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the MAXX (1995)

Countermeasures

Really can’t stand the idea of my site being scraped for AI-purposes so put a blocking robot.txt in the root of this site. I know they’re going to ignore it but it’ll get rid of the bulk of them and provide more accurate user stats. Really up in digital arms […]

Radeon RX580

AI revisited (locally)

Just bought an even heavier graphics card, the Radeon RX580. Reason for this is because i’m trying to get a local, so non-cloud, non-internet connected version of Microsoft’s Copilot. “Chat with your files” yeah i want that but in a secure setting, i can still switch to internet version of […]

Creative Soundblaster USB

Linux Sound

Finally repaired sound in Linux, little bit baffled by how easy it was, a € 17,- USB Creative Soundblaster didit. Read about Bluetooth audio driver problems, checked all Alsamixer settings (remember to use right arrow key) but purchasing a bit of native compatible Linux hardware didit. Should have known this, […]

Facerig

Me and politics

… not a very good combination … Especially bad combination, got on the internet back in ’97 to escape it. Ever since the mobile phone people entered *my* internet it’s going to bits, one scandal, one war, one troll at the time. Could pretend my mission was succesful but let’s […]

ElectricDesk

Massive Progress

Made some massive progress. Chose Fedora KDE Plasma as my main OS, for now it does everything i want it to and fast with the added bonus of seemless integration into Android. Configured my VPN in terminal, never experienced this much bold stability in my computerlife. Guess i made my […]

blender-secrets

Blender Secrets e-Book

Enrolled in Jan van den Hemel’s Blender Secrets e-Book course, bought it because i have been retweeting and bookmarking the excellent videotutorials on Twitter a lot. Will start out with Greasepencil just the same but need solid reference- and studying material for Blender3D. Will try to do it on a […]

VPNfixed

Microsoft Teams for Linux

Ismael Martinez – Teams for Linux Minding the settings, was trying to connect with a Bluetooth headset with Bluetooth in KDE settings disabled, failed. Maybe better, was trying to get away from Windows, not toward it. Really am blissfully unaware of all kinds of webcamsoftware (-and hassles with it) though […]