pt5. ChatGPT and Mike Conte Special Guest (And Tech Glitches Galore)

This time, we bumble through an episode featuring the amazing Mike Conte and we talk about what’s wrong with this Podcast technically (see below), about ChatGPT, and about how you don’t want to show others the Money. Mike is as always hilarious! Ok, our exploration of Podcasting continues with tech glitches galore. First of all […]

vid: Dealing with audio recording too low in Final Cut Pro

Well, Final Cut Pro works pretty much like iMovie in dealing with segments that are recorded at too low a level. The big issue is that the maximum increase in volume is 12dB which really isn’t enough. The problem is that I was messing around with an OBS Studio volume filter and I recorded some […]

pod: OBS Studio works with VDO.Ninja as Browser Source is like a free Zoom

No really, Vdo.ninja is actually a free resource that does WebRTC which means that all the communications are peer-to-peer and encrypted which is great. More importantly, they support a full 1080p connection so it won’t work in low bandwidth systems, but it is excellent if you are doing podcasts. There are a few tricks here […]

pod: Tuning vdo.ninja Not, Zoom guest host, OBS Noise gate bugs, and Window vs App Capture

OK, if you can believe it, it’s the fifth Podcast with Paul we’ve done and we tried out the first guest podcast so we had me life and then two remote people. Our guess and a new person. This is actually quite a bit harder than it looks, but here’s a quick guide: VDO.Ninja Not […]

home: UniFi Protect Admin Guide for Homebridge

This is complicated, but on the upgrade from UniFi 1.x to 2.x, suddenly the UniFi Protect to Homebridge gateway failed. When I logged in to the dedicated Home application, I couldn’t see any of the cameras. So you have to change the permissions, go to the UniFi OS console > Admins > Roles and create […]

home: The nightmare that is NordVPN Threat Protection and Bonjour and do not use Localdomain for HP Color LaserJet Pro M478f Printing and Homebridge

OK, I’ve been really struggling with accessing this printer. The HP Color LaserJet would work but every time I tried to use it again, my Mac would say not found. The real clue came when I tried to access my Homebridge at homebridge.local and it worked fine on my phone but not on my Mac. […]

mac: Like little stones, great Utilities

For some reason, Medium seems to be filled with these little articles about Mac apps and widgets. They are mainly identical (which is why I discontinued my Medium subscription and get most of my content from Mastodon and Reddit these days), but here are some of the great utilities I use daily and am about […]

home: SmartHome architecture 2025 and will AI save it?

We are finally so close to unifying the many systems in a house that I can taste it. If you think of the homes of say 2000, here are the systems and controls which you can see if you imagine you are coming home with every possible bell and whistle (think Beverly Hills) To show […]

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