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diff --git a/uses/compier/index.php b/uses/compier/index.php index 7c21eb1..8c09537 100644 --- a/uses/compier/index.php +++ b/uses/compier/index.php @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <html lang="en"> <head> <?php include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/boilerplate.php'); ?> - <title>my computer | isopod.cool v4</title> + <title>my computer | <?php echo($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);?></title> <link href="/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all"> </head> <body> @@ -145,8 +145,8 @@ </section> <section> - <h4>Gamepad — Xbox One wireless controller</h4> - <p>I bought this several years ago when I was still running Windows because I wanted maximum compatibility for minimum effort. Now that I'm on Linux, I've been able to get it to work using <code>xpadneo</code>, but not consistently. I want to replace it with the new Steam controller when that drops.</p> + <h4>Gamepad — Steam Controller (the new one)</h4> + <p>There are many things to like about the new generation of Steam controller that are apparently unique to it, but only one is of sufficient consequence to me to inform a purchase: I plugged it in and it worked right off the bat with no further fiddling. No dubiously reliable third-party drivers, no fiddling with Bluetooth, nothing — as though it was designed to work with my system or something crazy like that. If the Xbox One controller this replaced had this feature, I honestly would have just kept using that. Thanks Gabe.</p> </section> <section> diff --git a/uses/cumulonimbus/index.php b/uses/cumulonimbus/index.php index f0f1d14..41a8916 100644 --- a/uses/cumulonimbus/index.php +++ b/uses/cumulonimbus/index.php @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <html lang="en"> <head> <?php include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/boilerplate.php'); ?> - <title>cumulonimbus | isopod.cool v4</title> + <title>cumulonimbus | <?php echo($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);?></title> <link href="/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all"> </head> <body> diff --git a/uses/index.php b/uses/index.php index 6197b29..92f8dd2 100644 --- a/uses/index.php +++ b/uses/index.php @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <html lang="en"> <head> <?php include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/boilerplate.php'); ?> - <title>uses | isopod.cool v4</title> + <title>uses | <?php echo($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);?></title> <link href="/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all"> </head> <body> @@ -92,11 +92,11 @@ <section> <h4>Prusa MINI+</h4> - <p>I bought a Prusa because their printers have a reputation for quality, which this unit has certainly lived up to. It's been quite reliable, and when it fails, it's usually my fault in a really obvious way. It automates a lot of features that I suspect would have been pain points on a cheaper printer, up to and including uploading gcode to it directly over the network. This thing's easier to use than a regular 2D printer!</p> + <p>I bought a Prusa because their printers have a reputation for quality, which this unit has mostly lived up to. It's been decently reliable, and when it fails, it's usually my fault in a really obvious way, or it's because of some maintenance procedure I haven't done at any point in the past 3 years since I got it. It automates a lot of features that I suspect would have been pain points on a cheaper printer, up to and including uploading gcode to it directly over the network. This thing's easier to use than a regular 2D printer!</p> <details> <summary>More info</summary> <p>My one major issue is that the cantilevered gantry results in a slight inaccuracy in the Z axis, meaning the first layer is too high on one side of the bed and too low on the other. I suspect that this is why they didn't make it bigger, although it could also just be my fault for going and ordering the un-assembled kit version to save money on assembly.</p> - <p>I run mine with Prusa's satin textured bed plate for easier removal of PETG parts (I managed to damage the included smooth plate printing big stuff in PETG) and a 0.6mm Diamondback nozzle for printing with filaments with abrasive additives. It's expensive for a nozzle, but I think for the last nozzle I'll ever need to buy on an already 700 Canadian Victory Point printer it makes sense. I used to run an E3D Nozzle X, but I think I wrecked the coating trying to clean it with a brass wire brush.