Mossy Feathers (They/Them)

Does this run on a raspberry pi 1 or 2? I can’t remember which one I have, but I barely use it so it’d be cool to have something to use it for.

Alright, thank you!

Oh, I think you misunderstand. I’m not sending the audio into audio, I’m sending audio into video. So the signal from the guitar goes into the video connector (there aren’t any built-in speakers). Why? It might look cool.

Do you know what the tolerances are on connectors like VGA, coax, and bnc? My monitor has VGA and BNC, so BNC might be easier to use (fewer intermediate steps, more control due to separate sockets for sync, r/g/b, etc). I’m curious if you might know how high the voltage can go before I run the risk of frying something.

Also, my guitar is an acoustic-electric with a preamp, which would probably make a difference.

I’ll take a look at it. The CRT is a bit sentimental to me (it’s the same model as the one my first PC had, managed to find one on eBay in good condition after like, a year of searching) which is why I’m concerned about blowing it up. However, I might see if any electronics recycling places in my area have a shitty, beat-up CRT TV they’d be willing to part with. That said, I discovered recently that most of the remaining recycling places in my area are run by computer enthusiasts and tend to sell or hold onto anything with any value like CRTs though, so wish me luck.

Kinda genius really. Into old PCs but don’t wanna pay eBay prices for them? Become an electronics recycler and then people will pay you to take their old SGI workstations and Sony BVMs.

All we need to do is build a similar setup and then find a guitar and a CRT and see what happens

Edit: actually, I’ve got a guitar and a CRT and maybe half of the pieces there. The big thing I’m concerned about is destroying the CRT. I have no idea how sensitive CRTs are or how much power is coming from a guitar.

It’s mostly game-related tools that I’ve discovered typically have Debian versions but no apparent (official) Arch support. Seems like most people who develop modding tools, save editors, stuff like that, mainly use windows and if you’re lucky will have a Mac and maybe Debian version

Edit: the windows binaries aren’t a huge issue, they usually work in Wine just fine; I just prefer not having to use wine.

Thanks!

Alright, cool. Why not Manjaro? I did a quick Google search and saw people saying Manjaro is bloated in comparison to EndevorOS, are there other reasons as well?

I doubt I’ll ever have to do that since I don’t really work in software development (I’m guessing that’s only relevant in software dev?), but thanks for the heads up.

I’ve been trying to decide what distro I want to go with for my desktop (Microsoft recently pushed copilot onto my windows 10). While I like the idea of Arch (fast, lightweight) and the fact that it’d be fully compatible with whatever I get on my steam deck, stuff like this makes me think a Debian-based distro would be better.

(That and the fact that most Linux stuff is designed for Debian and I don’t have enough experience to try and rebuild Debian stuff for Arch)

I love playing with new technologies. I wish graphics card prices stayed down because rt is too heavy nowadays for my first gen RT card. I play newer games with rt off and most setting turned down because of it.

I wish they stayed down because VR has the potential to bring back crossfire/SLI. Nvidia’s gameworks already has support for using two GPUs to render different eyes and supposedly, when properly implemented, it results in a nearly 2x increase in fps. However, GPUs are way too expensive right now for people to buy two of them, so afaik there aren’t any VR games that support splitting rendering between two GPUs.

VR games could be a hell of a lot cooler if having 2 GPUs was widely affordable and developers developed for them, but instead it’s being held back by single-gpu performance.

Not gonna lie, raytracing is cooler on older games than it is newer ones. Newer games use a lot of smoke and mirrors to simulate raytracing, which means raytracing isn’t as obvious of an upgrade, or can even be a downgrade depending on the scene. Older games, however, don’t have as much smoke and mirrors so raytracing can offer more of an improvement.

Also, stylized games with raytracing are 10/10. Idk why, but applying rtx to highly stylized games always looks way cooler than on games with realistic graphics.

Is reloading PCs really still a thing anymore? I’d been told that it stopped being necessary (unless you fucked something up) somewhere around windows 7.

I don’t even remember how I heard about it. I think maybe I had a live CD that I messed with when I was a teenager, but I can’t remember. I know I had live CDs for Arch and Mandriva though.

Let’s see… Off the top of my head: Debian, Ubuntu, yiffOS, Arch, Gentoo, Red Hat, OpenSUSE, Mint, Fedora, Tiny Linux, Mandriva, CrunchBang, Raspbian.

Also I’m a windows user c:

Note, this is $5-$24. Apple could have donated a whopping $5.