Ryan and Debi & Toren – Page 3 – tech, travel, and talk

Linux FFMPEG – Flip Vertical Video to Horizontal

Posted on August 3, 2021August 3, 2021

I was recently shooting some videos on my phone to share with someone else and accidentally flipped the phone before filming a clip. I never film vertically as I know…

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Linux – Batch Convert .wav to .flac

Posted on July 18, 2021July 18, 2021

I ran into a weird issue the other day where SoundConverter, a GUI for converting audio files, was generating flac files that my audio player couldn’t see. I’m still not…

4,828 total views, 16 views today

LibreOffice – KDE Integration Package for Skinning/Color Management

Posted on July 15, 2021July 15, 2021

Super simple note for future reference and for anyone else running into this issue. I upgraded my version of LibreOffice in Kubuntu 20.10 to a pre-release version to fix a…

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Linux Server – tar files and directories

Posted on July 11, 2021July 11, 2021

I recently had to move all my websites from one virtual private server (VPS) to another. When I only had a few such websites, I was okay with using SFTP…

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ASUS Router – VPN with Android phone

Posted on May 16, 2021May 16, 2021

I have a specific use scenario where I need to be on my home network to control a device but may want to control that device when I’m not home….

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Plex – Export Playlists to M3U

Posted on May 10, 2021May 10, 2021

I spent the last year or so cleaning up my music library. It is now organized how I want it to be. I use two software packages to play my…

7,283 total views, 11 views today

Linux Server – Adding a New Domain and WordPress Site – Linode VPS – Ubuntu 18.04

Posted on April 8, 2021December 2, 2021

I have a VPS server with Linode that I use to host about a dozen different websites. All but one of them run on WordPress. Occasionally, I get a request…

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GPRENAME – removing text up to a space using regular expressions

Posted on March 6, 2021March 6, 2021

For a recent project, I came into possession of hundreds of photos, each of which was named according to the settings the person who take the photo with their phone…

2,424 total views, 5 views today

ZFS Snapshot Management

Posted on January 2, 2021January 2, 2021

With my new fileserver/NAS, I am using a ZFS raid array for my file storage. One aspect of the ZFS file system that I didn’t really investigate all that closely…

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PVC paintball gun holder

Posted on December 21, 2020December 21, 2020

I play paintball frequently enough that I finally broke down and made myself a paintball gun holder. Is it a requirement for paintball? Of course not! Is it a convenient…

5,799 total views, 6 views today