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Penbu 🧩 VTuber
@penbuvt.ca
Programming, puzzle-gaming, music-making vtuber on Linux.

Model: Startist17 (art), Winry (rig).

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PenbuVT
Website: https://www.penbuvt.ca/
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November 29, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Thanks for coming to the stream! We of course had to play that famous recorder song.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I got a second UPS for my new NAS that I hooked up my router to. Prior to this, it wouldn't have made sense to switch scenes since the stream would be disconnected.

I probably have about 10+min of runtime with the UPS, but my monitor isn't hooked up one, so I wouldn't be able to see anyway.
November 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
apcaccess prints the UPS stats. Notably, it has a STATUS property that will be ONLINE or ONBATT (or others that I hopefully won't run into). I wrote a wrapper script that checks for that:

apcaccess -p STATUS | grep -q ONLINE

and hooked it up in Advanced Scene Switcher in OBS.

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November 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
You got it! I have an APC UPS that can be connected to a PC through a USB cable. I don't know how you'd do this on Windows, but on Linux I use apcupsd to monitor the UPS's status. It's mainly used to shut down or hibernate the PC if the UPS is low on juice, but you can get creative with it.

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November 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
If you're thinking this would be a very rare occurrence, you'd be right. But it has happened to me once before.
November 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Walking in the Moonlight (alto recorder short cover)
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November 26, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Thanks for coming to the stream! After messing around for the first 2 hours with different techniques, we went back to good ol' direct transcription and got up to the first chorus done.

The work so far is in the repo: github.com/penbuvt/fans...
November 21, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I did eventually get it working. Now it's going to be a matter of figuring out how to allocate my disks and transfer the data.
November 20, 2025 at 6:06 AM
That is to say, there probably won't be a stream tonight.
November 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
It will likely be work sessions this week.
November 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I don't have pictures, but this failed attempt got turned into fried dough afterwards.
November 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I bought a waffle maker at a thrift store so I could use up some pancake mix.

I tried using it for the first time yesterday, never having made waffles before. I thought you could use the pancake batter as-is, but no, it turns out you need to add oil to thicken it for waffles.
November 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I tried using this input style with other Tetris games and it just doesn't work as well, in part because of the higher risk of accidental hard drops.
November 14, 2025 at 6:08 AM