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beko, 1 month ago to Cats

https://beko.famkos.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/1713702108456-01-scaled.jpegThis old cat is now at an age where I have to consider building him some stairs for the sofa :/

https://beko.famkos.net/2024/04/21/15629165/

#cats

beko, 1 month ago to random

Visited the #lotl concert in #Stuttgart today and had a blast. Been years that I went to LKA Longhorn. Like.. dunno.. 20 or so? And nothing changed 😄

https://beko.famkos.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/1713699617550-01-scaled.jpegShow was great, felt familiar, what I really like. My personal highlight was “Unstoppable” (originally by Sia).

https://beko.famkos.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/1713699642383-01-scaled.jpegWe did hear the struggle in the voice though. Band just recovered from Covid apparently. Hope they don’t overdo it 😅

https://beko.famkos.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/1713699687604-01-scaled.jpegAnyway, for the curious: The set list “15 Years Of #LordOfTheLost” is available on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2yZvahybiLwDjDJUjldqef (yes yes Spotify evil).

https://beko.famkos.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/1713654330773-01-scaled.jpeghttps://beko.famkos.net/2024/04/21/15-years-of-lord-of-the-lost/

#LordOfTheLost #lotl #Stuttgart

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beko, 1 month ago to greenworks

Apparently there is nobody selling a 40cm blade for the G40LM40 / 25157 40V lawnmower by #Greenworks outside of the UK – or claims a shipping time of seven months! Is this the result of Brexit?

Well fck this. I ordered a 41cm blade for the G40LM41 / G24X2LM41 model on a hunch. This one was available. Looks like the fastening bolt is the same. Could confirm this when it arrived 4 days later.

https://beko.famkos.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/1713029985718-01-scaled.jpegSadly it didn’t fit (no security clearance) – which was expected, of course. The fix is rather simple though. At least when you’ve an angle grinder.

https://beko.famkos.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/1713009620546-01-scaled.jpegAnd what do you say… perfect overlap of all the bends. This will do. Attached it and went for a test run depleting a whole battery (rechargeable, I’ve 4 of the big 4Ah suckers for this one because you know… grass).

https://beko.famkos.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/1713009582739-01-scaled.jpegIf my guess is right this may be the last blade I could obtain for this lawnmower. What a shame. It’s doing fine for years and I really like the battery version. Less noise and no fumes are always a win in my book. It won’t stay though if replacement parts become such a pain in the… neck.

https://beko.famkos.net/2024/04/13/cutting-a-replacement-blade-for-my-lawnmower/

#Greenworks

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beko, 2 months ago to random

Alright, video of my latest visit to the historic silver mine in #Hallwangen finally transcoded and was uploaded. Pick your poison:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmhxBotXVWY / https://tube.tchncs.de/w/nBWF3pd9X4Th5fUV1fXE4G

https://beko.famkos.net/2024/03/17/historic-silver-mine-hallwangen-4k-25-fps/

#Hallwangen

beko, 3 months ago to random

I touched #Ardour and I’m in awe (or should I say #DAW? 🤓). What an awesome piece of software for all audio recording and editing needs.

https://beko.famkos.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/1709674742912.jpgAnd I’d never have found it if it wasn’t for #Audacity quitting on me yesterday. Which, in all fairness, could be tracked down to an Oopsie in the USB stack for the microphone. A good old fashioned reboot fixed this in the end.

Anyway, I’m in love and I kinda expected it already but @unfa really has a great quickstart video on it as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfTAKv4htDE

https://beko.famkos.net/2024/03/05/15629088/

#Ardour #Audacity #DAW

beko, 5 months ago to gaming

There are rumours that I “just checked” if this game works at all and finished it 6.5h later in one sitting. I can neither confirm nor deny that. I’m also very sleepy today.

I got this Telltale-game to my birthday and decided to give it a go yesterday. Didn’t expect much and was already kinda annoyed when the starter suggested it requires a gamepad controller (turns out it doesn’t – it can be played with a mouse too). So I got my good old sturdy Steam Controller from next room, jacked it in and… watched it crash. To be fair: I was starting it on Linux, and this game is not made for this. So I checked briefly with the ProtonDB and switched the version from Experimental back to Proton 8.0.

