Week 38, 2021

Oh great, apparently my mail and address appears in the most recent data breach at Epik: https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Epik

Another company I have zero business relationship with that had the urge to scrape data just in case they get hacked one day. The worst thing is that this hack apparently happened due to an alt right context.

Thanks for nothing, asshats.

Spitfire Controller,Spitfire Controller – OKdo (OKdo)
Remembering complicated keyboard commands whilst playing a game is a real pain, especially when there are lots of controls like in FlightGear’s Spitfire,Remembering complicated keyboard commands whilst playing a game is a real pain, especially when there are lots of controls like in FlightGear’s Spitfire simulator. That’s why we built a custom control panel with real switches and buttons to make the in-flight experience much more realistic. Although this control panel was built specifically for this Spitfire

Another interesting button box because it uses not only an Arduino but also an MCP23017 I/O expander to get more switches connected: https://www.okdo.com/project/spitfire-controller/.

Should also just work with a Teensy too.

…and it also show cases 😀

A new build landed in experimental of featuring a new engine version with Vulkan render. That’s of interest for me on Linux PC because I hope to gain some extra frames since the need to translate DX to Vulkan is void. It also suggest to backup the old save files just in case but figuring out the path to the saves isn’t very straight forward. Here it is for me:

/drive_d/games/steamapps/compatdata/526870/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/FactoryGame/Saved

The number 526870 is the App ID on Steam. Depending where your library (steamapps) is you can work from here. Ymmv.