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CarVac

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I write the open-source photo editor Filmulator as a hobby.

I'm also the lead software dev on the PhobGCC hall-effect motherboard for Gamecube controllers.

https://filmulator.org/ https://github.com/CarVac/ https://github.com/PhobGCC/

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CarVac··on Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)
Regardless, for me the CD is actually painful to listen to even at low volumes, while the vinyl is excellent.
CarVac··on Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)
There's compression and distortion for sure on the vinyl, but when you look at the waveform on the digital it's right up to the max. It completely changes the sound.
CarVac··on Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)
It's true from time to time. Low's last digital releases are actually unlistenable due to heavy-handed compression, but the vinyl seems to have been spared.

I had to record the vinyl to get usable digital files.

CarVac··on I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys
My LG OLED TV does have a headphone jack, and I send that through a mixer (combined with my CRT gaming setup's output, my record player, and my PC's output) to my stereo.
CarVac··on I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys
It's the ergonomics that I have an issue with.
CarVac··on I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys
I always viewed the classic scroll method as a mirror to what happens on screen.
CarVac··on I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys
Speaking of "natural scrolling" it is horrible because most scrolling is downward and "natural" is an ergonomically inferior pushing action instead of pulling.

It's only natural on the actual display itself.

Anothe affront to nature by Apple, along with killing the headphone jack.

CarVac··on Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack
The thermistor looks like a Semitec ###NT series, if you want the exact one.

103NT H34G, I suppose?

CarVac··on Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)
Zigzagoon using growl made it say my "hp rose"
CarVac··on There's still no point in gigabit broadband
I figured 300 megabit Fios would be enough but I think that when you cheap out, they more severely throttle places like Youtube on the backend.
CarVac··on The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)
The PH-0 and smaller screwdrivers from Good suppliers like iFixit or Wera are actually JIS because there's no downside.

But if you happen upon a real PH-0 it will destroy the JIS screws.

CarVac··on The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)
Third party lenses that cannot be updated by the camera body will include a USB port.
CarVac··on The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)
The author says PH screwdrivers may be used on JIS screws, but in my experience they strip every single time.

This is incredible work, though.

CarVac··on A few interesting modern pixel fonts
I did it with no reference to other fonts, just to my own tastes. It took a bit of iteration to get letter centering on the lower cases to work well but I think it's in a good place.

You can see an older version ("a" has been revised to better center the letter) in action on a monochrome CRT here: https://github.com/PhobGCC/PhobGCC-doc/blob/main/For_Users/P...

CarVac··on A few interesting modern pixel fonts
I made myself a pixel font for composite (well, monochrome) video output on an RP2040:

https://github.com/PhobGCC/PhobGCC-SW/blob/main/PhobGCC/rp20...

(search for 1 to see letterforms)

The letters are 8x15 and verticals are 2 pixels wide to work better on older CRT televisions with less-sophisticated chroma filtering on their composite inputs.

I explicitly tried to avoid locking into 45 degree diagonals...

My only question now is, how do I turn this font into something I can use on a computer? I couldn't figure it out the last time I tried.

CarVac··on Magnifica Humanitas
It's an organization that is effective as an opposition party of sorts.
CarVac··on The quadratic sandwich
I guess I wasn't being precise, I meant Nelder-Mead.
CarVac··on The quadratic sandwich
Simplex methods can handle those tough situations, though.
CarVac··on What is a Demand Coop
Or coöp if you want to be fancy.
CarVac··on Hindenburg’s Smoking Room
If you can put something in it it doesn't count as crumple zone and the car has to be engineered with a separate crumple zone anyway.
CarVac··on The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
What has changed is that the US's failure in Iran has directly impacted many of its former allies all at once, and the current administration clearly shows that it doesn't care about them at all.

This lack of consideration will lead to significantly less favorable trading for all of the businesses you listed, regardless of their current prowess.

CarVac··on Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
If you buy a ChaDeMo Leaf you do so knowing that it will likely never go more than a hundred miles from home.
CarVac··on Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
Only on LAN mode, which disables remote monitoring.
CarVac··on Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
You hook it up to the network to use monitoring features like a remote camera view to make sure your print is going smoothly.

SD cards work but it's extremely less convenient than just printing straight from the slicer.

You can use any slicer you want but Bambu wants only their slicer to directly connect.

CLI slicing is not something you want in general. Visual confirmation of the toolpaths is very important to making prints as successful as possible.

CarVac··on Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
New development: Louis Rossman is rehosting the code and dares Bambu to sue him.
CarVac··on Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
I put a blanket on in the winter. In the summer it's not really necessary, the chamber can hit 70c which triggers a cool-down.
CarVac··on Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
They can bar people from accessing their servers if they do so by rewriting the entire slicer to be closed source and then implementing some actual security, instead of literally giving you the means of access AND the permission to use and modify it as you wish.
CarVac··on Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
The plugin wasn't reverse engineered. The interface with the plugin was AGPL so you can freely use it in any other AGPL software.
CarVac··on Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
And by using AGPL they grant you the license to use the code however you wish, they cannot say it's "unauthorized access".
CarVac··on StarFighter 16-Inch
I do number entry with the number row. 8 fingers > 3 fingers.
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