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Viewing HEIC (HEIF) Images on Pop! OS 22.04
Read more →I had no idea what an HEIC image is until today. I had to install a newer version of the
libheiflibrary than Pop!_OS 22.04 has in their standard package manager in order to be able to view these images. -
Video Gradually and Increasingly Falling Behind: Don't Use Buffering
Read more →My external USB webcam’s video signal was gradually and increasingly falling out of sync with real life, so that within 20 minutes, I looked like a badly-dubbed movie. Fortunately, there appears to be a simple workaround while the OBS Studio programmers decide how to solve the problem for real for real.
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Upgrading Discourse When You Totally Have Enough Disk Space
Read more →In some situations, Discourse thinks you don’t have enough disk space to upgrade to the latest version, even though you actually do. There is one little switch you can use to convince the upgrade script that it’s OK to proceed.
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unWise Arithmetic
Read more →Wise’s UI reports a rounded currency exchange rate, but applies a more-precise rate when converting funds, so their arithmetic is correct, even when it looks like it isn’t.
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strptime: a Beginner's Mistake
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Remove a Password from a PDF Document on Linux the Super-Easy Way
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evince, then print a new copy to file. -
The Mysterious Extra Quotes that `jc` Put In My JSON
Read more →How I learned to deal with Byte Order Marks (BOM) in text files.
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Ducking in Screenflow
Read more →To use ducking in Screenflow, set ducking on the voiceover track only and leave the music bed track underneath alone.
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LibreOffice Calc, Headers, Footers, and Every Page!
Read more →All of a sudden, I started seeing different headers and footers on different sheets of my workbook when I printed it as a PDF. I couldn’t believe my eyes, but then I noticed a new setting I hadn’t had to deal with before….
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How Pandoc and Ranger Froze My Laptop
Read more →My laptop started freezing and its fan started screaming at the top of its lungs. I was forced to reboot. Fortunately, I stumbled upon the reason: ranger and pandoc and trying to preview OpenOffice Spreadsheet files.