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“Let’s Go Take, A Closer Look”

mcmonkeys1 — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 18:47:43 +0000

This channel is so kitsch, I’ve grown to love it. I just watched 28 minutes of some English nerd installing Linux, and all the familiar hassles he had along the way. I’m going to assume you just watched this video in it’s entirety, or switched it off after a few seconds. i know you have…

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Apple devices don’t support RGB output out of the box

mcmonkeys1 — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 03:25:34 +0000

i was about to return my new monitor, but discovered that Apple computer only output composite signals (YUV). so not RGB like most monitors are expecting. i guess you need a “special”, “Apple approved” monitor. fix the disgusting flickering and artifact using this https://gist.github.com/GetVladimir/c89a26df1806001543bef4c8d90cc2f8#alternative-terminal-commands-to-force-rgb-color-output-on-m1-and-m2-based-macs-and-workaround-for-losing-rgb-color-after-waking-up-from-sleep that completely fixed it for me on my Philips 328E 1CA…

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Touchcursor using QMK/VIA

mcmonkeys1 — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 14:44:23 +0000

i just received one of these Keychron QMK/VIA beasts. I’ve opted for the Keychron K9 Pro, for reasons i’ll likely go into in too much depth about. i couldn’t find a guide on setting QMK up to act like Touchcursor, hence this guide on setting up your QMK keyboard via VIA (why not give VIA…

`npm i -g missingDependency`

mcmonkeys1 — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 02:10:34 +0000

title says it all really. “works on my machine”npm publish

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Fancy laptop with discrete GPU? Afraid of the hassle of setting up Linux properly?

mcmonkeys1 — Fri, 20 May 2022 10:04:22 +0000

I’ve got a Dell XPS 15 9560. It’s beginning to get on now – 5/6 years old?? But still full of life and power. The Windows drivers have always been a problem with all the new tech in these things. I’ve had several long episodes over it’s lifetime related to the nvme driver / storage…

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Random macos bugs and fixes

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 10:01:38 +0000

Right, I’ve had a macbook for a while now, and been using it quite regularly, but it’s only since stopped using Windows completely that all the bugs begin to appear! 😩 This is a list of these weird annoying bugs and their fixes. BUG! Escape key stops working. well, it just stops working everywhere. i…

tfjs for M1 very close!

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 02:29:09 +0000

https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs/issues/4514#issuecomment-974982349 hmm, I think I have a working binary. I probably should have contributed it

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Unit testing

mcmonkeys1 — Thu, 06 May 2021 11:03:05 +0000

Spending even a nanosecond chasing down bugs in unit test feels like a raging contradiction. …although if we wrote perfect unit tests, then why couldn’t we write perfect code every time. Still infuriating spending even the slightest nanosecond debugging when writing a test :-D

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Google is an Internet advertising company that decided to make a web browser.

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 19:42:25 +0000

Google is an Internet advertising company that decided to make a web browser. Why did they make a web browser? For exactly the same reasons as I have not and never will use it. They have unrivalled potential to snoop on everything you do with your personal devices. 10 years later, after useful projects like…

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Rosrants.com is now using SSL Cert – Howto Set Up SSL For Free

mcmonkeys1 — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 04:33:39 +0000

This site is now using SSL. Pfft! About time, says you. I am using a free cert from letsencrypt.org – it was all very confusing and magical to set up. You need to use a ACME client – I used https://github.com/Neilpang/acme.sh as you do not need root access with this one. Then SSH into your…

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No More Potty Mouth – I will try my best

mcmonkeys1 — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 15:39:50 +0000

I have not been posting here much lately. I guess I am busy! The last few posts seem to be rants on the negative side of things. I hope to decrease my offensive words per post from now on. Thanks for listening and fuck you.

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Fuck Windows 10 – What a Piece of Shit.

