Stop using mainstream operating systems like Windows 11/10/8.1, modern Linux, like Ubuntu or modern MacOS versions. On mobile Android 12/11/10/9/8.1 are prohibited because they use neural networks to profile your device and dial back to “home” to dump your personal data and preferences. iOS from very beginning was very phony platform. My personal choices are Windows 7 for desktop and Android 8.0 for mobile. These two cover my digital needs fully, no restrictions whatsoever.

As you already know i fed up using modern Ryzen/Radeon hardware and decided to go a bit retro.

Cheap Chinese clone mobos and second-hand high-performance cpu’s of previous generations induced me to rebuild my workstation and also fool around with Opteron-based server.

UPDATED ON: 2022-08-13 ▒ PREFACE WORDS As you remember, my previous daily driver was Ryzen 9590x 16c/32t. After some fun with it I’ve decided to drop it in favor to retro stuff. Intel Xeon CPU based around Broadwell chip: E5-2696v4 22c/44t became the chip of the choice. It is OEM version of top of the line E5-2699v4 . It is a bit slower, around marginal 3-4%, but costs significantly less than 2699v4.

Couple days back virtual friend of mine send me a link to awesome website mainly dedicated to vintage computer fonts. I suppose that project’s roots come from demoscene. And yeah, design aesthetics is so cool, just look at that. Stashing it here for catalogue purposes. Imagery by spacedrone808

Not long ago already reviewed in the past Firefox forks Icecat and Iceweasel for some reason went into 404 void. So, i was forced to find an alternative way and stumbled upon Chinese builds of Iceweasel . Just want to digest this historical fact as a blog post. Imagery by spacedrone808

Since i’ve switched to fanless GPU from Nvidia. I begin to monitor Windows 7 driver related news. So, here is a link to the latest to date Windows 7 driver . It’s really neat to hear that Nvidia is not dropping driver support for Windows Classics . Red AMD team can’t demonstrate such coolness in this category. Imagery by spacedrone808

Essential documentary film about creators of PirateBay torrent resource. TPB AFK: THE PIRATE BAY AWAY FROM KEYBOARD SOUNTRACK ID NEEDED Can anyone identify tracks playing at 15:58 and 58:09? Thoughts of yours can be shared via my contacts section Imagery by spacedrone808

Just to let you know. BENCHMARK YOUR HARDWARE CPU COMPARISON GPU COMPARISON Imagery by spacedrone808

Recently Ghacks.net reported about almost unreal rumour regarding another 3 years of extended support for Windows 7. If news are true, consider this as a gift from above, because i can’t stand windows 10/11 abominations and Linux is just not ready for serious multimedia workstation workloads. Imagery by spacedrone808

In previous posts i’ve already mentioned Andrew Saga’s rants about history of music tracking, but i think that provided info are not covering topic fully. So, here is one more excellent video clip, which i dug up on yt recently. Enjoy! Imagery by spacedrone808

GeForce 1650Ti is the fastest passively cooled GPU avaialable on market. It was made by Palit company and carries KalmX branding. Recently, i finished my Blender investigations and that is why i don’t need Radeon 6900xt power anymore. So, i decided to switch to something without fan with decent performance. KalmX design solely relies on massive radiator. Despite the fact that device doesn’t have any fans it provides pretty good performance.

BBS is acronym which stands for Bulletin board system . It was a distant ancestor of modern internet. In our days of totally non-private web cultivated by google, facebook and apple and other rotten companies BBS could be a neat solution to people who value their privacy and who don’t want to feed greedy corporations with telemery data of their own. Also tech will be useful for people who would like to hide themselves from modern shitty trends and stupid brainwashing or so-called government propaganda.

As you may already know Renoise supports installation of additional tools to extend software functionality beyond the boundaries of existence.
Here is my personal collection of best addon tools for Renoise.

Just a quick note just to share the most useful YT tutorials regarding Renoise tracker. Official Renoise tutorials ► essential Renoise knowledge Tutorials from official Renoise guy ► Achenar Excellent Renoise tutorials ► Groovin’in G Gold mine of Renoise knowledge ► Brainplace Very useful tutorials ► Type-A Music Also i suggest to check official manuals on Renoise website. Quick Reference Card [cheatsheet] describing pattern commands. And don’t forget to visit vibrant Renoise community forum .

I’m still using trusted Icecat port by Muslayev . Problem is that it begin to show it’s age by not rendering some websites in a correct way. After checking Firefox release roadmap i find out that 91 ESR branch on which Icecat is based will reach EOL status at the end of the summer. So i’ll need a replacement to keep up with modern web standards. Chrome and original Firefox are not an options because of their telemetry framework and bloated nature.

Some time ago i told you about awesome Vortex Race III keyboard. During the last month of my workflows i’ve noticed that desperately feel the lack of numpad and other extended keys, which are common for full sized keyboards. After not so long thinking i’ve decided to switch keyboard. Yesterday i’ve received full-sized, but still compact Vortex TAB90M keyboard, based around the same Cherry Blue MX switches. Build quality is rock solid.

Have you ever heard about digital audio workstation written in assembly language?
Yeah, that’s SAW Studio .
32-bit version can be launched even in “obsolete” Windows XP.
64-bit version released in 2019 is Windows 7/Windows 10 compatible.

UPDATED ON: 2022-05-21 Today i want to share my custom made 80s theme for Renoise tracker. RENOISE `84 [v0.4b] GRAB IT FROM MEGA.NZ To install it just double click on downloaded XRNC files. Renoise will launch and install theme automatically. Also, i’ve figured out how to change internal font and set custom mouse cursor. Tracker doesn’t provide GUI for such options. All settings related to current skin could be found here:

There are plenty of digital audio workstation software available today.
Fruity Loops, Apple Logic, Cakewalk….
but what make them so unimportant anymore?

It is pretty strange that i didn’t cover this topic in previous posts. So, i stand corrected and posting it now! @ FIRST: WHAT IS DEMOSCENE? In this quick breakdown i’ll point to the most coolest demoscene stuff out there. ▓ IBM PC [DOS/WIN] In early 90s finnish coders from Future Crew brought phenomenon of demoscene to masses. FUTURE CREW - SECOND REALITY [1993] Demo size: 2Mb Demo page The Black Lotus are Swedish Atari/Amiga hackers.

I recommend you to use alternative search engines like Searx.me or Duckduckgo not because g is mining your data and then resells it to marketing agencies for targeted ads, but because if you say something restricted or will be “lucky” to be banned by their anti-spam bot you can lose access to your data forever. Three years ago i had YT channel with tracker music where i posted stuff almost daily, also i had trackers database hosted on their blogger platform.

Like leaksters say Radeon 6950XT refresh will bring new 18Gbbs memory sub-system and 8-10% to performance . I’ve decided not to involve myself into GPU race and stick with plain 6900XT. It is a performance banger under Windows 7 environment. Imagery by spacedrone808

Super quick breakdown of the most essential security applications for Android OS. ADAWAY ► Effective hosts adblocker AFWALL+ ► Root-based firewall based on Linux ip-tables EXODUS ► Check your applications for telemetry trackers and secure your privacy YET ANOTHER CALL BLOCKER ► quality open-source call blocker Forked mod for Russia region . Fork is manadatory thing for people living in a Russia because access to application online database was blocked by Czech owner, due to war initiated by bunker rat.

Back in the 2017 Amd broke intel’s rule of low core count CPUs and now they are delivering large enterprise-level cache to consumer products.

Some already confirmed facts about 5800x3D: