PC Software

scrcpy 1.2.5 and jpeg-xl 0.7…

Posted on by dk

I use scrcpy on a Mac for work, it being much more reliable than Apple’s phone screen casting.

Unfortunately, a recent update somewhere broke scrcpy, throwing the following errors about libjxl.0.7.dylib, which I hunted down to be part of the JPEG-XL libraries. Unfortunately, a brew reinstall jpeg-xl did not fix anything, nor an update to ffmpeg via brew.

dyld[85687]: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/jpeg-xl/lib/libjxl.0.7.dylib
  Referenced from: <A5A72418-D065-3FAA-8CD4-AC945B980E8D> /usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/5.1.2_1/lib/libavformat.59.27.100.dylib
  Reason: tried: '/usr/local/opt/jpeg-xl/lib/libjxl.0.7.dylib' (no such file), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/usr/local/opt/jpeg-xl/lib/libjxl.0.7.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/opt/jpeg-xl/lib/libjxl.0.7.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/lib/libjxl.0.7.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/libjxl.0.7.dylib' (no such file, not in dyld cache), '/usr/local/Cellar/jpeg-xl/0.8.1/lib/libjxl.0.7.dylib' (no such file), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/usr/local/Cellar/jpeg-xl/0.8.1/lib/libjxl.0.7.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/Cellar/jpeg-xl/0.8.1/lib/libjxl.0.7.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/lib/libjxl.0.7.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/libjxl.0.7.dylib' (no such file, not in dyld cache)Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/jpeg-xl/lib/libjxl.0.7.dylib
  Referenced from: <974A1E71-57EB-3EE9-90F2-ECA39A6415F6> /usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/5.1.2_1/lib/libavcodec.59.37.100.dylib
  Reason: tried: '/usr/local/opt/jpeg-xl/lib/libjxl.0.7.dylib' (no such file), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/usr/local/opt/jpeg-xl/lib/libjxl.0.7.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/opt/jpeg-xl/lib/libjxl.0.7.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/lib/libjxl.0.7.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/libjxl.0.7.dylib' (no such file, not in dyld cache), '/usr/local/Cellar/jpeg-xl/0.8.1/lib/libjxl.0.7.dylib' (no such file), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/usr/local/Cellar/jpeg-xl/0.8.1/lib/libjxl.0.7.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/Cellar/jpeg-xl/0.8.1/lib/libjxl.0.7.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/lib/libjxl.0.7.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/libjxl.0.7.dylib' (no such file, not in dyld cache)

In a rush to get things fixed, this is my “quick fix”…

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Ubuntu 22.04.1 Upgrading Pains…

Posted on by dk

So, I had left my little Ubuntu server alone and neglected, giving it the occasional glance, the occasional log in and do an apt-get update && apt-get autoremove…

Well, with my recent shenanigans surrounding a power cut (self-caused, mind you), I was also prompted to upgrade to Ubuntu LTS 22.04.1…

“.1“… Well! That should be more stable (than the .0 released back in April)! O00-kay! Time to give it a whack!

Turns out, things went south pretty fast and I needed half an evening to right everything…

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Playing SMB’s “Who Am I”?

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So, for the nth time, I found myself wondering “what name did I use to map this network drive” in Windows Explorer…

A quick Google search dug this up, so, just to document it for my own (future) reference:

wmic netuse where LocalName="Z:" get UserName /value

Where “Z” is the mapped drive letter in question…

Missing The (Mount) Point…

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So my Silverstone DS-380 casing’s power LED seems to have bought it… In an attempt to try fix it (or at least test it), I had to get to the motherboard and that meant I had to remove all the drives, drive cage, etc… Since piecing everything back together again was a pain, I left the 3.5″ spinning media drives out to boot the system several times during testing.

After giving up on the power LED, I re-plugged in everything + the drives… Only to find that, of some 11 different ZFS sub pools, 10 were missing…

My heart stopped and the universe whirled around me…

zpool status showed the drives were all present and accounted for…

Thankfully, zfs list showed all my ZFS sub pools/”partitions” were still there… So, what gives?

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Snagit’s Video Capture Snag…

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Recently, I had to capture screen clips and decided to utilise Techsmith’s Snagit, which worked wonderfully in the past…

However, try as I might, it now hung on my PC whenever I stopped the capture (and it tried to save the clip), showing me a spinner that sat there forever (till its process was killed).

