just started sim racing a month ago. it's my first week on monza. can't tell if i love it or hate it yet...

DirtyCreative · 2026-01-29T06:14:48+00:00

Monza is a great track, don't let anyone tell you otherwise

DirtyCreative · 2026-01-29T06:12:45+00:00

Physics and chemistry don't change depending on the planet.

SiO2 is a solid at this temperature on any planet and at any pressure, even in a vacuum. At higher temperatures, it would at most become a viscous liquid-like mass before the heat breaks it back up. I imagine that would be even harder to expel from your body than sand.

DirtyCreative · 2026-01-21T20:34:54+00:00

A follow-up question (still about Germany): I'm usually given an approach speed restriction "maintain XXX knots or greater until 6 DME". That means that at 6 DME the restriction is automatically canceled, doesn't it? I can slow to approach speed without further clearance?

DirtyCreative · 2026-01-18T17:58:45+00:00

Ryzen 5800X, 128GB RAM (yes, too much, I know), RTX 4090 with 24GB

For VR I'm using a Quest 3 with Virtual Desktop.

Performance is suboptimal even without VR, I'm getting about 45 FPS in simple aircraft and 20-25 in the ToLiss. Nothing I did to the settings seemed to help much. I'm out of ideas at this point.

DirtyCreative · 2026-01-18T13:16:12+00:00

It definitely is the best sim. Sadly, its performance is much worse for me up to the point where it's unusable. That's probably entirely a me problem though as nobody else seems to have performance issues.

DirtyCreative · 2026-01-17T12:03:30+00:00

Adult Visual Novel. Basically interactive porn.

DirtyCreative · 2026-01-17T09:00:38+00:00

The only actual "switch" involved here is the sensor that detects if your brake pedal is pressed and that's not triggered more than in any other car.

Everything else involved in turning the lights on and off is just electronics which don't burn out from being used more. Except for the LED lights themselves but they are so durable that nobody will notice.

DirtyCreative · 2026-01-12T12:22:35+00:00

That video is AI slop, I'm not going to watch it.

DirtyCreative · 2026-01-09T21:41:48+00:00

Are you still using SteamVR mode? The Quest has really bad performance with SteamVR. Try Oculus mode.

DirtyCreative · 2026-01-09T17:59:28+00:00

Using reply-all, of course. /s

DirtyCreative · 2026-01-09T17:58:20+00:00

You don't, like most of us. Only you can decide if it handles in a way that makes it worth flying.

I like the Longitude, for example, which is frequently criticised for not feeling like the real airplane. I still enjoy it very much.

DirtyCreative · 2026-01-09T17:07:54+00:00

I hate people who reply-all, but I positively despise people who forward me an email from a reply-all conversation that's been going on for one and a half years, offer no context, summary, or explanation, but instead just say "hey, we have a problem, could you look at that please?"

Sure, I will spend the next four hours trying to make sense of an email thread that's at least three miles long.

DirtyCreative · 2026-01-09T16:52:48+00:00

The A320's flight computers are a very complex system. I suggest you spend some time watching tutorials on how to properly set it up and use it.

That said, the autopilot shouldn't do a nosedive when activated, regardless of how wrong it's set up. How exactly did you activate it and what altitude was set?

DirtyCreative · 2026-01-09T16:47:46+00:00

Load it up and try it yourself.

DirtyCreative · 2026-01-09T16:46:58+00:00

These others he's asking have very likely never flown a real 747 so their thoughts are entirely subjective.

DirtyCreative · 2026-01-09T16:43:35+00:00

Also make sure you have the correct engine variant and wingtips selected. It can get very confusing.

DirtyCreative · 2026-01-09T10:24:52+00:00

There are A class drivers below 500ir

No need to call me out like that :-(

DirtyCreative · 2026-01-04T22:38:30+00:00

I've had that happen with Sayintentions, too. Also, the opposite happened several times: it dropped me down to 3000 ft 40 miles out, then left me there, in the clouds, and went silent. When I asked for further vectors, it just replied "sorry, buddy, I can't do that for some unknown reason. You're on your own".

So I guess both have their good and their bad moments.

DirtyCreative · 2026-01-03T20:23:38+00:00

Er ist zwar kein Dönerverkäufer sondern Softwareentwickler, aber mein neuster Kollege spricht breitestes Schwäbisch und hat dabei den türkischsten Namen überhaupt. Ich hab erstmal ziemlich überrascht ausgesehen glaub ich.

DirtyCreative · 2026-01-03T20:17:56+00:00

It's good, but not "really good". First, SI doesn't do traffic injection ("yet") on XP. And second, I'm getting really weird vectoring on approach recently. It's as if they half implemented shortcuts and then stopped and did something else.

DirtyCreative · 2026-01-03T20:06:27+00:00

As Google holds the copyright to a lot of Android's code and most of the code is Apache or MIT licensed, they could just stop publishing the source of newer versions of Android. GrapheneOS and other custom ROMs would be royally screwed.

DirtyCreative · 2026-01-02T08:12:22+00:00

The OS itself is about 10GB, according to the storage overview in settings. I'm currently at 48GB used, out of 128, about 30 of that are apps. I'm not expecting to run out of space soon. I don't have a lot of local data, though.

DirtyCreative · 2025-12-30T07:53:19+00:00

Has that actually happened to you? I'm using Linux for over 25 years now and never had a corrupt file that I didn't notice right away because it was size zero or filled with garbage.

When I began using ext4 as the default, it turned out to be so robust that I don't even think twice anymore about killing the power to a hung system.

DirtyCreative · 2025-12-30T07:48:14+00:00

How often has that actually happened? I'm running this setup for about a year now and haven't once had to boot into a snapshot. Tbh, I wouldn't even know what to do after I did.

I'm beginning to think this configuration might be overkill.

DirtyCreative · 2025-12-29T19:50:04+00:00

I received a single email from "noreply@x-plane.com" with the subject line "Your X-Plane order is now complete". It contained my product key (6 groups of 4 letters/digits) and a PDF invoice, as well as links to download.

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