ChiaraStellata
@chiarastellata.bsky.social
Engineer in VR and francophone. Interests: Japanese, braille, gaming, generative AI, anime, pop music, civil engineering, and math! 42, pan/poly/grey-ace woman. No DMs from minors please.
Finally found the ideal way to mix audio between two PCs.
I construct a USB-to-TOSLINK-to-USB audio cable using a Cubilux USB A to TOSLINK converter, standard TOSLINK optical audio cable, and Hifime UR23 SPDIF Optical to USB Converter, then on the receiving computer I enable "Listen to this device".
I construct a USB-to-TOSLINK-to-USB audio cable using a Cubilux USB A to TOSLINK converter, standard TOSLINK optical audio cable, and Hifime UR23 SPDIF Optical to USB Converter, then on the receiving computer I enable "Listen to this device".
November 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Finally found the ideal way to mix audio between two PCs.
I construct a USB-to-TOSLINK-to-USB audio cable using a Cubilux USB A to TOSLINK converter, standard TOSLINK optical audio cable, and Hifime UR23 SPDIF Optical to USB Converter, then on the receiving computer I enable "Listen to this device".
I construct a USB-to-TOSLINK-to-USB audio cable using a Cubilux USB A to TOSLINK converter, standard TOSLINK optical audio cable, and Hifime UR23 SPDIF Optical to USB Converter, then on the receiving computer I enable "Listen to this device".
Microwave your food at 50% power for twice as long. It'll cook more evenly.
June 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Microwave your food at 50% power for twice as long. It'll cook more evenly.
People say the "dark side" of the moon is a misnomer, because usually the sun is striking both hemispheres. But there is a sense in which it is truly darker: the far side of the moon is never lit by Earthshine (reflected light from the Earth) whereas the near side almost always is.
June 9, 2025 at 4:03 AM
People say the "dark side" of the moon is a misnomer, because usually the sun is striking both hemispheres. But there is a sense in which it is truly darker: the far side of the moon is never lit by Earthshine (reflected light from the Earth) whereas the near side almost always is.
On my bedroom ceiling this morning I saw this whale made of light 🐋
May 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
On my bedroom ceiling this morning I saw this whale made of light 🐋
Just got this awesome optical fiber taper, it's like a rock that magnifies things! Using it to help read small kanji! 😊
May 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Just got this awesome optical fiber taper, it's like a rock that magnifies things! Using it to help read small kanji! 😊
There is a difference between a song I respect and a song I love. Some songs I consider highly influential masterpieces but don't enjoy listening to them personally. Some songs are guilty pleasures that I love listening to while fully acknowledging they are completely banal manufactured trash.
May 12, 2025 at 2:54 AM
There is a difference between a song I respect and a song I love. Some songs I consider highly influential masterpieces but don't enjoy listening to them personally. Some songs are guilty pleasures that I love listening to while fully acknowledging they are completely banal manufactured trash.
Today finally got one of the new 27-inch 4K OLED monitors (AW2725Q), and it is even more beautiful than I dreamed. Incredible contrast and vivid colors, really responsive running at 240 Hz, super detailed. Everything from text to games to high-res art looks amazing on it. Cannot stop staring.
May 3, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Today finally got one of the new 27-inch 4K OLED monitors (AW2725Q), and it is even more beautiful than I dreamed. Incredible contrast and vivid colors, really responsive running at 240 Hz, super detailed. Everything from text to games to high-res art looks amazing on it. Cannot stop staring.
Just saw these migrating birds! They were at incredibly high altitude, barely specks in the sky. Their formation was briefly disrupted by a passing plane.
April 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Just saw these migrating birds! They were at incredibly high altitude, barely specks in the sky. Their formation was briefly disrupted by a passing plane.
Layoffs without warning, where people don't even get to say goodbye their coworkers, are standard practice, but they are hurtful and wrong. Security risk can be managed. Tearing people apart and destroying thousand of relationships overnight does incalculable damage.
April 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Layoffs without warning, where people don't even get to say goodbye their coworkers, are standard practice, but they are hurtful and wrong. Security risk can be managed. Tearing people apart and destroying thousand of relationships overnight does incalculable damage.
Rogue planet: Sun? I have no sun.
March 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Rogue planet: Sun? I have no sun.
Fun fact: if you travel 1.75 light years along the route from here toward Alpha Centauri, at that point the Sun and Alpha Centauri system will appear equal in brightness, and BOTH of them will be slightly brighter than Sirius, which is otherwise the brightest star in the sky.
March 24, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Fun fact: if you travel 1.75 light years along the route from here toward Alpha Centauri, at that point the Sun and Alpha Centauri system will appear equal in brightness, and BOTH of them will be slightly brighter than Sirius, which is otherwise the brightest star in the sky.
My ability to tolerate bad customer service is directly proportional to how good their hold music is.
March 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
My ability to tolerate bad customer service is directly proportional to how good their hold music is.
I learned today to my shock that the Moon and Mercury actually look really similar. They both have dark gray surfaces full of craters, and little to no atmosphere. Mercury is just a bit bigger, and internally has a larger iron core, but otherwise, they look just like siblings!
March 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I learned today to my shock that the Moon and Mercury actually look really similar. They both have dark gray surfaces full of craters, and little to no atmosphere. Mercury is just a bit bigger, and internally has a larger iron core, but otherwise, they look just like siblings!
