Checking out a digital tool for household planning. It comes with features like the digital detox challenge.

I almost uninstalled it again 🤪

Looking for X4: Foundations players on Linux PC

Posted on 28. March 2023

Here are the humble beginnings[1] of a working example to read the ship status of #x4foundations in a format very similar to the Status File of #EliteDangerous

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 #SimPit

It uses the “Named Pipe API” of “sn_mod_support_apis” – on #Linux 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 #X4ExternalApp with a data feed directly from X4: Foundations – it does not use the #X4PythonPipeServer 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.

Shadowboard – Welcome to the dark side of teaching (Lernen kannst du nur mit deinem Kopf!)

Lightboard, Whiteboard, Smartboard, alles Schatten der Vergangenheit! Der EdTech-Trend für 2022 sind Shadowboards!

Banned in the UAE by

fluffy (beesbuzz.biz)

The other day I discovered that my site is banned in the UAE on the basis of “pornography.” The national filter criteria are pretty fascinating, and now I am on a mission to get banned for as many categories as I can with a single blog post! So, here we go.

Thank you. I really had a good laugh at this list 😂

“Subventionsprogramm für Spritfresser” by

Jan-Lukas Else (jlelse.blog)

Bei SPIEGEL habe ich grad eine Kolumne von Christian Stöcker – zu meinem neuen Lieblingsthema “Mobilität” – gefunden, die mal wieder ausspricht, was ich auch denke. Es geht um die (temporäre) Senkung der Energiesteuer auf Benzin und Diesel und dass davon ja die am meisten profitieren, die...

Kann auch nur den Kopf schütteln. Habe mich schon vor Jahren gezielt für kleine BEVs entschieden (Land halt) und die Stadt gemieden wo es ging. Fahren inzwischen so wenig dass wir einen wieder verkauft haben. Und dafür jahrelang mit schlechter Lade-Infrastruktur (geht inzwischen ja) und jeder Menge blöde Kommentare rumärgern müssen. Teuer ist der Spaß sowieso.

Und da gibt es immer noch Wundertierchen, die den Diesel wieder schön rechnen und munter weiter verbrennen und schon wieder fleissig Geld dem Modell Scheiss-Karre hinterher werfen.

Ich verstehe die Welt nicht mehr und der Welt wird heiß und heißer.