MPV vs MplayerMPV vs Mplayer
After writing my post about VDPAU in Debian [1] I received two great comments from anonymous people. One pointed out that I should be using VA-API (also known as VAAPI)[...]
Month: December 2020
SMART and SSDsSMART and SSDs
The Hetzner server that hosts my blog among other things has 2*256G SSDs for the root filesystem. The smartctl and smartd programs report both SSDs as in FAILING_NOW state for[...]
Testing VDPAU in DebianTesting VDPAU in Debian
VDPAU is the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix [1]. I noticed an error with mplayer “Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_i965.so: cannot open shared object file: No such[...]
Thinkpad Storage ProblemThinkpad Storage Problem
For a while I’ve had a problem with my Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 1 [1] where storage pauses for 30 seconds, it’s become more common recently and unfortunately everything seems[...]
Phone Plan Comparison 2020Phone Plan Comparison 2020
It’s been over 6 years since my last post comparing 3G data plans in Australia. I’m currently using Aldi Mobile [1]. They have a $15 package which gives 3G of[...]
Electromagnetic Space LaunchElectromagnetic Space Launch
The G-Force Wikipedia page says that humans can survive 20G horizontally “eyes in” for up to 10 seconds and 10G for 1 minute. An accelerator of 14G for 10 seconds[...]
Links December 2020Links December 2020
Business Insider has an informative article about the way that Google users can get locked out with no apparent reason and no recourse [1]. Something to share with clients when[...]
ZFS 2.0.0 ReleasedZFS 2.0.0 Released
Version 2.0 of ZFS has been released, it’s now known as OpenZFS and has a unified release for Linux and BSD which is nice. One new feature is persistent L2ARC[...]
KDE Icons Disappearing in Debian/UnstableKDE Icons Disappearing in Debian/Unstable
One of my workstations is running Debian/Unstable with KDE and SDDM on an AMD Radeon R7 260X video card. Recently it stopped displaying things correctly after a reboot, all the[...]