The Latest — Steve Block

We finished our move from the old office building to the new.

It’s the last day in this office building.

I have a Dell R730 server running Windows Server 2019.

I decided to start building a local lyrics database because I like the feature Apple Music (and others) have of showing lyrics synced to the music as you listen, and I wanted that for my own local music library.

This writeup is about setting up an old laptop as a music player that boots straight into a full screen experience, ready to send music to a USB DAC and headphone amp.

This is a handheld game system that looks somewhat like a looks like a Game Boy Advance SP, though unlike the RG35xx SP it doesn’t copy the hinge design or finishes.

Revisiting My Previous Thoughts on This Whole Tire Fire Last fall I wrote about the whole “AI” garbage fire.

FYI I posted some notes on using darktable as I try to learn it.

I recently built a new gaming computer, and though it runs Windows 11 I have been giving some serious time to setting up and testing a Linux gaming setup as well.

Hacker News is completely full of “AI” garbage these days.