Scrounging around the ‘net provided little clue, but seemed that quite a few people had run up against it also. Then, after weeks of on-and-off searching, I finally ran across this little answer hidden in the corner of the ‘net…

Check the simple fix (if you had not already clicked through the linked solution from above)…

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Zoom 64-bit (x64) Offline Installer…

Posted on by dk

I absolutely abhor applications that infest your machine in the C:\Users\<blah>\AppData\<blahblah> folder, needlessly littering their “little pebbles of rabbit droppings” all over your hard drive (similar to Mac OS’s ._crap). I have administrator access and don’t want multiple copies of your program, thank you – much less mis-matched, outdated versions.

It’s hard enough to explain software interfaces to my elderly parents without having to also waste time explaining why their applications have different buttons due to different versions due to these “profile-local” installs, or why their C:\ boot drive, running on that small, purposely designated PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, was running out of disk space with multiple copies of the same files…

Spotify and Zoom are prime examples, particularly Spotify – at least Zoom provides an offline MSI installer (which then properly installs into C:\Program Files (x86)\)…

But… although there’s a desktop x64/64-bit installer (which infests individual profile’s personal directories), there’s no x64/64-bit version of said MSI installer… But is there?

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su-up!

Posted on by dk

So, I finally got sick of typing my root user password in my Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), *nix Docker containers and Linux servers…

The answer (for some flavours of *nux): just create an addendum to /etc/sudoers by creating any new file in the /etc/sudoers.d/ directory!

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Breaking My Bluetooth Disconnecting-Reconnecting Cycle…

Posted on by dk

For some odd reason, some Windows 10 update or software of some sort seems to have suddenly borked my Bluetooth connection/s, whereby any Bluetooth headset and/or speaker would disconnect and reconnect repeatedly from my Bluetooth 5.0 radio (that came with the after-market Intel AX200 Wi-Fi 6/802.11ax NGFF M.2 card I installed on my PC)… I do not have other Bluetooth device types to test, so cannot say if other devices would have also experienced the same connect/disconnect cycle.

Nevertheless, I quickly found a solution: disabling power saving on the “USB hub” devices the “Intel Wireless Bluetooth” device was hanging off… (Assuming you have administrator rights/permissions on Windows…)

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“Over Specifying” an Excel Range Selection…

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Whilst attempting to wrestle some data into submission and line ’em up like good little datum on an Excel chart, I ran into an issue attempting to utilise a dynamically defined range of data as the chart’s data source.

I had followed the sages’ advice found over the Internet, first finding out you cannot use an INDIRECT() function directly while specifying chart series source data, then attempting to replicate the advice on using named ranges (as an additional level of indirection).

Unfortunately, try as I might, I still kept getting the dreaded “Excel found  a problem with one or more formula references in this worksheet” error, for which the description and suggestion was to “Check that the cell references, range names, defined names, and links to other workbooks in your formulas are all correct.”, whenever I tried to save or even tab away/take focus away from the data input field:

If you are sharp-eyed and am an Excel expert, laugh at my folly and move on… If you are still clueless on what the cause is, please do continue reading…

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Logitech G933 Microphone Borked by Own Logitech Software…

Posted on by dk

OK, so I love headsets that have their own microphone toggle switch that is not tied to some software switch requiring a mouse click or even a keyboard shortcut or press. The switch can be a physical in-line flick or push button switch for wired headsets, or, in my current case, a flick up/down microphone on my wireless Logitech G933 headset I purchased quite a while back…

Recently, with the pandemic raging all around and Work-From-Home (WFH) being the norm, a good headset with microphone control was a must.

Unfortunately, for some odd reason, my Logitech G933 headset microphone started to “crap out” – once muted (i.e. flipped up) the microphone would never re-activate, even with repeated power cycling of the headset. Only a reboot would work…

Frustrated, I was finally ready to throw the headset away when I tried it with another laptop… It worked without issues… I suddenly remembered about the Logitech G Hub software that was running (and not running very well at that – it hangs on the loading screen, which I previously tried troubleshooting but never got anywhere).

I killed the G Hub process and suddenly, my headset was working just fine again!