Preamble (feel free to skip) So, Lightroom has a bug that if you export smart previews from a Mac and then try to use said smart previews in Windows, they only show in the Develop panel one-by-one and not in the filmstrip. The workaround is to first open up said catalog on a Mac, then re-send it to Windows. Why that is, IDK, and my clients are not savvy enough to deal with this, nor do they have time to figure it out. I was playing around with a 2015 MBP with OCLP for the past fe
Pocketcasts now lets you choose chapter to play or skip. Lets get any chapter with the word sponsor automatically skipped. Please upvote the feature request. https://forums.pocketcasts.com/forums/topic/automatic-keyword-based-chapter-selection-sponsorskip/#post-6128 This is day 24 of #100DaysToOffload
Apple’s keynote like the past few years was boring as all heck. But two key innovations that aren’t sexy were announced and nobody is talking about it due to a (camera) button. Lowering the barrier of entry to hearing aids Airpods Pro 2 now are FDA approved as a hearing aid. So many people need hearing aids and won’t get them. I have three people in mind when I am writing this article. Mid-range hearing loss is what most people in the 20-50 age range have. Typically the easie
I was speaking with one of my best friends who is quite technical currently taking Comp-SCI and while I was showing him my FreshRSS instance on my Rasberry Pi, he noted that nobody else uses RSS besides me. Well let’s get started with why you are stupid for not using an RSS reader. You probably are already using it First off, most people are probably using RSS without realizing it as podcasts use RSS. So what the actual hell is RSS? To quote an article from rss.com: “RSS
I have recently been overwhelming myself with how many things I want to talk about, and trying to formulate a good method on how to break up said subjects. Some things that have come up are: * An In depth look at Lightroom performance issues persistent in 2024 * Carrd the best kept website building secret * Macbooks the laptop to beat * The promise of ARM/ actual Windows laptops not portable desktops with a UPS * Small communities * RSS not showing off the personality of the SMO
If your paying for Calendly as a single user just stop. Use Cal.com it has all the paid feature free for one user and is semi-opensource. This is day 19 of #100DaysToOffload
Haven’t slept well in weeks. My thoughts are complete chaos right now so here goes. General News I’ve been super frustrated with the overall news in terms of the Supreme Court ruling but have ultimately decided to skip writing anything on it. Having to furiously mute hashtags on Mastodon and block posts on Reddit has been absolutely mind-numbing. The YouTuber news cycle about Snapdragon laptops has been absolutely miserable, and I am so done with standard PC reviewers.
I was having a conversation with my previous boss/good friend. He’s an old school extremely capable computer technician but too busy to keep up with most of the current internet drama. Anyways here is the conversation that sparked this post. Redacted, [5/13/2024 10:35 PM] In the end beeper is rubbish Redacted, [5/13/2024 10:36 PM] No wonder they dropped the $10 per month Redacted, [5/13/2024 10:36 PM] No edit. No swipe. Words cut off etc. pupontech, [5/13/2024 10:36 PM] works fine f
A follow up to the previous post. A friend messaged me on WhatsApp. Express VPN wouldn’t open or install the latest update. First hurdle: multiple remote login attempts using both RustDesk and AnyDesk, but both were blocked by his college wifi network—great security, I guess. Finally, I managed to use his phone’s hotspot to remote in. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling several times, including with Revo Uninstaller. No luck. I even checked if there was a known bug with the latest ve
Last week I did close to 18 hrs of free work for multiple people. Two weeks ago I did 20 hrs of free web design , it was for a good friend . I wasn’t upset about it until I realized based on trying to be in touch with them that I was putting significantly more effort into there project then they were. This week I got asked a question to help someone save $300 four times in a row and even my wife got called that I didn’t answer the second they needed it. I cant say everyone was malicious but
After deleting all my mainstream tech news blogs from my RSS reader, mainly due to being tired of seeing the same content repeatedly, I’ve been exploring the indie web more. Lately, I’ve been contemplating how to implement slash pages, considering that I already have similar features on Techreccs. I’m unsure whether I should redesign the website layout to meet the slash standards or simply stick with what I currently have. This is day 14 of #100DaysToOffload
Been a while since I posted, so let’s get up to speed. Docker Desktop Issues I ran into an issue where Docker Desktop on Windows doesn’t remove host file changes on uninstall, so that’s fun. If you run into localhost issues, that’s why. This was reported on GitHub in 2019 and still hasn’t been fixed. Win 11 LTSC Windows 11 LTSC, i.e., the non-bloated way an OS should be, is out. I’m busy setting up my image in a VM, which I will then transfer onto my main machine once
WhatsApp has got to be the single most infuriating piece of software I interact with on a daily basis. Why the fuck would I want a auto reply sent to someone I just messaged. Must be a hard computer science problem to have a if statement in your code to not send an auto replay to someone message in the last specific time period. No I cant leave because of the network effect but thanks. I swear to god I don’t know how this became a popular platform its a steaming pile of shit. Thi
Its so laggy and constantly crashes. If anyone has some fixes/registry hacks please let me know. That’s it that’s the post. This is day 11 of #100DaysToOffload
All the links are at Pupontech.com/techreccs Added DongKnows – the ultimate consumer router site. FrequencyCheck – Will your phone work in ….. Idk check. Blixem Tab Manager – Tab manager with sync for free and its pretty Extensity – Turn extensions on and off easily. Very needed if you follow this list. Improve Youtube – Self Explanatory Social Fixer for Facebook – Self Explanatory JetPack Social – cross post to social media sites. BSP D6 Game Controller – A no bra
Been building a WordPress site for a friend and trying to learn Gutenberg. Yes, Gutenberg should be simple but I have been using WordPress for years and mainly use Elementor. Well, for the site before this, I tried working with Elementor on WordPress 6+ and they do not want you to use another site builder anymore. No matter what I did they kept interfering with each other. So I decided this time I’m not gonna break my head and just do the current happy path in WordPress and use Gutenberg. C
Apparently Dell 16 inch laptops have a problem that the trackpad jumps all over the place even when new. After doing some research its a hardware issue, its due to the trackpad not being correctly grounded. The fix as shown in this Youtube video works perfectly. My friend did it for me in a matter of minutes and its all fixed. This is day 8 of #100DaysToOffload
Life’s been really hard lately both personally and work-wise. I haven’t had much drive to do much or post here, to be honest. On a more positive note, I did play through Bioshock Infinite again. BI has a special place in my heart. It was the first FPS game I ever bought on my first ever laptop that I bought. My first laptop was a 17-inch Toshiba with an AMD A8. It was prob running at 30 fps at 720p low but that game blew me away then and still does now. Playing now on a modern system t
Updated Techreccs for Android and Windows. Need to still do the other sections. Either way archived a bunch of stuff and added a few things. All the links and explanations are under each section on the actual page (Windows, Android, and Archive) Here is the quick list again without the links or explanations Removed * Activity watch-using Timecamp for sync * Kdenlive – Use Davinci Resolve * Feedly – Using Freshrss * Fluid NG – use buttons * Memoria – Using stock gallery
A friend of ours modem/router was reset so I went over to try to troubleshoot it and set it back up. I brought my new Dell Inspiron 16 Inch 2 in 1. It doesn’t have an ethernet port so it was annoying to try to do anything network related. Lesson learned busy re-setting up my ThinkPad X230 as I am starting to do some more IT work again. Why modern laptops especially a 16 inch don’t include ports is beyond me. The laptop also has a grounding issue causing the trackpad to jump but that’s