Check it out I bought myself a desk pad.

Does someone in here know an open source digital will project?

It should at least send a recurring "still alive?" mail and, if I am not, send a message to mail addresses I choose.

I am not able to find anything like this and am thinking of creating my own solution for this, but I'd love to not having to do this :)

I own a Nintendo Switch. Saturday, for the first time, I wanted to play with some friends together online (yay covid). Sadly, Nintendo's online system does not include a voice chat on the switch, so we resorted to discord.

This results in the issue that I either play with sound over loudspeakers, thus resulting in a bad time for my friends because they obviously don't want to hear the sound of my game and me not hearing the sound from the speakers as well because I have my headphones on, or play without sound. The second option is bad because I use sound to orientate myself in games.

The solution came to me when I realized that PCs support audio input. My flatmate luckily had an AUX to AUX cable, so I grabbed that from him, connected the headphone jack from the switch with the Line input jack from my computer, told Windows via Sounds => Recording => Properties of Line In => Listen that I want to listen to this device, and I am all set. I hear the sound of the game now in the headset I connect to my PC, and I can talk to my friends with out them having to endure the game.

Solving problems can be very satisfying :)

After 42 hours, I finished playing through Cyberpunk 2077, basically played since day one.

My final verdict: This is an amazing game. A lot of the side and story missions perfectly captured what this whole genre is about (like Dredd imo). The whole game truley feels like a next generation one, even though I ran it on older hardware (no ray tracing for example). The story for some character brought real development for them and sometimes had me playing this game for hours straight, not wanting to stop.

It is a buggy mess though, feels unfinished every other time, and that can really take out the enjoyment out of certain scenes. The police system is a joke and just annoys whenever you accidentally trigger it. A lot of the decisions you take have 0 outcome to the story. The whole background story of you feels empty, they could have come up with something better in an afternoon, I swear. And every other mission is just sneak in there (or shoot in there) and steal something, then get out. The whole character skill tree is wayyy to complex, I didn't got any new skills for the last 20 hours before finishing.

If you just slightly enjoy open world based games which have a bit of character upgrades etc., I definitely recommend playing this game. Especially if you like to immerse in a Cyberpunk universe and enjoy some Rock. But wait for at least a year, until they fixed this mess and just maybe some of the core issues so many players brought up already.

TL;DR: In an attempt to unclog our shower, me and my roommate kinda flooded the flat of the neighbor living under us. In order to dry out the walls, we (and our neighbors) have to live with this noise for 10 hours for the next 14 days. Yay.

Made a Flammekueche with my roommate

Today was quite an eventful day. I am visiting my family over the weekend and we spend some quality time together today. We all gathered over a broken vacuum cleaner. It has been with my father for ~ 30 years, and was quite easy to dissemble. After we had it in pieces, a discussion followed what each part actually is and does. I got help from a colleague of mine, thank you at this point ;P Then we decided to cut the capacitor and temporarily replaced it with a very long power cord. The engine actually worked after we put everything roughly back together. My brother was able to find the (apparently) broken capacitor on the internet which was priced at 15 European bucks, so we were able to get a working vacuum cleaner for only 15 euros, or so we hope. Props to Miele for building such an easy to dissemble (and reassemble) cleaner.

Then I got a phone call and fixed some audio issues in my local church, for their Eastern stream this night. My takeaway from this event: Macs can not play Audio they get from an input source to their speakers. In Windows this is called "Listen to this device", and as simple as finding the correct option in the sound settings.

Over the span of Saturday to Monday, I developed an API \o/

On Tuesday, I wrote a wrapper for it. While doing this, @BiboJoshi was of tremendous help, thank you very much pushing me around pytest and mypy and such,

I spend The last three days setting up hosting of it, the server kindly provided by @d_Rickyy_b. Thank you very much for this and helping out tackling nginx. And also a big WOW towards letsencrypt.org, who made their certificate process even easier then it already was when I tried it out before.

The source code for this API is here, the wrapper here. If you have a usage for this project but don't want to host your own instance, you can PM me :)

Now I can go back actually following the lectures of my study program.

Tonight I learned that a poster which slowly detaches from the wall makes a very strange noise, and you will spend a certain amount of time in the dark trying to figure out what the heck is going on.

This is fun:

Update: My brother won the resulting GIF war, so he is going to get the phone. Sorry y'all.

Today, I finished reading the Rivers of London series. I read all of the works (roughly chronological) and bought most of them in their physical editions. I really like where the "universe" developes to in the latest writings, and am looking forward to the next entries into the series.

Writing blog posts can be exhausting. I was deeply involved in https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/release/irc-move/ and https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/release/newpipe-0.21.3-released/. The whole IRC network situation sucks because it was the result of very child like behaviour (bad children. Those in the kindergarten who just scream at each other and pull each other hairs. Those kind of children) of people in charge of the IRC network. It lead to me writing about four blog post and having to restart each of them, because of changing facts and our willingness to present these facts. And just having to read up on that situation sucked, not to mention having to use an IRC client for the time being.

On the other side, a very relaxed NewPipe version got released, so go on and download it because its a nice app.

I have a new keyboard which supports Bluetooth and RGB colours (those make your gaming experience faster I have been told).

Thanks grandma \o/

Look at it go

This is my solution to the programming task of my first semester and I just submitted that (sweaty palms). I think you need Visual Studio to run it, if you are interested in a very basic commandline calendar. I will publish the source code once I am allowed to (after presenting the solution). Btw, its written entirely in C. Yay requirements.