As mentioned last week, I finally decided to pick up a Power Macintosh 8100, which is in pretty good shape given its age. While I have a Power Mac G4 Mirror Door Drive, the fastest G4 that can run Mac OS 9, which has the holy grail of video cards, is the Nvidia Geforce 4 …
It has been a while since I did another project involving vintage Macs. In 2021, I got a Power Mac G4 Mirror Door and added a bunch of upgrades, including a SATA adapter with SSDs, memory, USB, and a Geforce 4 Ti 4600 video card. It’s the fastest PowerPC Mac running Classic Mac OS 9 …
I admit that I’m not a big fan of TikTok. I hate it, given the adverse effects on society in terms of mental health and that it encourages young people to do things that can get them into trouble or self-harm along with concerns of brain rot due to the addictive nature of …
Surprisingly, without me knowing, there is now a new version of AIVoice called AIVoice 2. The previous version of AIVoice is just an updated version of Voiceroid 2, which allows for expressiveness. However, I felt that AIVoice TTS quality sounds a bit rough compared to TTS software from other TTS software for Japanese like Cevio …
Once you start immersion in Japanese after finishing beginner and early intermediate Japanese, you might wonder how you get that listening practice. How do I practice pitch accents? Sure, people will say you shouldn’t use TTS since it sounds unnatural. But Japanese TTS has improved drastically in recent years.
Just recently, Apple released their M3 MacBook Pros. However, the base model 14” sparked outrage since it only has 8 GB of memory. Of course, Apple Fanboys and Apple are gaslighting everyone, thinking that 8 GB is like 16 GB. We know that isn’t true, as an M3 MacBook Pro with 8 GB of RAM …
To introduce more people to Mastodon, I made some introduction videos. That is after discovering that on DLSite during a summer sale. Besides the usual games, manga, and other Japanese-related media, you can buy voice banks and voice synthesizer software. It got me the idea.
Now that I have had the ROG Ally for at least a month, you might wonder, how is it? Sure, many of those Steam Deck Fanboys are getting upset and bashing the Ally, but is it justified? Also, is it any good? Well, here are my brief thoughts.
When I started hearing about the Steam Deck in November, I eventually decided to buy one as supplies improved. The idea of a handheld gaming PC seems like a novel idea. However, after I started using it, I increasingly discovered that while the device was cool, I found things I disliked. After discovering that other …
It’s been a while since I kept a personal blog. My first side blog, Atelier Shiori, hasn’t been updated for years. However, I felt that there was a need to change the name of the side blog and start off new since I hadn’t updated that blog in years. With centralized platforms like Twitter imploding, …
