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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

how to delete level readability on one easy step

Original game. The shadows, black windows, and the distance haze enhance the contrast, making the geometry pop and be instantly readable as a navigable environment.

Remaster. The shadows are toned down and more uniform, the windows reflect the scene, and the haze is gone. It is difficult estimating the layout and what areas are prat of the level.

Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i put all the switches and knobs i had lying around into a box attached to my joystick. very nice for having controls in vr that you can reach with either hand, including a thumbstick mapped to the mouse and a button for recentering

Nice light blue 3D printed box covered in switches. A big landing gear handle juts out to the left.

Attached to the stick. The landing gear handle lights up poorly.

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

if your music menu doesn't look like this, what's even the point

Music room from Windows 95 version of True Love.

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

what did valve mean by this

Hello rectus

You are on the naughty list for Steam Frame 1TB Kit

When we did the one-time randomization of the list, your place in line ended up beyond the number of entries somehow.

As we work our way through the reservation queue, some customers may cancel their reservations. Even if that happens, you will never be moved into the reservation queue, and you will not be notified via email when we have stock available.

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

ugh i guess i can try hooking up the passthrough module to the index in the meantime

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

noticed that these usb-c connector boards line up almost perfectly with the power pins on the nintendo ds some tpu printing and soldering later, i can power my ds (with original dying battery) off a power bank

Some USB-C female connector modules, with one inserted into a flexible 3D printed TPU shell, with the original Nintendo DS power connector printed on the opposite end.

The adapter inserted into a worn Nintendo DS. Nothing suspicious is in the card slot.

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

tpu infill cookie dinner

A flat cylinder made out of flexible TPU filament shaped into two different kinds of 3D printer infill. A glass of water is next to it.

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

turned my old falling apart office chair into a pilot seat/posting station using a bunch of old junk i had lying around this awful ikea chair is much better as a recliner with fixed legs

Seat and back of an old IKEA office chair, with the spokes of the bottom bit remade into legs. A Thrustmaster Warthog flightstick and throttle is bolted onto the chair, along with a shelf for a keyboard and custom trackball. Some awful Saitek pedals are velcroed into the rug in front of the chair. A rats nest of USB cables snakes along the floor.

Same but with a lot of old PC game boxes barely visible in a bookshelf.

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

i think something happened

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

i just saw a very tame grey budgie eating seeds in some bushes outside anyone in stockholm lose one?

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

that's the gun abe himself would have pulled

Shinzo Abe in the horizon with the captions "Have Sex" and "See you space cowboy".

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

i don't think it's possible to ship items with refrigerants between the US and europe with a courier. even if it did, the costs would be many times the product cost. it's also 110 volt, so it would need a transformer. unfortunately the vendors don't want to import any good ACs into europe

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

i'm seeing they are finally selling portable split units that are rated for more than cooling a camper. the compressor is probably still in te inside part though

Andersson ARC 4.0, Cooling: 3500W, Power draw 1200W

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

they just keep getting better

I think the depth map is at least reprojected correctly this time.

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

cool looking depth map generation artifact

A very red pair of completely misprojected depthmaps, with a black grid that's not supposed to be there.

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

updated my passthrough openxr layer. it now bypasses the steamvr camera frame processing, which drops latency by more than one frame, and the valve index camera is no longer weirdly desaturated and over-gamma'd. also improved the stereo filtering a bit, and put more of it on the gpu

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

two great tit babies fledged out of one of our nest boxes today, with more still inside. (the ones in the camera box sadly didn't make it)

Great tit fledgling stating on a concrete slab. It still has its Bernie Sanders hair tufts.

Great tit fledgling hiding in a magnolia.

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

trying to convert the valve index camera feed from interleaved YUYV 4:2:2 to RGB. does anyone know why only the second luma channel in the input has these horrible sharp artifacts?

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

figured out how to make my openxr api layer automatically launch a renderdoc capture instance, and how to send it an end of frame marker from vulkan. now i can just attach the renderdoc ui to any running openxr app and capture my offscreen asynchronous vulkan renderer with the capture button

RenderDoc UI showing it being attached to hello_xr, with it detecting both Vulkan and D3D11 running. A frame has been captured from each API.

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

climb on top of mom to poop

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

the babies are getting bigger

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

the plans are put into action as we speak

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

zero to 10x mouth in an instant

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

all 10 babies confirmed hatched

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

the babies still look healthy

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

counting at least 8 babies visible

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

babies! 6 out of 10 eggs have hatched. it's raining today so both parents look soaked

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

neat! the mixed reality/passthrough features in the new x-plane 12 beta work out of the box (using my api layer) with the valve index. should work with any steamvr headset with camera access nice to see devs finally adopting openxr environment blend modes

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Rectus @rectus.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

saw a very tiny butterfly today