I just finished playing "In Stars and Time" which is a 2023 indie RPG and it's one of the most impactful games I've played in my life. I recommend it to everyone. This is my Steam review:
March 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I just finished playing "In Stars and Time" which is a 2023 indie RPG and it's one of the most impactful games I've played in my life. I recommend it to everyone. This is my Steam review:
Recently discovered the artist Anly from Okinawa and she's amazingly talented, not only for drawing on all kinds of genres from blues to Celtic, but also for her live shows where she does her own accompaniment and background vocals using only a guitar and loop pedal! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZUN...
【LIVE】『Do Do Do』from "Loop Around The World"
YouTube video by Anly Official YouTube Channel
www.youtube.com
March 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Recently discovered the artist Anly from Okinawa and she's amazingly talented, not only for drawing on all kinds of genres from blues to Celtic, but also for her live shows where she does her own accompaniment and background vocals using only a guitar and loop pedal! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZUN...
Discovered the virtual singer HACHI recently, she has a spectacular voice, I think it comes through clearest in her live acoustic performances. My favorite track by her so far is this acoustic version of Manazashi (まなざし). open.spotify.com/track/6LlUlK...
Manazashi - Acoustic Live
HACHI · Birthday Acoustic Live · Song · 2024
open.spotify.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Discovered the virtual singer HACHI recently, she has a spectacular voice, I think it comes through clearest in her live acoustic performances. My favorite track by her so far is this acoustic version of Manazashi (まなざし). open.spotify.com/track/6LlUlK...
Here's a crazy thought: if nuclear weapons hadn't been developed, then we might have preferred thorium reactors to uranium reactors, which are much safer, and the anti-nuclear energy movement might not have existed, and if nuclear energy proliferated, climate change might not have ever happened.
February 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Here's a crazy thought: if nuclear weapons hadn't been developed, then we might have preferred thorium reactors to uranium reactors, which are much safer, and the anti-nuclear energy movement might not have existed, and if nuclear energy proliferated, climate change might not have ever happened.
Can I just say I love flywheels? Storing energy by spinning a big metal disk really fast seems so simple yet it's genuinely a vital component of the grid because of how fast it can respond. That's awesome.
February 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Can I just say I love flywheels? Storing energy by spinning a big metal disk really fast seems so simple yet it's genuinely a vital component of the grid because of how fast it can respond. That's awesome.
Just grabbed the latest version of Subtitle Edit (open-source subtitle software) and the new "Audio to text (Whisper)" feature is absolutely phenomenal. I can dump in any video file in any language and get out subtitles that 99% match the audio in 2 minutes, using a local model. I love the future.
February 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Just grabbed the latest version of Subtitle Edit (open-source subtitle software) and the new "Audio to text (Whisper)" feature is absolutely phenomenal. I can dump in any video file in any language and get out subtitles that 99% match the audio in 2 minutes, using a local model. I love the future.
All human chess players are worse than chess-playing AIs but they still play and love the game. If a post-scarcity world comes (and we somehow avoid debilitating poverty), we'll all have to find things we love doing despite their economic irrelevance.
February 6, 2025 at 8:39 AM
All human chess players are worse than chess-playing AIs but they still play and love the game. If a post-scarcity world comes (and we somehow avoid debilitating poverty), we'll all have to find things we love doing despite their economic irrelevance.
Trump's new policy to revoke gender-affirming care from transgender prisoners and to house them with inmates of the opposite sex is putting them at enormous danger of rape, assault, and suicide. I hope that legal challenges will be successful.
January 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Trump's new policy to revoke gender-affirming care from transgender prisoners and to house them with inmates of the opposite sex is putting them at enormous danger of rape, assault, and suicide. I hope that legal challenges will be successful.
I've been waiting eagerly for this monitor to come out for so long. Behold, the very first 27-inch 4K OLED monitor ever created, running up to 240 Hz! Unfortunately, it's already sold out everywhere! 😢 I will be patient. rog.asus.com/us/monitors/...
ROG Swift OLED PG27UCDM | Gaming monitors｜ROG - Republic of Gamers｜ROG USA
ROG PG27UCDM is 27-inch 4K QD-OLED gaming monitor with 240Hz refresh rate, DP2.1, OLED Anti-Flicker 2.0 and OLED Care Pro features to reduce the risk of burn-in
rog.asus.com
January 19, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I've been waiting eagerly for this monitor to come out for so long. Behold, the very first 27-inch 4K OLED monitor ever created, running up to 240 Hz! Unfortunately, it's already sold out everywhere! 😢 I will be patient. rog.asus.com/us/monitors/...
Killing bacteria is easy. They're super tiny. You can just like, step on them.
January 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Killing bacteria is easy. They're super tiny. You can just like, step on them.
Just recovered from a week-long pneumonia infection with antibiotics and the speed at which I went from "falling apart" to "basically fine" was breathtaking, like 2 days. Sometimes I forget how amazing modern medicine can be.
January 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Just recovered from a week-long pneumonia infection with antibiotics and the speed at which I went from "falling apart" to "basically fine" was breathtaking, like 2 days. Sometimes I forget how amazing modern medicine can be.
Because Disney has historically enforced their copyright on Mickey Mouse so litigiously, it's created a "chilling space" around him where many completely legitimate animated character designs were quietly modified or eliminated to reduce legal risk. I wonder what might have been.
January 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Because Disney has historically enforced their copyright on Mickey Mouse so litigiously, it's created a "chilling space" around him where many completely legitimate animated character designs were quietly modified or eliminated to reduce legal risk. I wonder what might have been.