Category: Geek

Argh, this is so frustrating. With Zoom and with Teams but not with Google Meets and Slack, you can get a nice virtual background. Since we’ve switched to Slack for phone calls, the question is how to get those back. There are a few virtual camera applications, but a nice open source one is Open…

Ok these really come in two forms. If you have prints then you want a nice flat bed scanner. If you want the highest quality though and you have negatives then you want something that can handle negatives and ideally has something called digital ICE which can remove scratches in the file emulsion (it’s a…

Man, life is complicated. I have no less than five different Métis’s of getting COVID codes. It is literally raining incompatible codes. But the goal is to get it all working where you can just flash a code on your phone and it works everywhere. So here’s a rundown at least for me of the…

When you get a new iPhone and then jump on a plane here are the crazy things (that people done tell you) you need to remember to do: Data roaming for whatever reason is not coming through. This setting is actually really buried in the interface. Settings > Cellular > Data Roaming needs to be…

YOu can now activate for your vanity domain and have it go to your iCloud account and up to three other vanity domains see Apple  or just go to iCloud Custom Domain and this is really handy for my @tongfamily.com and other single use. Twitter feeds and email news letters for anyone engaged in AI, Well, since the…

Well this is for the commercial laden version of Paramount but it’s eight $60 fit the next year. So not bad when combined with the half off you get with Amex for three months. It’s a little annoying that unlike Netflix you don’t get a discount on premium. The commercial free version. I plan to…

OK, this should work for most systems and after a year, I’m shocked at how well everything works. It took me a weekend to update the scripts that I have for installation as there are a few differences, but it is incredible how well it really works: If you are using a dotfile repository (which…

OK, so I made a mistake a while back, I was taking a bunch of ML classes and ended up creating a subdirectory course in my personal repo rich, but that means I’m carrying around 1GB of data that I basically never use. In the old days, this was really hard to fix, but as…

Well, Paul was asking so just how fast is the new MacBook Pro with M1 Max. Well, it was a good question, so a little digging, but some questions: When was RAM slower than the current SSD transfer speeds? How has that ratio of level 1 and level 2 each to ram storage to the…

Well, I’ve been experimenting with using Canva for presentations. It has a really great integrated library of elements and integrates animations way better than Google Slides. But here are some tips: At least on Safari, Canva is a super pig. It can hang entire system spinning. However, the dedicated MacOS application you can get with…