Bought a 43" Hisense QD6 QLED TV from Costco around Christmas to use as a computer monitor. I work from home for the most part of the last few years since the COVID-19 pandemic. My work involves mostly running commands remotely in terminals, writing code using VS Code, reading / writing documents, and web browsing. I am used to a lot of browser tabs and windows, so having a large monitor makes those tasks easier.

Having used this TV as an external monitor on my laptop for a few weeks now, I like the crispy display of text, images, etc., but there are a few quirks (OK, problems) that really bother me.

First, this TV is really built as a TV, that doesn't seem to want to work as a monitor: It cuts off the HDMI interface to the PC whenever something happens, like when the PC goes into screen saver mode, or if you press the Home button on the TV remote, not to mention when the PC is powered off then comes back, or reboot.

When that happens, all windows open on this secondary monitor go over to the laptop screen. I would have to rearrange things. Then I have to do it again when I walk away to make some coffee, then again after lunch.

Besides that, the TV monitor somehow turns off the media control media control buttons on the USB keyboard made by Dell, which I use on the laptop while sitting at the desk and it have worked with other external HDMI monitors before.

Another issue is that the PC's Windows 10 sound system seems to get confused when the TV is used as an external monitor. System sound would be directed to the TV sometimes even though it has been on the internal sound system previously.

I wonder if these quirks have more to do with the fact that this TV is branded as a FireTV, which is an Amazon technology. So I am not sure if these quirks reflect more on Amazon's arrogance or bad implementation by the TV manufacturer.

I don't know my writing down these quirks would do anything. If possible, I would like to get this to people at Hisense, so maybe...just maybe we can get a firmware update or something so it can be more useful.

Fraud on the Internet is nothing new. But I believe I did have a new encounter yesterday.

While browsing in the Google app on my iPhone, I ran into an ad for the Samsung 990 Pro 2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD that had a lowest price of $95. I was intrigued!

I clicked it...and again, that first entry looked interesting!

4TB!! For $95!! That's crazy!! Did someone make a typo?

The details look right. . . but why does the page has Adorama on it? I know that is a legitimate camera shop who do sell storage devices as well. But who is skxhnvn.shop?! That's not ADORAMA!

Oh, well. Looks like it's actually some entrepreneurial soul in Chengdu -- a lovely city in the Sichuan Province, China.

I have been receiving calls about package delivery, messages from strangers pretending to be a long lost acquaintance, This looks like a new one.

I guess I could report this to abuse@west.cn . . . but do they really care?

Yahoo! supports oAuth2. So I am trying to use the nodebb-plugin-sso-oauth2-multiple, which does not work yet.

I believe I have configured it correctly. However, when I try to use it to register an account, I get some JSON object containing a non-descriptive error message:

{
  "error":{
    "localizedMessage":"not found",
    "errorId":"NOT_FOUND",
    "message":"not found"
  }
}

Reported the issue on GitHub. No update yet. Probably need to ask in the NodeBB Community.

Just got the plugin updated from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2. Let's see what next.

Splunk provides CSV lookup file management functions on its web GUI, allowing new CSV files to be added in an app, deleted, or moved between apps.

However, it does not seem to allow the same functions to be performed through API functions.

It's REST API set has endpoints that allow a CSV file already in the staging area to be moved to an app so that it can be used as a lookup table. However, there is no way to upload a file into the staging area, which seems to be a ridiculous restriction -- although I can imagine that Splunk may have legitimate security concerns.

This seems to be a request that others have as well.

How to upload updated lookup CSV to Splunk Cloud using REST API WITHOUT using the UI?

We're heavy SplunkCloud users and have run into a roadblock. We have a lookup CSV file that needs to be updated daily - slowly changing customer

(community.splunk.com)

Creating a REST endpoint to allow csv lookup files to be uploaded/updated?

I would like to create a REST endpoint that will allow me to to automate the uploading and updating of a csv lookup file daily. Is it possible to

(community.splunk.com)

How to upload lookup file using REST to specific app

All, I am trying to manage lookup csv files using REST API. 1) I create the lookup file on the stage folder: : [1755] root@endpoint:~ # ; ls -al

(community.splunk.com)

接触 NodeBB 这个软件还不太久，感觉很不错。在这里做一些笔记，同时也可以分享。做这个软件的，是加拿大一家公司，他们把软件开源了，任何人都可以用这个软件。同时，这家公司也提供网站搭建服务，价格对一般企业来说很合适。

【……待更新】

今天安装了nodebb-plugin-embed 这个插件。

插件的文档声称支持以下这些媒体：

• Coub
• Twitch (video and channel)
• Vimeo
• Vine
• Youtube (short and normal URL)
• Framatube
• Blender PeerTube
• Dailymotion
• Soundcloud
• Mixcloud
• Spotify

详细的使用说明在 NodeBB Community 里。

这个插件与本站的 NodeBB 版本似乎还不兼容。目前先禁用……看看是否能尽快修复。

最终成功的，是这个插件 nodebb-plugin-link-preview:

下面是安华彩虹计划的一个 YouTube 视频：

这个网站是用 NodeBB 和 PostgreSQL 这两个开源软件搭建的。PostgreSQL 用来做后端的数据库，NodeBB 的角色是做前端和这个网站的服务……这是来这个网站用户所要关心的。

NodeBB 前端编辑文档的时候，用的是一种称为 Markdown 的文档格式。大家可以去看前面链接的这个网站、或者 Markdown 指南中文版、或者 Markdown 官方教程来学习这个格式的使用……实际上，可能也用不着：NodeBB 的编辑器还是挺容易用的。

做这个软件的是一个加拿大的小公司，他们在 YouTube 上有一个NodeBB 频道，看这些视频可能更容易些。

如我在开场白里所言，希望有人来使用这个网站。没有人用，这个网站就没什么意义。同时，也希望大家一起来 figure out 这个网站能干什么。我的想法，是用它来代替大家很多时候使用微信群所做的事：微信群有人数限制，微信占用手机存储资源，等等，这些缺陷用 NodeBB 这样的社交服务软件可以解决。

这个网站也会有一点试验性，NodeBB 软件本身一直在开发新的功能，在使用这个软件的过程中，感觉开发组在质量上还是控制得很不错。但是我无法保证在更新版本得时候永远都不会出错，这个时候，需要大家保持一点儿冷静……相信我，我会尽快恢复。

这个网站，和 Runtu.us，都是我（王伟）用 NodeBB 这个软件搭建起来的。现在还没想好这个网站用来做什么……欢迎注册试用、提出建议。

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