Deth

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Tag: Tips

Discovered A New Tool That I've Had For Years

I discovered just how useful FFmpeg really is today. I had always thought it was just a library that other programs use, but I can use it for command line editing too!

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Got The Hose Nozzle Unstuck From The Hose

Our garden hose gets stuck to the hose all the time. Normally, I can break it free, but today it wasnโ€™t budging. Tried soaking it in vinegar with no luck, then WD40 with no luck. Back in the vinegar it went while we went out. It came apart like nothing was wrong when we got home.

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Another Use For An Old Tool

I discovered at the right time today that I can use rsync locally too. Iโ€™ve been using it to sync stuff across servers for years, but never thought to try it locally.

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Switched Shells To Fish

I wanted to switch things up a bit with my shell use, so I switched to Fish after reading good things about it. Iโ€™ve been meaning to do it for a while, but just never did until a few weeks ago.

  • by Carl
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Finally Fixed Firefox Showing White Form Controls With Dark Theme

I finally figured out what was making my Firefox show white form controls with a dark background

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Installing FreeBSD From Linux

I am switching web hosts and the new one doesnโ€™t offer FreeBSD as an option to install. I had to find a way to convert the Linux installation to FreeBSD. Hereโ€™s how I did it.

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Caddy Redirects

I have been wanted to remove the days from the URLs on my blog for a while now. I finally did that after figuring how to make Caddy redirect the old URL to the new one.

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Extending WIFI

Iโ€™ve been needing to do something to improve our Wi-Fi out back on the patio. For me, it works fine, but my girlfriendโ€™s tablet loses connection. I think Iโ€™ve come up with a solution.

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Handy Firefox Extensions

Here are the handy Firefox extensions that I use. Extensions are one of Firefoxโ€™s greatest features.

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