Alex @compucat@im-in.space

Showerthought: a single-page homescreen is deterministic in operation. After accessing the home screen, there is a deterministic sequence of inputs that will always open a certain app. Combined with fingerprint unlock, this leads to quick, sight-free operation to open a workspace before your phone has even left your pocket.

Context: I’ve loved my single-page homescreen in the...what, decade I’ve used it on iOS, and I started wondering why a decade-younger me found it best.

Woot, I'm being paid to do live sound! \o/

....now I have to fill out a bunch of stupid forms >.<

Streaming! I'm sick and my voice is shot...but that's not gonna stop me from doing some mixing :) also VM testing

https://twitch.tv/compucat

The record wall is coming along nicely! Still need to fill one more space...but my @envgen tape sits there nicely for now :)

pfSense is failing to boot. Of course, my reinstall image is...in my disk images folder on my NAS. Which I can’t access without manually reconfiguring its network via CLI. And I don’t have a local copy on my workstation either. *Lovely.*

Just installed a UniFi in-wall AC access point...with automatic channel selection and power selection (yeah, yeah, kill me), it's punching through an exterior wall and *still* pushing 50 mbps down...while simultaneously streaming YouTube to a Roku nearby. Not bad at all!

Plus, the installation was super super slick.

I'm stress-testing this crazy stack tonight...

It's actually *super* nice. It's a lot of tools that need to seamlessly work together, but...when they work, it's magical. Video is seamless within KDE, audio is nicely blended and can be routed intelligently...yah!

It's only crashed once or twi....welp, just crashed again >.<

...is finally "complete"! My interface (and too many other software bits) aren't *quite* Linux-compatible or stable enough to use, so I've resorted to the following stack:

Ubuntu 19.10
5.3.0-lowlatency kernel
KVM/libvirt + cpu pinning
Windows 10 Edu
Radeon 7950 and USB controller PCIE-passed through
Looking Glass (for video out)
TASCAM US-1800 (for audio out)
netjack2 (for Linux audio over network, through Windows, through the TASCAM)

Something about the amicable goodbye at the end of an era. The natural progression of time, meeting someone you don't quite know that closely, then merely wishing them well as your journey moves on. There's no rapid release of anger, no calming relief from strife, no bittersweet parting as from a dear friend...just a simple goodbye and farewell.