The touch-sensitive buttons on the front of our Samsung dryer stopped working a few months ago. We rarely if ever use them, so it would not be a problem, except the dryer convinced itself that the child lock was also on. The child lock can only be removed by holding down two of the touch-sensitive… Continue reading Fixing touch sensitive buttons on Samsung “Optimal Dry” Heat pump Dryer
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OCR comparison
Part of my day-job involves reviewing and searching through PDFs of old documents, most commonly WA government gazettes. The supplied PDFs were OCRed back in 2013. But I have never been sure how accurate the original OCR was, or if modern technology could do a better job. I went through a brief project to see… Continue reading OCR comparison
SVTAV1 2.0
The SVT AV1 team just keep making their codec better. Version 2.0 was released in March 2024. It promised further increased speed and quality. As it seems this website is now just endless codec comparisons, I did a few hundred encodes of the same old video file to see how this new version compares to… Continue reading SVTAV1 2.0