@kdfrawg Was sad to see Microsoft walk away from Flight Simulator. It had been around for so many years. Be amazing to see where it would have been with modern hardware. Flight Simulator X is still pretty impressive but it's going on eleven years old.
// @streakmachine
@streakmachine The final OS update I put on my 1st gen mini was the straw that broke it's back. Only thing it is used for now is an alternate remote for the Roku/AppleTV/iTunes. Otherwise, I think I'd wipe it and see if it helped.
// @kdfrawg
@kdfrawg I recall the last time I looked at stuff for Flight Simulator X, it was almost impossible to lay hands on. Particularly the custom radio panels and throttle quadrants.
Expensive hobby, too. You can have many thousands of dollars invested in that stuff.
// @streakmachine
@streakmachine All of those things sound more appealing to me than software development.
@streakmachine The new release, Horizons, isn't available for Mac and I don't think they will support it going forward. It's just too graphically intensive for the Intel HD stuff Apple puts in their machines now.
EDIT: You can play it on XBox One so there's a cheaper alternative than decking ourt a gaming PC, at least.
@streakmachine I don't even want to think of the time I wasted in the original, 1984 version.
All I can really do in this one is exploration as I can land on a planet and switch to doing actual work. I take off again when I need a breather or have long builds going.
My destination will probably take months in real time to reach at this rate and that's fine. :)
I find it relaxing.
Oh..Not dead.
Office has been hectic and my home-time has been spent with a vim session on RHEL 6 on display #1, Microsoft Code on display #2 and this on display #3
Porting old code to modern Linux, working on a new release and departing on a 65,000 light year journey (plus doing things like mow the yard, fix the screen on the porch, etc) have left little time for chit chat :)
@nitinkhanna 3.2 Ghz i5, 16 GB RAM, GTX-960, Saitek X52 throttle and Stick, TrackIR head tracker.
EDIT: Gaming sure got expensive. Used to be "Commodore 64 + Atari 2600 Joystick you didn't ruin by playing Decathalon"
@nitinkhanna Because they are barely capable of turning a computer on.
// @kdfrawg
I've done the following..
#vim Makefile.am
Enter things like -lm -lstdc++ -lssl -fpermissive and such I've not needed in the past
:wq
..more than I care to think about, today.