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For the past twenty years, I’ve been a loyal Debian GNOME user, for the most part.

Kdenlive has my go-to video editor since 2011.

Why The Hell Would You do This?

I think there’s something awesome about an image that can be animated.

Many people overlook the practical value of command-line tools, and demonstrating their usefulness, whether through scripting or combining them, can serve as a compelling real-world example of their power.

I’ve noticed that lately, I’ve been starting, stopping, and abandoning projects.

When bringing my footage shot on my Google Pixel 9 XL Pro into Kdenlive, I noticed the clips looked a lot worse than when I previewed the clips with mpv.

Running an Android without the Play Services, like I used to when I ran Lineage OS, would save battery.

As someone who has spent years building content around online platforms like YouTube, I’ve come to realize that relying on these giants can be a recipe for disaster.

The following policy outlines the terms and conditions for using content from various sources, including social media platforms (such as YouTube, Pixelfed, Mastodon), image sharing sites, music streaming services, and text-based online communities, to gen…

I can see why people hate it Often called the plagiarism machine, LLM’s like ChatGPT become popular because it’s ability to generate text that resembles what a person could output, content is clearly built from referencing others works.

Getting ready for the move and it seems like I’ve been packing and cleaning forever.

Adding metadata to your images, whether for websites or social media, is an effective strategy for improving engagement and accessibility.

We’ve experienced some ups and downs recently, with the high points being equally as enjoyable while the low moments have been absolutely devastating.

I’ve kind of let my home site sit in the dust while I focused on other things like my YouTube and PeerTube channel.

I’ve been crossposting on BlueSky and Mastodon for a minute and I want to share the lazy way I’ve been doing it.

Twitter has 238 million daily active users.

If you haven’t had the chance to experience the Southern California Linux Expo, located in Pasadena, California, I highly recommend attending.

I know I’ve talked a lot about ChatGPT.

After a few weeks of using ChatGPT a few things became clear to me.

Well we managed to survive another year.

I often make a lot of little cheat sheets that I often use as a quick reminder of the tools I use often enough that they can find there way into my daily workflow, but sometimes I need a little refresher.

Last night I had a Lyft ride home from my Tuesday night meetup.

Most of my life I’ve lived in Los Angeles County.

The last few weeks have been a total whirlwind in regards to hosting.

The number one reason I switched to Pop OS is because how they handled pipewire audio sound system.

The Thinkpad x230 Tablet About a month ago I bought a Thinkpad x230 tablet from a friend hoping to use the Wacom drawing functions built into that laptops screen.

YouTube Link In my personal observation, there seem to be two main groups of people when it comes to computing preferences.

ABCDE is “A better CD encoder”.

I’ve been bitten by the bug and the last 5 weeks I’ve been getting to know the Thinkpad x230.

These is a pretty bad article on Mashable on why Mastodon won’t survive.

I like wifi access points that are relatively accessible and free.

This will be my first year attending the Southern California Linux Expo.

So I guess the street view car grabbed a shot of me when I was heading out to the local liquor store for another 80oz bucket of fizzy caffeine.

It seems to be all the rage these days.

I found myself in a unique situation last night.

About a month ago I sold my Chromebook.

I live in a bicycle friendly city.

I believe APG stands for Automatic Password Generator.

Last year I wrote about my adoration for youtube-dl and how it was awesome for streaming youtube videos without flash or even a web browser.

There was a time not long ago that I weighed almost 300lbs.

One of the biggest challenges with making a video in LibAV/FFmpeg is the lack of title cards.

For a few weeks the Cthulhu has been out of commision.

I’m still amazed with the pictures I get out of this Nexus 4.

I hate flash.

WARNING!

There is a blog post from ‘If Jesus was Irish’ that attempts to tackle the Bluray / AVCHD mastering process under Linux.

Installing ADB on any Ubuntu based system is as simple as adding the ‘android-tools-adb‘ package.

For some unknown (and possibly criminally dumb) reason one of the Linux desktops strongest features are horrifyingly stunted.