</p> + <p>I run mine with Prusa's satin textured bed plate for easier removal of PETG parts (I managed to damage the included smooth plate printing big stuff in PETG), a Slice Engineering aftermarket hot block, and a 0.6mm Diamondback nozzle for printing with filaments with abrasive additives. It's expensive for a nozzle, but I think for the last nozzle I'll ever need to buy on an already 700 Canadian Victory Point printer it makes sense. I used to run an E3D Nozzle X, but I think I wrecked the coating trying to clean it with a brass wire brush.</p> </details> </section> @@ -116,8 +116,9 @@ <details> <summary>More info</summary> <p>So why'd I buy this then? For me, it's about the biometric sensors. Primarily I just wanted some hard data to assuage some anxiety I was having about the state of my heart, and a device that costs as much as a dedicated heart monitor while doing all the other smartwatch stuff <em>and</em> not making me feel like a paranoid weirdo for owning it seemed like a pretty damn good deal to me.</p> - <p>The smartwatch itself is fine. The custom OS it runs is a little more basic than even circa-2016 WearOS in terms of software features, but I honestly don't care about any of that stuff anyway, and it's actually really nice for the hundred Canadian Zero-Calorie Sugar-Free Diet Dollars and free shipping that they're charging, although I wish the app reported more detailed biometric data, said the undisputed queen of run-on sentences.</p> - <p>The one problem I'm having so far is that after like a month the included pleather wristband is starting to discolor and flake off and generally do Pleather Things™, but frankly this is a very cheap smartwatch and I'd rather them cut costs on the one part I can easily replace than on, like, the battery or the CPU or some shit. Hopefully this isn't indicative of the long-term endurance of the actual device.</p> + <p>The smartwatch itself is... adequate. The custom OS it runs is a little more basic than even circa-2016 WearOS in terms of software features, but I honestly don't care about any of that stuff anyway, and it's actually really nice for the hundred Canadian Zero-Calorie Sugar-Free Diet Dollars and free shipping that they're charging.</p> + <p>The main problem I've been having with this thing, other than the world's shittiest stock wrist strap, is that the app doesn't seem to track biometric data very consistently — there are massive gaps in its data days or weeks long, even though I've worn this watch almost every day since I got it. Plus the way the app actually displays that data leaves much to be desired. It almost defeats the whole purpose I bought this thing for. Also, half the fuckin' features in this thing ask you to "connect to the app" even if it already is connected and so effectively can't be used. Thanks for nothing, Nothing.</p> + <p>Overall, this thing is pretty ambitious for the price point it's at, and from that perspective I can't complain, but I also understand completely why a Pebble with fewer features can get away with costing 3x as much — its more limited suite of capabilities probably all actually work reliably.</p> </details> </section> </section> @@ -127,7 +128,7 @@ <section> <h4 id="eos"><a href="compier">Desktop</a> Operating System - <a href="https://endeavouros.com/" target="_blank">EndeavourOS</a> (Linux)</h4> - <p>My <a href="#compier">main computer</a> runs EndeavourOS with the GNOME desktop environment. I chose it mostly to get the AUR, which has occasionally proved useful, but at this point I'm kind of stuck here because all the config files for my programs are in standard locations, god forbid, and everyone else is on flatpaks now, which fuck that all up for no good reason. I once <a href="https://isopod.cool/blog/posts/my_terrible_distro_hop/">failed to switch to Fedora</a> because of this.</p> + <p>My <a href="#compier">main computer</a> runs EndeavourOS with the GNOME desktop environment. I chose it mostly to get the AUR, which has occasionally proved useful, but at this point I'm kind of stuck here because all the config files for my programs are in standard locations, god forbid, and everyone else is on flatpaks now, which fuck that all up for no good reason. I once <a href="/blog/posts/my_terrible_distro_hop/">failed to switch to Fedora</a> because of this.</p> <details> <summary>More info</summary> <p>I have a long history with Linux, dating back to 2015 with the first computer I ever owned: a <a href="../blog/posts/toshiba_chromebook/">Chromebook</a> that I put Linux on to play Minecraft, which ChromeOS couldn't do in any meaningful capacity at the time. It took me all of nine months to blow it up doing that because it was passively cooled with a plastic shell and not designed to ever go above ~30% usage on the dinky little Celeron that was its excuse for a CPU. After that I got a real PC running Windows, which solved the Minecraft problem so I mostly stuck to that for the next six years, although I did make intermittent attempts to switch to Linux again.