Quickies
Fix Brown Filter of Shit in VLC
I was talking earlier about Dune Prophecy and how the production seems to suffer from the most-recent fad in cinematography, the brown filter of shit, that makes it literally unwatchable if you don’t have dolby surround 69bit HDR capabilities. Some of us just want to watch shit on our older devices as well.
However, there’s a fairly simple and fast way to fix this in VLC, while playing a video.
From the menu go to Window -> Video Effects (Cmd+E on Mac, probably Ctrl+E on other platforms), tick the Image Adjust checkbox, then bump the Saturation and Gamma sliders as desired (by more than half in my example) until you’re happy with the results. Ta-da!
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Squeaking Game
Starting Season 2 of Squid Game, I forgot how annoying Korean movies can be when the characters start to yell overdramatically at each other over the simplest shit.
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Steam Deck & Nintendo Switch
Steam Deck #
Got the 512GB model, with LCD screen, a couple of months before the OLED model came out. The console is still bonkers, so there’s no real reason to get the new one, at least for now. I’ve also got a 3rd party Glissmo 6-in-1 dock from Amazon, with HDMI 2.0 4K @ 60Hz, Three USB 3.0, Gigabit Ethernet, 100W PD charging port.
Nintendo Switch #
Got the white OLED model, which came with Super Mario Bros. Wonder bundled.
I’ll write more about gaming on these, I’ve already spoken about a few: Sven - Completely Screwed, Golf Club Nostalgia, The Cub, The WereCleaner, Find All (Collection) on the Steam Deck and Suguru Nature, Super Mario Party Jamboree on the Switch.
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Fuck your walled garden
Today a short article appeared in my RSS reader, On featured images in blog posts, written by Manu whose blog is one of the best in my reader.
It linked to an article written by Nelson about AI-Generated Images Discourage Me From Reading Your Blog. I liked the article and I was ready to subscribe to his RSS feed, but when I wanted to leave a short comment, I was dumbstruck to notice that Nelson’s comment system is powered by giscus, a tool which while is open source, relies on github to work.
Look, AI-generated content is shit, and also overbloating articles with useless info is bad, but forcing people to use fucking github in order to comment on something on a personal site is just as bad. Nah, fuck it, it’s even worse. Make your own stuff, especially when you’re calling yourself a developer, or just don’t enable people to comment (like Manu does).
The internet is full of problems, be a solution.
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Steamdeck Screenshots directory
They are stored in /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/userdata
in my case it’s on sftp://192.168.69.69//home/deck/.local/share/Steam/userdata/XXXXXXXX/760/remote
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The Beloved - Conscience (2024 Re-issue)
The godfather of house music, Jon Marsh, one of my personal heroes, released an anniversary edition of one of the best music albums of all time, Conscience. Being a pioneer of the electronic dance scene, Jon (along with his wife Helena), managed to create a new genre and lift it to heaven and back. Containing some of the best soft electronic songs ever written: “Sweet Harmony” and “1000 Years From Today”, this album is nothing short of a masterpiece, with a remastering to match its value. 🤍
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Minidisc bootlegs
Once I got hold of a ton of minidiscs with shady content, I decided to wipe a few of them and make myself some bootlegs of some really really good Romanian albums, and I play them from time to time on my Sony Minidisc MZ-N505 and MZ-R410. Great stuff!
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Luna Amară - Nord - Bootleg
Back in 2019, following the vinyl release, I ripped the sound and made some nice analog bootlegs on cassette and mini disc.