My Little Pocket Universe
Scott Garrett A default setting for the Apple Vision Pro using an external keyboard was driving me mad; the space bar and the tab key were hijacked to serve as Accessibility functions, which meant that in may places where you wanted to type, hitting the space bar would perform the “Activate” function rather than acting as a … Read more
These procedures were performed/tested on Ubuntu Desktop 22 LTS. On other versions, YMMV. I like to use ZFS on the root/boot volumes, however with Ubuntu (as of 22), you can only install it that way with the desktop installer. But that, of course, installs all the Desktop stuff I do not need on a server. … Read more
I bought a Nanoleaf 4D light strip for my television. As installed, it works just fine. However, if you are a good sysadmin, and you block it like you block all of your IoT devices from accessing the network, you will run into a problem. The firmware cannot cope with not being able to access … Read more
After years and multiple major releases of tvOS of troubleshooting my Wifi network, and Homekit devices, and increasing the size of the dent in my forehead, I finally figured out why my Homekit environment was so unstable. It turns out if you have an AppleTV (running 16.6 or prior as of this writing) as the … Read more
Add this code to the functions.php file of the active theme: When this is in place, a normal user will not see the URL field. If you get messages posted that still have a URL, you know it is SPAM and can junk it.
This is just a quick page where I am collecting various bits of info available on Asus’ page, and other forums. Remember, this is a portable device running Windows. It is not going to be easy or pretty, but it can be made into something useful. The easiest thing to make it Steam Deck like … Read more
So, like all games these days, Diablo IV (and any other Blizzard game) requires the use of an unnecessary crappy launcher that is apparently truly unnecessary, as one of its settings is to close on game launch. This makes my brain twitch. Blizzard’s launcher is doubly annoying in that it cannot be running on more … Read more
Sometimes you come across a poorly created video file where the audio and the video are slightly out of sync with each other. Rather than using a big powerful video editing package, you can use ffmpeg to adjust the times without re-encoding. The key is the itsoffset option. The ffmpeg command line is almost a … Read more
When you install Ubuntu with the default partitions, for some reason, it uses only half of the available disk. If you forget to create a home/var/whatever partition during the install process, you can do it after the fact. To use all of the remaining space in a volume group, you can use the following syntax: … Read more
I just started playing with RPCS3, the excellent emulator for Sony Playstation 3 games. After extracting a few of my games from disc, I found out that for a number of them, they will not play correctly unless they have been patched to the latest revision (see the section Installing PlayStation 3 Game Updates in … Read more