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Teaching with a Mask – Headset Solution on Linux

Posted on August 28, 2020September 6, 2020

My university, the University of Tampa, is doing what it can to continue teaching in-person classes (many are hybrid) during the COVID-19 pandemic. To facilitate that, our IT folks installed…

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Kubuntu – Audio CD Ripping

Posted on July 25, 2020July 25, 2020

I mostly buy digital audio these days. My preferred source is bandcamp as they provide files in FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec). However, I ended up buying a CD recently…

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LibreOffice – How To Change Icons to a Darker Theme

Posted on July 25, 2020July 25, 2020

I prefer darker themes for my desktop environment (Kubuntu 20.04) and browser (Brave). For the most part, this isn’t a problem, but it does cause an issue with some applications,…

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HandBrake – Convert Files with GPU/Nvenc Rather than CPU

Posted on June 26, 2020June 18, 2022

I don’t know exactly when HandBrake added the capability of using the GPU for encoding, but it was somewhere between 1.3.1 (current version in the Ubuntu repositories) and 1.3.3 (current…

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2020 NAS – Plex, nomachine, Crashplan

Posted on June 22, 2020June 17, 2021

After about a year and a half with my previous NAS (see here), I decided it was time for an upgrade. The previous NAS had served dutifully, but it was…

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LibreOffice – exporting high-resolution TIFF/TIF files

Posted on June 19, 2020June 19, 2020

As a scholar who regularly publishes work with charts and graphs, I’m often confronted with varied requirements from publishers for the format in which they want the charts and graphs….

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Linux – Video Tag Editing

Posted on May 30, 2020September 12, 2020

Not everyone may be as particular as I am about having my files organized, but I like to make sure everything is where it’s supposed to be. I make sure…

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LibreOffice 6.4.3.2 – Not Showing Greek Letters/Symbols

Posted on May 17, 2020May 17, 2020

I ran into an issue the other day that ended up taking me hours to solve, in part because I couldn’t find any other solutions online, which is pretty unusual…

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Plex on Linux – Video Files Not Detected

Posted on April 25, 2020April 25, 2020

I added a number of video files to my Plex server the other day and, when I checked Plex, some of them had not shown up in the corresponding library….

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Plex – Sports Videos Library

Posted on April 25, 2020April 25, 2020

I use Plex to manage my music and video libraries. I actually don’t watch sports very often. The one exception is when I’m grading papers (I’m a college professor). I’ve…

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