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tech: Broken Apple Photos, HomePod Hang, Bash Arrays, Reverse Image Search, Homebridge
Ok, it’s fix things Sunday, so here are the small things that I’ve been trying to fix and their status: Programming Bash Tip While no one in the next decade will ever write a program again, here are some tips if you still are in the last decade 🙂 Bash Associative Arrays. They are a…
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pod: Microphone overload clicks, Magni sudden shutdown
We’ve made about 5 hours of YouTube videos this week and I discovered a few glitches: Overdriving the Scarlett i2I The audio is great except for the last one. I was trying to get the levels louder and instead, I got dropouts and clicks. The Scarlett focus was turned very high to 3 o’clock and…
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pod: rt3. AI Hardware Introduction
This is another sort of nerdy side note. If anyone is still watching, this section is just to give intuition on the basics of the hardware. There are lots of assumptions about GPUs and CPUs that I wanted to make sure people understood. But the basics are that CPUs are tuned for lots of branches…
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pod: dt6 AI Intro and Intuition
OK, we are not experts nor PhDs so most of this is probably not technically correct, but the math is so complicated and the concepts so complicated, that we thought it would be good to just get some intuition on what is happening. So this is a quick talk that summarizes readings from so many…
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pod: New Tips OBS red vs blue, OBS outputs HDR, FCP generates Chapters, YouTube chapter trick
OK, well, the last post about how to get HDR output out of OBS worked! I even finally figured out how to make the objects work in OBS which is not obvious here are the things to know: Dealing with Red and Blue Windows with OBS OK, this is also confusing, but in general, with…
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nas: When your Synology NAS 2FA fails, you are screwed! bag the SSDs
OK, I do the normal thing, I put 2FA on everything, but I have to say there are quite a few dangers here when you are doing it on your home NAS. In short, I have 2FA on all my Synology accounts, but in rebooting a NAS and swapping some drives in, I suddenly got…
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pod: do not forget to use mkv not mp4 in OBS and set for HDR
I 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 reason for this is that…
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pod: Deon and Tong Review AI and Predict 2024
Well, 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 it interesting. There is a…
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tech: Managing Zoom and Meets Backgrounds
Well, 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 at all, but with the…