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I have an NTFS USB drive which I move forth and back between a laptop and a desktop PC. Today I wanted to copy some files from the laptop to the desktop PC, via the USB drive. But when I wanted to open the files on the USB drive on […]

virt-viewer is, intensely white : And this is version 11.0-256 built on SPICE-GTK as per this about page:

I have the following setup : Synology DS920+ NAS hosting two 6TB disks (all disk in this post are Western DIgital Red Pro) in RAID1, two 4TB in RAID 1 DX517 extension connected to the NAS, hosting two 22TB in RAID1 APC Back UPS – BX2200MI-FR powering the whole stuff […]

I hope you are well and in good spirits. I am using LibreOffice 26.2.4.2 on a MacBook Air running on OS 26.6 (Tahoe). I have often used LibreOffice to re-format data from – for example – a row (or column) in Calc to a block of text in Writer. I […]

I have the problem described in I probably disallowed using the camera at some time in the past and now can’t find a way to allow it again. How can I reenable it? . However, when I try the dbus commands in that post, I get errors indicating I don’t […]

As I am continuing to set up a WireGuard VPN link to a remote location, I managed to get the link to work from the peer’s address to the instance’s LAN, after my previous question re the same. When the link is brought up from my local WG client machine, […]

I’m trying to help my uncle with an issue with the Mail app on his iMac running iOS Tahoe 26.6.2 . He mistakenly attached a 30 GB to a message and hit send. Since then the Mail app freezes after a few dozen seconds, with an error message about the […]

How can I fix VLC unmet dependencies ? I’m using Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm). I’m looking to fix this unmet dependencies to install vlc. Here is what I do: sudo apt install vlc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done vlc is already the newest […]

Let’s say you wish to cut out some part of a video file. As an example we will use this file. The shortest minimal working code example for this task with FFmpeg can look as follows: ffmpeg -i file_example_MP4_1920_18MG.mp4 -filter_complex "[0:v]trim=5.123:7.123,setpts=PTS-STARTPTS[v0]; [0:a]atrim=5.123:7.123,asetpts=PTS-STARTPTS[a0]; [0:v]trim=10.123:12.123,setpts=PTS-STARTPTS[v1]; [0:a]atrim=10.123:12.123,asetpts=PTS-STARTPTS[a1]; [v0][a0][v1][a1]concat=n=2:v=1:a=1[v][a]" -map "[v]" -c:v libx265 -crf […]