kepstin

@kepstin@glitch.social
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I'm kepstin, but glitchier.

I spend most of my time trying to make computers do things that other people want them to do, mostly in Linux. Big fan of Japanese anison, pop, and doujin music. Recently on a bit of a retro-computing bend.

I contribute to BigBlueButton (while working for Blindside Networks) and sometimes poke stuff into MusicBrainz

My backup account is @kepstin

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Websitehttps://www.kepstin.ca/
kepstinMay 11, 2023
Upgrading fonts while applications are running / using them is a … bad idea.
kepstinFeb 5, 2023

Using the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-955Q as a device to capture video from classic game consoles or 8-bit PCs: Not recommended.

It can't sync to some of the strange non-standard video formats some of these devices produce.

Show threadkepstinJan 21, 2023
If you look closely, you'll see that during this waiting around scene there's even a whiteboard in the background which contains brainstorming ideas about what to put into the anime op. It's superbly meta.
kepstinDec 13, 2022

Alright, think I got my Intel socket 7 box sorted out to match my AMD socket 7 box. It's quite a bit slower given that Intel's fastest S7 chip is the Pentium MMX 233, but still fun.

Using an Intel motherboard with Yamaha OPL3-SAx (+OPL4 wavetable) onboard audio, 64MB ram, Matrox MGA Millenium, 3Dfx Voodoo 2, SoundBlaster AWE 64 Gold with third-party memory expansion round off the parts selection.

Juggling the multiple sound cards in apps is kinda silly.

kepstinNov 12, 2022
I added an edge connector to a black floppy cable so I could hook up my 5¼" floppy drive while matching the aesthetic of the PC build.
Show threadkepstinMay 24, 2022
Time to build a computer.
kepstinApr 13, 2022
I just absentmindedly brewed up a cup of hot water.
kepstinApr 1, 2022

GNOME 42…?

It doesn't actually run all that well on this system, some rendering glitches and such, due to limitations of the old graphics card mostly. (The GeForce 7600 GT only does OpenGL 2.1 and has just 256MB vram…)

kepstinMar 22, 2022

While poking through some old screenshots, I have come across a GNOME **mystery**.

I have a screenshot that appears to be of GNOME 2.12 with the default panel configuration. It shows "Applications", "Places", and "Desktop" menus.

But the 2.12 release notes show a "System" menu instead of "Desktop": https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.12/index.html.en

It gets weirder. Some languages in the release notes (e.g. de, id) show the Desktop menu instead.

… But the menu was renamed to "System" in 2.16: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-panel/-/blob/gnome-2-16/gnome-panel/ChangeLog#L230

GNOME 2.12 Release Notes

kepstinMar 18, 2022

I just saw the ASUS B550M-C/CSM board show up in a search, and it's basically the best Micro-ATX AMD B550 board I've seen for any use case other than overclocking?

Multiple displayports for onboard graphics. ECC support (depending on CPU). An M.2 wifi slot *and* two M.2 storage slots, both of which do NVMe and SATA. Discrete TPM (no fTPM issues in Win11…). And a Thunderbolt link connector, why not.

Also it's green and has a PCI slot, two PS/2 ports, serial port, and parallel port.