Aaron Parecki

macgenie https://micro.blog/macgenie • Mar 16
@aaronpk

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✅ Other: German karaoke numbers

yessss!

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

Sun, Mar 15, 2020 8:08pm -07:00
Annika Backstrom https://xoxo.zone/@annika • Mar 15
@aaronpk Oof, wish I had known about the lifetime pass. I spent $180 on monthly passes before canceling.
I don't mind paying for stuff but Plex is just so far beyond what I need. I have media files on a server, I want to stream them to a few devices. I don't want to sign in and have all these other extras.

yeah it's definitely a lot. One of my favorite features is that it can download files to my iPad so I can watch while offline, which is great when I'm on planes. I feel like this all got harder to do with mobile devices, it used to be pretty straightforward using just computers.

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

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Sun, Mar 15, 2020 3:13pm -07:00
Matthew Foldi https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi • Mar 14
“How’s nationwide self-quarantine going?” https://t.co/oP7sdQiUPA

did not see that coming and legit almost spat out my coffee all over my computer 😂

Portland, Oregon • 40°F

Sun, Mar 15, 2020 11:06am -07:00
Annika Backstrom https://xoxo.zone/@annika • Mar 15
@aaronpk I just feel like I hit walls at every turn. I was just prompted to pay $4.99 so I could play media from my local network on my tablet. They're targeting a niche that's Not Me.

as like an in-app purchase? Yeah that's a tough problem, they need revenue somehow, and I'd rather pay them than have them sell ads to me. I bought the lifetime pass several years ago and I haven't been bothered with prompts since then.

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

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Sun, Mar 15, 2020 9:44am -07:00
Annika Backstrom https://xoxo.zone/@annika • Mar 15
I don't know what #Plex is doing but I know I don't want it.

uhoh what's going on? I haven't heard yet

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

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Sun, Mar 15, 2020 9:32am -07:00
Jeena https://toot.jeena.net/@jeena • Mar 14
@aaronpk I love the great quality of content and video/audio on your videos.
I'm helping out with https://foss-north.se/ which we now moved and are doing as a online conference with all the speakers via zoom, I'm mostly worried about their audio setup.

Thanks! Yeah the audio is really important. Easiest thing to tell the speakers is to use a headset, even Apple headphones are better than nothing.

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

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Sat, Mar 14, 2020 8:00am -07:00
Sāra Soueidān https://twitter.com/SaraSoueidan • Mar 12
Is there a macOS utility app to show world time zones relative to your local time zone?

Every time a client or colleague uses time zone abbreviations I find myself googline the time in that zone and doing the difference calculation myself. There has to be a better way 😅

I started using Dato for this reason!

Portland, Oregon • 38°F

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Fri, Mar 13, 2020 7:21am -07:00
Phildini @ Home https://xoxo.zone/@phildini • Mar 12
Someone who follows me on this site must know how to do tooltips on a static site right?
https://stayinghome.club needs tooltips in a powerful way.
I’ll drop a thank-you link on the site (140k uniques and counting) to anyone who can solve this.
RTs appreciated.

My gotos for tooltips are either the HTML "title" attribute (built in to the browser), or Bootstrap. Not sure what is particularly unique about it being a static site? Or am I not understanding what you mean by tooltips?

Portland, Oregon • 51°F

Thu, Mar 12, 2020 3:02pm -07:00
🌮 Dave Millar 🌮 https://puz.fun/@dave • Mar 11
Art/maker friends: This thread is now a bazaar. Post your store links for my other friends to peruse and support your businesses.

Do I count? I have cute cat stickers https://oauth2simplified.com

Portland, Oregon • 53°F

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Tue, Mar 10, 2020 9:24pm -07:00
Dave Maze 📸 https://twitter.com/davemaze • Mar 10
Does it matter having a domain email address anymore? I almost feel weird not having @gmail in my address. It used to be so professional to have a domain email. Now people get confused lol

Every time I tell my email address to someone ... "aaron at parecki dot..." they say "wait, aaron dot parecki at what?"

