Oh. Starting November 15th, 2025, Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock and all its DLCs will no longer be available for purchase on any platform. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/544610/view/570395033724780780?l=english It seems to be currently on sale on GOG so mebbe grab it if you don’t have it yet: https://www.gog.com/en/game/battlestar_galactica_deadlock That was one of the better space fleet pew pews. Sad to see this going. Guess their license expired. That leaves `X4` BSG mods and `Diaspora` (`FreeSpace 2 Open` mod), of course. Speaking of: There isn’t much talk about `Diaspora` but apparently they are cooking another campaign behind the curtains.

Visited the Black Forest open air museum Vogtsbauernhof in 77793 Gutach / Germany. This is a huge areal that has several very old farm buildings, that have been carefully de- and reconstructed on this site. There are often also tours, demonstrations or hands-on activities how people used to live in the Black Forest area but as a half-timber nutter I’m mostly interested in the buildings. These are from various periods starting as early as 1407 (though that’s an often refurbished exception). Shooting any sort of pictures with my smartphone camera was very hard because the insides of the buildings are…

In October we booked tickets for a ride with this historic steam train. Sadly that didn’t work out as expected. Something broke for the signal manager and the train was not permitted to enter the station and could later not leave it. We basically sat for hours in some waggon until it was announced that they won’t make the roundtrip this day. One way only. That’d have left us stranded so we left the train finally. We did get a full refund of the tickets though so we will try this another time. The locomotive, designated Lok 50 2273, is…

❤️ https://codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day-my-smart-vacuum-turned-against-me/ Pretty sure that won’t be the last we’ll read ott. Devices that get bricked when privacy is enforced.

“Ah,” said Mr Pin. “Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens.” He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where ‘traditional values’ meant ‘hang someone’. Terry Pratchett, „The Truth“. This is one of my favourite quotes from the books and one of the writers that influenced me most while growing up.

Caught one of our #cats in the #ViperPit this morning again. Guess I shouldn’t have let em watch #OwlKitty again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3rQ3328Tok (Top Gun with a Cat)

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…