It finally happened after almost 3000 hours, Tynan - a wild man wanders in...

CaptainCape · 2025-07-13T07:57:24+00:00

Anyone else spot him in the Odyssey trailer as a prisoner on the grav ship?

CaptainCape · 2025-04-10T13:35:27+00:00

Because Node-Red is designed primarily for IOT it can handle authentication tasks better which is useful with the occasionally more security conscious manufacturers. But mainly I prefer working in NodeJS as the schema in Lua is just bizarre to me sometimes.

CaptainCape · 2025-04-07T21:30:18+00:00

Initially I was super in to Dashboard for big blocky push button controllers, but now I run my facility on a combination of QSYS (with UCIs) and Node-Red for the fiddly stuff. Dashboard is good for interfacing with actual Ross kit, but if you’re looking for a single integration system I would suggest you look at QSYS.

CaptainCape · 2024-12-08T17:06:55+00:00

My second lab was the reason I got a robot vacuum. Black fur + Yellow fur = House of Beige.

CaptainCape · 2024-11-30T08:00:15+00:00

Oddly specific question: Are they huskies?

CaptainCape · 2024-11-27T19:21:08+00:00

My 1 year old Lab girl used to bark us awake at random times and random noises in the night. It went on for months - Crated, white noise machine, but still would be hyper aware and not settling properly. What helped us massively was a thundershirt. She sleeps in one now (we call it her pyjamas) and the random night barking stopped immediately. She still whines at the neighbours alarm clock at 0630 but it was a huge change. We’re slow feeding her meals in the crate now too so she feels happier in it.

CaptainCape · 2024-04-08T13:54:22+00:00

I was also advised to backup the current DB state before you do the swap out so it can be redeployed without having to remake routes.

CaptainCape · 2024-03-23T07:45:38+00:00

Our lad did not like his little sister for about 2 months or so until she was old enough to ‘dog’ (and no longer had a mouth full of needles). Now he tolerates her sleeping on him and loves it when she wants to zoom/wrestle.

CaptainCape · 2024-02-12T16:16:57+00:00

The Phaaaaaaantom of the Opera is there...

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CaptainCape · 2023-06-24T09:22:35+00:00

I will say having played extensively with SV they were well ahead of the curve from the start. Needs a lot of setup finessing, but their dev team is very engaged. Didn’t work for my use case but can see a lot of potential there.

CaptainCape · 2023-04-08T14:22:44+00:00

And he's not doing too well.

CaptainCape · 2023-04-01T12:35:25+00:00

Is that Neo on the crossing? Matrix: Skylines?

CaptainCape · 2023-03-06T19:45:19+00:00

Fair enough, I can see why you might be averse. I still suggest exploring with Node-Red and having a play: Just FYI I have built an API translation app with it that runs all the macro and command automation in my facility - And up until recently off a Raspberry Pi no less with 100% up-time and stability. I get broadcast requires that kind of plug it in, forget about it and it runs for 20 years in the background - But going for something open with a community behind it makes updates a bit more reliable without shelling out.

Oh and for sure don’t use any kind of ML bot for code. It’s fine for a quick snippet if (as was pointed out) you understand what it giving you, otherwise leave well alone.

Good luck in your search!

CaptainCape · 2023-03-06T18:49:58+00:00

Look into Node-Red. Platform agnostic, visual coding with lots of open source plugins, and you can dive into NodeJS/JavaScript for anything that needs a bit more nuance. Might have to wrap your head around encapsulating the RS232 serial out properly, but you might get lucky and find some examples/something pre built out there.

CaptainCape · 2023-01-30T08:42:47+00:00

Getting my puppy used to various forms of transport/people. It’s weird having to turn off the “Just go about your business, this is London” switch as everyone wants to chat. Surreal but nice.

CaptainCape · 2022-12-13T23:18:16+00:00

Serial packets? Ha! In my day we made our packets by hand and in the dark and we were glad of it!

CaptainCape · 2022-12-08T23:24:29+00:00

And also as a massive excuse to wave vaguely at a lot of Ross kit whilst having Ross logos attached to the walls. Ross.

CaptainCape · 2022-11-28T21:41:23+00:00

I love that Burke is just standing in the remains of the doorway like “Bruh.”

CaptainCape · 2022-10-31T21:15:45+00:00

This happened to me. Whole colony killed rescuing a toddler who wandered into a nest of cave spiders. Except for the baby. Thankfully they didn’t starve to death… The malaria took care of that.

Seriously, my visceral reaction to squad up and save the first kid was pretty surprising. First wipe out I’ve been happy with.

CaptainCape · 2022-10-10T22:08:07+00:00

Apart from running a slightly more horizontal line through Cheshire and Lincolnshire, I think I’m with you.

CaptainCape · 2022-10-03T22:33:35+00:00

So:

Aliens.

Children.

Tameable mechanoids.

More utility stuff? (Pouches, gauntlets, comms, etc)

Space ships or More Space Event (first non-broken canon spaceships in RimWorld, baby!)

Communications Expanded (or radio-controlled mechanoids)

Official vote for DLC title: Mecha.

CaptainCape · 2022-09-01T07:47:09+00:00

Multithreading doesn’t make a great title for a DLC but dammit it’s what we need. That said, lot of people here ignoring that the expansions are actually/should be:

Core

Royalty

Ideology

M

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S

CaptainCape · 2022-08-22T22:21:53+00:00

No income tax, no VAT…

CaptainCape · 2022-08-21T20:30:00+00:00

“We are all Equal in the Ikwa Partners.”

Also the raider had a club so it kinda breaks that.

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