Thanks to Google Maps I know now that one of my neighbours has a website, because it picked it up as “business”.

The website was last changed in 2012 and aired in 1999 and was written in HTML 3.2 with StarOffice (on Win32).

I’m humbled.

Väter und Vorbilder by Nils Nils (Übermüdet)
Beim Durchklicken der „Woher kommen meine Besucher“ Spalte in WordPress hab ich über Umwege einen neuen Post auf DasNuf gefunden über Väter und Vorbilder – ein Thema dass mir...

Achja, das Buch von DasNuf habe ich auch gelesen. Sollte ich auch direkt nochmals lesen. Der Witz? Ich habe es meiner Partnerin empfohlen, nicht umgekehrt. Listen machen “wir” auch, nur anders. Und wo sie sich halt mit ihren Listen im Detail verläuft reicht mir oft die grobe Userstory. Zugegeben, bei Terminen habe ich auch ein Defizit. Dafür inzwischen ~12 abonnierte Kalender o0

Was ich viel interessanter fand ist die Ansage dass man sich in allen Bereichen abwechseln soll, damit beide in allen Themen fit sind und Bescheid wissen. Gerade die Kinder-Geschichten sind bei uns kaum ein Problem. Jeder hier kann wickeln, Fläschchen machen und so weiter und sofort. Der Rest allerdings? Da hat uns der Alltag schön eingeholt. Schönes Beispiel mit dem Wisch-Wasser am Auto. Warum sollte das bitte auf Richards Liste sein? Das bleibt nämlich auch hier stets an mir kleben und erfordert genau so wenig Know-How wie das Auswechseln einer Rolle Klopapier wenn diese alle ist.

Was mir am Besten gefallen hat ist die Idee diese Listen _sichtbar_ zu machen. Insbesondere die regelmäßigen Arbeiten im Haus. Und da haben wir direkt die Kinder mit eingebunden, denn die rollten schon mit den Augen wenn nur mal die Spülmaschine ausgeräumt werden sollte. Die hatten halt auch nicht auf dem Radar was ständig zu tun ist. Warum auch. Heizung ist warm, Leuchtmittel leuchten, Wasser läuft und Strom kommt bekanntlich eh aus der Steckdose.

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Did some space pew pew like it’s 1999. This is X: Beyond The Frontier. One of the very first space games using a “so called” 3D card. Haha, those crazy peeps at Egosoft updated it in 2021 to make it compatible with Win11 which means it’s basically running on Linux PC out of the box as well. Mapped my joystick and dived into it once more. Doubt I’ll play it much but that was a nice excursion down memory lane

I still have the original CD-Rom but when I noticed that it’s on a Steam sale for -,99ct I didn’t even bother to look for a CD reader. What a surprise that this runs at all.

I also have some short video footage. I’ll never forget that glorious intro. “Here is how the ship navigates… and action. Bam. Here are 1000Cr, the most basic shield and no weapons. Go! Trade! ‘Maps’? ‘Earth’? What’s that? Oh and you have to pay those Cr back. With interest.”

X: Beyond The Frontier (on Linux PC)
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Great. The new vacuum cleaner talks back. Just what I needed.

Mebbe I’ll disassemble it to find out how to replace the speech with something else. Munching sounds or so.

Didn’t get a haircut since COVID was announced first. And while I like the idea of long hair it sort of became a burden at this point. Drastic measures were taken today. Hello summer. The wool is off.

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I hacked a mod for X4: Foundations to get ship telemetry and targeting data to my “Primary Buffer Panel” via a socket. This is a demonstration of my simulated cockpit made from cardboard on a budget usually used to play Elite Dangerous now also used for X4: Foundations. This is work in progress.

My DIY cockpit for X4: Foundations (on Linux PC)

In use:

  • A Linux PC
  • A DIY Headtracker
  • A DIY Joystick (My Primary Buffer Panel)
  • A X52 Pro HOTAS
  • An AMD RX6700XT
  • …a lot of plumbing in Node-Red xD

This is loosely based on the Python Pipe Server mod for X4 that is sadly Windows only using Named Pipes. I fixed that for Linux PC by side-loading the library LuaSocket and starting a socket server directly in X4. That’s right, the Python Server is simply not needed now and companion tools may directly connect to the socket. It’s a nice bonus that LuaSocket also allows a UDP or TCP server depending on how it is started. That was some piece of work though and I’m still wrapping things up to publish my code changes. I’m also still looking for testers so if you’re interested get in touch!

So you _still_ think you can’t space pew pew on Linux PC? Think again. I do it all the time: https://beko.famkos.net/2021/10/16/space-pew-pew-on-linux-pc/

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Here are the humble beginnings[1] of a working example to read the ship status of in a format very similar to the Status File of

Both games are quite similar and by using a “well established” format it should be possible to use this with existing companion apps – like my own

It uses the “Named Pipe API” of “sn_mod_support_apis” – on PC 😁 This was not supported by this MOD so far but I made it work.

Well, at least on my machine 🤓

And yes, the pipe server works with some minor adjustments for other _existing_ apps as well. Here is a demo of with a data feed directly from X4: Foundations – it does not use the though, since that is not really needed, so I had to make some small adjustments in it’s connection routine but that was like 2 lines of code 🤷

[1] TBF the humble beginnings were back in 2021 (https://beko.famkos.net/2021/05/01/getting-into-x4-foundations-modding-on-linux/) but I kinda let it slide to tinker and build my Primary Buffer Panel (https://beko.famkos.net/category/simpit/) first. Other games made it easier to retrieve game data and I did learn a lot during that time but it was X4 that started it all.