build2be/com/e - MacOS

Apple movie file to animated gif

clemens — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 08:06:36 +0000

Make a proper recording

Record using QuickTime
Clip/trim the video

Convert

ffmpeg -i video.mov -vf fps=5,scale=450:-1 animated.gif

Resources

https://compendiumdev.storychief.io/how-to-convert-video-to-animated-gif-using-ffmpeg

Install image on Pinephone

clemens — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 12:30:17 +0000

According to Copying an operating system image to an SD card using Mac OS steps are

Info

diskutil list

(snip)
/dev/disk4 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *32.0 GB    disk4
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 NO NAME                 32.0 GB    disk4s1
(snip)

Unmount

Take disk identifier and unmount disk

Create alias when tired of opening customer site in particular browser

clemens — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 10:27:33 +0000

For this to work you need to have your Drush aliasses configured

You also need the path to your Browser app.

alias customer_test_dir='cd path-to/customer_dir'
alias customer_test='customertest_dir ; open -a /Applications/Chromium.app `drush @tst uli --mail=clemens@build2be.nl --no-browser`'

Compiling Godot on MacOS

clemens — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 07:16:34 +0000

The documentation for compiling Godot is well written. The new tools are a little overwhelming at first but just follow the steps was good enough.

Building master branch

Fetching the latest master version then compiling I failed to compile the 3.2 version.

git checkout master
scons platform=osx arch=x86_64 --jobs=$(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu)

gives some warnings and error.

OBS scribbles

clemens — Mon, 18 May 2020 12:12:05 +0000

Mac (Mojave 10.14.x)

Virtual Camera

Stream to Skype / Zoom etc from OBS

Linux

Ubuntu 18.04

Running Ubuntu 18.04 is not great. It has OBS 0.22 in its repository.

Mac storage cleanup

clemens — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 08:02:13 +0000

Disc full

I had several incidents having a full disc due to time machine. On one occasion I suspected docker or VirtualBox do kill the machine.

I currently have 69 items. Which are dated for a whole year (sick). Do I have to blame Time Machine?

tmutils to the rescue

Executing tmutil give you a list of commands

listbackups

Using tmutil listbackups you can get a list of backup efforts.