I have multiple audio outputs. When running JACK it’s possible to enable output to the ones other than the primary one using alsa_out, but actually using them is difficult. So I finally cobbled together a shell script to send all my current browser’s outputs […]

A canonical US manuscript page contains 250 words: 60 characters (1 word = 5 characters + 1 space, * 10) by 25 double-spaced lines. That is, of course, on a typewriter. Setting OpenOffice Writer to a US Letter-sized page with one inch margins and […]

To the extent that GHOSTBUSTERS was worthwhile, it wasn’t as a comedy; what made it work were the moments when it might have been something else entirely — specifically the two or three minutes tracked with a magnificently atmospheric section of the Mick Smiley […]

Why would you… …set text documents to open in an office-suite word processor by default, rather than a text editor? …set no-word-wrap as default in your text editor in the era of wide screens? …do away with the status bar when it tells the […]

A reminder to myself re: configuring/compiling PipeWire on Devuan. Dependencies: sudo apt-get -s install meson debhelper pkg-config xorg-sgml-doctools docutils-common doxygen libavahi-client-dev libblkid-dev libcamera-dev libdecor-0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev libsndfile1-dev libxrandr-dev libxt-dev libv4l-dev libxcursor-dev liblilv-dev libibus-1.0-dev liblc3-dev libldacbt-abr-dev libsdl2-dev libbluetooth-dev libcanberra-dev libfreeaptx-dev libjack-jackd2-dev libldacbt-enc-dev libncurses-dev libreadline-dev libsbc-dev libssl-dev […]

I have a favourite font¹ that for historical reasons renders — at 12 points / 96 DPI — in a 7×16 pixel character matrix. From 12 points through 23 points it distorts badly.² On my current monitor 7×16 is too small and 14×32 too […]

Sending a bank select message to some old SynthEdit based VSTs, e.g. several of the classic GTG series by Mik Sybrandt, causes what appears to be a silent factory-bank reset; the user-selected program is displayed in the relevant dialog but the default patch is […]

This was posted by someone on Twitter and reposted by someone else¹ and…oh dear… AHA! See that sudden deviation? It is UNPOSSIBLE for human intervention to cause that sudden deviation! It is CERTAINEMENT UNPOSSIBLE for human action over a period of FIFTY YEARS to […]

Here’s an intriguing statement: CO2 is not a “pollutant”; it is plant food. It is also the inevitable emission generated by every living animal on Earth. It thus cannot be a “pollutant.” Fun fact: about a bazillion years ago, life on Earth primarily consisted […]

Install Qt Creator. It’s quite the bother to get this thing installed on De(bi/vu)an. You’d think installing the base package would leave you with a functioning installation and a populated examples page (it being the page that appears on first run, you’d think the […]

Use the WordPress editor.

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