Richie’s Computer Stuff

Pulled out a noisy #486dx system in my collection! Listen to that hard drive! #oldcomputer #retrocomputer #intel486 #dos #msdos #plopbootloader #vintagecomputer #retrocomputing #90s #90snostalgia

#shuttlexpc #windowsxp #retrogaming #linux

Old PC: Shuttle XPC (2002) - Windows XP Games & Linux in 2025 Finally, nine months in the making (most of that was me just doing other things), presenting a 2002-2003 Shuttle XPC Cube as a nostalgic look back on early 2000s gaming! One of my favourite machine...

NEW VIDEO! Development hell has ended - my Shuttle XPC Cube’s feature presentation is now live on #makertube #peertube!

makertube.net/w/kWULYen9Ky...

A close-up photo of a computer monitor showing the Render Queue in DaVinci Resolve. The project titled “Shuttle XPC (Remake) | Main Video” is actively rendering, located at /home/richie/Videos/Videos/ShuttleXPC.mov. The progress bar shows 22% complete with 7 minutes and 51 seconds remaining, and below it, the text reads “Rendering in Progress – 1 of 1 Jobs”. The timeline with multiple video tracks is partially visible at the bottom of the screen.

Coming soon to a #peertube instance near you! #videomaking #shuttlexpc

A 5:4 gameplay screengrab from Need for Speed: Underground, overlaid on a blurred, stretched background of the same footage to fit a 16:9 frame. The scene shows a bright green Dodge Neon racing through a city tunnel at night, slightly airborne as it speeds along the yellow-striped road. The on-screen HUD shows the player in 1st place, 26 seconds into the race, driving at 170 km/h in 4th gear. The name “Eh” appears in the top-right leaderboard. A small minimap with blue arrows is on the lower left, and a tachometer and speedometer are in the lower right. In the bottom left corner of the video, a glowing orange quarter-circle progress bar arcs beside the text “Need for Speed Underground.

Thought I’d share a capture from my latest video in progress, the #shuttlexpc video. Yes, the text and progress bar are colourful. I was playing with various #davinciresolvefusion nodes and key framing, and just thought it looked cool! #davinciresolve #needforspeedunderground #videomaking

ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS, with more stable framerates and quicker sleep resume times Jury's still out on Microsoft's optimization.

I thought I’d share this article. I’m opinionated of course, but I find this particularly interesting. #linux #linuxgaming #xboxally #rogally #xboxallyx

Will this ruffle some feathers? Maybe. Just don’t shoot the messenger.

www.tomshardware.com/video-games/...

Quite a bit done now. This video has been completely redone since I first began working on it (new script, new footage, new project). I’ve been at the new video for a total of 15-20 hours (kinda just guessing), and still have another few hours of work left. But it’s safe to say - it’s coming soon.

Quick update. The first five minutes have taken me around four or five hours to complete… and I’ve got A LOT more to go. Oh dear. (Yes, I’m familiar with how long not lazily editing video takes)

A computer monitor displaying DaVinci Resolve video editing software. The project on screen shows a split view — the clip monitor in the middle features a Shuttle XPC Cube illuminated with dramatic purple and blue lighting, while the timeline monitor on the right shows a retro-themed desk setup with an early 2000s IBM ThinkPad, the same Shuttle XPC Cube, an iMac G4, and a Dell LCD monitor in the background. Below, the timeline displays video and audio tracks with adjustment layers and clips arranged in sequence. The workspace around the screen is dimly lit, with a faint warm reflection on the desk surface and a CD visible in front of the monitor.

For the first time in 9 months since I first teased this video, it’s finally fully filmed and just needs to be edited. Wow. #videomaking #davinciresolve #shuttlexpc #ibmthinkpad

#windows #linux #meme

First experiments with #prores #proreslog! Should offer an improvement to the image quality in my videos! #videomaking #davinciresolve

Ads in things I already purchased crosses a major red line for me. It’s why I won’t use Windows, and keep my smart TV and Xbox offline. If I bought some device that doesn’t work offline because it needs to show me ads? It goes back to the store.

Wouldn’t surprise me. Mine’s pretty slow to begin with, and they probably just get bogged down with all the stuff that collects on them like old Windows used to, combined with asinine SoCs that are underpowered to begin with. Needless to say, I’m not a fan of smart TVs.

I don’t use the smart functions on mine, but the TV fully shuts down after a certain period of no use, meaning when I do use it, it has to go through a boot sequence. It also has flaky HDMI ports and sometimes blanks during a game, but then again I didn’t want to spend $1,000+ on a TV.

Literally my situation in Canada. I could not buy a “dumb TV”. I had no choice but to get a smart one. I never use its smart capabilities, and it stays offline. It made me mad. I hate that TV (though mostly for other reasons than it’s a smart TV), but it’s not the consumer deciding these things.

To sell more products and collect user data, is my guess. Some of it is neat and helpful, but the pessimist in me says it’s not for our benefit.

I wish more people adhered to this line of thought. I don’t think most people want these things to be Internet-connected, the company decided that for them (for not-good reasons). It’s just that people will buy these things because they don’t see past the marketing fluff the way people like us do.

That Windows XP installation must be baffled to see 2TB of storage!

Today’s the day that #microsoft is considering hundreds of millions of perfectly good computers e-waste. Instead of throwing that PC away and upgrading like the good little consumer M$ wants you to be, now’s a good time to learn something new, and give #linux a go.

Hooomgbu-AHHGGHHGH-uhuu!

I don’t understand buttercream. It’s too much. I both like it and I don’t. The cakes it gets put on are denser than I am at 6:00 AM without coffee. Thinking about that Black Forest cake, and my stomach is both turning and wanting a little more. That’s what I get for cutting down sugar for so long.

I had to recycle mine recently. The battery swelled up, and replacing a swollen battery in these is kind of a no-go. Broke my heart. It was my first iPod!

Literally though. I spend a lot of time scouring the DVD section of thrift stores!

On Getting Older

#adulting #gettingolder #ageing #aging #growingold #oldage #humor #funny #agehumor #meme #memes #1970s #1980s #1990s

A nighttime cityscape of downtown Vancouver, taken from a 6th-floor hotel balcony. The view shows a marina filled with boats in the foreground, a row of trees illuminated by warm streetlights, and a dense cluster of high-rise buildings in the background, their windows glowing with light under a cloudy night sky.

A nighttime view from the same balcony, looking out over the marina toward Coal Harbour. Boats are docked in the foreground, while the water reflects the glow of ships, a brightly lit bridge, and distant city lights. On the right, high-rise buildings line the shore, and warm streetlights illuminate the trees and walkway below.

Check out these sick night time shots of #vancouver #vancouverbc I took! #vancouvercanada #iphonephotography

Oh yes.

Ah yes, a time when YouTube was actually good. Nothing but a distant memory now. I’ve moved on from 2025 YouTube. I don’t miss it.

Literally though tf! It’s just as bad to be trying to reach the speed of traffic when merging, but the vehicle in front insists on merging 30+ below, forcing you to merge slowly too! Sorry Caravan driver, but I like not being a hazard on the road!

The game that I just lost. (I lost the game.)