Caturday and totally relaxed despite freshly done nails 💅

Life is good.

#cats

Finally gave in after my usual usb recording stick choked itself hard (20 bucks variant and usually just used to debug failing system boots where the error message would only flash for a second) and ordered an EVGA XR1 Lite: https://youtu.be/VU1pbyIlPmQ

It comes with a “free” perceived value weight 😁

Updated: So.. the XR1 works quite decent. The most trouble I had was on the HDMI side until I found the proper output to send application sound _also_ to the device (I’m using headphones usually).

Apparently there is a bug with the audio sync though, because the audio driver of the XR1 does not account for dropped frames. This may result in a noticeable sound (or frame) lag after some time of recording.

A firmware patch exists and I could download a HEX and a BIN file. Alas the flashing tool next to it is a graphical (!) Windows only EXE. So basically same 💩 as with the Crucial SSD recently. Some Arch user asked how to flash this on Linux on the EVGA Discord before. Response from staff: Just use Windows 😩.

Sure. It’s not like we don’t have a shiton of software to flash some firmware too. Native. On our fingertips. The question is probably just how to run some and where to point it. The chips inside are known so I have hope that I may find this out eventually so I’ll keep it anyway. It does work at least.

Played around with #SteamLink on the weekend. Mostly to debug my VAAPI issue and testing what runs well. It’s still a pain in the neck and some games I can only get to stream with tweaks but after all I’m kinda impressed. Not that it makes sense do play most of my library on a mobile phone but what works here does also work on the 55" in the living room 🤪

Little one "helped". Doubt the cats will be happy with their bowls delivered like that and crammed into the cat flap.

Due to circumstances we may have had a very tiny birthday celebration with 4 people in the car today.

Usually I wouldn’t lit a candle in the car but an exception was made.

Picture: a car dashboard with colorful plates and mini cakes.

The cat found the heating mat for my office chair. I use this because the room is hardly isolated and it makes no sense to bring the whole room to office temperatures in the freezing winter months.

The mat has 3 different heat settings and is designed for car use, obviously. The important part is the pressure sensor so it stops heating when nobody is sitting on it.

The cat weights enough to trigger that and enjoys it as comfortable spot to nap on now 😜

I may need a hair cut.

Got a new controller 🎮 (for our youngest gamer) 🤓

It’s very colourful and plays various sounds on each button. I’m not allowed to disassemble it [yet].