My Little Pocket Universe
Scott Garrett 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
Firstly; this is information on how to extract your legally bought copy of 3D movies so you can play them on devices that do not use optical media (e.g. a VR headset). I do not condone piracy. Whether you want to make a backup, or to convert it to a more usable format, 3D movies … Read more
For some strange reason, with the new ARM based Macs with X11 xquartz from either the official download, or from Mac Ports, when a remote java (of course it’s a problem with java), when the mouse moves, the colors of the window(s) will invert, making them very difficult to see/read. Fortunately, there are a couple … Read more
With Ubuntu starting to push their snap architecture, more and more apps break using old school X11 remote display methods. With traditional applications, you can just ssh to a remote host with -X or -Y to get X11 forwarding. You just run the X11 command, and it’ll “magically” come back and display on your local … Read more
So you have made a backup copy of your legally owned Mario Kart 8 game from your Nintendo Switch, and want to play it on your Steam Deck. Once you have copied the XCI file you created into the EmuDeck switch roms folder and run it with Yuzu, you might have run into the issue … Read more
Work in Progress! Pictures to come. I traded in my 2017 Toyota Prius V for a shiny new Prius Prime Limited because I now work from home and 98% of my driving is in range of the EV mode. The major problem I have with it is that the pedestrian alert whine from the AVAS … Read more
So you have your shiny new Mac, and you want to back it up to a Time Machine volume, but you don’t want to have it dangling from a USB cable, a great option is to back up to a linux host using Samba. In the past, you would have used netatalk over the AFP … Read more