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A new mobile phone for an elderly friend who I help out.
I did the setup & had to ask her what security she wanted. PIN, pattern, finger print, or facial recognition.
Her old phone wasn't even locked & for this one she decided on the finger print option.
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Currently geeking: my home theatre PC has given up the ghost. Support for really old nvidia graphics cards on Arch Linux is sketchy at best and trying to downgrade is a nightmare: the latest Debian image refused to install on the fecker so it's currently sitting there with a totally blank hard drive.

I think I'm going to have to give up on the old beast and repurpose a raspberry pi.
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markfiend wrote: ↑15 Mar 2021, 10:07 Currently geeking: my home theatre PC has given up the ghost. Support for really old nvidia graphics cards on Arch Linux is sketchy at best and trying to downgrade is a nightmare: the latest Debian image refused to install on the fecker so it's currently sitting there with a totally blank hard drive.

I think I'm going to have to give up on the old beast and repurpose a raspberry pi.
The Debian disk image I'd loaded onto a live USB was corrupted. Second attempt and I have Debian installed and kodi up and running again. Now all I need is to get my remote control working again.
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Brave browser.
& it isn't half bad as it goes
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As I mentioned elsewhere, I've been learning to use a DAW. Having no musical education at all this has involved learning my measures from my scales, etc. (Aside: why does one have to dig so deep to tie it all back to a baseline Hz value? After that things make much more sense. Why don't they start there and build up?)

Anyway the end goal was to make some banging techno for a 4yo birthday. With the bar set appropriately low I think I will achieve it satisfactorily in time for the party.
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markfiend wrote: ↑16 Mar 2021, 12:11
markfiend wrote: ↑15 Mar 2021, 10:07 Currently geeking: my home theatre PC has given up the ghost. Support for really old nvidia graphics cards on Arch Linux is sketchy at best and trying to downgrade is a nightmare: the latest Debian image refused to install on the fecker so it's currently sitting there with a totally blank hard drive.

I think I'm going to have to give up on the old beast and repurpose a raspberry pi.
The Debian disk image I'd loaded onto a live USB was corrupted. Second attempt and I have Debian installed and kodi up and running again. Now all I need is to get my remote control working again.
Plan C: the old home theatre running Kodi on top of Debian was failing on all sorts of media file types; it's now a NAS server and I got a new Pi on which to install Kodi. Balls to Debian I'm back on Arch (Arch Linux ARM on the Pi and bog-standard Arch on the NAS). I'm still troubleshooting why some .mkv files just randomly crash the whole Pi but re-encoding them with a bit of ffmpeg magic seems to do the trick.
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How to passive-aggressively make absolutely sure that somebody is never going to try to put a test system into production: name it "Church of the Electric Moose". Yup, that'll do.
If I told them once, I told them a hundred times to put 'Spinal Tap' first and 'Puppet Show' last.
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markfiend wrote: ↑12 May 2021, 10:51I'm still troubleshooting why some .mkv files just randomly crash the whole Pi but re-encoding them with a bit of ffmpeg magic seems to do the trick.
Ah I remember this. I ended up asking on an Arch Linux ARM forum and I was struggling because I hadn't enabled kodi as a systemd service (spit). Seems I also needed some udev rules in place to allow access to hardware decoding for h265.

BTW office PC uptime now at 595 days :eek:
mh wrote: ↑05 Nov 2021, 16:01 How to passive-aggressively make absolutely sure that somebody is never going to try to put a test system into production: name it "Church of the Electric Moose". Yup, that'll do.
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currently geeking ... well that's somewhat exaggerated, but can anybody tell me, please,
whether those spotify playlists can be downloaded or used only online. I see no need to
register with them in case I can listen to the stuff online only, anyway... :| ...
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Spotify is a streaming service; I don't think it's possible to download the tracks.
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markfiend wrote: ↑12 Nov 2021, 17:34 Spotify is a streaming service; I don't think it's possible to download the tracks.
Apparently with 'Spotify Premium' you can....

https://support.spotify.com/us/article/listen-offline/
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Big Si wrote: ↑12 Nov 2021, 22:12
markfiend wrote: ↑12 Nov 2021, 17:34 Spotify is a streaming service; I don't think it's possible to download the tracks.
Apparently with 'Spotify Premium' you can....

https://support.spotify.com/us/article/listen-offline/
Anyway, access to some playlist is access only if you register and become a spotify customer ...
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Currently geeking: writing imagemagick scripts instead of manually processing images in the GIMP.

I've spent most of a day writing a script to save myself an hour's manual work :lol:

However it's an hour that I've now saved on every single set of images I'll ever do for this project in future...
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sounds fabulous...whatever the f**k that is [/dumbass old man] :lol:
Well I was handsome and I was strong
And I knew the words to every song.
"Did my singing please you?"
"No! The words you sang were wrong!"
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markfiend wrote: ↑21 Feb 2022, 13:18 I've spent most of a day writing a script to save myself an hour's manual work :lol:
https://xkcd.com/1205/
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alanm wrote: ↑22 Feb 2022, 08:56
markfiend wrote: ↑21 Feb 2022, 13:18 I've spent most of a day writing a script to save myself an hour's manual work :lol:
https://xkcd.com/1205/
:lol: I should have known there'd be a relevant xkcd :notworthy:
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A while back I was on record here opining that Wide Receiver should get a rap-style cover.

So uh, here we go. It's pretty stupid, but at least it exists now.

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