Kithop @kithop@social.kithop.ca

@Sir_Boops Something something emerge from source

But yeah, probably time to look at alternatives.

The HDMI audio is distorted (clipping?) despite my best efforts to pad the gain both at the source and in Pulseaudio, but worse than that, it skips every 2-3 seconds. Basically useless, but that's okay in my case as I have the big fancy 32ch digital mixer anyhow. Not sure if I can properly assign the inputs through Pulse to OBS, or if I have to stereo mixdown, but *audio* is also easy to get locally recorded. Just had to order more adapter cables though.

The video quality gets a little better at 30fps instead of 60, but it's definitely fuzzier than it should be. Fine for streaming and capturing fast-action gameplay, but nowhere near the 1:1 you'd hope for with a digital connection. It feels a lot like there's an analogue path in the chain. Maybe this is '1080p' in marketing speak. ;p It doesn't look horrid, and definitely not 480p. Still, 'cheap'!

One day I'll look at fancy DisplayPort stuff, but eh.

New PCIe USB3.1 adapter arrived and installed. GPU is down from 16x to 8x now (oh well), but between the built in ports on the motherboard, the old USB 3.0 card my dad gave me, and this new card, I can successfully run both HDMI capture boxes at YUV222 1080p60, *and* my old USB2.0 webcam (MJPEG 1080p30) without any apparent frame drops or stuttering.

HDMI audio in on those capture boxes is still useless, though. You get what you pay for.

I didn't want to move my Xbone around and plug it back in for more testing, but we had Win10 Bedrock, Android, and Switch all playing with the Win10 box hosting.

I've also done 4 player split screen on the Xbone plus a single W10 a number of months ago. With the W10 one in VR, to boot.

At some point I'll see about getting all of them in one giant session.

Even though I still feel the Java Edition of Minecraft, in all its laggy, RAM-eating glory is *the* version you'd want to play solely for the incredibly vibrant modding scene, I did end up buying copies of the Android, Xbone and Switch versions over the years.

Can confirm, the new cross-play Switch version works. I had to have my partner sign into *her* accounts on my Switch for the invite from me to work, since it wasn't showing as a LAN system (though Android did).

But it does work.

@Sir_Boops Like, there *has* to be a contingent of furries working at Blizzard for this sort of thing to go through.

I'm not complaining (beyond the 'please don't make me resub to WoW yet again', which... is a pretty big one).

I'd been playing FFXIV for a while though, and forgot that you could get away with this after normalizing Miqo'te. :P

Wait, so I stop paying attention to World of Warcraft for a couple years, and surprise surprise, rumours abound that Blizzard's adding *another* furry playable race?

Worgen have no tails, you could argue they're 'just werewolves and werewolves are a thing'.

Pandaren were straight up... *pand[a|er]ing*. But okay, you can argue the pandas are important because... faux... asian... reasons.

Vulpera, though? Tiny fennec fox gnomes?

I love me my Miqo'te, but... WoW, stahp.

@masklayer Also, remember the golden rule:

Furries Run the Internet

If you work for an ISP, or a web design firm, or any sort of tech company, I can bet you have a much higher ratio of furries in your midst than you may think. :P

@masklayer That said, even without me explicitly telling my coworkers, they all pretty much found out a long while back.

Then they hired two people who are also furries/bronies (and who I'm good friends with now!). They interviewed them while I was away and told me before they started, 'Oh, you'll *like* them!' all knowingly.

But my work's pretty awesome and chill. I also had other random people go 'Oh, Rainbow Dash - she's my fav. too!' when I had a clay figure my then-g/f made for me. o_O

@masklayer I have seen transphobia and uh, whatever-it's-called when gay dudes overreact with 'eww girls!' (plain old misogyny?), bi-erasure, the works in furry, and that's just *locally*, having seen other furs get outright banned from attending our meets and parties for Facebook rants.

It's more accepting than the general public, sure, though, mostly. Which is... kind of sad.

But yeah, you don't have to explain nothin', or hide any of it if you don't want to.

@Sir_Boops I think ideally we want to end up in a place where we're some kind of non-profit / co-op type organization whose job is simply to be a forum for that sort of work, and publish some kind of 'fediverse spec' as a reference for people who want to code + implement without also having to worry about those sorts of decisions.

Maybe that culminates in a 'reference architecture' based on Masto or another fediverse system, maybe not. That's all to be discussed, I think.

@Sir_Boops A whole lot of discussion online I've seen revolves mostly around getting this organizational aspect sorted first. Code isn't the problem. So yeah, I'm hoping to try and help out as it happens in what limited capacities I can.

Basically - start over and define what we want social media to be, define something for all the undefined vagueries of e.g. the AP spec, and make sure we get consensus on what to do in those situations and why, with input from anyone, coder or not.

@Sir_Boops One of the things I think to be discussed is setting up the Board, and what sort of organizational model to use (and 'co-op' has been thrown about a lot - I work for credit unions, so I have a decent idea of how co-ops work, to boot :) ).

Also, the people doing the initial push are trying to set up something specifically whereby they themselves will not hold any sort of power for at least the first year, i.e. to make it truly a community thing rather than them being in charge.

@Sir_Boops There have been a couple surveys I've responded to, and there's initial online meeting dates starting not this but next weekend.

It's more an organizational fork than a strictly code fork - all the surveys and communications I've seen have been specifically about how this is meant to be setting up an organization that wants to start with getting the policies and goals right before anyone touches code.

"Microsoft Edge for Android lets you use Adblock Plus!"
"All we have until someone ports uBlock Origin to Android"

https://wccftech.com/microsoft-edge-for-android-gets-adblock-plus-integration-and-more/

...? I've had uBlock Origin on Android for ages. The exact same extension installs and works under *Firefox* for Android, not Chrome, sure, but wha?

So yeah, PSA. :p If you use Android, you probably want this.

@Sir_Boops Chromecat

Ordered a bunch more HDMI and DVI-D cables for things, and a pair of active HDMI splitters so I can hook things up nicer.

If I can get this all working reliably, with the local recording via ffmpeg + v4l2 loopbacks feeding OBS for streaming, etc., I feel like I could try and write it all up nicely as a howto article. Maybe for @gamingonlinux ? ;)

'How to set up multi-computer streaming and recording on the cheap'