Locate current Win 11 background

 reg query "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v Wallpaper

Screw drive garage door opener lube

 https://support.geniecompany.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1578/~/how-do-i-lubricate-my-%5Bscrew-drive%5D-garage-door-opener%3F

How do I lubricate my [screw drive] garage door opener?

Last Updated 10/26/2022 01:51 PM

The screwrod of your Genie ScrewDrive unit should be lubricated about once a year.

1. We recommend using GLU (Genie’s white lithium grease,) however you can use another brand of lubricant as long as it is a white lithium based grease.
2. It is very important to select the correct type of lubricant. (For example: WD-40 will prevent the system from working properly.)
3. If needed, you can use mineral spirits to remove any old grease before lubricating.

 

To Lubricate:

1. Starting at the door end of the rail, squeeze a pea-sized amount on the threaded screw rod itself.
2. Moving towards the unit, place another dollop of grease about every 2.5ft or so.
3. Once the grease is applied, operate the unit a few times to rotate the screw rod, and help the carriage distribute the lubrication.

 

Libby audiobook

 https://www.reddit.com/r/audiobooks/comments/12bqv3u/is_there_any_way_to_download_library_audiobooks/

 use chrome

1. Log in to Overdrive website from your computer

2. From Overdrive > Holds > Open Audiobook in Browser

3. Right-click page select inspect

4. In the Inspector click Network

5. Refresh the browser page containing the playing audiobook

6. Click the TOC and cue up each chapter

7. At this point you should see the MP3 files starting to appear in your Network inspector.

8. Right-Click one and select open in new tab

9. The MP3 file opens, click the three dots button and select download.

Read Chinese epub on Kobo wi-fi (2011)

Read Chinese epub on Kobo wi-fi (2011)

1. Create fonts folder on ereader

2. Copy Code2000-rdLO.ttf to fonts folder

3. Edit Kobo eReader.conf under\.kobo\Kobo

[Reading]
readingFontFamily=Code2000

4. Save change. Disconnect and restart ereader. 

5. You can change the font size under the Display options, but changing the font would reset the font back to the original Serif or SanSerif.

 

DVD-Audio Discs (DVD-A)

 Step 1. Determine that you actually have a DVD-A disc.

DVD-Audio discs are a special format of disc that contains audio-only tracks, encoded using Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP).
MLP requires a special decoder, which is not supported by Media Center or most other players.
 
To determine whether the disc you are trying to rip is DVD-A, or a regular DVD video disc, open its AUDIO_TS folder.
If there is no AUDIO_TS folder, or the AUDIO_TS folder is empty, it's not a DVD-A disc.
 
If it's a DVD-A disc it will look something like this:


If it is a DVD-A disc, continue with this guide.
If it is not a DVD-A disc, you want this guide for ripping Music DVDs to audio tracks: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,119957.0.html


Step 2. Installing and configuring the software.

After confirming that it is a DVD-A disc, you need to download the required software.
You will need Foobar2000: http://www.foobar2000.org/download
And the DVD-A decoder component: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdadecoder/files/foo_input_dvda/

With Foobar2000 installed, open it and go to File > Preferences > Components, and install the DVD-A decoder component from there.
With the DVD-A decoder installed, open the preferences window again and navigate to Tools > DVD-Audio.
I recommend that you enable the "do not load stereo downmixes" option. If you only want to rip stereo tracks, you can set that as well.



Step 3. Rip the disc.

File > Add Files > AUDIO_TS.IFO will add the DVD-A tracks to the playlist in Foobar2000.
Depending on the disc, there may not be much if any metadata - the disc I used as a test imported like this:


Tracks are named in their encoded format:

• Lf-Rf-Ls-Rs 24/48000 + C-LFE 24/48000 are multichannel 24-bit 48kHz tracks.
• L-R 24/96000 are stereo 24-bit 96kHz tracks.

Select the tracks you want to rip, right-click the selection and use Convert > [..]
Select FLAC as the Output Format, with the output bit depth set to "Auto" and dither set to "lossy sources only".

Foobar2000 should convert your DVD-A tracks to FLAC, ready to be imported to Media Center and tagged.

