Sun-dried tomatoes' sundry thoughts

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

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.

 


Tuesday, December 05, 2023

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:

Compaq mini Tiny Core Linux

download TinyCore plus iso

create usb using BlenaEtcher

boot

run tc-install USB-HDD, WholeDisk

reboot from disk

firmware-broadcom-bcm43xx.tcz

wifi-tcz (enable wifi button)f

fireflysung.tcz

firefox_getLatest.tcz

pulseaudio.tcz

pauvcontrol.tcz


Monday, June 19, 2023

SAT Reading Comprehension

https://www.powerscore.com/sat/help/reading_comp_practice 

 

General

These magazines cover multiple passage types on the SAT.

Atlantic Weekly
Harper’s Magazine
National Geographic
The New York Times
The New Yorker
Time
Wall Street Journal

Social Sciences

Social science passages focus of the study of society and the effects that recent and past events have on society. Examples include the battle for women’s suffrage or the changes resulting from the invention of the cell phone.

The Economist
Foreign Affairs
Journal of Democracy
The Washington Quarterly
The Nation

Natural Sciences

Natural science articles use scientific evidence to explain a process or phenomenon. Possible topics include the sonar perception of fruit bats or the explosive ingredients in gunpowder.

Popular Science
Scientific American
American Scientist

Humanities

Humanities passages cover cultural perspectives on art, literature, and philosophy. Topics might include the need for restoration of Victorian-era homes or a comparison of an author’s first and last novels.

Archipelago
Art Forum
Smithsonian Magazine
American Journal of Archaeology
Arts Journal

Literature

Literature passages are excepts from novels or short stories, usually published in the last century, but occasionally from the late 1800’s. These passages are typically the easiest type on the SAT. The first four websites below contain short stories. The latter group offers complete novels available for download from the listed author. The SAT often uses the first 80 to 90 lines of a novel for a literature passage, so we recommend practicing with these well-known authors.

Novels:

Willa Cather
Joseph Conrad
Theodore Dreiser
F. Scott Fitzgerald
E.M. Forster
D.H. Lawrence
Edith Wharton

 

 https://mekreview.com/sat-recommended-reading-list/

Fiction/Narrative Prose

reading-shelf-of-books

Books

  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (or any of Austen’s novels!)
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  • Native Son by Richard Wright
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Pearl by John Steinbeck (or any of Steinbeck’s novels!)
  • The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (or Remains of the Day)
  • House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Short Stories or Novellas

  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  • The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  • “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • “The Dead” by James Joyce
  • “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner
  • “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri
  • “Winter Dreams” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • “To Build a Fire” by Jack London

Natural Science

Books

  • The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
  • Hyperspace by Michio Kaku
  • Gravity in Reverse by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
  • A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
  • Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
  • The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Trials by Oliver Sacks
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  • In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
  • Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life by Helen Czerski
  • The Story of Science by Joy Hakim
  • Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik
  • This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin

Magazines or Scientific Journals

  • National Geographic
  • Scientific American
  • Smithsonian
  • Science Magazine

Social Science

Books

  • The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don’t by Nate Silver
  • Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
  • The Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat by Michael Pollan
  • Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
  • Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan
  • The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less by Barry Schwartz
  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
  • One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger by Matthew Yglesias
  • This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

Magazines or Academic Journals

  • The Atlantic
  • The Economist
  • Time Magazine
  • The New Yorker

 

Sun.

Mon.

Tues.

Wed.

Thurs.

Fri.

Sat.

Arts & culture

International news

Business

National news

Science

Local news

Whatever you like!

 https://test-preparation.ca/reading-comprehension-from-fiction/

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

VPN

 https://forums.redflagdeals.com/windscribe-windscribe-pro-4usd-month-no-end-date-2593101/2/

Windscribe is heavily shilled in canada and i highly recommend people do some research before proceeding.
I consider it a mid-low tier VPN service, and its quite slow -- likely due to all the lifetime members current members are paying for, but it isnt really trustworthy from everything im aware of.

If you care about privacy use Portmaster SPN for windows which is actually the only new superior than vpn tech for privacy today; cutting edge atm and it beats mass data collection.
Another option is Mullvard or Proton VPN and Firefox VPN (Which is whitelabel Mullvard) - these do not beat mass data collection, but they have a trustworthy system behind them.

Portmaster SPN is cutting edge technology focused on privacy for the user - will replace vpns for privacy.
Firefox VPN is good for business due to the paid email and phone protection extras they offer, ontop of a trustworthy VPN for privacy.
Mullvard is the benchmark for trust with your data
Proton is just overall a good service, has extras like email and cloud storage too - can be trusted.

