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How to Fix GoPro Hero5 Black SD Card Error - the solution is not what you'd expect

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I kept experiencing SD card errors while using my new GoPro Hero5 Black .  I tried the solution on the GoPro website, which said to update the camera 's firmware and reformat the microSD card.  However, I still kept getting the error. I checked GoPro's  microSD Card Considerations and Works with GoPro Verified Compatibility pages.  The SanDisk Extreme 64gb microSDXC card that I had purchased was listed on both pages.  I found it very strange that I was still getting the SD card error even though I had followed the instructions and was using an approved microSD card. The SD card errors are usually caused by the card being used not having a high enough write speed.  When the speed is not high enough, the card is unable to keep up with the high quality video that the GoPro is recording, resulting in the SD card error.  I came across some forum posts online that said SanDisk microSD cards do not have the speeds advertised and therefore cause pro...

Review of Murasaki Japanese Restaurant in Fairfax, VA

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We were doing some Christmas shopping at Bed Bath & Beyond and needed to grab dinner afterwards.  We saw this restaurant in the same shopping center and decided to try it out.  I think it's fairly new - there used to be one of those chicken teriyaki fast food places in the same spot last time I looked. My wife ordered the tonkatsu ramen.  It came with Japanese miso salad, which came first.  The salad was ok, the dressing a little on the sweeter side The tonkatsu ramen came pretty quickly after.  It was decent - not horrible, but not that good.  The broth was a bit salty and not like the traditional Japanese ramen that we were expecting.  The half egg that it came with was fully cooked instead of having the runny yolk that is the norm.  Overall the ramen was not very flavorful and lacked umami. I ordered sushi, which came on a platter right as we finished the ramen.  I ordered salmon belly, hamachi (yellowtail), ikura (s...

Dragon Ball Super - I came up with it first!

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The Dragon Ball manga ended in 1995.  That's also the year that I visited Taiwan as a kid and went bookstore to bookstore to find and buy the entire series . Just last year in 2015, which is 20 years after the Dragon Ball Z series ended, they came out with Dragon Ball Super . I used to love drawing Dragon Ball pictures.  When I was at my parents' house for Christmas, I looked through my old boxes of drawings.  I found this drawing that I drew in 1998.  The original Dragon Ball Super !

Review of Kangchon in Centreville, VA

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This place was on my ban list for a while due to a bad experience with their tonkatsu.  My wife really likes the restaurant though, so I gave it another shot. We started off the meal with a complimentary pot of mussels.  I didn't remember this from before and was pleasantly surprised. A friend ordered the steamed mandoo (dumplings), so I tried one.  They weren't to my liking.  I prefer to taste more meat than vegetable when I eat dumplings, but this was the exact opposite.  I did not taste any meat over the leek. I had the beef dupbap for my main meal.  The dish is bulgogi meat with some sliced onions and carrots on top of rice.  The meat was sweet and to my liking.  The dish was actually pretty good, and the portions were huge.  I had enough leftovers for dinner the following night. Overall, it was a decent meal.  Good enough to get it taken off of my ban list, which is actually saying a lot.  3/5.