A Reddit post reminded me of the German webcomic “Uhrwerkmädchen” that I used to read in 2016 and forgot about. Digged out the link from my old bookmarks file of my former Opera browser and to my delight it was still going until 2024! Guess I’ve some catching up to do! https://www.uhrwerkmädchen.de/

Looks like #ProjectWingman has a broken Input.ini parser resulting in my #HOTAS mappings to be gone on restart. The problem is that some special characters, like a comma, break the INI format used by their controls implementation [/Script/Engine.InputSettings]. Have an example what the game writes to AppData/Local/ProjectWingman/Saved/Config/WindowsNoEditor/Input.ini AxisMappings=(AxisName=”Pitch Axis”,Scale=-1.000000,Key=Joystick_ThrustMaster,IncF-16FlightControlSystem_2_Axis1) The name for the key is something homebrew the game produces based on the controller type (Joystick_ or Gamepad_) and the HID device descriptor name. This example mapped fine ingame but breaks on reload of the game resulting in only ThrustMaster for each mapped control – and that joystick can not…

♻️ https://monospacementor.com/2025/09/free-linux-sysadmin-course/ Even with Fedora 👌

Re: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ch4a6ffPZY I really lost it when YT provided me with an AI summary of this video ticking all the boxes 🤣 Anyway, what others mentioned before: As a non native speaker I feel cooked. I’m already constantly pivoting between English, American and Aussie (that’s my 3 points as we were taught in school btw). Mostly _phrases_ picked up here and there especially from movies but lately also from AI because – (ndash :D) let’s face it: We see it everywhere so it slowly gets adopted to the own lingo assuming this is how people talk nowadays. Kinda similar to…

Nice haul from the weekend. A bunch of older #LoRa #Mesh hardware and a #piXtend SPS and #Raspberry (or Banana o0) Pis. First thing to do now is to subscribe to a bunch of #LoRa hashtags I guess 🤓 Stuff needs probably more recent firmware but beside old batteries everything should still work.

Hell yes, https://who-t.blogspot.com/2024/03/enforcing-touchscreen-mapping-in-gnome.html just solved my problem to limit a #touchscreen to a single display in #Gnome. While it is detected just fine it’s input was all over the place of my 4 displays when that should only work for a single display. Apparently #KDE has something in it’s settings where this can be easily configured. Gnome does not [yet?] have such an option in settings. There is however a way to enforce the touchscreen mapping in Gnome too! The real manufacturer for the controller of my new display here is still a mystery to me. Snippet from my $HOME/.config/monitors.xml…

🔖 https://www.digitaljoshua.com/modular-flight-simulator-panels-and-button-boxes/ Not often I’m mind blown by what some people come up with to scratch their itch. Swapping panels easily thanks to cable management kits is a great and cheap idea.

Me too, cat, me too.

Quick demo time: I got a touch display 17.3″ that will replace my rather old one in my VF-1 inspired cockpit panel. Pick your poison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX4LsyqYPCA / https://makertube.net/w/nCopvNbkvkwR9XcG5QPQ3i Mostly because of the bad viewing angle. I’m not a huge fan of touch but sometimes it is really useful and if I already spend money why not go the extra mile 🤓

🔖 https://github.com/FSO-Scripters/fso-scripts/blob/master/SpeedrunTimer/data/tables/speedrun-timer-sct.tbm Going to investigate – apparently FSO can use fifo pipes too and this example may help me get ship telemetry going for my #simpit.