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Fix Audio on XFCE Chromebook
The Problem After moving from GalliumOS to Xubuntu, I noticed that playing YouTube videos on both Firefox and Chromium would result in decent playback for a few minutes, but suddenly the audio would turn into a solid beeping tone while the YouTube video displayed the white loading circle on top of the video as it…
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How to Remove a PPA via the Command Line
How to Remove a PPA via the Command Line If you’ve used Linux for any amount of time, you’ve probably come across a PPA. A PPA is short for Personal Page Archive. If you’re looking for a specific piece of software not available in the official software store for your distro, you might look into…
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A Note About Running DaVinci Resolve on Ubuntu 18.04
A follow-up to my previous post Earlier this week I decided to run DaVinci Resolve on Ubuntu 18.04. This was a terrible idea. I spent the last 3 days banging my head against a wall and scouring countless forums, blogs, articles, and all for nothing. Here’s my situation. I have an AMD Threadripper with a…
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How to Fix Write Permissions For DaVinci Resolve
Here’s how to fix write permissions for DaVinci Resolve. To fix this, just open a terminal and run: chmod -R 766 /your/problem/drive/or/directory What’s Going On? On linux, security is brilliantly built in. By default, files and folders that you create have a set level of permissions (defined by the umask command). Typically, the default is…
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Locate Files using Terminal
Let’s locate files using the terminal! This is just a cool little trick you can use if you’re doing a bunch of stuff in the terminal, and you don’t want to leave, or you’re just interested in cool terminal tricks. Let’s say you’re looking for a file, anywhere on your machine, but you don’t know…
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Why The Breeze Cursor Theme is The Best
Themes So basically, there are themes. Themes can do a lot to change the look and feel of your computing experience. If you’re a Linux user, there’s a good chance you like things customized. Just have a Google for “linux themes” and you’ll see what I mean. You can take this to whatever level you…
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Using 3DConnexion Spacemouse with Linux
Uh… 3DConnexion Spacemouse Wireless? If you’re like me and spend any amount of time in the 3D world, whether it’s for game design, game development, motion graphics, 3D animation, or CAD, you’ve probably felt a bit limited and slow when it comes to navigating the 3D viewport. In some programs, you even have to grab…
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Flowblade Review: Most Capable NLE on Linux?
Flowblade 2.0 Released Janne Liljeblad and other contributors released Flowblade 2.0 recently and I thought I’d try it out. I edited a quick 1 minute video from about 10 drone clips shot in 4k. The first impressive feature was how easily I was able to render proxies. It was just as easy to replace them…
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How to Use ffmpeg (The Basics)
The Problem It all started when Premiere Pro started glitching out. When I was trying to import a simple image sequence, like I’d done a thousand times before, it only imported the first 25% of the frames. Everything else was missing. There was no inconsistency in the file naming convention. Everything was sequential. There were…
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Swap Memory: It’s Like Downloading More RAM
How Do I Download More RAM? It’s kinda like changing the blinker fluid in your car. You can’t. You shouldn’t. I mean… stuff like that doesn’t exist. But, if you’re finding yourself in a situation where you are running shy on your current installed amount of RAM, is there anything you can do without hitting…
Matt Jones | Multimedia Specialist