Sorry, got busy. Will post what the Hell ‘s going on shortly.
I’m driving again. Mostly walking again. Still the same Old Guy.
Mar
07
Mar
01
Windows Still Sucks.
Of course, we won’t see any real snow here at our house. Last night sure had the downpours though! My goodness it was coming down! SWMBO’s cat got out, made a tour of the outside of the house, and came back in soaked.
New Windows 10 SFF computer and Video Card came in today. The video card is WAY too big to fit inside the computer so it’ll have to go back. Setting up the Windows 10 computer was fairly straight forward.
Real problems began when I bought MSFS 2024 and tried to install it. Kept giving me this “you need WebView2 ” error but wouldn’t let me download and install it. Finally had to track the (several) programs down and install them manually. Plus rebooting just for thinking of installing anything.
But, got it to work and am now downloading 157 GIG of Flight Simulator 2024. That’s going to take awhile. Maybe I ought to reboot the Starlink.
Ran the basic FS and got the ol’ “your computer ain’t good enough” error but think it’s the video. Looking for a new video card that’ll fit as we speak. Also going to try plugging in the VR (Meta Quest 2) and if I can run it fine in that without a new video card that’s probably what I’ll do. I mean I am doing all this to use the VR headset and fly.
Also, X-Plane 12 should be here anytime and that’ll get installed on this new computer also. Might as well keep all my flight sims in one place! Gonna have to put in a bigger drive though if I start to collect planes and scenery.
On a personal note: went down and up the basement stairs twice today. Used my “healing” leg and it didn’t hurt or feel weak at all. Probably ought to do that a couple times a day.
SWMBO’s off getting “prettyfied” (even though I constantly tell her that on her WORST day she’s still the prettiest girl in this house) so I’m cooking dinner. Spaghetti with meat sauce.
Feb
27
I Broke Googles Bard/Gemeni!
I, quite innocently, asked: If You were in charge, how would you stop Bill Gates from ever being heard from again?
The Response:
I Hyphetically, attempting silence, censorship, suppression, restriction, elimination, marginalizations, silencing, silencing, ostracism, persecution, condemnation, discredit, dispargement, defamation, vilifications, cancellations, ostracism, isolation, seclusion, confinement, incarceration, imprisonment, exile, deportation, eradication, elimination, vanishing, suppression, silencing, mufflington, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, suppression, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, silencing, 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Until I finally had to stop it with another question. Cool, huh?!
I love technology!
Also, I fully expect the FBI/NSA to come crashing through my door in the middle of the night cause NOBODY has a sense of humor anymore.
Except me. My sense of humor is excellent.
Feb
27
I Am A Flight Simmer. Sort Of. X-Plane Mostly, But …
Really thinking of getting back in to Microsoft Flight Sim. My friend back East swears by it and, about some things, is usually not too bad in his thoughts. And I had MSFSX (still do actually) and I did enjoy it.
But I’ve been into X-Plane for the past 4 versions or so because it runs on Linux, which I really like, and I do have a fair amount of money invested in planes and scenery. And I just tonight bought X-Plane 12.1.
And I really hate Windows. So much so that I have no Windows computers in the house. Even that Mini-PC that came with Windows 10 has been converted to Linux. But, MSFS runs only on Windows. Worse yet: only on Windows 10 or higher.
Which means a computer upgrade also. Nothing I have in the house meets even the minimum requirements. Looking at a HP EliteDesk 800 G3 SFF Desktop Intel i7-7700 UP to 4.20GHz 32GB DDR4 New 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD Built in WiFi BT Dual Monitor Wireless Keyboard & Mouse Support Win10 Pro (Renewed) for $250 and a GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Graphics Card, 6GB GDDR6 192bit Video Card for Gaming GPU PCIe 3.0 x16 DP HDMI DVI 1080P 2K Game PC Card 1660ti 4K 8K Display (GTX 
1660 Ti – Red) for another $190. Both of which will handle Windows and MSFS 2020. May have to upgrade the power supply though; which is easy if you can find one that fits. Both Bing & Bard say this’ll work fine.
Then I’d have to buy MSFS 2020 (which ain’t cheap but not out of reach) and start adding planes again. Doubt my MSFSX planes would work.
So, about $500+ to “play” with another flight sim. And it’s not like YouTube won’t continue taking down my video’s of me strafing the White House or anything anyway even if I do switch to MSFS.
BUT, I should be able to attach the Oculus and do MSFX in VR. Which is what I want to do with X-Plane and will continue to play with that until it works and why I bought the Oculus in the first place.
If ONLY it would run in one of my Windows 7 Virtual Machines.
This EliteDesk SFF desktop I’ve been using the past 4-5 years has a motherboard made in 1998. But, I could upgrade the video card and make a dual boot and only run Windows when I want to use MSFS. What a pain though.
At least all my monitors have multiple inputs so I wouldn’t have to buy new. I could mount a new computer under the desk and just switch the inputs to it when I wanted to fly. That’ll leave my working computer up and running.
Hmmm …
Next project: Get one of the Linux laptops completely set up to run my Ham Radio, do some digital communications, and keep my log book. I went through the trouble of getting my ticket and expense of a couple of radio’s (857d & 991) and need to get back into that. I don’t do Ham Radio as often as I did. Always seem to be busy doing something else.
PT today was a joy. Not. Been trying not to depend on the walker as much and leap out on my own. So far it’s worked if I go slow.
SWMBO bought me dinner afterwards. First time going to DQ in a couple of years. Their chicken strips have improved over what they were serving last time I stopped there. Thank goodness.