Many years ago I tried different distros often. Manjaro (Arch based) was one of my favorites, but I always returned to Linux Mint. Mostly because it works and most importantly… updates don’t render my system useless. I really liked Manjaro, which I haven’t even tried in years, but eventually an update screwed up my system. …
Monthly Archives: October 2025
Pi Zero 2 WH arrived
I’ve seen the Pi Zero for a few years. I’ve read about it. Having said that I was still shocked at how small it was. I opened the box and thought they forgot the Pi. I saw a small box and the thing that stood out was HDMI, so I assumed it was some HDMI …
New z390 released
I know they recently revived this project. I see they released a new version today v1.8.4 .
Charged $84 for X Premium and I’m not happy
Pretty upset. I’m a tightwad, $84 is a lot of money to me. Saw the paid invoice today… cancelled today. I could have bought 2-4 nice meals… for me, because I’m a simple guy and I don’t go to fancy restaurants. Apparently I joined a year ago, as a small gesture to show support for …
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Auto pilot in the Beechcraft Baron 58 and King Air C90
Going on what I knew from flying the Skyhawk and Cirrus, I was somewhat successful in figuring it out. A little less so in the King Air C90. I use the term figuring it out very loosely, I mean in the most basic way… Heading, ascent and target altitude. This video helped me with the …
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Ordered Pi Zero 2 WH
Being proactive concerning PiDP-8. Can get it an play with it a little, even if I don’t get the PiDP-8, anytime soon.
X-Plane 11 flight plan error
Took a few hours flying various planes (Cirrus & Skyhawk) out of various airports. At one point I tried to fly a Cirrus Jet out of Ashville, NC (KAVL), but I couldn’t load a premade flight plan. I kept getting errors that I just quickly glanced at. What is wrong with this flight plan? Then …
Commodore 64
Very Cool This isn’t recent, but my first time hearing about it. “The first official Commodore 64 in over 30 years is here – a faithful recreation of the original motherboard on FPGA hardware.” Here. First saw here… Then here… And here… Dave… Christian “Peri Fractic” Simpson, the guy that bought the company, the CEO…
Document Ascend/Descend procedures in X-Plane-11s Cirrus
Wanted to do this using auto pilot, but forgot how. So figured it out and documented it in my Quick Start Guide.
Playing with X-Plane 11… again!
Story of my life. Get a little comfortable with it. Then leave it for a few months, then return. Then I forget the many little ways of X-Plane 11. I think I could get farther if Twitch had some videos of people flying normal general aviation planes. But nooo, everyone want’s to show that they …