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Continue reading →: pod: do not forget to use mkv not mp4 in OBS and set for HDRI thought I was saving a step by having OBS record directly into mp4 but I forgot the reason we use mkv. It’s because if OBS crashes you lose the whole mp4 so do the two steps. Use mkv and then run a remix tool in OBS when done. The…
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Continue reading →: pod: Deon and Tong Review AI and Predict 2024Well, thanks to Paul, Harel, and Julian, we collected a bunch of thoughts on what happened in 2023 and more importantly what folks think might happen in 2024. These thoughts are our own and I’m sure they are wrong, but I thought it might be useful to others to find…
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Continue reading →: tech: Managing Zoom and Meets BackgroundsWell, it seems like I still spend an infinite time on Zoom (and Google Meets) calls and I’ve finally found a good system for doing backgrounds. There have been lots of janky things where Zoom doesn’t like videos in a certain format and of course Google Meets doesn’t support videos…
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Continue reading →: pod: Finally, a Fix for Apple Compressor waits foreverOK, I’ve been loving the OBS Studio to Final Cut Pro to Compressor to YouTube and Spotify Podcaster workflow. It’s a little janky, but like family, it works 🙂 One annoying problem is that the Apple Compressor will occasionally just stop working. The jobs are stuck. From seven years ago,…
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av: Guide to IEMs, DACs, Preamps and Podcast Studios
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Continue reading →: av: Guide to IEMs, DACs, Preamps and Podcast StudiosWell, thanks to Lucas, I got some great advice about building up another Podcast Studio. I had previously built one at the start of the Pandemic and it has worked great, the core is a Rode NT-1A (which I famously mounted backwards), a Focusrite Scarlett 2×2, but in looking back…
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Continue reading →: scan: new Vuescan Multicrop vs. Cropped Area, Image Type, and Loud Buzzing fixesI’m not quite sure what I did, but when upgrading from Vuescan 9.8.27 to 9.8.28, my Minolta DiMage 5400 developed some major problems. On initialization, it would just emit a horrible buzzing (as a motor is just flailing away). This is a 20-year-old piece of hardware, so I think I…
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Continue reading →: mac: MacBook Pro 2014 OLCP Maps, Safari Render VenturaWell, OLCP has been working remarkably well on all my machines. Since disabling the dGPU on our MacBook Pro 2010, this has worked just great. Even though the fix was for a MBP 2011, this one had the same problem. The MacBook Air 2011 has also been running well if…
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Continue reading →: scan: Vuescan tips for 35mm negative and 3×5 photosWell, it’s been literally years since I’ve scanned in photos, but with the move of the MacBook Pro 2014 upstairs, I can begin again. The main issue I’m having right now is that with OpenCore Legacy Patcher on this machine, Sonoma is not working with certain graphical applications like Safari,…
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Continue reading →: dev: Strange pipenv bugs and dealing with dependabotWell, it’s been a while since I’ve had my development environment running. It is crazy how things can devolved. To remind everyone, in my normal world, I use asdf, direnv and pipenv (and now poetry and conda) to manage things. The basic idea is that when I switch to a…
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Continue reading →: nas: Moving from Synology to TrueNAS or QuTS and DYIOK, now that our Synology DS1812+ and DS2413+ are old, we got a new Synology RS2413+, but the DS2413+ is going to go end of life soon. So time to think about how that replacement will go. Make no mistake just like we used the Drobo 2008 and Drobo Pro…
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