🔖 https://analog.sylwander.com/experiments/a-cartridge-music-player/ A cartridge based DIY music player with a boom box design straight from the 80s similar to the TonUINO.

Played https://store.steampowered.com/app/1542390/Monolith Needed 10.4h and somehow missed every single achievement 😆 The end was a little tedious (I mean at some point you just see what’s coming next) but the puzzles are intriguing and most are logical (unlike certain other wacky puzzlers). Plenty of nods and references to the genre and the humour is right up my alley. Heh even found some known names when the credits rolled 🤓 Zero hickups / crashes with Proton. Didn’t get into any dead ends too. Oh yes and it’s 70% right now.

❤️ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217245570-the-little-witcher In this delightful comic twist on the magical world of The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia is just your average monster-slaying dad, trying to raise young Ciri to be a good kid while teaching her all about life as a Witcher. Oh my… cuteness overload. Straight to my 🛒  

Got a late present for my birthday from my parents (we couldn’t see each other much over the last months). A brand new Raspberry Pi 3B+ for more home cockpit shenanigans 🤓 Man my parents are awesome.

🔖 https://www.deimeke.net/dirk/blog/index.php?/archives/4473-Zurueck-zu-Taskwarrior.html

Let’s see. Hope ActivityPub works again as expected. I guess I’ll live without the Redis cache for a while to see if everything works again as expected. The admin tax is too real 😩

🔖 https://ossrs.net/lts/en-us/ > SRS is a simple, high efficiency and realtime video server Mebbe an alternative for my current RTMP setup. Preliminary tests looked good but I could never push an AV1 stream *with* video though to Opencast even with “source” setting. I’m not 100% sure yet if I was holding ffmpeg wrong though => tbrl

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…