I decided to start using the FTP transfer function on my Sony α7 IV camera and found it less straightforward than I expected, so I thought I’d write a short guide on setting up a basic vsftpd server and connecting the camera to it. Note on (missing) SFTP support At the time of writing, the … Continue reading "Using Sony α7 IV FTP transfer function with vsftpd"
TL;DR: change your Fitbit account country to Japan here (not in the app). Whether you can actually add funds with a non-Japan-issued credit or debit card is a separate matter. At the time of writing, the Fitbit Charge 4 (Japan model only), Charge 5, Sense, Sense 2, Versa 3 and Versa 4 (all models) are … Continue reading "Enabling Suica support for a non-Japanese Fitbit device/account"
Update (2022-12-06): It looks like TeamViewer fixed their DNS config (before and after). Update (2022-11-12): I tested again after Frankie in the comments noted that it works on his machine, and indeed it does for me, too, even with DNSSEC turned back on. My only explanation is that it’s an intermittent issue. I couldn’t figure … Continue reading "TeamViewer (sometimes) doesn’t work with DNSSEC…
I wanted to test out WebRender in Firefox now that it’s on the brink of being turned on by default in GNOME environments. Despite enabling gfx.webrender.all, about:support showed that WebRender wasn’t working and reported errors including Failed to load EGL library: FEATURE_FAILURE_EGL_LOAD_3 and Failed GL context creation for WebRender. Fixing this in my environment (Fedora … Continue reading…
Recently I decided to upgrade a pair of long in the tooth Shure SE215 IEMs after one too many wonky cables and a disintegrating right ear piece (the drivers are working as well as ever). I settled on the Shure SE535, and even if the 4x price increase hasn’t made my music sound four times … Continue reading "High sensitivity headphones are picky about amps"
As of Ubuntu 16.04, the heirloom-mailx package is a transitional package for s-nail. Not realising this, I was having trouble with mailx not recognising the /etc/nail.rc file I’d copied from a working Ubuntu 15.10 server. As it turns out, the global config file path for s-nail is /etc/s-nail.rc. I found this out quickly by using … Continue reading "Ubuntu 16.04: heirloom-mailx is replaced by…
As of Windows 10 Version 1511, ReFS isn’t available by default as an option when formatting drives that aren’t part of a Storage Space. It’s easy, however, to enable this functionality by adding a DWORD named AllowRefsFormatOverNonmirrorVolume under the Registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\MiniNT (an example guide can be found here). Unfortunately, the presence of…
I recently noticed some strange HTTP logs where a resource would be requested twice with two different User-Agent headers. In one case, the first request suggested the client was running Chrome on Windows, while the second request indicated that it was coming from Firefox on Linux. This didn’t make a lot of sense, so I … Continue reading "RealPlayer/RealDownloader poses as Firefox running on…
As the great Raymond Chen once wrote: I often find myself saying, “I bet somebody got a really nice bonus for that feature.” “That feature” is something aggressively user-hostile, like forcing a shortcut into the Quick Launch bar or the Favorites menu, like automatically turning on a taskbar toolbar, like adding an icon to the … Continue reading "I bet somebody got a really nice bonus for that…
In Windows 8, users were strongly encouraged to use a Microsoft account to sign in to their computers. For those of us who preferred local accounts, the option to ‘sign in without a Microsoft account’ was presented in faint text at the bottom of the screen. In Windows 8.1, the option to use a local … Continue reading "Windows 10 is slightly less pushy about requiring Microsoft accounts"