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Guest Blog: AI Energy Consumption Fact Checks

A popular criticism of artificial intelligence recently has been that it uses a staggering amount of energy,…

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AV Linux Desktop

Hows and Whys of Screenlogging

My feed on Mastodon has been filling up with knee-jerk reactions to Microsoft’s new “Recall” software for…

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Lunatics Folders in Nextcloud

Testing Nextcloud for Source File Sync

I’ve been looking for a good solution to manage source (and render) files from the project, for…

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Seven Blenders on AV Linux

Testing New AV Linux Workstation

I’ve just completed a rather rough migration from Ubuntu Studio to AV Linux on my production workstation….

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Close up of the installed M-Disc Drive

Primera Bravo II – M-Disc Upgrade

In the previous two articles in this series, I did an exploratory breakdown to learn more about…

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Duplicator reconnected electrically, though it is still mechanically taken apart.

Primera Bravo II – Testing USB Topology

This is the second in my series on upgrading my Primera Bravo II Disc Duplicator to work…

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View from above of the interior of the duplicator, showing the major parts, and in particular, the connections for the DVD burner we want to remove.

Primera Bravo II – Breakdown

This will be the first in a series of articles about converting a Primera Bravo II DVD…

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Federation Added to Lunatics Project WordPress

This post is an attempt to test federation of this WordPress production log, using the ActivityPub plugin….

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Ansible playlist script in editor.

Project Site Migration Update

We have just completed a transition from our old “snowflake server” installation (i.e. managed entirely manually and…

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KitCAT Architecture Concept

KitCAT Architecture Concept

I put together this concept for the architecture of our proposed TACTIC client application, KitCAT: The idea…

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