Random Thoughts

ebay listing with more than 24 photos

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Well, that was fun. Finally listed an item on ebay that needed 90 photos. Needless to say, that’s a couple more than the 24 photos that ebay will let you upload. So here’s how I managed it, in case I ever need to do that again: Source: posting large number of photos. I need to … Read more

Behold: The comprehensive list of all The Babylon Bee prophecies that have come true (so far!)

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Who would’ve thought that the world’s most trusted fake news periodical would also become the most prescient, prognostic, predictive, prophetic news organization to have ever existed? Google Sheet of Babylon Bee Prophecies that came true. Source: https://notthebee.com/article/behold-the-comprehensive-list-of-all-the-babylon-bee-prophecies-that-have-come-true-so-far

Don’t EVER do this

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So, was trying to share files in a linux/ubuntu home directory with another user by using chown on all of the files in the home directory. Wanted to make sure that hidden files were shared also. Instead of “sudo chown ./.*” to process all of the files in the current directory, I missed a period … Read more

Mountain Dew Wiki

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Where’s this been all my life?!?!?!?! https://mountaindew.fandom.com/ All of these flavors we’ve missed! 🙁 https://mountaindew.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Discontinued

YouTube to Mp3 Converter

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Wanted to download the 10 hour “Medieval Fantasy Music – Fantasy Music and Ambience” from YouTube, but the first couple of “YouTube to Mp3” sites had a limit of one hour. “Best MP3 Converter” downloaded the 500 meg file like a beast. YouTube to Mp4 Converter Wanted to download the 7 hour “Rankin/Bass CBS Christmas … Read more

Uninstall applications in Ubuntu Linux

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Even when you can’t find them in Ubuntu Software Manager Every once in a while, you’ll find you’ve got an application installed on your Ubuntu system that you can’t find in the Ubuntu Software Manager. sudo apt-get remove <package name> will often work, but sometimes, the package name isn’t what you expected (Dropbox, or nautilus-dropbox, … Read more

Compress or Convert video with Linux

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install ffmpeg sudo apt install ffmpeg ffmpeg does the heavy lifting: ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.mp4 Source: https://bparkerproductions.com/linux-how-to-easily-compress-a-video-with-ffmpeg/ Unfortunatley, ffmpeg doesn’t give you any idea as to the progress of the conversion install ffmpeg-bar npm install –global ffmpeg-progressbar-cli ffmpeg-bar makes it pretty: ffmpeg-bar -i input.mp4 output.avi Source: https://github.com/sidneys/ffmpeg-progressbar-cli#installation