I've been having some problems with malformed video files from yt-dlp when getting videos from iView. Some videos from the same source come out fine, some are unplayable, and some seem fine but then stop playing part way through. Today I decided to dive reasonably...

sudo SKIP_PACKAGE_CHECK=1 ./DaVinci_Resolve_19.1.4_Linux.run -i That was what it took to render my system, running Ubuntu 24.04 unbootable. I'd been trying to install the free version of DaVinci Resolve and was running into dependency issues with: libapr1 libaprutil1...

There's a weird bug in Ubuntu 24.04 where some windows cannot be resized if you've got your system set to automatically log in when you boot up the computer. Odd. If you log out and log back in, everything works fine again. But I don't want to have to do that. So I...

Was it a flawless transition? Kinda. It would have been better if I'd spent some money on new disks. But I kinda got the shits up when i opened the start menu and there was yet another notification bubble on the gamified thing where you collect Microsoft points for...

IT security has been in the news lately with the theft of money from superannuation funds. It's bad, but when you consider that they only made off with $500,000 from the $4.2 trillion that Australians have in super funds it's pretty inconsequential. It's not going to...