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Protected: fam: dct5. Dave Wisdom rules
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wp: WordPress admin way too hard to find things
Man, this is a good example of what AI is about to do, right now to maintain and edit a WordPress site is just so hard. Every command is somewhere, but it is buried in some place and then another place. So here are notes (for the future AIs of the world to scrape) on…
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tech: More Benchmarking of Disks on Intel Mac
Since I did the whole series of benchmarks on a MacBook Pro 2021, I was curious what the performance is on the MacBook Pro 2017 Intel Mac, so here’s the test series MacBook Pro 2017Razor Thunderbolt DockMBps (R/W) Full Connection Sequential QD32 Rand 4KiBQD32 Onboard 1TB SSD 80% NVMe 2,745/389 441/60 ThunderBay 8 RAID108 x…
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av: Love the old BrainWavz B2, Vsonic VC-1000 and need a headphone amp
Well, as you can tell, I’ve been thinking about audio quite a bit. With the new Podcast studio coming online, I discovered the Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 is a great XLR to USB ADC, but the headphone amplifier is not that great. I’ll do a separate post on this topic, but it reminded me that I…
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Tech: Grade and label USB cables right now
Man, this is such a complicated topic that I’ve talked about before. But to review, if you are like me, you have a whole box full of cables and they all look more or less the same. Here’s a decoder ring and recommendations for what to do which is basically to make a shoebox and…
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ht: New list of great Bass tracks for Home Theaters
OK, we finally figured out why the subwoofers stopped working. Silly, but after 15 years, apparently a common problem is that the auto-power-on circuit fails. That is what happened with our JL Audio Fathom f112 subwoofers. They are an incredible 1,800 watts of power per subwoofer, so they are pretty mean and have a 3-inch…
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mac: New recos for SATA to USB for SSD on Mac
Well, I ended up with a bunch of different drive technologies here are the results so here are the results using three different SSDs against three different SATA to USB 3.0 adapters. And also my new ZikeDrive Z666. What we want to do is figure out what combination of old drives in the dustbin and…
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home: How to buy Tubular LED bulbs
OK, we had another strange bulb go out. It has a medium E26 base and is about 5 inches long, so how to get a replacement? This led me back to the whole shape vs. base labyrinth that is light bulb sizes, so as a refresher, E26 means an Edison base (which is also called…
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pod: Now building a basic podcast Studio 2024
Well, we’ve had good luck with our entry-level podcast setup and then building an entry-level studio for group conversations. These have worked well, particularly after fixing the various OBS filters. But the main issues with the setup are: So we need another setup that works in a different room since I’m tired of just using…
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web: prevent Read.ai intrusive Zoom lurking now
OK, I try lots of different AI applications and just to warn all of you read.ai is the worst. Basically, once you enable it to use Zoom, even if you disconnect it, it will keep recording and end up as a participant in all your meetings. For some reason, I got a year of free…
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tech: Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are useful
OK, I’ve been using these glasses for a while and I’m surprised at how often I use them. The killer feature is not what you would expect, it is that since it uses bone conduction you can listen to podcasts during any boring meeting. The biggest problem is that we can’t get WhatsApp messages through…
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tech: Qi2 is here! New stands, mats, and travel chargers
Qi2 is here with CES and all those $150 MagSafe 2 charging systems are getting cheaper. It’s pretty clear that Qi2 is going to be way cheaper, so let’s look at ways to put a full Qi2 system for phones, headphones, and watches in every room would You can say that there are two form…
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tech: Apple Home long-term frustrations and vital tricks
I’ve been trying to be all Apple Homekit for the last three years and it has gone so, so. Some things work, but some of the time is how I would summarize it. Still, I miss it when we go to a hotel and I can’t just say, “Siri turn off the lights”. TL;dr Summary…
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Mac: Latest OLCP tricks disable dGPU, searchpartyd spin
We’ve now transitioned four very different machines: MacBook Pro 2017, MacBook Pro 2014, MacBook Air 2012 and Mac mini 2011. TL;dr. Here is the latest update on getting all these old Macs to run, so a summary of the outstanding problems Here are the details on how we fixed the various problems MacBook Pro 2010…
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home: New Guide for Apple Home Smart Humidifiers 2024
There are not many of these actually, I can only find four of them. Of these, the most reasonable seems to be the AirVersa Humidor. I like the look of the SmartMi Rainforest, but it’s hard to justify paying $300 for a humidifier no matter how beautiful. They don’t seem to be on Amazon, but…
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wp: New touches for Menus, Footers and Blogrolls
OK, now that I have some reasonable stability with WordPress, I might as well do the final tweaks to make it work well. It is pretty confusing to change appearance because WordPress has its primitive mechanism, so most theme builders are building on top of that. I’ve been using the SwipeWP and it has some…
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wp: JetPack Connection now fixed by deleting cookies
I figured out what was going on here and the fix because I saw that on my phone there was no connection problem, but not in the web application. The fix is to delete the cookies for wordpress.com and then the connection works. There must be stale data there. One of the strange things by…
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Re: Reblog
Reblog via Drew Harwell Learning how the Friends plugin works. Reblog just takes from my friends feed that are combination of mastodon posts and RSS articles and sticks them on this site. New: Cops are going into pharmacies and walking out with people's most sensitive health information. No warrant or judge review. Comes at a…
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wp: Outstanding WordPress bugs with redis, Disqus, and JetPack
Well things are working pretty well, here are my outstanding bugs: Of these, the Redis one is the most concerning, if it keeps happening, it looks like it is PHP log time.
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wp: Now make WordPress integrate with Mastodon
This isn’t super well documented but Alex explains it pretty well. As more people try to migrate to the fediverse there are four distinct goals for Mastodon WordPress integration I think in order of difficulty Keeping your content on your site with ActivityPub, Those were the simple things to do, but you can go farther…
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wp: New fix for redis max memory worked!
It took a while for all this to propagate, but looking at the Digital Ocean plots, you can see what was happening was lots of thrashing as the redis cached into the disk-based swapfile. While the memory load remains high at nearly 100%, you can see the CPU utilization has dropped from 75% to more…
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wp: How to fix WordPress crashes due to Redis memory
OK, so after I got the performance of WordPress up to decent with the help of redis and other tricks, this site went from a horrible 9 seconds to a very decent 1.5 seconds. But, I did find that it would become unavailable 4-6 times a day. I thought this was because I had exceeded…
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web: New Google Workspace AI, browser sync, and OLCP fixes
OK, some gentle reminders on making everything work. The first is that if you are using Google Workspace, you currently have to allow Bard for all your users. This also enables Google AI Studio which you can use to manage your prompts for vision and test them and NotebookLM which is similar to the studio…
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Protected: fam: dct4. Rich and Dave debate grandma
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Mac: New life for MacBooks 2010-2017 with OpenCore Legacy Patcher
Well, I’ve had some pretty good luck with OCLP to update old Macs to the latest MacOS Ventura, and Sonoma. Right now I’ve got running and it’s a pretty good list. The main thing to do is to make sure you are using the latest Open Core Legacy Patcher. So the idea is you get…
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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…
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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…
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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…