My Little Pocket Universe
Scott Garrett So I got tired of dealing with Windows, of course, and finally installed Ubuntu linux 26 on my game machine. The install was easy, and installing Steam is easy. I opted to use the snap version, since that is the one it pushes you to use. However, that is when the problems started. The first … Read more
I just installed ProxMox Backup Server (4.1.1), and am setting up tape changers with it. Unfortunately, they offer no support for automatically overwriting foreign media (i.e. media that was written to by any other application). I am moving away from Veritas Netbackup and VMware over to ProxMox, so I have a number of tapes that … Read more
MacOS has a built in NFS client, but the defaults in the latest MacOS versions prohibit it from working as it should. As Apple encourages the use of the SMB protocol, they seem to have stopped paying attention to NFS, which is a shame considering in the real world, NFS performance blows SMB away, especially … Read more
So you have been playing Borderlands 4, and you’ve heard some of the usual hysterical dialogue that makes you lauch, and you think, “Hey, I’d like to make that into a ringtone!” Well, so did I, so I figured out now to extract the sounds and make an index of them. To do the entire … Read more
You can use the linux qrencode command as so:
Youtube uses cubic projection for its videos, but most other things, like VR headsets, natively use equirectangular. Yes, there are players that will play either, but I am shooting for the native format of my Apple Vision Pro. A quick way to convert them is with ffmpeg. You can tune the parameters to your liking, … Read more
Update 2025/04/02: As expected, I have heard nothing back from Apple since I sent in the headset. I did not expect them to confirm anything unless they do a recall. Update 2025/02/23: I traded in the headset that I used to send them photos so it can go back to their engineers for testing. As … Read more
While it is fine most of the time for the MacBook to turn itself on when you open it, sometimes it is annoying when you do not want it to for some reason. E.g. like when you want to verify that it is actually powered off before you pack it away. There are several options … Read more
This page is going to be random notes and discoveries about my new Insta360 Pro 2 VR camera. The camera is impressive. The documentation, not so much. I will likely take sections of this stream of conscience and make them into their own pages once I have enough information. The camera runs Linux for Tegra … Read more
I have a 6″ can light installed in the ceiling, which has been working fine. But I have been upgrading all my bulbs to Nanoleaf Matter controllable bulbs, and they only make a 4″ canless downlight. This, of course, does not fit into a 6″ hole. I could repair the hole, but then I’d have … Read more