with VirtualBox. :)

Givin up on windows for now

Using redshift to automatically change the monitor’s temperature color

Tech update: Some time ago, I purchased a bluetooth audio transceiver that mostly went unused till I had the idea to use it for my phone and run ear buds off it since the headphone jack on my phone became iffy, the left audio channel would cut in and out if the plug moved ever so slightly. The device was sold by Anker on Amazon for I dunno, 28 bucks. A tiny thing, fits in the mini right pocket of my jeans.

Here’s a little program I found on the net cause I liked the old calculator better. The Win10 calculator app just doesn’t do it for me. Frequently opens up all big and taking up 1/3 of my screen and feels slower to start. The old one is fast, light, and has a smaller UI. :) Download Link (889KB)

I needed to resize one of my VMs. This will serve as some better notes than what I see online.

1. Shutdown VM and open the ESXI WEB UI to resize the virtual disk and check a box to force the bios to open on power up.
2. Attach gparted iso to VM then power it up and adjust boot order to boot iso.
3. Once booted, deactivate LVM root volume and resize both extended and logical partitions to max disk size or as desired.

So I had an idea to make creating VMs a little easier for me instead of clicking a handful of buttons and powering up the VM then waiting for it to install. I found a blog post intended for Mac VMs that was inspired from a now deleted site’s blog post by a guy who needed to make a bunch of them quicker so I forked Tamas’s script (the original one I think) and modified it to create Ubuntu VMs.

I did a thing that works but requires a little manual work to do…

because the factory deck just wasn’t loud enough. ;)

and future-proof yourself for version 2.5 when it releases.