tech and other interesting stuff
Now make it do stuff In our quest for an HTPC, we previously talked about installing Arch Linux on the Wyse 3040 back in Part 1. Now that we have a functional system that we can boot, we can proceed with making it actually play media. Hardware Video Acceleration First, it’s worthwhile enabling hardware acceleration […]
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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 […]
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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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Making the video editing workload much lighter Shotcut is a Free (GPLv3) cross-platform video editor. I’ve been using it a couple of times lately to put some simple clips together (like sorting the Take 2 copyright claim GTA Online video). I figured I’d use it to take a clip of my friends and I getting […]
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Jack Howitzer as Jack Howitzer in ‘Jack Howitzer’ I played some GTA V: Online the other night — my three word review: ‘fun but clunky’ — and uploaded the footage of it as I usually do, leaving it as a draft to be later updated with my automation tools. Later on I saw I had […]
Continue ReadingCold but bright It may have been down at around -2°C that morning, but the walk in Falkirk was great. The Kepies are really impressive!
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