It's been a while since I posted, which isn't terribly unusual, but in part it has been due to performing a major systems upgrade on my home servers. I upgraded the operating system from Ubuntu 20 to Ubuntu 24, the Nextcloud from 25 to 30, and had to deal with …
My brother (LibreHacker) and I both run Gemlogs in Gemini space. If you are curious about that, I've written about it on here before, or you can check out websites like: https://geminiprotocol.net/clients.html and https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/geminiprotocol.net/ to get a better idea, but …
Recently, I decided to play around some more with digital modes while mobile, using my Signalink USB device to connect either laptops or cell phones and tablets to my HTX-212 2m transceiver. It is an old radio, so I had to dig around for a manual online to find the …
If you are following along from my previous posts, you know that I have been hacking this "retro game stick" all in wonder console that you plug into the TV and play thousands of games with built in emulators. Technically we met the goal already, which was to get rid …
If you have not read my previous post, I recommend you start there, because this is a multi-post challenge to remove and add games to a "retro game stick" that I bought. Hopefully we will do a few other hacks as well, but we will see how it goes!
Previously …
Recently, I purchased a "Retro game stick" online. For reference, you can find them here with these non affiliate links:
It is a pretty good deal, costing roughly \$40 and it comes with two wireless controllers that look like the original play station controllers …
A few days ago, I reviewed several Chess related OCR scanners that convert hand written chess score sheets used in chess tournaments into pgn files that can be used by chess programs and engines for review. Here was the last article, if you missed it: https://alaskalinuxuser3.ddns.net/2024 …
I've been on a chess tech quest.
After every chess tournament or quad that I play in or run, there are handwritten scoresheets. Each of these scoresheets are like a diary of the game, they contain all the moves that were played, who played, when, where, what board, and the …
As I've mentioned before, I am trying to learn about 3D game development by completing Udemy.com courses to learn how to use Godot. Today I finished another course about 3D game making and built this science fiction first person shooter.
While the course did come with artwork and models …
If you can see the above image, you will note that the subviewport is accurately displaying the revolver AND the 3D world is still visible. If you are trying to use a subviewport to prevent weapon clipping in Godot 4.x, and you see the below image (or similar to …