</p> @@ -175,12 +176,17 @@ </section> <section> - <h4>DAW - <a href="https://www.reaper.fm/">REAPER</a></h4> - <p>My primary motivation for choosing REAPER is that it's available for Linux. My secondary motivation is that it has a lot less of the bizarre idiosyncracies and feature omissions that I found limiting when I was using LMMS. It's also cheaper for a perpetual license than even the shittiest most artificially-limited versions of most of the other major DAWs, although it's not like I can run any of them anyway.</p> + <h4>Drawing Program - <a href="https://krita.org/en/">Krita</a></h4> + <p>Contrary to GIMP, I'd probably still be using Krita if I switched back to Windows today. Not that I use it all that much, although the output of this program can be found peppered around my website as of late. If you're wondering how I get the drawings to look like that, don't. That's the default brush.</p> + </section> + + <section> + <h4>DAW - <a href="https://www.bitwig.com/">Bitwig Studio</a></h4> + <p>My primary motivation for choosing Bitwig is that it's available for Linux. My secondary motivation is that it has a lot less of the bizarre idiosyncracies and feature omissions that I found limiting when I was using LMMS, and a lot less of the instability, unreliability, and general UX jank that I found limiting with REAPER. It's a bit more expensive than REAPER and about infinity% more expensive than LMMS, but what I've come to realize is that, frankly, you get what you pay for.</p> </section> <section> - <h4>Media Players - <a href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Rhythmbox">Rhythmbox</a>, <a href="https://mpv.io/">MPV</a>, <a href="https://www.videolan.org/vlc/">VLC</a></h4> + <h4>Media Players - <a href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Rhythmbox">Rhythmbox</a>, <a href="https://mpv.io/">MPV</a>, <a href="https://www.videolan.org/vlc/">VLC</a>, various Jellyfin clients</h4> <p>I use Rhythmbox for music, MPV for video, and VLC for anything that doesn't open one of the other two when I click on it. All three are very boringly good at what they do, and all three are varying levels of fugly.</p> </section> diff --git a/uses/servy586/index.php b/uses/servy586/index.php index ce6b5a8..f0d7303 100644 --- a/uses/servy586/index.php +++ b/uses/servy586/index.php @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <html lang="en"> <head> <?php include($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/boilerplate.php'); ?> - <title>my home server | isopod.cool v4</title> + <title>my home server | <?php echo($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);?></title> <link href="/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all"> </head> <body> @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ <p class="h2caption">my home server</p> <p class="backlink"><a href="../"><< uses</a></p> <p>Assembled from mostly used parts that range from vaguely sensible to <em>wildly</em> overspecced for my use case, my home server seems to have ended up as my personal exercise in gratuitous computing overkill, for the sort of peasant that can't afford <a href="4k_in_more_ways_than_one.png">4 grand for an RTX 4090</a>.</p> - <p>It got that way because I was trying to build a machine of a similar level of performance to the old gaming laptop that used to be my home server, before I <a href="/blog/posts/building_a_normal_server/">vivisected it and grafted on a NAS</a>, only to find that it didn't seem to like my doing that very much. Believe it or not, the point of this monster was to get away from the unusably bad stability issues the old server was having, and it seems to have worked. You can read more about how I justified it all to myself <a href="https://isopod.cool/blog/posts/building_a_sensible_server/">here</a>.</p> + <p>It got that way because I was trying to build a machine of a similar level of performance to the old gaming laptop that used to be my home server, before I <a href="/blog/posts/building_a_normal_server/">vivisected it and grafted on a NAS</a>, only to find that it didn't seem to like my doing that very much. Believe it or not, the point of this monster was to get away from the unusably bad stability issues the old server was having, and it seems to have worked. You can read more about how I justified it all to myself <a href="/blog/posts/building_a_sensible_server/">here</a>.</p> <figure class="media"> <img src="servy.webp" alt="My server, sitting on a makeshift plinth I made out of scrap 2x4's and some spare IKEA desk legs in my house's utility room. Also visible are the UPS I've plugged it into and a water pipe."> <figcaption>Feel free to ignore that water main. Just out of frame on the other side of it are the network router and the main breaker panel for the <span class="house">house</span>, so I figure if that pipe explodes I'll have bigger problems.</figcaption> |