Tag: tech
IT stuff.
Audio marketing bullshit: sample rate higher than 44100 and bit depth higher than 16
“44100 Hz, 16-bit” is the highest quality a human being can hear, which is basically good ’ol CD-quality. Continue reading
Those who stretches old video games into widescreen.
There should be a public execution for each one of those streamers/youtubers.
Non-Snap Firefox in latest Ubuntu-based distributions
How to remove the tragedy that is Snap and install a normal Firefox on Ubuntu and its flavors. Continue reading
File backup in Windows – Robocopy
In Linux, you probably use the amazing rsync to back up your resources. Continue reading
Windows 11 tray bar links – And Microsoft keeps getting worse
People don’t know how to use computers, so among other things, they put links on the desktop. So you have a desktop full of icons, in some cases reaching half of the screen, zero organization, you almost don’t see the background, and most importantly, you have to minimize all windows to be able to use those links. Continue reading
Virtual reality and augmented reality have always been so much behind in the technological development. Today we are still so far behind that it’s downright ridiculous, albeit understandable: shit is hard to build. Continue reading
Basically, the whole point of the 4090 is to fuck Claire Redfield in VR.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – Realistic experience howto
How to have a realistic MGSV:TPP experience, excluding the Bollywood story and cutscenes, and the Fulton system with humans – it can be disabled too if you want – which after all are just a fun aside. Continue reading
Xfce and its software suite ARE abandoned, not just in a hiatus, and it sucks, and it’s bugged beyond imagination.
/rant
rm is a lovely command, isn’t it? Especially when you make a typo in a shell script. Let’s see how to recover deleted files. Continue reading
Think of a shell not as a programming language, but as a program meant to run commands, one after the other; every line is an instruction, a command. Continue reading
In case you miss the Internet. Continue reading
For the situations where one is forced to use modern crappy software and/or if you want a ready-to-go solution, this is the new big outstanding thing. Isn’t that an obvious thing to do?: a working WM that out of the box has tiling, and you can switch tiling on and off. So you don’t need to program a configuration file which is more a source code than anything else, just to open some goddamn windows… Continue reading
Installing macOS Sierra 10.12 in VirtualBox 6.1 to use audio-related platform-dependent software
A lot of audio creation and manipulation software exists only for Mac, because of an historic reason where musicians always went around with Mac notebooks to play stuff (or maybe I’m making up stuff, I don’t know). Luckily, nowadays most of the good shit is for Windows too (luckily between quotes, I mean, Linux would be the ideal goal), see e.g. FL Studio. But if you ever need a Mac install for some small obscure software, here is my quick howto. Continue reading
Fucking bastards. Read the full page
FF8 Level 100 before Ifrit – Notes about the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGoZbYvlQIg[🡕] Continue reading
The infamous VLC logo – How to change it for your PC (Xfce)
This is how to change the VLC’s icon in your PC if you use Xfce. Read the full page
The infamous VLC logo – My thread in the official forum
It’s undeniable that VLC’s logo is the worst logo in the entire history of software. Read the full page
Type a personal message, drown in your baggage.
(MSN avatar-info parody)
The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.
The “ninety-ninety rule” in software engineering.
After you finish the first 90% of a project, you have to finish the other 90%.
Shorter and more general variant.