After connecting my Aukey wireless earbuds EP-T31 to my laptop with 22.04 I noticed I had to max out the volume to listen at normal levels. Here’s how to fix that!
Problem: Bluetooth headphone volume too low
Fix:
When we moved to the states, my parents brought with them from Mexico a large amount of old photographs, and also when my grandmother passed away, I inherited many more photographs. digitizing them was not easy task but here is my workflow and tips/scripts. Do it right the first time and do it once!
I originally wanted to get the Epson FastFoto FF-680W but after reading about a lot of the problems I decided against it mainly that I doesn’t save as true tiffs and that after a while the rollers produce a vertical line on the scanned photos. After doing some research I settled on the V600, although scanning would have to be manual….
Produce placement links to buy me kombucha:
Epson FastFoto FF-680W – https://amzn.to/3V4GGCp
Epson Perfection V600 https://amzn.to/3CCxez9
Manually selecting each photo on their GUI is a pain, and the auto-crop feature crops the border of your photos. So that was also not an option, scanning selected areas in the photos using their software was also MUCH slower than scanning a whole flatbed scan. So I resorted to scanning a 3-4 photos per scan and split them up later (see point #3). I used the professional setting, 800dpi as suggested by a reddit comment on the first link below, and 48-bit depth. his produced flatbed scans of about 300MB each.
For my job I do image analysis which involves single cell segmentation. Cropping photos and de-skewing them using python seemed like a no brainer given that image segmentation and modifications is what I do for a living. For this I wrote up a python function that would load all your images from a folder and one by one estimate edge/background of the photos, crop them and automatically de-skew them. This has worked beautifully on ~500gb of scanned whole flatbed scans, only failing around 5% of the time if photos are mostly white.
https://github.com/emmanuel-contreras/photography-tools
After scanning all these photos, they take up about 300GB of data, I wanted to be able to share them with family and friends without each photo being ~70MB, so one of the functions on the python library down samples the photos by a scaling factor (2 times smaller, 10 times smaller) and outputs the smaller versions into a folder. This is also included in the repository above!
CONGRATULATIONS! If you’ve made it this far you have digitized your older photos. Be sure to store them in a proper box with anti-humidify pads. if you ever need to re-scan them or scan them bigger you will have them.
Organizing all the photos is a major task on its own, I tried sorting them before scanning them and it proved to be too arduous of a task. my eyes would hurt after hours of trying to match photos of the same events. I instead decided to scan them all and worry about this later, so far I have decided to harness the power of macOS Photos application to do facial recognition and group photos by person, through machine learning. This is still a work in progress and will report back on how (un)successful this was!
I recently bought one of these at a thrift store for $4 to digitize some tapes. I tried using my newest PC (AMD 5600x 32gb ram) and the video would freeze a few seconds into playing it. if I opened OBS at the same time, the audio would cut out but the video would keep playing on the elgato software. I finally gave up, don’t waste your time getting this device working on newer computers.
To get this working, I did have a spare PC and a windows 7 CD so I installed it on that computer, and after a little playing around with it it worked as intended not surprisingly, although a bit buggy, sometimes video would freeze unless you wen’t back to the video screen. also rewinding causes the video to freeze. I get the feeling if the signal on the software drops even a little bit, it will freeze the display on the elgato software. What I ended up doing was pressing play and right away quickly pressing next through the various screens and quickly started the recording.
If you do want to use this device I would suggest getting a cheap pc with windows 7 but don’t waste your time on newer
The F keys on this keyboard get stuck and produce weird effects. Sometimes my calculator key get stuck as well. Check every f key to make sure it’s loose.
I wanted to use some software that was windows 7 specific and I had a spare computer I wanted to install it on. Everything worked fine up to the windows 7 install screen, then I would get no mouse/keyboard inputs. I rebooted the computer and the mouse would work fine on the BIOS screen. I figured it may be tied to a date on the windows 7 installer so I set the date on the bios to 2010 and voila mouse and keyboard on the installer!
Problem: No Mouse/keyboard on the windows 7 installer screen
Fix: set the bios date to 2010
RGB settings
fn + <key> | each one is a different setting
speed up effects
Fn + plus/minus key
brightness
Fn + up/down
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Frequently my Asus router disconnects and loses signal and it takes a while to actually regain signal and sometimes I have to power cycle the modem. I had no idea why until recently I accessed the router admin page and saw that the internet section said: Your ISP’s DHCP does not function properly so I google around and realized that Asus routers have a DHCP Query Frequency setting and the default is “Aggressive“. Spectrum being the POS that it is sounds like it blocks the device from getting an IP address from too frequent polling. So I switched that setting to “Normal” as the suggestion on the links below and it appears to have fixed the problem!
Sources:
https://www.snbforums.com/threads/so-what-is-the-point-of-aggressive-dhcp-query-frequency.11738/
https://www.geekyramblings.net/2019/01/21/your-isps-dhcp-does-not-function-properly/
Every once in a while I find a nice cheap ASUS router without a power adapter, hunting for the specific adapter that came with the router can be a pain and often times power supply prices are unreasonable. But it’s not necessary to buy the exact same one so you can find a much cheaper power supply. Here I will describe how to find a matching power supply for your router
Take a look below for a list of power supplies for ASUS routers, and if there is one missing send a comment and I’ll update it!
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