#Chahleybros

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Switching to Linux 🐧

Over the past couple years Windows 10 has been giving me progressively more asinine problems to deal with, from desktop issues and bloatware, to automatically installing out of date drivers to replace the ones I've manually installed.

Before you ask, I attempted using Windows 11 when it came out and I refuse to acknowledge its existence after the hell it put me through.

Most recently Windows 10 has seemingly made a point of making ASIO and all audio devices and software I use functionally useless, causing ridiculous amounts of crackling audio. No rollbacks fixed it, no re-installs fixed it, not even Reloading Windows fixed it. The reason for using ASIO is that Windows default audio protocol, WDM, has too much latency for live real-time use. This issue not only makes things like live-streaming basically impossible but it also outright made my Digital Audio Workstation and Video Editing Software incapable of processing audio for longer than a second without hanging. Both Mixcraft and DaVinci Resolve became useless on Windows 10, and OBS was barely holding it together. When I tell you I did everything to resolve this, I mean I spent an entire Month troubleshooting this. The only solution I could find was to abandon Windows all together.

I've been meaning to switch my Setup to Mint Cinnamon for a while as I've been testing it out in Virtual box for a year or so, and after this nonsense I got a new NMVe basically immediately to run Mint on, and after switching properly I have to say I'm likely to never use Windows as my Host OS again. And yes I tested Windows on the NMVe. The issue persisted there aswell. And testing Mint via Virtual Box on Windows with Hardware Exposed via PAE and AMD-V showed the issue was entirely on Windows.

For reference this is my current rig: Everything is the same as when using Windows 10

GPU: Nvidia RTX a4500 20gb

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600g

Ram: 16GB 3200mhz

DAC: PreSonus Audiobox iTwo

Capture Card: AverMedia HD Mini GC311

The Results:

Not only does Mint Cinnamon not have any of the issues I've had with Windows over the past Decade, which still persist to this day, but literally every single device I have just works.

Basically everything is Plug-n-Play with <20ms of latency on the Capture Card, which on Windows had a minimum of 600ms delay using drivers required for the card to even be detected. My Audio interface also works even better than before, with neither my DAC or Capture Card requiring manual driver installs, as their protocols are Native to the Linux Kernel.

Proton lets you play any Windows game on Steam that doesn't have explicit Linux Support, with Wine available for desktop applications. Both run better than a Native Windows install due to Mints lack of Bloatware.

Windows 10 has so much built-in Overhead that Mint can Emulate it through Virtual Box faster than if Win10 were the Host OS.

In Short: Fuck Windows. :) Also this is how my desktop looks currently:

You can make custom start menus. :)

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So it's been a bit since the last episode of Trigun Stampede S1 has been out. So I wanna just talk about some things I liked. Spoilers, duh.

While condensing and rearranging the timeline of events between The Fall and Lost July is odd, it makes sense for the sake of being narratively clear what's going on. This show made me root for The Nabraska Family and Brad of all characters.

What I'm confused about is why anyone calls Vash the Humanoid Typhoon prior to July. It makes sense he'd have a bounty being accused of The Fall and some of Knives other actions, but the title specifically is given to Vash once he's been labelled a Human Natural Disaster by the Insurance Society, making all his actions not covered by their insurance. Meryl and Millie's job in the original is to follow Vash to verify if any damage done was caused by him.

That aside, with them changing how Vash lost his arm I'm most curious about how they're gonna handle Legato, since in Stampede he's never gonna get Vash's arm.

Above all else, I'm glad they reverted Vash to his personality separate from his depiction in the Pilot manga (Love and Peace from the '98 anime). The pilot is good, but it fundamentally changed how Vash acted to the point they had to rewrite his interactions with Meryl for 3 episodes in advance just to justify it.

Also they started Maximum in Lost July. It's only his jacket and Chronica being mentioned so far, but Vash's hair has subtly changed from platinum blonde to sand, and his eyebrows have gone to black. If they go full Maximum, well Knives will at least get a better fate than in Under the Sky So Blue (last episode of Trigun '98).

It's honestly incredibly fucked up morally how the '98 anime ends since Knives is still alive. All around, Trigun Stampede is really fucking good, and having read through the entirety of Maximum i can say it pulls off all the changes wonderfully. So quit bitching that it's different and watch it, my biggest complaint was that they Downsized Vash's gun from 6 shot .45 long colt to 9 shot .22 up until you see how he gets it.

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New Transformers movie has Unicron.

I got bored so I edited Orson's voice to sound like Unicron in F For Fake for the Chartres clip.

Unicron was Orson Welles' last acting role.

As an aside, watch F For Fake, it's a very good movie.

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Randomly thinking about the fact canonically Transformers turn into cars because Teletran 1 mistook automobiles as the dominant sentient lifeform on Earth.

If humanity just used public transport more or was less car dependent during the eruption of Mt. St. Helens, the Autobots and Decepticons would have homo-sapien beast modes.

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Song I made in 2019 practicing using audio trackers.

First attempt at a song using the PC Engine. Honestly surprised how much control there is for making sounds despite it being Wavetable & Sample based.

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C46 Depression

An unnecessary song made gradually on Commodore 64.

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Seeing the VoDs channel consistently growing this year from the Oblivion Hardest Run and Fable streams has definitely helped encourage me to stream more. Thanks for that, everyone. <3

Also the Highlights channel where the most viewed video is just: B A S T A R D

A+

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B A S T A R D

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Morning guitar practice - Feb 9th 2024

tuning is C# standard

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Me vibing to King Gizzard while messing with my setup.

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wakeless

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KK Bunny Ears 3d 1.0

Made some slight changes to my bunny ears model. Replacing the default bunny ears from Vroid Studio with the ears I made for the hat, as well adjusting facial features and blend shapes a little and making it actually the same height as me.

Still no ARKit, but I am getting better at modelling each time i try.

Motion Preview here: https://hub.vroid.com/en/characters/7562883747157489683/models/4276647882438049921

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Freeway - 2019

Old ink drawing from highschool for a friend. One of the few times I bother with landscapes.

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I sometimes write about places I've traveled through.

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All Black - 2021

One of the few times I draw the faint freckles on my left eye.

This killed a marker on the black bg variant.