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Reacting to comments: iPods are good, actually

April 10, 2024
A YouTube comment which says "Apple sucks. iPods suck. You suck for telling people to buy Apple's crappy products." The comment is hovering over a trash can in the background.

Responding to some comments about my recent iPod repair video.

Categories music, tech and culture, the comments

Speech recognition and automatic captioning on the Kdenlive Flatpak

September 2, 2024April 4, 2024
A white woman is making a "thinking" face. Superimposed over the image are the words "Speech Recognition in Kdenlive", and at the bottom of the image, it says "Hmm. I wonder why more people don't use Kdenlive's speech recognition feature?"

Kdenlive has a great subtitle and speech recognition feature, but it can be a pain to set it up when using Flatpak.

Categories accessibility, video editing

I quit search engines for three months.

April 5, 2024April 2, 2024
A thumbnail with a lot of search engine logos in it. In the middle it says "I quit search engines."

Yup. Here’s what I learned about myself.

Categories tech and culture

YouTube’s bad “AI disclosure” policy

April 5, 2024March 26, 2024
A thumbnail summarizing the article. It says "Bad YouTube AI Policy" and has the YouTube logo on it and a copy of the policy announcement in the background.

YouTube implemented a new AI disclosure policy. I think it’s bad.

Categories tech and culture

It’s not you. It’s me. (Taking a break from Mastodon)

April 4, 2024March 17, 2024
A closeup of a patch of grass, some weeds

I’m walking away from Mastodon for a bit. Here’s why.

Categories personal updates, tech and culture

Linux on a Chromebook, but interesting-er

April 5, 2024March 5, 2024
A small laptop showing an Arch Linux neofetch screen.

Search engines are bad at showing you neat ways to install Linux on a Chromebook. Chrultrabook is my favorite way to do it!

Categories tech and culture

Sanni’s Open Source Cartridge Reader

April 5, 2024February 14, 2024
The Open Source Cartridge Reader with a StarFox 64 cartridge plugged into the top.

There’s an awesome Open Source Cartridge Reader, which you can use to back up your video game cartridge collection.

Categories tech and culture

How I use a smartphone

March 21, 2024June 22, 2023
It's a smartphone taped to an older BlackBerry-style phone. The phones are sitting in a field of clover and superimposed are the words "[not like this]".

Ever wondered how I use a smartphone? Me neither. Anyway, here’s a post about it.

Categories tech and culture

No, the Digital Fair Repair Act will not cause companies to leave Minnesota

April 5, 2024June 8, 2023

At least, I don’t think so. I’m just a mom with a soldering iron though.

Categories tech and culture

Fixing up an iMac G3 found on the side of the road!

March 21, 2024March 22, 2023

I found a Bondi Blue iMac G3 on the street. And I managed to get it running!

Categories tech and culture
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