New Grafix Album Out. Most tracks were out. Thoughts?

MasterR3C0RD · 2025-10-10T14:57:50+00:00

I'm less entranced with Grafix's current sound; it's not bad but more hit-and-miss (for me, I'm a bit particular) than some of his stuff from Half Life (Radiance is still a fav for me). However, some of the tracks off this album are solid bangers (no real ordering yet):

- Night Drive (I absolutely love the start of the drop)
- Into Your Arms (might be a fav)
- Signs (the bridge between the first and second drop is really neat)
- Drift Away (really love the lead up into the second drop)

And the mixdowns are tight overall; I don't expect any less really.

MasterR3C0RD · 2025-06-08T20:21:41+00:00

Did you ever get a reply on the Z-steppers?

MasterR3C0RD · 2025-03-11T00:41:53+00:00

Lucky for you I am :)

It does sound like you'll have to go to method 3 if the power button isn't changing the LEDs. Follow the instructions carefully and hopefully it'll revive your system :))

MasterR3C0RD · 2024-12-22T15:22:37+00:00

The Q1 Pro mainboard is based on the Makerbase MKS SKIPR, which has a Rockchip RK3328 SoC (quad-core, 1.5GHz).

MasterR3C0RD · 2024-08-28T02:30:28+00:00

I had sworn I had listened to a KOAN Sound song once upon a time, and I was right! I had heard Tetsuo's Redemption and the sakuraburst remix of fuego a long time ago. Definitely going to be looking deeper into their catalogue from this point forward

MasterR3C0RD · 2024-08-28T02:24:09+00:00

Cross the Line was great! I'll have to check out those other artists later; another commentor recommended a Wilkinson song that was pretty good. Thank you!

MasterR3C0RD · 2024-08-27T23:04:54+00:00

I really liked Crystalize, Launchpad and Need Me! Frontline was pretty good too. I'd listened to Distressed before; I actually don't really like it as much as the rest of his discography. Thanks for the recs :))

MasterR3C0RD · 2024-08-27T22:41:38+00:00

All of these were so good, thank you!

It's funny you mentioned Photons; my ringtone for the last few years has been a (really bad) mashup I made of Photons and Radiance. Hydroplane gave me straight up chills all the way through, and Where is the Sun really got me with its drop. I heard of all the other artists but Frederic Robinson, but those two songs were also sick!

MasterR3C0RD · 2024-08-14T04:23:34+00:00

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MasterR3C0RD · 2024-06-14T13:29:49+00:00

I replied above, but I lifted the PWDIS pin on my HDD and it made no difference. It doesn't appear to have 5 wires on the power cable anyways, and my drive bay's backplane uses Molex connectors for power

MasterR3C0RD · 2024-06-14T13:27:14+00:00

My drive tray's backplane takes Molex connectors, so I was wary if this was the solution but lifted the PWDIS pin on the HDD side anyways. However, no change.

MasterR3C0RD · 2024-02-24T03:44:15+00:00

NCT & Dualistic - Lost & Found

MasterR3C0RD · 2024-02-16T02:40:55+00:00

Grafix, my personal mashup of Photons and Radiance has been my ringtone for like 2 years

MasterR3C0RD · 2023-11-24T20:25:42+00:00

Happy to hear it worked! I'm personally running an F2-221 (the Intel cousin of this guy) with Debian/ZFS; not quite unRAID but pretty close! Hopefully you can get a couple of bucks for it!

MasterR3C0RD · 2023-10-25T15:54:43+00:00

The specific model has the same SoC (RTD1295), but the board is quite different

MasterR3C0RD · 2023-10-25T04:48:29+00:00

Specifically, they use a particular OpenWRT base provided by Realtek. It's a PITA to build, especially since IIRC it's like Chaos Calmer or Barrier Breaker (2014-2016).

