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  • tech: Easy tips on listening to Audiobooks

    Well, I find that I’m way more efficient listening to audiobooks than having the time to read. For some reason, I can multitask pretty well particularly when driving or trying to reset Apple Home problems (argh!). So if you are like me and you have a book that you need for a book club, then…

  • tech: New 32″ monitor? waiting for next Apple Cinema Display…

    OK, this is a painful one, but our trusty Benq BL3200 which five years ago was an amazing 2550p monitor has been rained on (roof leak, argh!) and now has a failure in one of the vertical pixels which is pretty annoying, so time to check out rtings.com and get a replacement before the whole…

  • web: I Love Fedistar for a Mac Mastodon clients

    Man, there is “let a thousand flowers bloom in the world of reading Mastodon”. In contrast, you get just one for Threads and in some ways, there are so many clients. I haven’t settled on a client for iOS or the Mac yet, but here are some notes on the Mac clients (hat tip to…

  • vid: Great Final touches on Final Cut Pro with Faux HDR, Voice Isolation and De-ess in Final Cut Pro

    I think I finally have a handle on most of the Final Cut Pro features that I need but didn’t understand six months ago. Here’s a great list that I haven’t found compiled on the Internet somewhere. Faux HDR from SDR video This is copied from the work I do typically with photographic images where…

  • wp: Unexpected a Theme can break redis object cache and debug cross-posting

    Ok, things seem to be working great, but when I tried to switch from SwipeWP Theme to Pen theme and remove some plugins, I got a redis error, the actual redis object server crashed and even when I rebooted, it crashed again. I’m not sure why, but beware of this, the only way back seems…

  • wp: So happy, now adding back in Mastodon plugins

    I have a whole host of these which allow amongst other things, the ability to use this server as a Mastodon web client and you can also view this blog as a Mastodon server. Pretty neat, but let’s see if it slows the system down. It takes about 10 seconds now to post (it was…

  • wp: Great! All-in-one SEO plugin conflict causes 10x more CPU

    OK, now we are getting somewhere, I finally disabled All-in-one SEO because I saw how much resource it took looking at Query Monitor. I noticed that both Monster Insights and SEO All-in-one were putting up Headline suggestions, so I tried that in the quest to keep reducing, and suddenly things are under control. I hope…

  • RT5: Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3… Restart Podcast now!

    Yes that’s right after a five-month hiatus where I’ve been busy figuring out all things AI and a bunch of new startup ideas, this Christmas break, I’m finally back at it, so here is a quick tour of the new setup. I think the sound is much nicer and also I’m getting a handle on…

  • pod: Restarting Podcasts with How to use FCP and OBS

    It is incredible how knowledge can fade, I last did a podcast back on July 14, 2023, and am just starting again, I learned a bunch of new things I can’t wait to share and forgot, but here’s a quick list of things that I forgot and finally know how to do:

  • wp: Hanging at 70-90%, so try plugin deactivation

    Just testing to see what is going on, I installed a bunch of monitoring plugins. One thing that I discovered quickly is that when I rebooted the system, I was constantly at 100% CPU and then on reboot, it dropped down to the more normal 20-40%, but after a little bit, the CPU load shot…