tl;dr: Siemens photo resistive flame detector QRB1B-A070B70A is a suitable replacement for the Danfoss 057H7101 LDS sensor, that is so end of life, that I couldn’t even find it’s datasheet anywhere on the net. It did cost me 35 EUR. Every time the central heater breaks down it’s in the wintertime and on a holiday or vacation. It’s probably some sort of law. So I was not amused then the heater started throwing up showing error messages of the sort “No flame detected”. This sometimes happens and it’s usually enough to simply reset the system to start another burn. It’s…

Played Metro Exodus (Enhanced Edition) and I liked it. I’m catching up on my backlog of games. One of the games that was sitting idle in my library for years is Metro Exodus. Unlike it’s predecessors we get to see a lot more of the outside of the post apocalyptic world of the Metro saga. I rather enjoyed this change of the scenery not having to crawl around in dark tunnels all the time and learning more about this fictional world several years after the world was destroyed by atomic bombs. It really paid off that I managed to avoid…

🔖 https://analog.sylwander.com/experiments/a-cartridge-music-player/ A cartridge based DIY music player with a boom box design straight from the 80s similar to the TonUINO.

Played https://store.steampowered.com/app/1542390/Monolith Needed 10.4h and somehow missed every single achievement 😆 The end was a little tedious (I mean at some point you just see what’s coming next) but the puzzles are intriguing and most are logical (unlike certain other wacky puzzlers). Plenty of nods and references to the genre and the humour is right up my alley. Heh even found some known names when the credits rolled 🤓 Zero hickups / crashes with Proton. Didn’t get into any dead ends too. Oh yes and it’s 70% right now.

❤️ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217245570-the-little-witcher In this delightful comic twist on the magical world of The Witcher, Geralt of Rivia is just your average monster-slaying dad, trying to raise young Ciri to be a good kid while teaching her all about life as a Witcher. Oh my… cuteness overload. Straight to my 🛒  

Got a late present for my birthday from my parents (we couldn’t see each other much over the last months). A brand new Raspberry Pi 3B+ for more home cockpit shenanigans 🤓 Man my parents are awesome.

🔖 https://www.deimeke.net/dirk/blog/index.php?/archives/4473-Zurueck-zu-Taskwarrior.html

Let’s see. Hope ActivityPub works again as expected. I guess I’ll live without the Redis cache for a while to see if everything works again as expected. The admin tax is too real 😩

🔖 https://ossrs.net/lts/en-us/ > SRS is a simple, high efficiency and realtime video server Mebbe an alternative for my current RTMP setup. Preliminary tests looked good but I could never push an AV1 stream *with* video though to Opencast even with “source” setting. I’m not 100% sure yet if I was holding ffmpeg wrong though => tbrl

Oh. Starting November 15th, 2025, Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock and all its DLCs will no longer be available for purchase on any platform. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/544610/view/570395033724780780?l=english It seems to be currently on sale on GOG so mebbe grab it if you don’t have it yet: https://www.gog.com/en/game/battlestar_galactica_deadlock That was one of the better space fleet pew pews. Sad to see this going. Guess their license expired. That leaves `X4` BSG mods and `Diaspora` (`FreeSpace 2 Open` mod), of course. Speaking of: There isn’t much talk about `Diaspora` but apparently they are cooking another campaign behind the curtains.