Independance Day - WIP#

Reclaiming space on my Synology and DeDuping my photos and videos.#

The Duplicates Conundrum#

Tools#

Total Cost#

Steps#

Dryrun#

rclone dedupe newest praphagdrive:"" --by-hash --dry-run~

Work In Progress Thoughts#

I found out, not only do I have duplicates and triplicates, I also have multiplicates (this is a new word I just made up to indicate multiples of multiples). In various places too. A portable SSD, an older NAS with one HDD in it, the new NAS with two HDD's in it, the OneDrive (for each family member), the Google Drive(s).... aaarrggghhh!!

Currently, the attempt is to pull all the files into one NAS (the new one) and run rClone against it. However, this time, I am going to delete all the files from the various storages once I have copied them. Then there is no going back.

What are the exact activities I need to do during the dedupe process? Without specifically focusing on rclone

Why do this when you have Google?#

Writing helps retention. This is a fact (I will reference this too). Eventually I want to take notes and I am unsure how I can do that seamlessly, from paper or paper-like to digital, and have them show up here.

Independance Day - WIP#

Reclaiming space on my Synology and DeDuping my photos and videos.

The Duplicates Conundrum

Tools

Total Cost

Steps

Dryrun

rclone dedupe newest praphagdrive:"" --by-hash --dry-run~

Work In Progress Thoughts

I found out, not only do I have duplicates and triplicates, I also have multiplicates (this is a new word I just made up to indicate multiples of multiples). In various places too. A portable SSD, an older NAS with one HDD in it, the new NAS with two HDD's in it, the OneDrive (for each family member), the Google Drive(s).... aaarrggghhh!!

Currently, the attempt is to pull all the files into one NAS (the new one) and run rClone against it. However, this time, I am going to delete all the files from the various storages once I have copied them. Then there is no going back.

What are the exact activities I need to do during the dedupe process? Without specifically focusing on rclone

Single Page Markdown Website

When using a version control tool like Git, sometimes, all one wants to do is to be lazy and push every commit 😨

Bash script to Auto push Generic stackoverflow response to auto push Simple example for a Post-Commit hook A Good combined answer to hooks

How to Not Listen to your users; An exercise in Product Management A Python Book from freeCodeCamp [A developer fights back - Somce Interview Questions] (https://hackernoon.com/36-questions-every-software-developer-should-ask-potential-employers)

Single vs. Double Quotes#

SPMW

Perhaps it is a good thing to begin the knowledge base with something I discovered via trial and error. When trying to start the SPMW, and providing a wildcard argument to inorporate all the markdown files in a given folder, using Single quotes, caused a dump on windows while using double quotes succeded.

On windoze Dont

npx --yes -- single-page-markdown-website '*.md' --open

Do

npx --yes -- single-page-markdown-website "*.md" --open

Happy gathering

No KVM No Mess#

Introducing the awesome Mouse Without Borders and masterful Control My Monitor#

So here is a strange scenario I found myself in; Two monitors, two PC's one hub (a Lenovo Thunderbolt dock), one keyboard and one mouse.... and a very small table to work on. WEll, irrespective of the size of the table, I wanted to use one mouse, one keyboard and no additional hardware (for those who might be thinking, "Is he an idiot?", the hag would say, "Of Course he is you dimwit!").

To complicate the matter, one of the PC's is a work device, which is on VPN all the time using something called 'Global Whatnot We are Watching you' (nevermind the question of who exactly is being protected here), so the hundreds of software KVM tools out there would mostlikely not work or needed significant investment (as in Not Free).

Enter, Microsoft Garages 'MouseWithoutBorders'! (MWB, hereforth, my abbriveation not theirs)

Some tweaking, badabingbadaboom, We are sharing keyboards, moving mice, copy/paste, draganddrop and all kinds of goodies!

But hold on! Did we not want to use two monitors too? I mean, yes, I have dual moniotrs but I did want all that screen realestate for the PC I was working on, not split the screens across two PC's. Here, MWB does not claim any fame. So what to do?

Was it all an exercise in futility?

Oh No No No! Enter the Israeli swashbuckler (my description not his) Nir Sofer and his fantabulous freeware tool, 'ControlMyMonitor'! (CMM, hereforth, my abbriveation not his) What a guy!

CMM, allows you to send signals to the connected monitors allowing you to do fun stuff like adjust the various properties without entering the oft fiddly menus on-screen. But hold on, one of the vaules it exposes is the MonitorID!. Enter one monitors ID and boom you are on that screen. Enter the other monitors ID and boom, there you are.

A little script (.bat, Windoze Zindabad) and what we have is a fully software controlled multiPC multiMonitor mono-keyboard adn mono-mouse setup. Most importantly, totally free.

Authors P. Jr. is currently reading.#

How does it get so complicated? All I want to do is have soe fun (yes, I was young in the 80's)

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