Subj : Steampunk Pi To : Ky Moffet From : Barry Martin Date : Wed Aug 05 2020 08:26:00 Hi Ky! > With him being experiencd (or at least more so than most watching) the > viewer would expect to see the direct journey to the final finished > product rather than the one with the detours of routes which didn't > quite work out. Plus most of the time any errors have been removed from > the final video, relegated to the blooper reels. KM> He doesn't seem to keep all the bloopers (not sure he makes many, KM> he's too polished for that) but he does keep the informative KM> mistakes. Those can be just as educational. > KM> EngelsCoachShop (who is about 20 miles from me) also sometimes > KM> 'shows his work' that way, but he does everything easy-breezy. > KM> Well, when you're repairing a 150 year old wagon, there ain't no > KM> rush! > When the wheel needs repair you're not going anywhere! KM> True! unless the horse runs away with you... Just keep repeating to yourself "it's an adventure! It's an adventure!"!! > > Yup. And a side note on the Raspberry Pi 4: the have two mini-HDMI > > ports -- use the one next to the power connector as the other one > > doesn't have sound. Or at least doesn't if the only HDMI port used. > KM> That's strange. It actually sounds like a driver bug. Is this a > KM> known issue or something you should report? > Known issue. I don't recall why two mini-HDMI ports nor if the second > one has sound after the first one is used. And I'm not the only one to KM> Hmm. I wonder if it was not enough room for a second chip or KM> couldn't make the price point or just someone got the wiring KM> wrong. Well, I took a quick look and didn't see if sound would come out of the second HDMI port. Would make sense if didn't: seems the RPi4 was made with dual monitors in mind and so they would be side by side: only need sound from one monitor (though I'd prefer left audio from the left speaker of the left monitor and right audio from the right speaker of the right monitor). Even if configured for mirroring monitors probably npormally too close together to want individual audio outputs. > have fallen into the trap. Don't have an RPi 4 manual handy but do > recall the manual that came with the kit I purchased did have a comment > on using the port closest to the power plug. Of course I read that > after! Did look at the diagram with the parts and ports location but > that didn't say anything other than 'HDMI' -- "HDMI 1" and "HDMI 2" > would have been helpful. KM> Little arrows pointing at the spot are good! And not those dual-headed ones! > > Thanks!! (I've got to get working on my website -- but first!) > KM> Haha... websites I have aplenty, but haven't changed the guts > KM> since they first went up in 1998... ain't broke, not fixing it, > KM> don't care if it looks older than dirt. Or if the color schemes > KM> of the day were sometimes comical... they're to amuse me, not > KM> you! > I tend to leave alone also, and plain does have advantages over fancy, > though depends on the circumstance. KM> My criteria are easy to navigate and easy to work on, and doesn't KM> make my eyes bleed. Others' eyes may vary, especially since the KM> color scheme on the Twilight Asylum is purple, green, red, and KM> yellow. I'm thinking I might know where the 'asylum' part came about! > Now that's a good ad! I have found some TV ads to be worthy of watching > several times -- some of the Progressive insurance, GEICO insurance.., > we started watching the cavemand TV show because of the ads: how are > they going to do it? Ended up not very well: think we watched three > shows and it was cancelled after the fourth. KM> IBM used to have some wonderful Dilbertesque ads... still looking KM> for their BS detector ad... I did a quick look also but didn't see anything; 10 MB HDD for $3398! > > Will check those out -- might be doing screen shots or taking notes. > KM> I think I already did all the best screenshots. You'll have to > KM> take screenies of different stuff. :D > Here's a picture of him fumbling with the cable.... Here's one where he > dropped the rear panel screw.... KM> LOL... nope, won't see none of that! Which reminds me of a good lesson: don't have your waste basket next to the table being used as the computer work bench! > > As for green screen, every so often one of the meteorologists > > would wear something with the right green, or detected as the right > > green and portions of the overlay would show up on jackets/ties/blouses. > KM> Oh yes, I've seen that, it's hilarious. Or you get a floating > KM> severed head. :D > They haven't done that one yet. Closest was the lining of a jacket was > allowing some of the green screen to come through. KM> The best was from before green screens, tho... 1960s, KRTV in KM> Great Falls MT, studio was up on a hill and sat in the sun all KM> day, no air conditioning and it got HOT in there. So since in KM> those days they sat at a desk to read the news, they'd wear the KM> suit jacket on top... and just underwear below. One night no one KM> noticed that when they got up to file out of the studio, the KM> camera was still live.... Oops!! Similar but not quite as good was a male anchor on WBZ-TV (Boston) was 'made' to get out from behind the desk at the end of the news: suit jacket, shirt and tie on top - shorts and sandals on the lower supposed-to-be-hidden bottom. And locally (WOC-TV) a klutzy lanky meteorologist. At the time used a wall panel map and the Iowa/Illinois portion was pushed out to emphasize. He crossed over and was a little too close so got pushed by the map section, lost his balance and fell of the platform! > KM> digital camera -- Sony Cybershot -- and was astonished to > KM> discover that it maxes out at a 32GB SD card... my old one takes > KM> 64GB no problem. The Sony is also very slow on still shots (like, > KM> on par with my 15 year old Olympus, er, Fujifilm 200), but much > KM> faster on video shots. Well, I guess we know which job it gets! > Yup! ...Because of the past experiences with slow loading/booting and > the file system barrier I've pretty much have stayed with 32 GB and KM> Applies only if you're using FAT32, which I can't imagine why you KM> would in this day and age. Default on most flash drives now is KM> exFAT. exFAT looks like FAT32, but is its own thing. Older KM> Windows will need an exFAT driver to see 'em. OK, thanks. Have a bunch of older flash drives in various physical formats. Know some are FAT32 and they're fine except when copying large video files -- only get the first 4 GB! At the time 4 GB would be everything but the last ten or fifteen minutes of the show -- what the...!!! Back to the 'stay with 32 GB' comment, wasn't a capacity issue but loading speed. Not recalling or even sure if I know the format of the 64 GB cards but the problem was it took f-o-r-e-v-e-r to load (boot time), and I think also bring up the file utility (Thunar?). Could be more of an issue with the old Raspberry Pi's -- slower processor, etc. > > KM> Oh, for the Pi enthusiasts, a comparison of Pi OSs: > > KM> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSF_jXGH4EQ > > I'm going to be busy later! > KM> Heh heh... I have like 15,000 unwatched videos in queue.... > Can't watch the cute kitty videos when the dogs are around?! KM> Can't keep up with the too many things I seem to be interested KM> in, especially during baseball season (Tarnish and one of the KM> Dells are busy displaying Angels and Dodgers games as we KM> speak...) The husband of one of the store managers was really into sports: she said he had several TVs and they'd be on different channels so he could watch them all at once. KM> ...must remember that Project Farm has a new product comparison KM> vid I want to see (tho I don't remember what product!) The 19" Pixer CRT to the 20" Samsung CRT!! You really need to trim that list!! > > .. Screen. Mind. Both are blank. KM> What did we just say?! I didn't say anything: I was typing! ¯ ® ¯ BarryMartin3@ ® ¯ @MyMetronet.NET ® ¯ ® ¯ (Humans know what ® ¯ to remove.) ® .... What do you call a train that sneezes? 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