Dried Pasta & Other Dried Noodles Set the timer for 2 or 3 minutes on low pressure. When the timer ends, immediately release the steam in a well-ventilated area such as under the kitchen hood with the fans going or outside. Chicken Broth I prefer to use drumstick bones and the residual meat that I […]
Lately, I’ve been noticing more California Proposition 65 warning labels on food items at my local grocery stores and decided to do more research by going directly to its official website. Key Takeaways: I have a friend who used to be a public health researcher and years ago he stated only around ten percent of […]
Below are some simple commands that work for ImageMagick 7 and later. I haven’t tested them to work on the older ImageMagick 6 which surprisingly is still being supported and the default installed version for many Linux distros. Batch Compressing Images Batch Convert Optimizing PNG Images
Windows Chocolatey As of this writing, Chocolatey doesn’t have a build-in cache cleaner so the best way is to install the unofficial Choco Cleaner which creates a Windows Scheduled Task to run Choco-Cleaner.ps1 every Sunday at 11:00 PM. macOS Homebrew Linux Flatpak Linux Snap Ubuntu APT Arch/Manjaro Pacman
Just a few days ago, Huawei revealed its Mate XT smartphone with stunning specs in regards to its custom SOC, camera, and tri-fold display. The famous veteran Hong Kong actor, Andy Lau even made a promotional video for it. This device is likely going to be a China-only release due to sanctions and the massive […]
In order to reflash a Sony Xperia phone (one that has its bootloader unlocked) to stock, one first has to download and install Sony’s in-house flash tool called Emma; as of this writing it’s only available for Windows, not Mac or any Linux Distro. The conventional app, Xperia Companion won’t work because it’ll complain that […]
On Amazon Prime Video, I started watching season two of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power on an SDR Display. Immediately, upon the first episode, I noticed that the dark scenes in the beginning were way too dark to be nearly unwatchable. I figured it may have been the HDR setting, so […]
I was a bit surprised despite HDR displays having been released to the consumer market since 2017 that taking screenshots that correctly captured the HDR tone mapping was very limited in terms of software availability; JPEG XR (JXR) is the most readily available HDR format in Windows via Xbox Game Bar and NVIDIA App for […]
In regards to working on my personal projects, my main machine runs on Manjaro and configuring it to a LAMP setup is really a pain especially with PHP and its related plugins. Manjaro is more of a hobbyist Linux distro for the most part since it’s doesn’t receive official support on the vast majority of […]
GNOME is included as the default or as a installable desktop environment for most of the popular Linux distros out there such as Fedora, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Arch, Manjaro, and more, but I find it lacks expected basic functionality and polish for users accustomed to Windows and macOS. One can argue that GNOME is trying […]
It’s not that often I need to create Samba shared directories on my Linux machines, but making public shared directories that don’t require a user login/password is less straightforward that it should be in my opinion The overall purpose of this post is to make my future interactions with Samba significantly less painful. General […]
I don’t often setup new installations of Arch Linux/Manjaro, but in comparison to Windows, macOS, Android, and other operating systems, it is very painful to add a new language input; therefore this will be a set of simple instructions to do it. Fcitx5 is the preferred input method framework I’ll be using. General […]
Lately, I’ve been playing with the AI art/image generator, Stable Diffusion (webUI version) along with models/checkpoints from Huggingface and Civitai; to my astonishment, this stuff was free/open source and relatively easy to run with cheap consumer video cards since I’m primarily using an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 and an AMD Radeon RX 6600XT. However, documentation […]
Since I am somewhat of a diehard fan of the Final Fantasy series, especially games related to 7, I wanted to test how well Crisis Core Final Fantasy 7 Reunion worked out-of-the-box on Arch Linux with a non-LTS kernel installed and possibly lots of unstable packages; to my amusement, I didn’t encounter any speed bumps […]
UPDATED 2023/03/31 My list of packages to install for Arch Linux after freshly installing the OS since it’s extremely bare . General base-devel git filelight tree reflector vim filezilla wine wine-mono obs-studio steam htop python python-pip bluez vlc handbrake veracrypt noto-fonts-cjk (East Asian Fonts) gparted xampp remmina yay (AUR) visual-studio-code-bin (AUR) ttf-ms-fonts (AUR) […]
So I recently bought Halo Infinite on Steam through a Black Friday Sale and for the heck of it, decided to try to run the game on few different Linux Distros with a PS5 Dualsense controller. I tested this on Kubuntu, Manjaro, and Linux Mint and was extremely surprised that the game ran out-of-the-box; the […]
I just noticed it has been slightly more than a month since the Bolt Creek Fire in the Skykomish area of Washington started and that the air quality was extremely terrible just from observing through the window of my home. During my walk today, the sky was very smoggy to the extent of blocking much […]
After a few months from hearing about repurposing Nvidia Tesla Datacenter/AI computation cards for PC gaming, I finally decided to buy an Nvidia Tesla M40. Technically the item is e-waste, but still is very useful for my everyday use-cases. The experience wasn’t without some bumps along the way, but was still relatively easy in setting […]
I had quite a few Windows 7 installation discs that I was about to throw away, but it then hit me that there would be some buyers and/or collectors who were into this stuff on eBay. It surprised me that within three days, I sold all five of my Windows 7 discs which were four […]
Made a stop at this botanical garden located about fifteen minutes from downtown Bellevue. An interesting object that I saw was a mannequin comprised of paper swans located insides a Japanese styled building.
I did a trip to this Japanese garden with about one-hundred years of history today. It’s located along the southern part of Seattle. The park is located unassumingly in a residential area that is quite far from areas with high foot traffic relative to other parts of Seattle.