Smooth sailing from here. Game started without a hitch, the controller was recognized, the provided Steam layout worked perfectly fine and it did not crash once until I finished the game hours later. It would also seamless switch to mouse input when this was touched but I decided to keep playing with the controller.

The graphics are nothing to write home about. Sound and music feel immediately like home though, as my wife put it (we’re both fans of the books and show). There are some puzzles but nothing too complicated and – thankfully – sparse. Same for some quick actions that require to hammer a certain button in time (without penalizing hitting a wrong button too). The Zero-G walks are amazing and gave my brain something to chew on when the ceiling suddenly became the new floor.

I won’t talk about the story itself, but I did like that it shows percentages of how other players decided in key situations after each chapter. Kinda interesting to know that there are other outcomes and that also makes me want to play it again. There are plot twists, backstories that may be uncovered, drama, tension, violence, love and death (yes yes, it is a telltale game :D).

Can recommend. Get it and don’t forget to change the air filters 🤓

https://beko.famkos.net/2024/01/11/the-expanse-on-linux-pc/

#gaming #gamingonlinux #linuxgaming #TheExpanse

beko, 5 months ago to fediverse

Heh, I really have to find out how to not DoS myself whenever a blog article gets pushed via #ActivityPub 🤓

https://beko.famkos.net/2024/01/09/15629026/

#ActivityPub

beko, 6 months ago to random

It’s that time of the year again. It’s cold outside and I sit at my PC anyway so let’s crunch some numbers to heat up the place:

> Dez 04 11:31:35 morpheus boinc[20347]: 04-Dec-2023 11:31:35 [World Community Grid] Requesting new tasks for CPU
> Dez 04 11:31:37 morpheus boinc[20347]: 04-Dec-2023 11:31:37 [World Community Grid] Scheduler request failed: HTTP service unavailable

Or not. AGAIN? FFS, how long has this migration been going?

Feels like nothing changed compared to last year.

• DNS works: dig +short scheduler.worldcommunitygrid.org > 199.241.167.118
• HTTP works: curl https://scheduler.worldcommunitygrid.org/boinc/wcg_cgi/fcgi
• The WCG server? Not so much:

<html><body><h1>503 Service Unavailable</h1>No server is available to handle this request.</body></html>

Guess I have to look for another project. My patience run dry like the task list.

https://beko.famkos.net/2023/12/04/15628991/

#boinc #worldcommunitygrid

beko, 11 months ago to random

Habe heute morgen im Radio vom sog. “nationalen Hitzeschutzplan” (heat shield act?) gehört und in meiner Naivität fing ich bereits an mich zu fragen was wohl beschlossen werden könnte. Etwa der Rückbau von Parkplätzen? Anpflanzen von Bäumen und Grünanlagen in den Innenstädten, um die Temperaturen dort zu senken? Ausbau von öffentlichen Nahverkehr und Fahrrad-Infrastruktur?

Hier dann die Liste der Maßnahmen soweit:

• Warnung per App/SMS
• Ärzte informieren Ältere und Kranke
• Arbeitsgruppe auf nationaler Ebene (da geht es wohl darum ob und wie[viel] z.B. Krankenhäuser und Pflegeheime gefördert werden könnten um die Räume zu kühlen).

Achso. Wir machen also mal wieder das mit den Fähnchen.

Oh und Spoiler: Wir haben bereits eine App, die vor Hitze warnt. Kommt vom DWD (Deutscher Wetterdienst). Die warnt dann halt jeden verfickten Tag im Sommer GANZ AMTLICH vor Hitze.

Ja, ich bin gerade sehr gereizt. Ich vertrage Hitze einfach nicht.

https://beko.famkos.net/2023/06/26/15628625/

beko, 4 years ago to random

Oh wow. I’m following @Rob_Marshall for quite some time now but this one beats it all. “Wolf At The Door” is an interpretation of the siege of Stirling Castle in 1304.

There’s also a production video beside the rendered images and a lot of background information on the siege itself. Fiddling with Blender myself I’ve quite some understanding about the process involved so I can’t stress enough how freakin awesome this work is:

https://bobmarshall.co.uk/portfolio/stirlingcastle1304/

Featured Image © www.bobmarshall.co.uk as of Bob Marshall’s Non-Commercial Image License Agreement

https://beko.famkos.net/2020/01/26/the-siege-of-stirling-castle-1304/

#Castle #mediaeval #StirlingCastle1304