Rich's Tongfamily (Richtong.net add-on)

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The :g command and it’s reverse :v This Global command is quicker than the typical :s/old/new/g instead the syntax is [range]g/pattern/cmd which is way more general. For for instance, if you wanted deleted all the lines with with world “hello” in it, you type :g/hello/d And there is reVerse version…

So I keep forgetting how useful macros (and registers are) or repetitive things. Basically, Vi has 10 numeric registers and then alphabetic registers. If you want to see them then type :registers and you can see what is stored there. There are two ways to use them. The first is…

In the same way that there is essentially just one mechanical watchmaker, one sunglasse maker and one optical company, there is an incredible concentration in the home theater maker. Like skis and other passion projects the key is to find an independent group that cares about the product. And not…

Argh this is so complicated and the problem is so silly. So one of our phones is working and the other wasn’t. The short answer is so silly: The checklist What was happening is that I would go to the site but there are a host of requirements to make…

Ok, this has been a problem for the last three months. When I lost my Unifi Dream Machine Pro controller because it was hung, I was an idiot and just did a factory reset. I tried going to the Reddit group, also sending a ticket, but it looks like the…