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Redbox at a 7-Eleven in Tampa
Movies added, removed, and coming soon at Redbox – June 8, 2021

Movies added, removed, and coming soon at Redbox – June 8, 2021

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Hi everyone, Today is the second Tuesday of June 2021. This week, we got 4 movies on DVD. Let’s see them below: Movies added DVD Assault on VA-33 City Of Lies Flashback Timecrafters: The Treasure of Pirate’s Cove Movies that can no longer be reserved DVD Distorted Mission Possible Monster Trucks Ocean’s 8 Ouija Séance: The Final Game Out of the Shadows Redbad Saf3 Scooby Doo and the Gourmet Ghost SuperFly The Watcher In The Woods Blu-Ray Ocean’s 8 SuperFly…

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Quick fix for Ubuntu WSL failing to update because of systemd

Quick fix for Ubuntu WSL failing to update because of systemd

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Hi everyone, I’m a user of the Windows 10 WSL feature, where I run the Ubuntu distribution and always install the latest versions. I like to keep my packages up to date. Unfortunately, the latest Ubuntu release, 21.04 was not installed correctly and whenever I tried to update the system packages, it would error out when setting up systemd. The solution to this seem to be a quick one. Turns out, the file libsystemd-shared-247.so was there, in the /usr/lib/systemd folder:…

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Calibrating the LG WH14NS40 Blu-Ray drive

Calibrating the LG WH14NS40 Blu-Ray drive

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Hi everyone, I’m now at my 3rd LG WH14NS40 Blu-Ray drive. The first one had its Blu-Ray laser die and the second one began having issues reading Blu-Ray discs. The 3rd one reads them faster. But what if I could have fixed the 2nd drive? That’s what we will be looking here. This drive is not one of my favorite writers. It is not a good writer. Most of the discs I burn with it ends up having the so…

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Squirrel June 1st, 2021 3
Probably the best Squirrel photo I took so far

Probably the best Squirrel photo I took so far

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Hi everyone, Yesterday I was in the kitchen, looked through the window and noticed this squirrel that somehow seem to be looking at me. Of course I took the chance to take some photos of it. Here are the results: Photos taken with a Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra running the firmware ending in AUDD. What do you think of these shots? Post Views: 4

Redbox at a 7-Eleven in Tampa
Movies added, removed, and coming soon at Redbox – June 1st, 2021

Movies added, removed, and coming soon at Redbox – June 1st, 2021

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Hi everyone, Today is the first Tuesday of June 2021. This week, we got 5 movies on DVD. Let’s see them below: Movies added DVD Boogie Endangered Species The Courier (2021) The Wacky Hen Trigger Point Also, on Friday, we got American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally on DVD. Movies that can no longer be reserved DVD A Reckoning Adrift (2018) Hereditary I Kill Giants Ideal Home Luis and the Aliens Moana UFO (2018) Won’t You Be My Neighbor…

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Optiarc AD-7561A with PlexDisc DVD+R
Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc on the Optiarc AD-7561A

Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc on the Optiarc AD-7561A

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Hi everyone, Today, we’ll take a look at how the PlexDisc DVD+R discs burns in the Optiarc AD-7561A drive. We will be using ImgBurn again to perform the writing and verification. It reports the media code to be OPTODISC-R16-00 and supports writing at up to 8x here. The drive burned the disc using a Z-CLV strategy, starting at 2.4x, and jumping to 4x, 6x, and 8x: The disc appeared to have burnt fine, but the quality results seem to point…

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Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc on the Optiarc AD-7740H

Burning the PlexDisc DVD+R Disc on the Optiarc AD-7740H

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Hi everyone, Today, we’ll see how well the PlexDisc DVD+R discs that I showed you yesterday burns in the Optiarc AD-7740H. This is a drive I took out from a Lenovo laptop that’s now part of my optical drive collection. I already have an Optiarc AD-7561A from a very old HP laptop, so this is actually my 2nd Optiarc drive. We will be using ImgBurn to perform the writing and verification. It reports the media code to be OPTODISC-R16-00 and…

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The PlexDisc DVD+R 100pk spindle

The PlexDisc DVD+R 100pk spindle

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Hi everyone, Today, we will be looking at the PlexDisc DVD+R 100pk spindle I got on December 2020. These discs are manufactured by Optodisc Taiwan. These discs can be burned at up to 16x but some recorders may offer speeds higher than this. This spindle contains 100 discs: They are logo top branded. The bottom side has a purple color, as expected on Recordable DVD media: In the inner ring, they have an Optodisc identifier: In my next post, we’ll…

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HEIC to JPG v0.1
Introducing HEIC To JPG Converter

Introducing HEIC To JPG Converter

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Hi everyone, Today, I’m pleased to announce the first version of my HEIC To JPG Converter tool. This is a simple tool that will convert your HEIC images and photos to the more common and supported JPEG format. In today’s world, newer phones can take advantage of the HEIC image codec that will save you space, theatrically, but it’s also true that JPEG is still the dominant format whereas HEIC still have limited support. This is why I wrote this…

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Redbox at a 7-Eleven in Tampa
Movies added, removed, and coming soon at Redbox – May 25th, 2021

Movies added, removed, and coming soon at Redbox – May 25th, 2021

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Hi everyone, Today is the last Tuesday of May 2021. This week, we got 4 movies on DVD and 1 on Blu-Ray and 4K UHD. Let’s see them below: Movies added DVD American Fighter Chaos Walking Hunted (2021) The Rookies Blu-Ray Chaos Walking 4K UHD Chaos Walking Also, on Friday, we got Raya and the Last Dragon on DVD and Blu-Ray. Movies that can no longer be reserved DVD American Animals Book Club (2018) Damascus Cover Deadpool 2 Freedom Fighters:…

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