Music DVD to audio tracks.

 https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=119957.0

Step 2. Ripping the disc to MKV.

Converting a DVD to audio tracks involves two steps, first ripping the disc to MKV, and then extracting the audio track we want from that to make MKA files.
To rip the disc to MKV, use the free MakeMKV tool: https://www.makemkv.com/download/

When you open MakeMKV it will scan the disc, and present a list of titles:


Select the titles and tracks that you want. We're going to split these out later, so you really only need to select the title. The process will take a few minutes.


Step 3. Extracting the audio tracks.

For this we need to use MKV Merge, which is part of MKVToolNix: https://www.fosshub.com/MKVToolNix.html
Its interface might seem a bit overwhelming at first, but it's not too complicated.
 
Drag the newly created MKV file to the source file section of the input tab in MKV Merge.
This will scan the MKV and list the tracks it contains within.

Now deselect everything but the audio track you want to convert to MKA, and the chapter file.
Though it won't prevent you from selecting multiple tracks, I recommend that you only select one.

I have selected the 5.1 DTS track for this example:


Now switch to the output tab.
The only thing we need to change here is setting the split mode to "Before chapters" and telling it to split before "all" chapters.


Once this is set, click the "Start multiplexing" button at the bottom of the window.
A few seconds later, and MKV Merge should have split the MKV file into individual MKA audio tracks:


In this example, the ripped DVD is 2.33GB, and the extracted DTS 5.1 MKA audio tracks are only 466MB since we have discarded the unwanted video and audio tracks.
Now all you have to do is import the MKA tracks to Media Center and tag them.

Method 2: Split MKV into Chapters in XMedia Recode 

XMedia Recode is a free video/audio transcoding program for Windows. It can not only deal with digital videos, but also unprotected DVDs and convert DVDs to files it supports. It also offers other features. For example, you can use it to extract chapters from MKV. The whole operation is a breeze.  

MKV Split Chapters in XMedia Recode

Step 1: Download XMedia Recode and follow its instruction to install it on your computer: https://www.xmedia-recode.de/en/download.html

Step 2. Launch XMedia Recode. On the top left toolbar, click on File > Open File to import MKV files or via the drag-and-drop mode.

Step 3. Right-click on the MKV file, and select "Show Chapters". Press Ctrl+A to select all chapters, right-click and choose "Add to queue".

Step 4. In the lower Format tab, choose Matroska MKV. It also allows you to convert videos to a wide range of formats, such as 3GP, MP4, MOV, and so forth.

If you want, you can customize video parameters under the Video/Audio/Subtitle tab.

Step 5. Navigate to the bottom of the software and choose a destination for saving the output chapters. After that, click on "Encode" on the top menu bar to start to split MKV by chapters.

Once you get the right tool, it can be very simple to split MKV by chapters. There are many other good tools that will help you extract chapters from MKV. We have just summarized two popular and effective methods as shown above. If you have any good suggestion, you're welcome to share it with us.

Another version

Extract Audio from MKV without Re-compressing Using MKVToolNix

MKVToolNix is the GUI interface for MKV-specific processing tools such as mkvextract, mkvmerge, mkvinfo, mkvpropedit, etc. It can extract multiple audio tracks from an MKV file. Below are steps.

1. Install and launch MKVToolNix.
2. Drag-n-drop MKV to the “Multiplexer” tab.
3. In the "Tracks, Chapters, and Tags" section, uncheck the options you don't need and keep the audio options you want.
4. Specify the output directory. Or directly use the default path, which stores MKV videos.
5. Click the “Start multiplexing” button to extract 5.1 audio from MKV.

Tip 1: The output audio will be in MKA format. It is not playable on some media players like QuickTime. Use VLC instead. Additionally, if you rip multiple audio streams into a single MKA, you can switch between them during playback.

Tip 2: If you are using Windows, you're also capable of utilizing one of the component tools for MKVToolNix - gMKVExtractGUI. The biggest difference compared to MKVToolNix is that it can't import video formats other than MKV.

