Category: Technology

  • Dealing with awkward subtitle problems in Handbrake

    I know very little about Handbrake; this is just some notes on what I personally do to reduce my confusion about why subtitles aren’t being ripped properly and manually fixing that, but I almost certainly can’t answer any questions about issues you might be having! This is just here in the hope that it might […]

  • Christmas Gift Ideas

    Christmas Gift Ideas

    Holiday gift guides seem to be almost exclusively terrible, particularly those aimed at “geeks”, whatever people think that means. In particular these lists are often split by gender, presumably because they’re written by (or pandering to) idiots. And they’re typically full of novelties or cute ideas that in practice will just occupy valuable space and […]

  • A strangely unpopular feature of AV receivers: HDMI-CEC remote control pass-through

    A strangely unpopular feature of AV receivers: HDMI-CEC remote control pass-through

    We had a couple of power cuts in quick succession recently, and the fluctuations in power around that time killed our old AV receiver. ยน (If you’re not sure what such a device is for, I’ve described how we use it in footnote 2.) In shopping for a replacement, I thought that to a reasonable […]