Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

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Three weeks of carbs.

4K HDR television is the best way to watch multi generation thirty year old video tapes. LOOK AT THE DETAILS AND COLOR!

I got the 4K AND 5.1 working from the PC! It's a nightmare hack but it worked. I ended up plugging an Displayport to HDMI cord into the TV. Boom, 4K at 60Hz. There is another cable from the HDMI to the audio splitter. Boom 5.1.

So, after all that, I'm still not getting HDR from the PC but at this point I'm happyish. I get 4K when I need it, 1080p when I don't, and 5.1 all around.

It works well enough....

4K HDR TV. 5.1 Surround Sound System.

Playing Atari 2600 ET. As punishment.

A question for my fellow Hispánicos.

One of the hard lessons of live once I left Texas was realizing what I called Mexican food was actually Tex Mex and my beloved flour tortillas were the exception, not the norm.

Because I hate corn tortillas. Like with the passion of a thousand suns.

But then I moved away, and found out even the corn tortillas were different and quite tasty. Which makes me wonder, which corn tortillas are the most authentic to you? The first (which I don't like), or the second (which I do?) I'ven ever had the second type of corn tortillas till I moved out of Texas.

When my lack of pinched nervepain , lack of blurred eyesight and lack of personal drama all come together, I still draw.

This is a sketch of a concept for one of my stories...the mental image of a person who gives up their cognition to another "identity" so that one can live for a short while.

Maybe I'll tell that story one day. It's taken me 25 years to tell two stories. Only 2083942390470293 more to go.

After a month of Sick->Vacation->Parents->Sick I'm finally catching up on stuff. I played with my TV trying to figure out what was broken on it when it comed to my HDMI setup and finally got everything set up I as best I could.

The TV now detects every device hooked up to it, so that's good. The Wii U and Switch play fine at 1080p and 5.1 sound.

The PS5 won't play at 4K for some reason. It maxxes out at 1440p, although the TV goes up to 2160p. It also won't play HDR. The TV doesn't detect it, and if the PS5 tries, it just shows a white and pink distored screen.

Oddly, Linux works fine with it. All the way up to 2160p. And while it's notorius for having issues with HDR, it seems to be playing it fine. The downside? OMG EVERYTHING IS TINY. SO TINY. I can scale the screen, but it also scales the graphics, so you lose the benefits of 4K. Which is fine - I cna scale it for computer use (Rare) and unscale it for media use (which I do 99% of the time).

Color and sound are really nice - although the sound wasn't an issue with the new TV (I just turn the sound off on the TV and let the 5.1 do its job). I use the Transformers Movie to calibrate color, and the Wormhole Sequence of ST:TMP 4K for sound. They went nuts with the sound mix there.

The largest part of my toy chest is now back on display.

I've always been a big Transformers fan, particularly pre-1984 movie. I never really saw then as a toys, though. More like puzzles. Sadly after the movie, they got very simplified and the puzzle already went away and I lost interest.

Still love those G1s.

Wait. You're telling me Hasbro sold me the same toy FIVE TIMES?!?!

Dang, I was a dumb kid. A dumb 45 year old kid.

Saturday.
In the park.
I think it was the eleventh of January.

It's good to be the King.

With some time to myself finally I'vebegun the Great ReUnpacking. Finally got the Autobots all set up. Poor Megatron is out there all alone. He'll get some company soon.

It's 2025...twenty years after the Transformers Movie timeline. WHY DO WE HAVE CYBERTRUCKS WHEN WE COULD HAVE HAD THIS?!

Happy Anita Bryant Day!

Silly rabbit! Tortrix es para Mexicanos!

This MEANS something.

The 4K TV is really angry with me. It wont' detect any of my HDMI stuff unless I very specifically power the connected device off, then on. I'm thinking it's my 5.1 Audio splitter. Or maybe that I forced the 4K TV to play a 240p Atari Game as a test.

A quick refresher on tortillas on my quest to make actually round ones.

Apparently I was making the testal wrong....as in not at all.

Parentalpocalypse Day 7

Didn't really have anything planned for today, but did see a commercial about the Quilceda Casino's holiday lights, so we stopped by to take a look. They did not disappoint....