🔖 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.

I gave in and changed my event forwarding method in node-red for the Elite Dangerous Journal. This file is updated on various in-game events but in a way that makes it difficult to get new events only since last update. Another problem is that it’s not really a valid JSON file because it has one JSON per line but it’s not a valid JSON array. This is why it has to be parsed line by line and mashed together by event type (name) again to get the latest data for each event type per dump. Each event has it’s own…

Gna gna. Found out why my Ace Combat started to crash. The culprit is dwmapi.dll, which is needed for the UE4SS mod (Cheat Engine), so I can adjust the FOV – because the devs kinda “forgot” to add a gorram FOV slider to the game that I NEED and absolutely REQUIRE. Turns out something in there results in an Access Violation on Start with Proton Experimental (and 9). It works fine with Proton 8. I do not remember switching that but that was the solution in the end 😩 This is after I carefully tried lots of stuff like resetting…

Remember my proof concept to read IMU data of my #XR glasses to #OpenTrack? hodasemi wrote a #Rust connector based on the idea that works without #Breezy: https://github.com/hodasemi/xr_to_opentrack_rs – comes with a systemd service file so it can run in the background. Once installed the only step left to do is fire up OpenTrack 🤘😄🤘

We installed #Nobara #Linux on the PC of a friend yesterday and it took so god damn long because… dude managed to _repeat_ a typo for the password on the user creation step so we could not log in after 5 minutes of installing + reboot 🤣

My #ViperPit got an awesome upgrade today. It’s a pressure activated heating mat for the seat usually used in cars (12V are 12V 🤷). For the record: I have to heat full power to get my cave to 18C during the wintertime wasting a lot of energy. This doesn’t make much sense so I’m really happy with my solution that I also have in use for my office chair for years now 👌

Aww, the cat is napping in the ejection seat of the ViperPit 🤩 Now where am I supposed to play now? It’s my free evening. 🤓