These are the only recommended methods in high security and privacy forums, its been long discussed (other vpn services) and the reasons why their not recommeneded on deep inspection.
Needless to say, if you question this -- go refer to the post i made above, go into their forum and search your vpn - or better yet ask and you'll get a technical breakdown as to why you should avoid some.
In my opinion VPNs will be replaced within 5-10years, we will all be using SPNs for privacy and isolating most of our traffic into server nodes.

VPN reviews on google are scams and shills trying to get kickbacks and just like the hosting industry, its all bullshit to manipulate you - so do not take anyones advice do your own research and make a decision yourself -- but google is 98% flooded with affilate blogs lying to you.

Privacyguides.org and their sub reddit is really the only creditable place to learn about this stuff today, more so when their sub reddit is filled with 70,000 hardcore privacy focused people not shilling anything but proveable facts on what keeps you safe and protected in todays world.

This is my recommendation for any user here, and please do your due diligance.


Recap because there is ALOT of bad information in this thread.

--- Do not use r/vpn or any shilled and spammed vpn area, this not real advice and just companies pushing their products on people for affilate money.
--- I recommend r/privacyguides and privacyguides.org for any honest and truthful VPN info.
- privacyguides.org/vpn & privacyguides.org/dns

-- See VPN relationship map
--- https://embed.kumu.io/9ced55e897e74fd807be51990b26b415
Last edited by Mittenz on Jan 13th, 2023 7:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Monday, January 02, 2023

HLS video/stream

HLS video/stream

Used Video m3u8 Sniffer chrome extension to get correct URL.

Then run: N_m3u8DL-CLI_v3.0.2_with_ffmpeg_and_SimpleG

and paste URL, hit enter and it'll download and combine the whole stream into one MP4 video file.

 

https://www.videohelp.com/software/N-m3u8DL-CLI

MMA - Musical MIDI Accompaniment

 MMA - Musical MIDI Accompaniment

 

Winmma  - packaged for windows with python

https://sourceforge.net/projects/winmma/files/ 

1.1 works, the others doesn't

LeMMA

https://welltemperedstudio.wordpress.com/code/lemma/

http://xenon.stanford.edu/%7Egeksiong/code/lemma/LeMMA0.9a.zip  - works.

latest for python 3 doesn't work

JJazzlab - free backing tracks/ chords

https://www.jjazzlab.com/en/

MuseScore

https://musescore.com/

Tuesday, March 01, 2022

zip压缩包解压后的文件名是乱码?

 如果这种乱码是语言编码的问题的话,很好解决,用BANDIZIP,设置好语言,再从BANDIZIP打开压缩包即可。。

https://www.zhihu.com/question/269325315

Saturday, November 20, 2021

Kodi - chinese

 https://www.reddit.com/r/Addons4Kodi/comments/j5mh6u/new_addon_for_asian_dramas_with_chinese_subs/

New addon for Asian dramas with Chinese subs

Langlangbay addon parses website langlangbay.org which offers Chinese, Taiwanese, Hong Kong, Japanese & Korean dramas in their original audio with Chinese subtitles. While menu is in English, drama titles are all in Traditional Chinese.

Use file manager, add source - https://cywteow.github.io/repo

Install from zip - repository.cwyteow.zip

Install from repo - langlangbay video addon

 

 

 https://www.reddit.com/r/Addons4Kodi/comments/pfqpra/icdrama_finally_working_on_kodi_19/

Icdrama - finally working on Kodi 19!

Many thanks to u/soraxas & u/boleanly who have taken up the challenge to make icdrama addon Matrix-compatible.

No Repo available, only Zip file for the plugin. Download & install latest release "drama-plugin-for-kodi_SHA-2de26eb.zip" from https://github.com/soraxas/aznhusband.github.io/releases

If you do not already have ResolveURL dependency installed through other Kodi addons like The Crew, Venom etc, you will have to install this dependency before you install icdrama addon.

Gujal's ResolveURL repo: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Gujal00/smrzips/master/zips/repository.resolveurl/repository.resolveurl-1.0.0.zip

For the benefit of those new to icdrama, it is an addon for watching dramas & movies from Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Korea & Japan in original audio with English or Chinese subtitles. Korean & HK variety shows are also available, as well as Anime with Chinese subs. Some of the dramas & anime are dubbed in Cantonese.

 Change fonts to Ariel based