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@GamingWolf Counterpoint: electronic music

I, for one, am glad that every week is a new opportunity for the tech press to perpetuate cycles of AI hype, outrage and backlash

@zoviazzg I hope you can get your setup fixed! There aren't enough people filling the CRT niche on here—I'd be doing it more often if I was less busy with life things. Will definitely check out your music too. Best of luck on all fronts, you are a valued presence on here!

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Today I released my second #MIDI album (of a planned trilogy) and I would love for you to listen to it!

Like my previous album, it was made with the trial version of FL Studio, a cheap MIDI keyboard and a hearty helping of human ingenuity.

It's free! But you could also buy it on #bandcamp.

https://zoviazzg.bandcamp.com/album/repast

Do you like FM Synthesis? Me too! So I rearranged the whole album for #OPL3. Here is a youtube playlist:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7siH2JcbJEaz0ih2LbJdA7huUiJBnWY_&si=e1YFO9sERHjKHxof

Now, for some bad news..

I'm sad to report that my CRT posting is on indefinite hiatus after today, due to technical problems. I've been troubleshooting for a week and am at my wits' end. My method to connect to my CRT has stopped working, on two PCs, due to, I assume, a Windows update and/or Nvidia driver update.

My transcoder no longer gets detected properly and my CRU .bins now put the PC into a black screen death loop until I unplug the CRT. I've tried everything I can that doesn't include just wiping a PC and starting over, which is the next step. If a clean Windows install isn't enough, then I'll have to try Linux.

I'm not particularly up to the task at the moment, mentally, emotionally or physically, so I'm just going to take a long break before returning to it.

I'll still be here, and maybe I'll find something else to post, but I may have photographed my last CRT.

I've loved sharing my special interest with you! You're all wonderful, and have warmed my cold heart.

Love and solidarity, comrades.

Album art for the 2026 zoviazzg MIDI album "Repast". The public domain painting 'Sunset on the Sea' by John Frederick Kensett makes up the top two thirds, the title and tracklist over a rich plum background are on the bottom.

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Remember the #gameboy #pixelart Jam last Oct?🖌

One of the writers for @gbstudiocentral printed out all the submissions to be shown at an exhibit in Lisbon, Portugal! 👀

How cool is that?!
I'm honored to be part of it! 🎉

They should add a mood detector to Linux distros so I can be notified when I'm getting Overly Tilted and avoid making my problems worse than they already are

@HailsandAles Yooo congrats brother 🎉

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The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/

@GamingWolf Many such cases

"Sure, bro"

@mothwaves He's out there, somewhere. I just know it

It would be really funny if somebody on here actually has an uncle that works at Nintendo

@beisbolcards It all reeks of such desperation. If everything wasn't built upon this unrealistic model of infinite growth, we could all still have access to quality entertainment in perpetuity while the unfathomably rich could remain (minimally less) unfathomably rich

Baseball could fix its massive revenue problem by making access to the sport easier and cheaper than ever for the average person, thus generating more interest exponentially, but dinosauric thinking will never allow this to happen

@GamingWolf @jake4480 Unfortunately the wrong guy was defenestrated on that day

@jake4480 Truly needs to happen. I can pencil it in later this week after the gym if you're available

It's just hard to imagine going about my day after resigning myself to the fact that I can no longer listen to my favorite song or watch my favorite episode of a TV show because some guys in a boardroom decided it would be so

I pity people whose lives are governed by the whims of content providers and subscription services

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The x86 edition of Windows 7 was the last revision of Windows capable of running classic 16-bit games and software. It's also so much easier to run and maintain than Windows 9x/NT/2000 or even XP. I'll need to explore this further for my retro collection! 😉

#Windows #Retro #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #Gaming #PCGaming #VirtualBox #Windows7