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  • Creating QR physical tags

    Creating QR physical tags

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    Dad has always used his printer to print customized tags. Started with Christmas tags, it has now grown to tagging anything and everything. QR codes are compact and flat, making them perfect for tagging. Unfortunately, Dad uses Fusion 360 to model, and the qr plugin isn’t free. Here’s how he creates his tags. Create QR…

  • Reading UltraHD Blurays via VLC on linux

    Reading UltraHD Blurays via VLC on linux

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    Installing on Ubuntu I tried for quite some time to figure out how to get VLC and openJDK to handshake together for BluRay menus, but found out libbluray does it perfectly.

  • Why are we still faxing in 2019…

    Why are we still faxing in 2019…

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    I’m pleased to say I am still capable of sending faxes from home… but not proud of it. I thought Fax is done. with encrypt-able pdf’s and e-mail. We could get rid of fax once and for all but yet, I’m still being asked to fax stuff. There are free fax websites, you upload a…

  • How to bulk delete emails in Gmail

    How to bulk delete emails in Gmail

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    In the search box, you can search for a category, set a age, and only unread emails via: category:promotions older_than:1m is:unread Then Check All, select Select all conversations that match this search and delete.

  • Ducky One 2 SF backlight shortcuts

    Ducky One 2 SF backlight shortcuts

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    Paper manual didn’t seem to have this so Dad posted this to remind him. Mode Select Fn+Alt+t (cycles through each model, hold for 3 seconds to return to None) Change Speed Fn+Alt+[j|l] j to slow down l to speed up RGB Selection Fn+Alt+[z|x|c]Fn+Alt+vFn+Alt+Space Select color, each color has 10 levelsv will reset it to offSpace…

  • Motioneye on Rasp 4

    Motioneye on Rasp 4

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    Having issues trying to process 3 video streams with a pc, Dad decided to separate the streams and have a Raspberry Pi 4 do the work for each stream. To begin, he first downloaded Raspbian ‘Buster’. He learned in a pilot configuration that he would rather have full control to install anything he needed (e.g.…

  • Swamp Cooler Failure

    Swamp Cooler Failure

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    Yes, that purple line… should not be above the yellow in the summer, when my swamp cooler is suppose to act as a cooler. But before I discuss that, I want to talk about how I began graphing these data points. It all started when dad bought a z-wave sensor that would tell smartthings: motion,…

  • The New Frontier… 4K

    The New Frontier… 4K

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    This all started when I received my first UHD BluRay disk. I was excited… I’ve always been a proponent of keeping content in the native resolution as the viewer’s screen and finally, I got a movie that from cradle to grave… is in 4K resolution. The first step is to rip it. I’ve quickly learned…

  • Pi-hole!

    Pi-hole!

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    Since the family is out of the house, Dad thought it would be non-consequential to offload the home network’s DNS requests from the router to an independent server. This idea has been a ‘stuck thought’ in my mind for a while as a colleague of mine, (I’m talking about you Scoot!) have been praising openDNS’s…

  • Let’s Encrypt auto renewal

    Let’s Encrypt auto renewal

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    First, I would suggest looking for all the commands to your specific setup here. But since I am running a combination of things that aren’t listed on that page, I had to dig elsewhere. Centos 7 should have epel already enabled but if not… Configure certbot with your specific setup Note: I don’t have a…