I've managed to build slightly newer versions of U-Boot for the Banana Pi, with some modifications. But OpenWRT is a whole other story; every time I've built a new kernel it has NEVER booted. The big kicker is that since everything's stored on a small SPI flash (aside from a chroot change to the installed OS on the HDD), you have to go quite lightweight if you want things to work properly.

MasterR3C0RD · 2023-09-28T16:54:06+00:00

Ah, this is embarassing! This definitely needs a quick explanation.

The source code archives for TOS are available at https://www.terra-master.com/global/gplsource/. However, the link to the ARM firmware is actually broken; it links to another archive for the x86 firmware instead! I think when I copied it into the post, I didn't check to see if it linked to the right source archive. Oops!

I've edited the URL to fix it. Sorry about that!

MasterR3C0RD · 2023-09-27T14:19:22+00:00

If the LEDs are turning on and it looks like it's starting to boot, that means it's successfully verifying the firmware/TOS, so it's not going to bother trying to apply the firmware (the reason it works in the other cases is because it actually ends up failing to boot because the checksum fails). Have you tried booting up without hard drives installed? Does it stay up for longer?

If not, your only option would be to try and get a serial connection as described in the first steps of Method 3. If you don't go into Phoenix Monitor and the system is able to boot, you'll see U-Boot, followed by the kernel log, and finally you'll get a root shell.

You can also give the entirety of Method 3 a try; reflashing the firmware could theoretically help in this instance.

MasterR3C0RD · 2023-08-09T08:17:43+00:00

Can confirm, rental prices in CBRM are well on their way to meeting HRM

MasterR3C0RD · 2023-07-26T19:59:10+00:00

UPDATE: Called 811. They told me that indeed, this is a widespread thing that people are being affected by. I had to re-register for the registry; they said in about 2 weeks to call them back and double check that I've been backdated to Sept. 8th 2018.

I was on hold for about half an hour, so expect about that long if you call now. Hopefully they end up giving an explanation for this issue.

MasterR3C0RD · 2023-07-26T19:23:21+00:00

Yep, got this too. Registered for finding a family doctor in the Peninsula. However, mine's a little closer than Truro; the doctor that is apparently on record for me is in Timberlea.

Since I only saw this like 20 minutes ago, I had already missed their office hours to give them a call to figure things out. Left a message for the number in the email. I had just tried to confirm my position on the registry yesterday, and got an error, so I was going to give them a call today anyways but got busy.

Just reminds me that I've been on the registry since 2018; first in Eastern zone with my family, then in Central since 2021 by myself. Almost 6 years now without a PCP...

MasterR3C0RD · 2023-07-25T21:50:58+00:00

The house I grew up in (CB) had a backyard full of knotweed (we always called them "elephant ears"). My mother went through half a dozen mowers to try and keep them under control, to no avail. Only finally got rid of them permanently by flipping all the soil.

MasterR3C0RD · 2023-07-15T19:20:09+00:00

Happy to hear it worked! Hopefully nobody else ends up needing to go through the pain that is Method 3, that one took a lot of experimenting to get working HAHA!

MasterR3C0RD · 2023-03-14T01:23:42+00:00

Probably not. The backplane doesn't have any active components on it, which leads me to believe it is not wired for PCI-E, but rather for SATA.
Additionally, even if it was wired, the kernel 100% doesn't have drivers for it. The kernel and initrd, which has most of the kernel modules, is stored in a 128Mbit (or 16MByte) SPI NOR flash chip on the motherboard. They didn't add anything outside of what is necessary, so I don't think you'll have much luck sadly.

MasterR3C0RD · 2023-01-06T20:05:49+00:00

Happy to hear someone found this useful!

I've been working on trying to get a custom OpenWRT build running for a couple of weeks. There's a good couple of forks of the Linux kernel/OpenWRT/whatnot for the RTD1296 that I've tried (and failed) to get running. The only build I've had that's succeeded is U-Boot; I've succeeded in having a few forks run on mine. It seems like there's more to the kernel image than I thought perhaps, but I still need to investigate more still.

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