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I’m a Programmer, Musician and nerd. I’m also a chronic yapper, and I research a lot of stuff.
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In november 2025 I went to Gamescon, which is a convention in Serbia that’s all about games, cosplaying, et cetera. This is relevant because I made myself 3 badges there because I won some kind of competition. I gave one to a friend, and...
In the modern era of age verification, I’m seeing more parents expose themselves for who they are and what they let their kids do. Parenting used to be giving children toys and then watching them play or even playing with them. Then it...
Macs have had issues with SMB and Samba on servers that aren’t Macs. Most forums online tell you to put really insane unsafe settings that make 0 sense. Socket options with static send buffer sizes and receive buffer sizes are something...
So, until recently, I always knew there was something shady about LMG. Now I know it’s shitty. Linus Media Group makes mediocre videos, paired with with high-value sponsors, and has so much gear investments that it feels crazy. Companies...
So I was browsing X when several posts about the hashtag “#keep4o” started molesting my timeline. And then one popped up. It was someone who was telling people that they have a community as a support circle for 4o users. This server will...
Lately, while browsing Twitter, I’ve been seeing a lot of irresponsible piracy on the site. I’m going to tell you how to pirate each type of whatever piratable content you can. SoftwareMusicVideo GamesVST/AU/CLAP Audio Plug-insMovies –...
Oftentimes I have a little gripe with my ARM Mac – It lacks the resources to run a Virtual Machine with the apps I need it to run, which exclusively run on an x86 machine This is HORRIBLE if I want to run something like Windows or a...
Alright. I’ve been asked what my infrastructure runs on because it’s really fast, performant and oddly cheap This guide implies that you’ll be already exposed to old machines. If not, then may god help you. Getting the case Start by...
In my last post, I wrote: Well, I recently received an old MacBook Air from 2010 with Snow Leopard on it. Yes, the version before Lion, when it still had a dedicated “Hide all the bars and shit” button on the top right. I was tasked with...
We have it good now. M-series Apple chips, amazing AM5-based Ryzen CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs that can power a program that you can talk with that can pass the turing test. We have it good. But back when we had hardware limitations that were...
What can I say? Technical stuff 2 physical ins, physical outs. It also has a loopback pair so it’s 4 inputs and 4 outputs in total, so you can pair up your mic and desktop audio to the loopback inputs and use them in programs like OBS...
If, by the end of January, Elon doesn’t fix this bullshit with Grok generating unconsentual porn of users, as well as allowing people to edit photos to threaten murdering jews, lynching black people with full on slurs that I’d hate to...
Vibe coding! AI is not necessarily bad. People just make it out to be way worse than it needs to be. And they’re kind of right on the front that reliance on AI can lead to misunderstanding of the concepts that it provides, as well as...
I’m one big broke person. Subscribe to my Patreon if you want to change that, as me getting a good job is impossible and also laughable considering current circumstances I’m facing as a first year student. I’ve never had the latest and...
Mice have always been a really special topic for me. Ever since I was a kid I wanted a Logitech mouse. Specifically, the G502. Logitech always had quality in my books – and I always trusted them with every peripheral imaginable. They’ve...