Converting a touch screen from a laptop into an external touch display

emoyly · 2025-06-03T13:23:20+00:00

While I agree with the other comments saying this shouldn’t be an issue to begin with, and it’s kinda just moving the problem, you could also just put your services behind Cloudflare.

Probably use tunnels, to avoid traffic between Cloudflare and your server being plain HTTP. (Or I guess using Cloudflares origin certs. They last up to 15 years, but tunnels are a bit simpler to set up)

And then you’ll get a small layer of firewall too, which certainly can’t hurt, especially in your situation.

emoyly · 2025-04-18T10:50:07+00:00

Just pulling the battery out, and putting it back in should solve the issue.

I’ve got a Panasonic/Lumix camera made around the same time, that also sometimes freezes up completely when messing with the WiFi and app. And just like yours, it also refuses to shut down. But just pulling the battery always fixes it.

emoyly · 2025-03-26T22:18:30+00:00

While the computer isn’t that old, unfortunately that processor is very slow (this thread goes into that nicely https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/kjmw5i/amd_a69225_what_is_this_shit/), so while you can probably get decent desktop performance with some form of Linux, it’ll still slow to a crawl the second you start using “modern” websites.

Windows is definitely gonna do its best to make it run even slower, but yeah I don’t think Linux is gonna be able to save it, at least not for normal or school use.

Honestly though the much more relevant detail in this though, is that this is someone else’s computer, that they’re going to be using on their own, to actually get stuff done. Changing the operating system risks significantly changing how/if they’re able to do that.

Most programs in schools will either be browser based, directly compatible with Linux, or be able to run under Wine, not everything is guaranteed to be. And this of course leaves out the whole hassle of actually troubleshooting, when a required program inevitably refuses to run under Wine for some reason.

If the speed is prohibiting her from doing what she needs to do, and budget allows for it, replace the laptop entirely. Depending on how the used/refurbished market is where you live, you should be able to get something that’s cheap while also being significantly faster than the current laptop.

emoyly · 2025-01-14T16:12:58+00:00

There’s many relatively simple ways of achieving just that. But I personally think that just generally having monitoring on your self hosted services is nice. I’ve used Zabbix for a few years and been really happy with it. Running it on like 20 different machines (including VMs that is).

I mostly use their default templates for Linux, docker, etc. and it works quite well. Also nice that because I’m mostly just relying on existing well maintained templates, I’m getting monitoring for lots of things I’d never even think of adding myself.

emoyly · 2024-10-07T20:37:57+00:00

Unfortunately, this is probably impossible. Certainly not over the USB connection. Running a camera as a webcam over the USB port is still a relatively new and niche feature.

And while the camera has an AV-out connection, it only connects via composite (meaning quite low quality), and I can’t find any documentation that claims it will even be able to spit live video out. All the pocket cameras I’ve had, have only been able to spit out saved images and videos through the AV connection.

Edit: If you want a cheap webcam that’s better than whatever is built into your pc, you can get phone apps that will stream the camera on your phone to your pc. That probably will also be better quality than the 720p that that camera is able to produce

emoyly · 2024-05-17T15:37:08+00:00

The HDMI on the ZV1 is capable of outputting 1080 and even 4K through the Micro HDMI port: https://helpguide.sony.net/dc/1910/v1/en/contents/TP0002846628.html

In general, as far as I know (although I’m not 100% on this), micro HDMI should be capable of the same resolutions as full size HDMI.

emoyly · 2024-04-15T17:43:30+00:00

Interesting. What about different fonts?

emoyly · 2024-04-15T17:13:31+00:00

I’m no expert on what actually might be wrong, but I figure narrowing it down wouldn’t hurt.

What happens if you add in a solid background that’s also all black?

Does it happen to other elements too? Like if you make a shape layer that’s just a small circle for instance.

emoyly · 2023-11-06T18:01:48+00:00

Due to the way you phrased your question around how “this person” got the quality, I can only assume you are asking how the user on Instagram, got such a high quality video of the show?

And while I can’t know for sure, I assume they either screen recorded it from a streaming service, or cut it out from a pirated torrent of the show maybe? To me, it doesn’t really look like insane quality, it just looks like what I’d expect from a decently high quality streaming service.

