Morning. Found an #ubuntu mug in the last corner ☕
Week 37, 2021
How are my storagebox mounts today
I’m making heavy use of Hetzner storageboxes, a rather slow network storage solution perfectly suited for backup tasks. Sadly they come with hickups resulting sometimes in a failed automount status where the machine may not recover from on it’s own. That’s so common that I got tired of checking monitoring or logging in to each individual machine. #Systemd and #bash to my aid!
for i in {bob,alice,steam,punk,younameit}; do echo "$i:"; systemctl --host "$i" status storagebox.automount; done
Erblasst vor Neid und seht was die neue Schule kann. Allein dafür hat sich der angestrebte Schulwechsel für die Zwerge gelohnt. Endlich weg von diesen Digital-Verweigerern.
Codename: Gordon
The year was 2005 and I was playing Codename: Gordon, a 2D sidescroller set in the Half-Life lore, using Macromedia Flash Player run via Wine on Linux.
Apparently this game can still be installed by any Steam user with the command steam steam://install/92 because it was part of the freebie package “0”.
…and no single Proton was in sight 😛
Ymmv.
Kerbal Controller - the Basics: The goal of this tutorial is not to show how to build a specific KSP controller, but to show many of the common design choices and their pros and cons. The idea is to guide you to make your own controller rather than showing you how to make one with…
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Me in 2021: I’ll never understand live streamers.
Also Me in 2003: Uploading camera snapshots every 2s to people I was playing Ultima Online with, while downloading theirs in return and chatting via IRC.
Not much changed, eh? 🤷
Yeah, today I was reminded that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNkDJk5_9eU exists and I think it has not enough upvotes too 😀
Primary Buffer Panel
Okay, recap from the last making session of the button box for my #simPit. What I achieved this time: The LCD controller has now a place inside the contraption while the LCD controller buttons are screwed on the outside. This is mostly because I have no buttons laying around to be used instead. I did note down the pin-out of the connector though so I can change this any time. It has a funny LED though that has 3 pins, GND, Red and Green. Uncertain what to make of this.
The button box itself was put on stilts for the extra room required. The LCD itself is prepared to be added to the button box but I’ve to remove part of the former hinges because they are way too sturdy to be removed with a simple cutter knife. I’ll probably need a grinder or a saw and that’s work I will not do at my computer but in the basement.
Next was preparing the ICP in the centre. For this I created a new box of cardboard that is attached to the button box with tape that also acts as a hinge so I can “open” it to work on the switches that go there. I also noticed that my knobs for the rotary encoders or potentiometer are way too big. I could compensate this with more height but I don’t want the ICP to dwarf the button box itself 🤔 So… mebbe I’ll use smaller knobs. On the topic of knobs: Dem, the costs for decent sized knobs are insane. Like ~8 EUR for one knob! So… perhaps I’ll go for spray painted wood here. I don’t know yet 🤷
Yeah, and I got tired of calling it just “button box”. It’s not. It’s a “glorified button box mock-up with a gorram LCD made from cardboard”. So I decided that it needs a name and as a nerd I came up with… Primary Buffer Panel! Firefly fans will know. Others may educate themselves via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY59BYSrxn0 and have a laugh.
It’s also a running gag in the family. My van tended to loose all kind of parts while driving and when Serenity aired my dad yelled at this very specific scene: “Hah, just like your car!” 🤣
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