The basic layout if my living room with doorways and furniture placement. Minus all the clutter. Sweet Home 3D creates a .mov file which I translated to a .mp4 using ffmpeg. I also use kdenlive to slow it down. I got involved with this because I wanted an idea to scale of what a area …
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Sweet Home 3D first try
Wanted to visualize a 8’x10′ rug, that I can buy off the shelf, in my small living room. Two PDFs first try. See page 3 for top down view. They needed a clutter object for me to place in the room to make it more realistic. These images do not do the program justice. You …
Sweet Home 3D
Need to rip out my ratty old carpet and wanted to visualize a large area rug in my living room. So I first started looking at CAD software. Truthfully it’d be faster/quicker just to draw it out…but where’s the fun in that. I first downloaded the LibreCAD-2.2.0 appimage. And then I remembered a program I …
Cisco routers
Just for my information I configured Cisco 2501 routers at the bank, in mid 1996. They stopped selling them in 2002.
LastPass Password Vaults Stolen By Hackers
Glad I switched years ago.
Detwinner
Spotted this duplicate file remover on my system. It’s version 0.4.2. So I deleted it after going to website and finding the latest version is 3.0 and if yo click download it only offers an .exe. Also it’s a flatpak.
Quickemu
Just watched a Chris Titus Tech video about Quickemu. Looks very cool to rapidly deploy various OSs.
Brave and Chrome browser gripe
I installed the Brave browser maybe a week ago, and it reminded me of why I dislike chrome which it was obvious to me that it is based on. And it has to do with a bad habit I have of keeping too many tabs open. In Firefox the tabs mostly stay the same size. …
Amazon’s incredible AI
Been getting a lot of emails from Amazon that say “We found something we think you might like”. Then they proceed to show me something on one of my Amazon list. Gee..how’d they guess? However I have a specific Soundcore bluetooth speaker on one of those lists and they continuously offer me a deal on …
X-Plane 12 released
Yes it was…today!