[PlayStation 2] Coin batt FFS

PS2 - Brought back after a long time in storage, the coin battery was dead, of course. It was a fun time indeed disassembling the whole darn console just to change a coin battery! But honestly, it was a good time to check the PSU caps... :), btw was nice to see that a notorious small cap on PSU module was not the Lelon one (leaky leaky!) but a Chemicon KY-series.

(mod: SCPH: 39003)

[Panasonic DMC-FZ5] half pressing shutter button issue

Camera is 20yo and counting, and it still works like a champ. However, the shutter button started to malfunction. The half-press feature, which is used for focus, stopped working, and the camera would immediately take pictures. I suspected a contact issue (a replacement is unavailable, incidentally). The camera is dead easy to open, thanks to this guide.

Unfortunately, the shutter module is kind of 'fixed,' which is no wonder—it's more stable than using screws.

A combination of contact cleaner + compressed air on the button, solved the issue (for now... lol)

[swaywm] Rubbish WM better...

Not so nice to see SwayWM crashing like effin mofo when I use Chrome browser....

Seven crashes in 2 hours,..well LOL, it won the "Crap WM" award of the day, back to I3

[fedora] darn abrtd reports Rhythmbox as 'crashed' on close/exit

I bet this is an ancient bug, as there have been posts on the internet about it for ages!

Solution (at least works for me now on F42/Gnome)

edit /etc/abrt/abrt-action-save-package-data.conf and append two lines:

Blacklist = rhythmbox 

BlackListedPaths = /usr/bin/rhythmbox*

This will blacklist rhythmbox from abrtd reporting.

[*] darn GTK4 apps don't follow dark theme

Fresh install of Ubuntu Unity , smooth transition, just few fixes, alas some darn GTK4 apps - eg the half-baked file-roller - don't give an F about the dark theme I have (yaru-dark), they also don't obey anymore the  ' dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/interface/color-scheme "'prefer-dark'" ' that works nicely with GTK3 apps.. (FFS really) , took a while to find the solution, put this 

export GTK_THEME=Yaru:dark

into your .profile

Update

Same crap on Fedora (F42) Gnome ! This time fixed by adding : 

export GTK_THEME=HighContrastInverse 

on my aliases file under the  $HOME/.bashrc.d directory
HighContrastInverse a bit more 'compatible' with the HighContrast on Accessibility -if you like that.
btw you can use something else eg GTK_THEME=Adwaita:dark . still some apps may have broken interfaces because of this, eg style and accent colour are not working anymore (effing mess there ... )

[fix] HP stream 11 repair

Dead HP Stream 11 - there was no power LED (a.k.a. charging LED).

Strangely, it powered up briefly -just for a few minutes- so I assumed something was wrong with the battery charging circuit. A quick test (alas, no schematic of this rubbish - not mine, by the way... I wouldn't touch HP with a barge pole, with the exception of the 12c :-) ) revealed the culprit: continuity between the gate and source of a MOSFET!

bad MOSFET. Note the capacitor (top right); it's a bit burned but works (checked, lol)

IC ordered from AliExpress (EMB02N03HR) and all is well! Some more life for that rubbish... weirdly, it died just a few months after the warranty period expired. HP "quality", I assume.

[fedora] (some) videos on YT laggy under chromium

I've recently had the 'pleasant' experience of watching some videos on Faildora's Fedora's Chromium; they were laggy as hell, especially when viewed in SD resolution. However, you could play them using Google Chrome or Firefox. There wasn't much to find on their forum/Reddit.

After some tries, here is the darn solution: this is an issue because of a screwed-up "free" ffmpeg package (ffmpeg-free), replacing the 'free' one with the version from RMPFusion did the trick!

so:

a/ install RPMFusion

• sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

b/ replace the ffmpeg

• sudo dnf in ffmpeg --allowerasing