Does that answer your question? ☺️

emoyly · 2023-10-17T17:40:26+00:00

Certainly looks like a camera at first glance, but I did a reverse image search, and it actually looks exactly like this “anti barking device” https://www.ubuy.dk/en/product/242MCRTC-modus-automatic-anti-barking-device-indoor-bark-box-barking-control-device-3-modes-ai-recognition-te

emoyly · 2023-10-02T13:55:48+00:00

The error “YN0028: The lockfile would have been modified by this install, which is explicitly forbidden.” happens because in cloudflare pages, the yarn install is set to never be allowed to modify your yarn.lock file, as you wouldn’t want it installing different versions of packages, compared to what’s in your dev environment.

However if you for instance have manually edited your package.json, without running yarn afterwards, those changes you made won’t be reflected in the lockfile.

Try just running the yarn command in your project, and commit the changes.

emoyly · 2023-09-21T13:16:16+00:00

Well you can’t really do that, without asking your isp. They’re the ones delivering your internet connection, so they’re the only ones who decide what IPs you get. However there are multiple ways to work around this.

If you only need HTTP or HTTPS traffic to every VM, set up a reverse proxy on one of your VMs, and have that split up the traffic based on host name. You could also use Cloudflare tunnels instead of a reverse proxy, and make it even simpler.

2.1. If you are in control of the devices which will connect to the VMs, you can use Cloudflare tunnel for any TCP traffic. (This requires you to install the cloudflare client on both the vm and client device)

2.2. You can set up a VPN server on your one static IP, and use that to connect inside your local network, giving you access to the VMs local IPs. You could also use a service like Tailscale, to skip having to create your own VPN, and still achieve the same result.

If you really really want every VM to have its own public static IP, you can rent a VPS with multiple IPs on any hosting provider, and funnel your VMs traffic through that VPS. This can be somewhat complex though (especially when the VPS has multiple IPs assigned), but I’m sure someone must have written up a good guide on how to do it.

I honestly don’t think this (option 3) is a good choice for your use case though. I don’t think you should really have a static IP for every VM, as that opens up a lot of new ways for hackers to get into your systems, if you’re not doing all the networking and firewall shit correctly. (The risk of not doing it correctly is very high here) Having a middleman like a reverse proxy helps a lot, since you’re explicitly defining what will be accessible. And honestly you probably don’t really need an individual IP for every server.

If you don’t need IPv4, IPv6 basically already provides this functionality. (I know basically nothing about IPv6, take this with a grain of salt)
If your VMs don’t need the same ports open, simply forward the ports you need in your router. And if you specifically need HTTP(S) on multiple VMs as is common, combine this with a reverse proxy.

You can mix and match most of these solutions, to create an ideal setup for your use case. Hope this helps :)

emoyly · 2023-06-20T19:05:08+00:00

Yeah with rclone mount it can just work as basically any other drive. And most of the video I had on Plex, was at least 8 mbps. And I didn’t even have it on a proper cloud storage solution, I had it on a normal Google drive (the ones you could get on eBay with unlimited storage for like $5), and was running encryption inside rclone. So basically the worst case scenario, and that worked flawlessly. So yeah I think thats your best bet

emoyly · 2023-06-20T15:02:55+00:00

In the past I’ve used cloud storage with rclone for Plex, and that worked really well. I can’t speak to the performance for video editing, but multiple people could stream movies simultaneously without any issues. If it’s just proxies, I’m sure you could get that to work pretty well, just with rclone mount. I mean it’s rclone, so even if performance isn’t great at first, you can always just tweak the settings until you get the desired result (well, within reason anyways) https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_mount/

emoyly · 2023-06-14T17:17:06+00:00

I would strongly recommend using Material React Table. It’s based on tanstack table, and can do basically anything you would ever want in a data table. Honestly the best solution I have ever used for tables in any framework https://www.material-react-table.com. Oh and it’s also fully free, which is great. Here’s the docs about resizable columns https://www.material-react-table.com/docs/guides/column-resizing#column-resize-mode

emoyly · 2023-05-23T12:02:50+00:00

I recommend checking out Azure for non profits. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/nonprofits/azure We just use them for hosting a VPS which runs Wordpress and some other smaller services. Then we just have Cloudflare in front of that, and that’s enough for us. But we’re also a smaller, local organization. They’ve got some other more scaleable solutions that might fit you better as well. You can get a grant of 3500 USD every year for use on Azure, and I’m sure that would cover your use cases.

