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Repairing Earpad on M98 Headset
Symptoms: The earpad came off. The rubber peeled off, and a lot of facial oil was in the earpiece. The foam part slipped off, and underneath, there was a lock ring, which holds the earpad onto the earpiece. Explanation:…
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DIY Dustpan or Daspan
This is the best DIY dustpan video so far. He makes it from a canister, and cuts the canister in a way that will take advantage of the bends and corners already molded into the canister. He uses wood…
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Claude-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Correction 7
Meta was barfing, so I turned to Claude, to help with something I’ve never been good at: Gutenberg Blocks. I asked it to make a block that writes the shortcode. I guess it did exactly that, but that’s not…
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WordPress Plugin: Corrections 6
I gave Meta AI a break, because I had to do most of the refactoring and debugging by hand. I lost track of time, but I’m guessing it was 4 or 5 hours work, because I had a typo…
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Configuring Regolith i3xrocks
I upgraded my MINT 20 install to MINT 22, and everything ended up a bit of a mess, because so many things were updated. Normally, it’s easy to figure out the situation, but I couldn’t find docs to get…
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History of the annoying PC “beep”. It’s called a “bell”.
At 1:10, you can hear the bell. That’s a Teletype, a remote controlled typewriter from the 1930s. It has an actual bell inside! Originally, teletypes were used like telephones. Two teletypes were connected together, either by wire, or by…
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Directory Structure Checking Script
This is a script to check if my photo archives conform to my naming rules. My archives look like this: Right now, it’s approximately 65,000 files totalling 96GB, so it scales up okay for me. It might not work…
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Computer Shopping
Need to upgrade. Want something with full HD display, 12GB RAM. No HD (will use existing). Current main computer, a laptop, which I want to replace. Dell Inspiron 3537, 12GB RAM, 1TB SSD, i3-4010U CPU 1.7GHz, 720p display lshw…
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WordPress error: Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress.
I got this error on a multisite install I was working on. It made no sense, and found some different solutions online, but eventually found a slightly different one related to my specific problem.
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Cascading Failures Due to Failing RAID1 on Linux
I recently had a partial server outage due to a failing RAID, but the problems were due to a cascade of software-based dependencies failing.