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Why isn’t it working it was working just before now it should be working tl;dr: If you’re using the pygrub loader, make sure /boot/grub/ exists! The Error I was updating some virtual servers (Xen DomUs); I shut one (hestia) down, then tried to bring it back up using xl create hestia.cfg. But it didn’t start. […]
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Yet another thing ffmpeg can do Streaming a camera to YouTube came up in chat the other day. It’s not something I’ve ever had cause to do, but it seemed interesting so I thought I’d try it out. Prerequisites Streaming to YouTube Live from a phone or tablet is possible from the YT app, but […]
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As a wyse mann ynce seide… I recently acquired a Dell Wyse 3040, a thin client PC intended to connect to virtual desktop[s] running remotely. The Wyse 3040 has a quad-core Intel processor, an Atom x5-Z8350 CPU @ 1.44GHz, which won’t win any benchmark tests (a PassMark score of 896!), and is backed by 2GB […]
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Many hours died to bring you this information tl;dr: run grub-install –target=x86_64-efi –efi-directory=<espdir> –removable if following the Arch Linux install guide I acquired a Dell Wyse 3040 thin client recently. I hit a snag during the install, in that it would not boot the new operating system. grub-install claimed to have successfully completed, but it […]
Continue ReadingFor when you don’t want to install httpd-tools / apache2-utils tl; dr: openssl passwd -apr1 | sed -E “s:[\$]:\$\$:g” (traefik) openssl passwd -apr1 (nginx) Explanations below. Generating a Hash Traefik does basic auth as a middleware. For this you need a password hash. The docs suggest using htpasswd, (eg like htpasswd -nbB), which is grand […]
Continue ReadingIt’s a current bug tl;dr: use -lag-in-frames 0 as a workaround for now I have been creating stinger transitions for my stream. These are animated transparent transitions that switch out scenes when at least one frame has no transparency. I’ve been using Blender to create the animations, and ffmpeg to encode the images into a […]
Continue ReadingMore fun with containers I only recently came across Foundry VTT, and my quick look at it convinced me to try it further. This afternoon, I had it up and running in less than an hour, and you can too! This assumes you have Docker installed and running, and are comfortable with some basic concepts. […]
Continue ReadingHelping us help you help us all The coronavirus lockdown is a great opportunity to try out more RPG gaming, as I previously mentioned. Playing RPGs in person generates a bunch of content, some of which is ephemeral and some of which is more permanent. Playing online, it would be nice to both: i) have […]
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Muddling through, one aspect at a time… I was very kindly gifted a copy of Fate Core not too long ago I had read about Fate before and done some preliminary exploring of the system. I like concept of shared storytelling via the interweaving of player characters, and having players invested in worldbuilding as well. […]
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Playing roles With the lockdown in full swing, my friends and I have returned to playing RPGs. We have done mash-ups over the years, where everyone suggests a couple of genres and a location; and we randomly choose two genres and run that combination in a randomly-chosen location. It makes for some interesting combinations — […]
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