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I am soooo tired of my iPhone. I'm about to get my AR15 out and take both to the gun range.
I'm whining now, so bear with me. All I want to do is delete ALL TEXT MESSAGES from my phone. None of the youtube videos help, and apple support is approaching Microsoft's level of stupidity. wtf happened to rm -rf? or delete all.. are you sure? yes.
Stupid. But if you have any spoilers the leash is running ios 17.
Charlie Gilley
“Microsoft is the virus..."
"the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
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Had a meeting with a new client in the UK, for some short term work getting a little IoT widget functioning the way they'd like. It's a simple widget and they don't have actual coders in house so I went with Arduino.
Or tried.
So here's me failing live over Anydesk and Teams to get this ridiculous Waveshare board working under Arduino.
Turns out it won't. At least the touch panel won't work. Nobody has done it. It requires the ESP-IDF, not Arduino. Wish I would have done more research on this before the meeting.
In my SVG stuff my gradients are kind of rendering? But it looks like they stop just after the left edge.
I checked through all the drawing routines, including this mess that builds up thousands or tens of thousands of "spans" which are arbitrary length runs of a particular color at a y and x coordinate.
I spot checked the spans against my reference implementation, which should have been the last mile before the draws, and in 6000 or so I checked about half dozen across the arrays, and they were all the same.
I'm out of moves.
Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Sometimes the dragon wins  Dust off your hat, jump on the broom and fly again 
Mircea
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Years ago I took a very pricey gunsmithing course which delivered content via DVDs. The first round was about 90 DVDs, plus a number of individual armorer's courses over the years. That brought Level II Professional as a certification point, and covered in detail about 400 to 500 types of gun. I didn't bother to advance to the Master-level courses, since a lot of the cost was all the tools they included; I already owned those tools - lathe, mill, grinders, band saw, welding equipment, etc. I recently found they have yet another level - Advanced Master - which builds on the previous work I'd done and adds a few hundred more DVDs, but no longer includes the tools. Manually copying this much material to a HDD wil take years, and I know DVDs don't last forever.
Is there a machine I can buy to speed up copying a bunch of Gunsmithing DVDs to a single HDD to avoid the risk of losing the information. I know many of you have been copying music to HDDs; what do you to make this simpler?
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger - sounds you are more into guns than DVDs. I'd recommend staying out of DYI and look for a professional company that does it for a living. Your request is certainly a niche'. Example: I had a bunch of compact VHS, 8mm, and VHS family tapes. Shipped them off and the company affordably (and no stress on my part) created mp3s.
Charlie Gilley
“Microsoft is the virus..."
"the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
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charlieg wrote: sounds you are more into guns than DVDs.
It's a hobby, but one I can fall back on for income in bad times.
I hadn't thought about using a copy service, since this is copyrighted material and I expect many companies might balk at that. But I do have a legal right to make a backup, I believe - at least, it used to be true. But I like our resident codewitch's idea of using SSD for longevity. I'll look into that.
Will Rogers never met me.
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My friend melted his motherboard doing what you're looking to do, running massive transfers overnight.
The mean time between failure for an HDD is 5 years, and you're about to put a year of wear on it in a matter of days. Get an SSD. Its MTBF is closer to 20 years
You're probably better off just copying the discs, to be honest.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Thanks for the idea! I hadn't considered that option, but it makes perfect sense. I may work out a plan to copy each disk, after I watch it, to a spare HDD, creating an index of some sort, and a structured file folder system to make it easier to find specific topics. Once the content is copied, I'll know how big a SSD I need, and I can buy it and do a bulk copy. That way I'll still have it all long enough that I can give it to someone in my Will!
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: Manually copying this much material to a HDD wil take years
Let me put a word in favor of manual copying. My collection has about 400 DVD's and the "pipeline" is very simple: create an ISO image; use Handbrake to convert it to MP4. It takes only about 15-20 min to create an ISO image and I do other things while DVD's are being copied. When copying is complete the program makes a ring-a-ding and I just plop another DVD in there. Conversion to MP4 takes much longer but Handbrake allows you queue many jobs that I let running overnight. I never kept track of how much time I actually spent converting those DVD's, but now if I do a short calculation, turns out to be about 2 full weeks.
I keep both ISO images and the MP4 in case I decide to fiddle around with Handbrake parameters (it has so freaking many parameters!) to get a better image.
Mircea
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Thanks for the tip, Mircea!
Will Rogers never met me.
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I hope this group can find it in their harts to forgive me for posting this here...
but I need to vent...
I run into a BIG ( for me ) issue so I asked "customer service " for SOLUTION.
I received a (AI?) message saying the issue has been solved, (please) post "how we did ".
The message did not say anything about the actual "solution".
So I checked the "bug post " and it contains this "solution ":
Everyone should be responsible for their behavior, even on internet.
As workaround, you can create another account, start a new life on internet.
So - it i obviously my fault and I need to "get a new one "....
It does not count I told them I cannot update my code using new account...
I am locked by their security to the original.
NO, I am not complaining, it would not make beans if I did.
I am just curious how the outfit expect to stay in business with such "friendly customer attitude"..
PS They certainly lost my business, and obviously do not care.
Thanks for watching...
Cheers
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You lost me, did the 'solution' solve your problem? If so, good, you should be happy. Now what does creating another account as a work around for some mysterious thing, have to do with this non-complaint?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Former push say (7).
Former = Ex
push = press
Say = Express
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yeah, I was overanalysing that one.
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I think it would have been a better clue if I'd written
Former push state (7).
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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No, I think it's just we are all out of practice... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I agree Paul in the old days you would have solved it in minutes
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Continuing the easy theme to ease us back in
Former push say (7).
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I'm not going to lie, I'm not seeing this one.
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To paraphrase OG just say what you see - I was beginning to think no one was reading it 
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I'm committed to getting the answer, but the brain is blank.
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1 minute left
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I only just saw it, but I got nothing that fits.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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