Hi everyone, In this post, we will see how to enable the Apple USB SuperDrive Optical Drive on Ubuntu. This drive is nothing more than an LG GX50N drive inside an Apple-designed case. It’s very likely the drive is also a special version designed for this case too. One thing for sure is that the drive’s firmware seem to also be modified to only allow it to work with some Apple machines. However, we can trick it to work on…
Hi everyone, Today, we will take a look at the Apple USB SuperDrive. This is a CD and DVD drive sold by Apple. The current model is A1379. This DVD drive can read and write all standard CD and DVD formats. This includes CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW and DVD+/-R DL. This drive compatibility is limited to some models of the Mac. However, it is compatible with Linux after using a special command line. I’ll talk about this on another post….
Hi everyone, Yesterday, I installed a new Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) into my main machine. Unfortunately, I had some problems when attempting to encode videos to AV1. However, it is easy to solve when we perform the following steps. It seems that we must use Intel-provided packages in order to enable the full use of the hardware. Barely using ffmpeg with Ubuntu’s default packages will show a couple of errors which are fixed when we install the intel packages. Note…
Hi everyone, Today, I have installed a new Graphics Processing Unit into my main machine. The card I chose is the Sparkle Intel Arc A750 Titan OC Edition. The reason for choosing this card has to do with video encoding, with its Intel Quick Sync component supporting VP9 and AV1 encoding. AV1 encoding is slow on the CPU itself, so having a GPU capable to do that is great. It is also able to encode to H264 and H265/HEVC. It…
So, these past days I’ve been having trouble with the LG BP50NB40 External Blu-Ray Drive. While I was archiving my data, it failed burning on PlexDisc BD-R DL 50GB discs at different intervals. Later, while I was trying to verify some other discs, it started to make some bad noises and it seems this is where the Blu-Ray laser gave up. Now, it simply tries to load the Blu-Ray disc with annoying sounds, sometimes working, sometimes failing. Discs that used…
Hi everyone, In this post, we will see how to downgrade GRUB on the HP Stream 7 and 8 tablets. These tablets use the Intel Bay Trail platform and only have a 32-bit bootloader. The CPU in these tablets are 64-bit, so it’s weird that the bootloader only works with 32-bit EFI loaders. The good thing is that we can use a 64-bit version of Linux paired with the 32-bit GRUB EFI loader. In Ubuntu 23.10 and the upcoming Ubuntu…
Gran Turismo is a film based on the PlayStation simulation game series of the same name. This film was released on physical formats on November 7, 2023. Unfortunately, Redbox didn’t add this movie to its kiosks. However, you can rent it on GameFly: GameFly has this movie on Blu-Ray and 4K UHD formats: They do not have this movie on DVD. It is unknown if Redbox will add this movie at a later date. They have not added any new…
Five Nights at Freddy’s is a 2023 film based on the game series of the same name. This film got its home media physical release on December 12, 2023. Unfortunately, Redbox didn’t stock this movie on its kiosks, but you can rent it on GameFly: GameFly has this movie on Blu-Ray and 4K UHD formats: They do not have the DVD version of this film. It is unknown if Redbox will stock this movie, as they have not added any…
Trolls Band Together is the 3rd film in the Trolls Franchise. It is the sequel to Trolls World Tour. This film was released on home media on January 16th, 2024. If you’re in the United States and want to rent it on physical media, you may have seen a Redbox kiosk. Unfortunately, for some time now, they haven’t been adding new films. The good news is that there is a service called GameFly that has this movie available for rent:…
Hi everyone, This is my first post of this new 2024 year. Wishing all the best to everyone and may all your goals be achieved this year. -Moises Post Views: 3