Portland, Oregon • 34°F

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Tue, Mar 10, 2020 12:26pm -07:00
Marty McGuire https://martymcgui.re/ • Mar 10
Working from home makes today Caturday.

🎉 every day is caturday! 🎉

Portland, Oregon • 34°F

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Tue, Mar 10, 2020 11:54am -07:00
Sara 🍑y https://twitter.com/saradietschy • Mar 9
The stock market is literally gambling and I really gotta step away this week if I want to get anything done 🥴

it's a trap!

Portland, Oregon • 53°F

Mon, Mar 9, 2020 4:45pm -07:00
Matt Haughey https://twitter.com/mathowie • Mar 9
Remote worker tip: after testing oodles of options the best off-the-shelf webcam is the Logitech Brio for improving how your video meetings look. It runs on USB-C, which also makes it very easy to plug into a newer Mac without any additional software https://amzn.to/3cJECcT

Dang that looks a lot better than the Logitech C920 I've been using for years!

Portland, Oregon • 33°F

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Mon, Mar 9, 2020 11:17am -07:00
Zach Leatherman https://twitter.com/zachleat • Mar 9
a broken clock is right twice a day but a neglected working clock is right half of the year

Thanks to the changes in DST, now it's right either 4 or 8 months of the year 😂

Still can't believe they changed the dates and didn't just get rid of it entirely.

Portland, Oregon • 33°F

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Mon, Mar 9, 2020 9:34am -07:00
Sidney Diongzon https://twitter.com/SidneyDiongzon • Mar 9
YOOOO! Tell me where you're from and what your ONE GOAL for this year is!

Portland, and 10,000 subscribers and a video a month by Vidsummit in October! 🎉

Portland, Oregon • 33°F

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Mon, Mar 9, 2020 7:01am -07:00
Gary https://twitter.com/every_daydad • Mar 7
That moment you find out you need to do a lot of travel for work this year and you sold your MacBook a couple months ago 😅

Maybe this is the time to buy a windows laptop and finally learn davinci 🤷‍♂️

I've been pretty happy with my Razer Stealth 13 using Premiere. It's the first time I've used a Windows computer in like 10 years!

Portland, Oregon • 46°F

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Sat, Mar 7, 2020 11:48am -08:00
Matti Haapoja https://twitter.com/MattiHaapoja • Mar 7
Yea I don’t buy it

Yeah I suspect too many other companies are going to pull out regardless of whether it's officially cancelled or not. Which also means the expo floor is gonna look real sad.

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Fri, Mar 6, 2020 4:57pm -08:00
Matti Haapoja https://twitter.com/MattiHaapoja • Mar 7
Whoa SXSW is cancelled? Thats kinda crazy. I wonder if NAB is gonna get cancelled too. I kinda wanted to go this year again.

So far they put out a statement saying it's still on. I'm hoping they don't cancel cause it's gonna be my first time going there!

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

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Fri, Mar 6, 2020 4:49pm -08:00
Todd Lane https://twitter.com/ToddELane • Mar 6
@aaronpk what do you think would be a workaround to get Comments/questions (like vMix Social) into Atem Mini? Thx

You're basically limited to using the picture-in-picture or keyer to overlay an HDMI source on top of the video, so you'd need to find some software that can display the comments/questions on half or a third of a 1920x1080 screen. I'm sure there are solutions out there tho!

Portland, Oregon, USA

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Fri, Mar 6, 2020 1:59pm -08:00
kbizz https://micro.blog/kbizz • Mar 6
@aaronpk I guess I was wondering if I could host event pages on micro.blog, instead of Facebook events for instance. Not that I do, just want an alternative.

Interesting idea! How would you want Meetable involved in that case? Right now that's where the event pages live.

Seattle, Washington • 43°F

Thu, Mar 5, 2020 10:43pm -08:00

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