just digging through some of my old photos today, and I wanted to share a story from 2013.   Hint, this story ends with Backblaze. Kind of ironic, backup... my home went aBlaze...    Me and my now wife, had bought and were living in a 3 story condominium, our unit was on the top floor.   You already know I'm a bit of a Geek, so I had quite a bit of tech in this condo, automated lights, security cameras, my own media server with multiple raid arrays, you know the usual geeky stuff.  I don't know about you guys but I like to keep all of my important info in digital format, 2FA stuff, important document scans, and passwords go into encrypted zip files, everything else like all of my DVD's and digital movie copies,  ripped CD's and other purchased mp3 files, all stored on my trusty home server with dual disk redundancy raid!    I was safe and protected from a drive loss...  Most of this data was stored on a drobo drive array.  (yea I like drobo actually, had ZERO issu