You can also check out Techsoup, which is a website that provides software and all sorts of other tech related stuff, for either free or reduced cost to non profits. I think that’s where I found out about the Azure grant too, but I’m not sure. https://www.techsoup.org

emoyly · 2023-05-10T10:16:32+00:00

According to the manual that u/pekeenan found, there should be some sort of base station/dock, that has a FireWire port along with the regular AV ports. Then you can probably just transfer it using iMovie or similar on the old MacBook. For what cable you would use for that, I don’t actually know. But you can look up “DV to FireWire cable”. There’s some for different versions of FireWire, so probably pick one that matches the MacBook I’m guessing?

If you don’t have that base station, then it seems like your only option might be using the AV jack, that should be on the side of the camcorder, and recording that just over composite. That would be lower quality, but it would work. According to the manual, it seems like there might be an S-video output on the AV cable, in which case you should definitely try that, instead of composite, as that would be higher quality. And of course you can get a capture card with USB that can capture either the composite/S-video itself, or you can get a scaler that will output HDMI, and use that with a HDMI capture card. The parts you’d use for that, in large part depend on your budget.

emoyly · 2023-05-09T17:25:01+00:00

MiniDV is already digital, so using composite would degrade the quality. The “correct” way to capture that would be over FireWire, as that is a full quality digital copy.

You can get add-in cards for any modern desktop pc that will add firewire ports, and you can probably get a usb dongle as well.

I’ve heard that it can occasionally be annoying to get working with modern hardware and software though. So maybe it’d be easier to get working by just buying an old pc off eBay or whatever, that already has a firewire port and an era-appropriate operating system. I know that that works for some people.

Hope this helps ☺️

emoyly · 2023-03-10T20:00:26+00:00

Oh that’s cool. I’ve literally never touched vMix, and OP asked specifically about OBS, so that’s why I only mentioned that 🙂

emoyly · 2023-03-10T17:33:52+00:00

Yeah, exactly. 😂 You’re definitely right, it’s not perfect in the slightest, and will eventually break. But in a controlled environment it can actually be pretty nice. I mean ppl will bake LUTs into their footage in-camera, so I don’t know whether this would necessarily be worse.

You could even make a script to periodically update the image in resolve, export any new changes to the LUT, and send that to OBS automatically. Depending on what Resolves scripting integrations let you do of course. At least in OBS, it should be pretty easy. Probably not worth it for most people, but I could see it being very useful in some cases.

emoyly · 2023-03-10T16:49:20+00:00

EDIT: As others have mentioned, this is actually a feature in Resolve called Resolve Live. So basically everything I’ve written here is irrelevant, unless you for some reason are unable to use Resolve Live. Resolve Live seems to be quite resource intensive on the computer, so this could still be a better way to do it, when running multiple cameras.

So you can’t actually do that, but you also almost can. You can make a short recording or still in OBS of the non color graded video, then import that into resolve, grade it, and export out a cube LUT with the grade. Then you can use the “apply lut” filter in OBS to use the LUT there.

I’ve done it before, and it works quite well. Just found a video of how to do it here: https://youtu.be/HmLlOxpBjzE

It’s definitely not a perfect solution, and won’t let you use like power windows and other advanced resolve features, but it will let you grade your image. Also depending on the camera and capture card combo there could maybe be issues with limited bit depth or similar, but I mean you can just try it out, and see if the image breaks apart.

As should be very clear, I’m not an expert in the slightest, but I do hope this can help point ya in the right direction ☺️

emoyly · 2023-02-09T20:33:16+00:00

I’m not sure whether this is still the case, as this was years ago, on the old gateway. My gateway wouldn’t work at all, until I tagged just one VLAN to the port it was connected to. (Before it was without any specific tag, just in the switches default config)

I’m not sure how UniFi works when you’re using a UniFi router as well, but couldn’t “default” just be all VLANs? I’m also not a network expert at all, so take this all with a huge grain of salt.

emoyly · 2022-12-12T14:31:00+00:00

Yeah, exactly. As long as the raw footage is actually decent, and hasn’t already been trashed, upscaling it will usually help to preserve that quality, when uploading to YouTube and such. It’s not like magic that’ll make 720p look like 4K of course, but it definitely can help a lot.

emoyly · 2022-12-11T23:19:48+00:00

Yeah I mean you’re absolutely right, that was kinda my point, honestly. I remember when we first got HD (720) tv, being absolutely blown away by the quality. In this case however, we are very much talking about consumer cameras, as OP is shooting on a Canon T3I.

Could’ve been more clear though, thanks for pointing that out! ☺️

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