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Eric Cheng

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How to keep rats out of your car’s engine compartment

Rats invaded our car’s engine compartment a few years ago. Luckily, we found them before they did any damage to the engine itself, although they did remove quite a bit of the insulation under the hood (whereas a neighbor had her engine effectively destroyed by a bad infestation). After some research, I picked up an ...

USB audio interfaces and system audio levels in Windows

USB audio devices like the Go XLR usually work well, but sometimes, Windows gets in the way. These interfaces like to be at fixed levels in the OS because they offer better levels adjustments...

Adobe Lightroom Classic constantly crashing in Windows? Unplug your Android devices.

tldr; A Google Pixel 4 in USB File Transfer mode caused constant Adobe Lightroom Classic crashes in Windows.

3D-360 and 180: Why do people sometimes look too big or too small in VR?

In the VR video formats 3D-180 and 3D-360, human scale is very important. If you see an immersive video in which people look too small, it's because the camera's stereo baseline was more than 64mm (hyperstereo). If people look too big, like giants, then the camera's stereo baseline was less than 64mm (hypostereo)...

iFi iDefender+

Eliminating hum, hiss, and noise in USB audio interfaces

If you're the type who uses a USB audio interface from your computer for listening to music, check out the iFi iDefender+ USB Audio Ground Loop Eliminator.

Fixing Thunderbolt in Windows on a MacBook Pro Running Bootcamp

I cannot believe how much of a pain it has been to get Thunderbolt devices to work properly in Windows on a MacBook Pro. After weeks of troubleshooting, I finally found a solution that seems to be working.

Large silicone headset hanger for safe, under-desk mounting

The Neetto silicone headphone hanger is the only mountable headphone hanger I've found to be large and soft enough to hold headphones without leaving compression marks. Here is a 3D-printed adapter that will let you use this mount under your desk.

Glacier in Alaska, 2007

It’s time to start using Amazon Glacier Deep Archive for backups

Let’s talk data storage and cloud backups. It’s time: I’ve started uploading backups to Amazon Glacier Deep Archive, which is about $1/TB-month. My data is categorized as “warm” and “frozen”. “Warm” data is active: it is kept on my workstation or on my primary NAS, and is backed-up to a second local NAS as frequent, ...

Facebook Wall, archive shot from December 2011

A 470-megapixel version of the Facebook Wall in 2011

In December of 2011, I went to the abandoned Facebook headquarters at 1601 S California Ave in Palo Alto, California. A guard let me in, and I set up a tripod in front of the famous wall just inside the entrance...