Troubleshooting

Late on July 13, TransLee could hear a quiet news broadcast through my phone’s own speaker and translate it live. By the next morning, that exact feature was silent. Nothing had touched the speaker-recognition code overnight. What had changed was a different feature entirely: translated voice playback had just started working for the first time. The Symptoms, in Order 03:40 — Speaker-sound recognition, which worked the night before, stopped picking up anything. 04:36 — Still broken. YouTube audio wasn’t recognized at all, and even the transcript-only fallback wasn’t translating, just showing raw text. 07:41 — Fixed the transcript-and-translation display. Recognition worked again. But the voice-playback feature, the one that had worked the previous evening, was now silent. 07:46 to 08:13 — Every attempt to get both working at once produced the same shape of failure: one sentence would translate and play correctly, then everything stopped, no more translation, no more transcript, sometimes a garbled half-second of audio right before it died. Five hours of this, with the failure mode staying identical no matter which side I patched. That repetition was the actual clue. This wasn’t a bug hiding somewhere in the code. It was two features fighting over the same microphone. ...

The whole archive starts with one simple rule: every photo either of us takes should land on our home NAS by itself, with no monthly cloud fee. Two phones, one box in the house, automatic. That’s the first stage of the pipeline. It mostly “just works” — until, one day, it quietly doesn’t. This post covers both: how to set it up, and how I noticed one phone had stopped. ...

I use Claude Code every day on my main PC. It’s the tool I talk to when making apps for my family. It worked well without problems for several weeks. Then I wanted to use it on a second device. This is my daughter’s PC. Sometimes I work on her apps there. Same subscription, same account, everything was the same. I installed the VS Code extension and opened it. Then I saw this error: ...

I checked the DSM auto-block list (empty), confirmed SSH was enabled in Terminal & SNMP settings, verified the iptables startup task was running, and ran a TCP port test — ports 22, 445, and 5000 all appeared blocked. After all of that, I ran ipconfig. The PC was connected to the wrong Wi-Fi network. What Was Actually Happening I have two Wi-Fi networks at home. My NAS sits on one of them. My coding PC is supposed to be on that same network — but Windows had quietly switched it to the other one automatically. ...

I keep forgetting how to reconnect my NAS folder in Windows Explorer. Every time, I end up asking an AI to walk me through it again. So this time I’m writing it down — for myself as much as anyone else. And then today, the usual steps didn’t work. The folder was gone, and reconnecting it failed too, even though the laptop was on the same Wi-Fi as the NAS. That turned into a longer fix. I’ll cover both. ...