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I have used this on chicken but it could probably used with pork or tofu. The following is for 4 chicken thighs; scale as required by the amount of and/or type of food you are cooking
I’ve recently started a new job and am setting up a MacBook Pro M4. I’ve been using either a native Linux Desktop, or a Linux Desktop as a VM on a Windows box for most of my career. There are a number things about the Mac that are different than Intel based machines running Linux following are the list of changes that I have made to make it usable as a development environment.
To perform a clean install
When you are crafting custom .vimrc files this is very helpful to see what initialization scripts have been loaded and in what order
:scriptnamesFor a while I struggled with ensuring that a joint between two metal plumbing fittings did not leak. On my most recent project that required multiple threaded fittings I took some time, did my research, and finally sorted out the details.
There are four things to do that will ensure a water tight joint:
There are many similar models of both Whirlpool, Amana, and Maytag washers to which this process applies. One of the first things to do with these machines if they are acting a bit wonky is to re-calibrate them.
The process is a bit esoteric and after finding a video of it online I wanted to write it down for future reference. In the following directions when it says “turn it R”, it means to turn the center control knob one → Continue reading “How to calibrate a Whirlpool WTW4816FW3, or similar, washing machine”
If you have a Windows .bkf file and want to “unpack” in on a Linux box, you can use mtftar to convert an MTF stream to a TAR stream.
This was a great find when a friend lost some data and all they had was an old .bkf file.→ Continue reading “Convert Windows .bkf File to tar File”
First decrypt the drive. When I plugged it in GNOME displayed a dialog and asked for the key. I’m guessing that cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/device device_crypt would work as well.
Run lvdisplay to get the LV Path for the logical volume that you want to mount.
Then, activate the volumes , there is a way to activate a specific one volume, but the following activates them all.
vgchange -ayThen mount it
mount <lv-path/mntFollowing are a number of common PDF processing commands on a Linux box
convert image-1 image-2 ... images.pdfImageMagick, specifically version 6 (im6), is preventing the conversion of PDF files due to a security policy. To address this
root, edit /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml<policy domain="coder" rights="none" pattern="PDF" /rights="none" to rights="read|write"I have decided to exclusively use DID chains where they make an applicable part. I have found that they last the longest and are not too much more expensive than competing products. I have also exclusively been using rivet master links as they are much more reliable than the clip types and the tools to properly rivet them are trivial to acquire.
Each time I replace a chain I have to go searching for the rivet flare dimensions, so I → Continue reading “DID Motorcycle Chain Rivet Flare Specifications”