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 19:22:13 +0000

So I was quite proud that I had never had to reinstall Windows since my first Windows XP laptop way back when. Many peers would talk of “refreshing” their PCs – LOSERS! Just look after your PC and it will not get wrecked! You fools!!! I have always said. I had a hairy moment back…

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Hello Firefox 57 (Quantum) !!! … well this is bullshit.

mcmonkeys1 — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 12:22:52 +0000

Not one add-on working. Fucking pathetic Mozilla. These guys really are hopeless. As an add-on developer I have suffered first hand at their underhanded, ill-thought tactics. There is a superior attitude among Mozilla developers, that everybody else must change to suit them. Just look at the history of gmail.com support on Firefox for Android. I…

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Virgin Media Speed Test.

mcmonkeys1 — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 18:51:46 +0000

It seems like a heck of a long time since I have had a proper wired Internet connection. Here’s a CAT 5e connection straight through two floor/ceilings and a wall to the UPC router Virgin Media Hub. Things are on the upswing again :-)

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Dropbox Indexing Maxing out CPU on Windows Boot [UPDATED 22-02-2017]

mcmonkeys1 — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 20:13:25 +0000

[Originally Published on: Mar 10, 2016, but since updated to a working permanent fix] Dropbox is amazingly useful. But on windows it occasionally annoys the jayzis out of me of late. Maxing out my CPU and causing explorer and mouse to fight for resources with it. For example after creating several thousand new small files…

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BSPlayer Custom Codec AC3/DTS libffmpeg7_v19.so libffmpeg7_v20.so

mcmonkeys1 — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 03:03:10 +0000

How to fix “error loading ac3 audio” BSPlayer on android. Not bad! It has all the features I want, like floating window mode, and the in-app subtitle downloads work really well compared to any other player I have tried. So I was getting a message like “error loading ac3 audio” when trying to play certain…

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When are leap card peak fares?

mcmonkeys1 — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 08:41:49 +0000

This information was surprisingly hard to find on my phone, and had to be found by reading a legislative proposal from 2015. Peak hours are 07:45 to 09:30 Monday to Friday excluding bank holidays. No thanks necessary.

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New “Projects” Site is Active: HotdogSystems.com

mcmonkeys1 — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 20:01:12 +0000

My new “projects” website is up at http://hotdogsystems.com Currently it is dedicated to a Javascript WebGL project I am working on, but even the site itself is a “project”. The site is built using yeoman, which is a fantastic node-based platform for web development. Sites are served locally, and when you save files the browser…

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Easy Root Doogee X5 (3G version)

mcmonkeys1 — Thu, 19 May 2016 00:45:19 +0000

Preamble This works on the Doogee X5 running Android 5.1; the 3G version, i.e. not the X5 Pro (4G version). This method does not involve any risky flashing of unknown binary blobs. It uses the stock recovery and an update zip file to install root and SuperSU. There are of course risks when installing anything…

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One-Click Translate Page Firefox Add-On

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 18:43:43 +0000

New add-on released, awaiting review from Mozilla. Please leave bug reports in the comments. I made this AddOn as a big shortcut to my usual way of translating a whole webpage with google translate, by simply clicking a button once. I found myself quite repetitively clicking on to the URL bar copying a webpage’s address…

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Unbrick Root Vodafone Smart 4 Mini (Vodafone 785)

mcmonkeys1 — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 07:07:18 +0000

History Got one of these phones new boxed for €50 unlocked. It’s an Italian Vodafone.it mobile. Has MT6572 dual core 1.3GHz and 512MB + 4GB (2GB /sdcard). Found the phone a little slower than expected, seems to have squashfs installed from errors I was getting (a type of zipped filesystem) :-/ Couldn’t find any updates…

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I have left Hostgator :-(

mcmonkeys1 — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 05:48:15 +0000

They were a pretty good and cheap hosting provider in the beginning. Lots of tools set up and ready to go like ssh, git, and wp-cli. But I am just too poor, and can not keep up with their rising charges. They offered me 20% off on my next bill if I stayed, but it…

Hotdog Field Simulator

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 05:41:23 +0000

Yeah. Forgot about this. http://mcmonkeys1.tumblr.com/post/128417392100/bigblueboo-hotdog-field-simulator

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Dodgy Website Visitors

mcmonkeys1 — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 04:57:57 +0000

I am seeing an unusually large number of hits on two of my websites from Russian Federation & the Ukraine this month. One specific IP in the Ukraine hit rosrants.com site over 1,200 times in one day, some lad called Igor. I CAN SEE YOU! There’s nothing for you here anyway, and nothing of interest…

CSS @media Queries With Orientation Example

mcmonkeys1 — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 20:39:27 +0000

Like the title says. For your reference, an example set of media queries conforming to Bootstrap 3’s width breakpoints. Here is the example. EXAMPLE CODE HERE. Check the code, and play with the width and height of your viewport to see where the queries reach. Notes On The Example This example is mobile first like your…

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