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vm: Ubuntu on Mac with UTM or Lima
Well, I try not to use Docker too much, but for compatibility testing, it is sure nice to have a QEMU like thing that I can bring up and down. UTM is a nice tool for this that uses the hypervisor stack for graphical applications. Quick notes, when you download the Ubuntu 22.04 images, it…
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fcp: The Mystery of Final Cut Pro Captions
Well, they finally added automatic caption creation, but of course they are biased towards the apple itt format so nothing much happens. So here is a guide to making captions work:
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obs: HDR Output not looking great
OK, I’ve been doing a lot of HDR work and it’s been mysterious how to set OBS to do this properly. I tried to do one and the colors were way off, but looking at Reddit, you get to the OBS notes and it says that is it. using the latest Screen Capture Kit from…
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net: Google Drive Sharing dual layer
OK, so we have Google Drive for sharing things and man has it gotten complicated. The problem is that sharing is more restricted now and the default is that you cannot share things with non-workspace members. It is confusing because when you try to share with someone, you set it and then it doesn’t take,…
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pod: Rich and Steve Talk Deepseek
Well, I somehow forgot all about podcast publishing, things get too busy, but now things from way back in February are getting caught up. Here is one where Steve Suarez and I talked about Deepseek R1. A little dated now in September, but for posterity
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dev: ubuntu 22.04 google chrome and asdf strangeness
Well, asdf, direnv and the plug asdf-direnv are wonderful when they work, but very mysterious when they don’t. As of today, you need to use my build of asdf-direnv and you also have to do some work to setup it up if you are on a out of date Linux Ubuntu box. Here are the…
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dev: The pain of moving from wsn to ws fixing ComfyUI Desktop, asdf
Sam showed me years ago a great way to organize your local machine. Basically you create workspace directory ws and then you put git, data, cache and everything else you need to build for that project. For a long time ws was my home GitHub project I keep at richtong but lately we’ve been so…
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mac: No space because of Time Machine hidden in Restricted Files
I had totally forgotten that I had setup one of my machines with Time Machine. Most of the time it has no impact, but when you are trying to download 500GB of LLM models it makes a difference. Time Machine is supposed to be smart about local snapshots, but when you delete a lot of…
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git: tag overwrites, recursing submodules and fetching them
Well this is really advanced stuff, but with large mono repos you really want things to stay in sync, so here are some tricks:
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dev: git submodule magic
Well, git submodules are useful and frustrating at the same time, since we have literally a few dozen of these, I finally spent time figuring out what was wrong and it comes down to two commands and making sure you do not have error: Now that this is set, by default you are in detached…