The Latest — Steve Block

Category: Software

  • Quadro P2200 Transcoding

    I have a Dell R730 server running Windows Server 2019. It has a Debian Linux VM running Plex and Jellyfin servers, and I wanted to add hardware transcoding with a video card, as certain high resolution HDR videos were not easily converted in real time using the CPU only (which also burned a lot of…

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  • Some Brief Linux Gaming Notes

    I recently built a new gaming computer, and though it runs Windows 11 I have been giving some serious time to setting up and testing a Linux gaming setup as well. I have Fedora 41 installed on a 2 TB NVME drive in the PC, secondary to the 4 TB main drive that is running…

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  • MacBook Air Shenanigans

    I spent more hours than is reasonable getting Fedora updated on my old MacBook Air (2013). 4 gigs of ram, hilarious. The clock was set to February when this booted up, so it’s been at least 5 or 6 months since I ran the machine. The screen isn’t good but it’s overall a quality laptop.…

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  • A New Site Generator

    Way back in 2011 I moved this site from wordpress to a static blog powered by jekyll. I haven’t changed much about the site since then. Writing posts in markdown and keeping them in a simple folder still feels like the right decision. I’ve been running this blog on an increasingly ancient Debian server. I…

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  • Adding Additional Bluetooth Codec Support to Moode 7.1

    Moode 7.1 includes Bluetooth support and can act both as a receiver for playback and a player to Bluetooth headphones or speakers. By default it supports the standard SBC codec, which essentially everything supports. This is fine as a minimum, but we want to add support for more advanced or high quality codecs, including AAC…

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  • Simple Modern Skin for Free42 HP 42s Calculator Simulator

    Over the last few years I’ve taken to using RPN for general calculations instead of the more common algebraic notation. I have an HP 35s which is supposed to be at my desk at the office, but is currently at home. I’ve taken to using the truly excellent PCalc for iOS for general calculation where…

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  • What is this? (new site)

    This is change, but not too much. My site, steveblock.com, has been around in one form or another for over adecade. For years now it has been running some version of WordPressbut I think I’m finally sick of trying to keep it up to date.Although I’ve managed to avoid any major issues so far, many…

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  • Mucking with Vim

    This is basic stuff but I am trying to get my Vim setup working right so that Iget proper line wraps and other usability/viewport niceness when typingmarkdown files in Vim. I think I got it by adding the following commands to myVim syntax/configuration file for Markdown files (mkd.vim): I also forced Vim to notice that…

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