1. After MKVToolNix is installed, there will be a prompt "If you need a GUI for mkcextract" on the Setup interface, you can click to install gMKVExtractGUI. Or go to https://sourceforge.net/projects/gmkvextractgui/ to install.
2. Drag and drop MKV to the “Input Files” field.
3. Check the audio tracks you want.
4. Press “Extract” to strip MKA from MKV without decompressing.

 

Setup PC to stream to Kodi on Firestick

 1. install Kodi on Firestick

- use downloader\browser go to kodi.tv\download to get the latest version

- change font to Arial based

- enable upnp server and airplay

2. on PC, install foobar2000 latest version,

install UPnP MediaRenderer Output component

in preference, under output, select the upnp kodi 

3. firestick is sleeping every 10 minutes without activity.

download adblink from cnet, connect to the firestick ip

Once adbLink connected to Fire Stick, select the “Utility” menu at the top and then click on “Set timers”

select “Sleep Off” and optionally “Screensaver off” and click the “OK” button.

 

Moving Whatsapp from Android to iPhone

 https://faq.whatsapp.com/686469079565350

The only free way to do it is to use the move to IOS app..

I messed up the first load on iPhone. I don't want to risk overwriting the eSIM when resetting the phone.

I loaded whatsapp chat to a spare phone I had, using Move to IOS. yes, I needed to reset the spare iPhone to factory settings first. Leave the two phones to do the transfers until complete. The old phone asked you to login immediately after the transfer started, it didn't say it's doing the transfer on the background. don't interrupt.

After all the chat showing on the spare phone, I did a backup all chat to icloud.

Then uninstalled and reinstaledl whatspp on the new phone, and select restore chat history.

It took sometime but it worked.

 

How to migrate your WhatsApp data from Android to iPhone

If you're moving from an Android phone to an iPhone, you can transfer your account information, profile photo, individual chats, group chats, chat history, media, and settings. You can’t transfer your call history or display name.

What do I need?

• Android OS Lollipop, SDK 21 or above, or Android 5 or above installed on your Android device
• iOS 15.5 or above installed on your iPhone
• Move to iOS app installed on your Android phone
Note: Using other data migration apps is not supported, and will cause migration issues.
• WhatsApp iOS version 2.22.10.70 or above on your new device
• WhatsApp Android version 2.22.7.74 or above on your old device
• Use the same phone number as your old phone on your new device
• Your iPhone must be factory new or reset to factory settings to pair with the Move to iOS app and move data from your Android phone
• Both of your devices must be connected to a power source
• Both of your devices need to be connected to the same Wi-Fi network or you’ll need to connect your Android device to your iPhone’s hotspot

Migrate from Android to iPhone

1. Open the Move to iOS app on your Android phone and follow the on-screen prompts.
2. A code will be displayed on your iPhone. When prompted, enter the code on your Android phone.
3. Tap Continue and follow the on-screen prompts.
4. Select WhatsApp on the Transfer Data screen.
5. Tap START on your Android phone, and wait for WhatsApp to prepare the data for export. You’ll be signed out from your Android phone once the data is prepared.
6. Tap NEXT to return to the Move to iOS app.
7. Tap CONTINUE to transfer the data from your Android phone to your iPhone and wait for Move to iOS to confirm the transfer is complete.
8. Install the latest version of WhatsApp from the App Store.
9. Open WhatsApp and log in using the same phone number used on your old device.
10. Tap Start when prompted, and allow the process to complete.
11. Finish activating your new device and you’ll see your chats waiting for you.

Note: Going to Files and selecting the WhatsApp folder in the Move to iOS app isn't supported during migration.

What happens to my data?

• Transferred data doesn't go to cloud storage as a result of the migration until you create an iCloud backup.
• WhatsApp can't see the data you transfer.
• Your Android phone will still have your data unless you delete WhatsApp or wipe your phone.

What messages can I transfer to my new phone?

You can transfer:

• Personal messages

You can't transfer:

• Peer to peer payment messages

Can I transfer my call history?

Your WhatsApp call history can’t be transferred from an Android phone to an iPhone.

Related resources:

Can't migrate chat history from Android to iPhone