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Yesterday I was wrong Dan’s technical ramblings Home Admin About Ubuntu + OBS Studio + Intel Hardware Encoding (VAAPI) February 27, 2021 February 27, 2021 by dan Leave a Comment So I had installed the latest version of OBS Studio (26.x) from the official channels but when I went to the output mode it only listed software encoding. In the logs it mentioned FFMPEG-VAAPI but wasn’t using it as any recording was using 30%-50% CPU on a low powered laptop. In Settings - Output change […] Sortable UUIDs - ULID and KSUID October 7, 2020 October 7, 2020 by dan Leave a Comment https://github.com/ulid/spec https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid Fast ML model building June 11, 2020 June 11, 2020 by dan Leave a Comment PyCaret - https://pycaret.org/ Remote Working Links March 20, 2020 March 29, 2021 by dan Leave a Comment Special thanks to Scott Muc and S+C. Please post more links in the comments and I’ll add them in Guides / Playbooks Leading in crisis: Setting up for remote successhttps://www.thoughtworks.com/remote-work-playbook Remote First in Tes Technologyhttps://engineering.tes.com/how-we-work/remote/ How to Work Remotely and Still Be the Besthttp://www.toptal.com/freelance/how-to-work-remotely-and-still-be-the-best Smart Home: 10 Tips for Working Remotely – […] Fix screen tearing on Razor Stealth (Late 2019) with Ubuntu 19.10 February 10, 2020 February 10, 2020 by dan Leave a Comment So I had my usual problem with screen tearing on Ubuntu 19.10 but instead of my usual switching to Metacity + Compton I wanted to try using Gnome Shell. However Gnome shell doesn’t support replacing the compositor. First step is to allow the NVidia driver to support kernel mode setting: Adding And then Check with […] Webcam on Razer Stealth Late 2019 with Ubuntu 19.10 January 1, 2020 January 1, 2020 by dan Leave a Comment Probably the weakest element on the laptop is the Webcam which can output 720p@30fps. By default the low light performance is not that great but you can improve it considerably by trading frame rate for low light performance. First install the Video 4 Linux utils: Now run the following command (the default is 0) Now […] Suspend Loop Fix for Razor Stealth Late 2019 with Ubuntu 19.10 January 1, 2020 February 10, 2020 by dan Leave a Comment I was experiencing a loop where after suspending and resuming the laptop it would go back into suspend over and over again. To fix this just update /etc/default/grub and add button.lid_init_state=open to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT I also had to add the following to stop errors during the update Then update GRUB Update: I found that I actually […] Power Management for Razor Stealth Late 2019 (GTX 1650) with Ubuntu 19.10 January 1, 2020 January 1, 2020 by dan Leave a Comment First install powertop and TLP . We use powertop to estimate power usage when unplugged and TLP to run as a service I then did a little tweaking in my /etc/rc.local Lastly switch from NVidia GTX 1650 to the Intel Iris Pro After this my power usage dropped to as low as 1.6 W when […] Microbit via WebUSB on Ubuntu 18.04 December 30, 2019 January 1, 2020 by dan Leave a Comment Make sure you are running the latest firmware on the microbit Create a new udev rule sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/80-microbit.rules With the following content SUBSYSTEM==”usb”, ATTR{idVendor}==”0d28″, ATTR{idProduct}==”0204″, MODE=”0660″, GROUP=”plugdev” Then if you want non-admin users to be able to use it (like your kids) run sudo usermod -a -G plugdev non-admin-user If you are admin you […] Ubuntu file limits 18.04 July 17, 2019 July 17, 2019 by dan Leave a Comment sudo nano /etc/systemd/user.conf sudo nano /etc/systemd/system.conf sudo nano /etc/security/limits.conf Source Posts navigation 1 2 3 … 10 Recent Posts Ubuntu + OBS Studio + Intel Hardware Encoding (VAAPI) February 27, 2021 Sortable UUIDs - ULID and KSUID October 7, 2020 Fast ML model building June 11, 2020 Remote Working Links March 20, 2020 Fix screen tearing on Razor Stealth (Late 2019) with Ubuntu 19.10 February 10, 2020 Archives February 2021 October 2020 June 2020 March 2020 February 2020 January 2020 December 2019 July 2019 April 2019 February 2019 May 2018 February 2018 January 2018 August 2017 June 2017 March 2017 June 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 April 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 September 2014 July 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 October 2012 August 2012 July 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 March 2011 June 2010 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 May 2009 December 2008 November 2008 April 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 Blogroll Chris Stevenson Christian Blunden Dan North Duncan Cragg Ivan Moore Joe Walnes Martin Fowler My Travel Blog Nat Pryce Sarah Taraporewalla This site runs on WordPress and...