no sorry i dont really use instagram, i can contact you via ouija board, spirit box, fluctuations in temperature, flickering lights, and certain rituals. i am also on mastodon.

Mankind was never meant to hold this much power

@mr_daemon Legend has it that Salvador Dalí would get inspiration this way. He'd go to bed with a spoon in his hand over a metal pan or pot; when he just hit the threshold, he'd unconsciously let go of the spoon, which would clatter and wake him up.

finally someone's asking the right questions

HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW

Really excited to see what the torment nexus market brings next year!

[In the voice of Colombo] "Uh just one more thing Mr. Magritte. How did you know that it was not, in fact, une pipe?"

I was there.

Ended up in a curio store of sorts last night and picked up a Cat's Cradle while I was in there. Haven't had one of these in decades. #catscradle

It feels kinda wrong that someone hasn't wired up #Seaman from #Sega #Dreamcast to an #AI #LLM; uncanny valley was totally his vibe.

i forgor

You know how you can date a global or map by looking for specific countries?

Well, fun fact: If you have a keyboard that's like 15-25 years old, you can tell if it's from the Clinton Era or the George W. Bush era by looking for this one sticker:

Some closing miscellanea:

The unit is capable of 24-bit/96kHz decoding, but the usefulness of this is dubious at best since this is for consumer use.

When it receives a stereo signal, _something_ in the signal chain is making the subwoofer work, but this could be internal crossover in the subwoofer.

Even if I wanted to, replacing it with an HDMI-capable receiver would mean getting expensive cables for 4K120, and I would lose dedicated modes (movie/low latency) for the inputs.

End.

5/n

One of the quasi-unexplainable features of the receiver is the ability to force it to decode DTS on a given input. Probably for marketing. There is no dedicated Dolby Digital mode, but the default is to attempt to decode DD, DTS, or PCM, whichever is present.

Alas, despite Kodi being configured to pass the encoded bitstream to the TV, and the TV instructed likewise to pass DD or DTS, the receiver usually doesn't get any sound, and debugging it is nigh impossible on consumer hardware.

4/n

But why would I want to use an external amplifier when I can just use the built-in one? Because these are desktop speakers which have their own. Purchased probably a few years before the amp as my own, these 5.1 speakers are perfectly fine for the small space they occupy. You can see that I've tastefully mounted the rear speakers on the wall as well!

Plus, they're EAX certified. You can't get that just anywhere.

3/n

This receiver is nothing special nowadays: it does Dolby Digital and DTS decoding, but so does everything else. However, since my TV's "pass-thru" audio will knock down the various modern encoded formats to either DD or DTS, it's perfect for getting surround sound even in a modern setting. But that's not the reason I'm using it; I'm using it because it has _six pre-out channels_. I can't find _any_ modern receiver that does this.

2/n

I'd been paining over how to get surround from my TV and my gaming computer into my existing "desktop" surround speakers for about a month, looking at various no name DACs and such, until I realized that I have a receiver that fits the bill. And so, I unearthed from its tomb: a (nearly) 20-year-old #Yamaha RX-V596. I'm sure my father would be surprised to see it outside a landfill, intact and working, since it used to be his.

1/n

#crowdstrike #outage

It's only macOS if it comes from the Cupertino region of California, otherwise it's just sparkling Unix.

There are two wolves inside you.

Make sure that both wolves have different IRQ values and I/O ranges so that they do not conflict with each other.