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Fully in spring cleaning mode now. Working at reducing the things I own to where they fit on a couple of (big) shelves.

Posting this mix early because I'm nearing 24 hours awake and badly need to sleep.

They found the 35mm masters for Project A-Ko!

I had always heard that we'd never get a good release of A-Ko because the original materials were missing. Lost or destroyed. Now Discotek has the master and will be using it for their upcoming bluray.

After four hours of trying a bunch of programs and reading code I think I've found almost all the necessary pieces to get Renoise to support MIDI while running under FreeBSD's Linux ABI compatibility layer.

It involves Hans Selasky's alsa-seq-server and a missing ioctl mapping in the linux compat layer.

I really wish Renoise supported JACK MIDI.

So I *think* I've repaired my Deathadder mouse.

I disassembled it, breaking a plastic mounting post in the process. Then I cleaned it, replaced the USB cable, and superglued that broken post back into place (getting glue all over my fingers), then reassembled it.

The cable and left-click action are fixed. Unfortunately the scroll wheel is now super sensitive. Good enough. Time to go play Quake.

The inputs on the Audiobox seem to be really sensitive. There's two inputs, each with a combo jack featuring XLR (for mics) and 1/4" (for unamplified instruments).

I've patched the balanced outputs of my mixer into the 1/4" instrument inputs on the Audiobox. After a bit of experimentation with gain I get acceptable sound quality. I hope. Fingers crossed.

I'm happy to report that the latest version of the Presonus Audiobox 96 works under FreeBSD using the standard USB sound driver snd_uaudio(4). (Which it should, as it claims to be USB class-compliant in its documentation).

We'll see how long it lasts. It's built OK, but I've heard they can be flakey.

Was cleaning up my hard drive and just had a scare, deleted a bunch of files by mistake. I lost my downloads directory. Which is bad but thankfully non-critical.

Note to self, watch your bind mounts (nullfs loopback mounts in FreeBSD) when deleting large directory trees. Particularly when clearing out old jails.

I've been watching a vtuber I like play through "13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim". I have no idea what 13 Sentinels is like as a game but as an anime-inspired sci-fi story it's amazing. Love the artwork and the many plot twists. It has excellent english voice acting too. It makes me want to play more visual novels.

Today I learned that Mars is the lo-fi planet.

Starting my day with Grievous Angel's old 2Step Heaven mix.

Tracklist here: http://blog.grievousangel.net/?p=398

The mix itself here: http://www.weareie.com/audio/blogariddims/blogariddims34.mp3

I went from disliking 2-step to loving it after hearing this mix.

Well shoot. I thought that the static website generator I use (Blogofile) didn't work with Python 3; I was wrong. I had to update a few templates and add some comparison functions but otherwise It seems to run fine. I can move on from Python 2 after all.

There's some Quake on. #quakeworld 2v2 masters BPS & Locust versus Carapace & Milton. Stream and casting by Andeh / SuddendeathTV.

They're in the first map now.