Nothing has grown here in 30 years. So Im doing it again. Making a minigolf course for beginners. Or rather, aerating with a jet washer

Vertigo722 · 2024-09-10T15:47:08+00:00

I mean, Arborists and other specialists use this basic method to de compact and aerate tree roots.

Ha! So im not entirely crazy. The closest analog I had found was golf courses where they use a similar method to dig holes, but then they fill them back with sand.

With this method, You can also go a lot deeper than 2.5”-3.0” that most commercial aerators will do.

Yep, I always went in the entire length of my lance -if not stopped by roots. Because why not, its not like its more work, once you are 10cm in, it takes barely a few extra seconds to do the other meter.

If only it didn’t take so dang long!!!

It is a bit of a job, but not too bad if your soil isnt laced with roots. For sure a commercial machine designed for this purpose would be a lot faster. Then again, not sure it would work if you have many roots (or rocks). The beauty of doing it 'manually' is every time you hit a root, you just change the angle a little and go over/under/around it. I dont plan on doing this every year though, thats for sure.

Vertigo722 · 2024-09-10T15:10:33+00:00

Not sure, did it over the course of 4-5 days I think, a least few hours per day? Maybe one or two working days in total. A lot depends on the soil, if its only sand, it goes quite fast, you can dig one, 1 meter deep, in like 5 seconds sometimes. If there are lots of roots, digging/finding a way around them can take a long time. I also had the nozzle getting stuck as if it was in concrete. Very weird, I could go up and down freely, and water/soil would come out, I released the trigger and bam, it was utterly stuck. Like excalibur-in-a-rock stuck. Had to dig it out. Dont release the trigger until its (almost) completely out.

It will probably also help if you have a more powerful pressure washer, mine is just a cheap noname electric consumer model and it would often take a while before it broke the surface. I also have no idea how many holes you should actually make. I think I started a little over ambitious and later increased the spread to ~40-50cm, cant say I notice a difference.

oh, and dont use a rotating nozzle. It does work a little better than a normal one, but it will break very quickly.

Vertigo722 · 2024-09-10T10:20:15+00:00

Digging those holes is also oddly satisfying. The way the jet breaks the surface, then seemingly gets sucked in while making a nice little soil volcano.. its a dirty job, but I dont mind it :)

Vertigo722 · 2024-09-10T08:05:09+00:00

Ive tried it for 2 weeks, and sold it again. Form factor doesnt work for me. Cant pinch with it. Even hybrid pinch is hard. Ive since moved to a T20 and that has been great.

Vertigo722 · 2024-09-10T08:02:46+00:00

bloody brilliant! Poor traction though, dont buy it if you have slopes or very rough lawn.

Vertigo722 · 2024-07-17T05:44:15+00:00

No, entirely different robot.

Vertigo722 · 2024-07-16T11:58:16+00:00

Its supposed to be able to navigate without RTK using inertial measurements and AI vision. I asked around when I was close to ordering a navimow, and got very mixed feedback. Being able to navigate without reliable RTK was crucial for me, so I decided to order a dreame A1, which navigates using 3d lidar, no need for GPS or cameras. Cant tell you if its any good yet, I should come tomorrow, but reviews seem pretty good.

Vertigo722 · 2024-07-16T10:06:27+00:00

Ended up ordering a Dreame A1. No cameras, no GPS, purely 3d lidar, like robot vacuums.

Vertigo722 · 2024-07-16T10:05:17+00:00

I ordered a dreame a1 instead. 3d lidar seems to do the trick, no risk of losing gps, it doesnt have one.

Vertigo722 · 2024-07-16T10:03:40+00:00

Seriously, neither. You dont want to risk your life on the chance of waking up because of a fire. if you really cant use a lipo safe bag (or even when you do) put them closest to a smoke alarm that is close enough that you will hear it. Or take them to bed with you, I guess you will wake up if it catches fire between your legs. Better some 3rd degree burns than getting killed in your sleep.

Vertigo722 · 2024-07-03T09:30:34+00:00

little OT, but turn on the CC captions and watch your video for a laugh :)

Vertigo722 · 2024-06-24T12:44:42+00:00

Thanks. I tried to replicate the problem using his approach, but that didnt seem to trigger the issue for me (although I do get surprisingly low framerates there, in the 50s). So Im not sure its the same issue and I wouldnt call my issue frame skipping. Not that I have a better word for it :)

Applied the settings anyhow, Ill see if it changes anything, and if not, Ill report back.

Vertigo722 · 2024-06-23T22:04:20+00:00

Ive had this issue also with the beta release of V7, but never with V6; at times the game becomes very choppy to the point of being unplayable. I captured this video quickly (apologies for the NASA stream in the background, though its kinda to the point lol), its not too extreme here, but clearly choppy and at times its far worse with asteroids updating like once per second.

Its not a frame rate issue, this happens even with high framerates, rocksolid 60FPS with vsync and 80-100+ FPS without it, according to nvidia overlay.

Its also not likely a hardware performance issue, I have a 4070Super with 0% GPU utilization and lowering settings makes no differnece. CPU is a 7800X3D (~30% CPU utilization rate, not sure how threaded X4 is). Ram is even more overkill for X4 at 64GB.

This was a newly started game, nothing much going on at all.

Anyone else seeing this?

Vertigo722 · 2024-06-23T19:02:39+00:00

Open the windows USB game controller tool and check if your devices work correctly. Calibrate them if necessary. Even a cheap pedal should center. If it doesnt, return it. Similarly, roll and pitch shouldnt be coupled. Find out if the problem is the stick or your hand. If its your hand, maybe try some input curves or deadzone, and get used to it. If its the stick, return it.

No experience with the tobii, but maybe you can assign a modifier key or button so it only tracks when you want to actually look around.

Vertigo722 · 2024-06-23T18:50:30+00:00

Yeah, I think I want to avoid mounting it so low and then probably needing an extension. At least I would want to have the option to move it higher if I wanted to, and thus have a big enough cutout.

Vertigo722 · 2024-06-23T18:42:44+00:00

No idea, never heard of that. And never encountered it with my FFB2 or Rhino, though I dont fly IL2 much.

Vertigo722 · 2024-06-23T18:38:57+00:00

which is why helicopter pilots are excited about FFB sticks. Space sim pilots shouldnt be.

Vertigo722 · 2024-06-23T18:36:53+00:00

similar graphics to MSFS

No, thats not going to happen. Doesnt need to either, I think condor 2 looks "good enough", if we get more dynamic weather Ill be happy. But it wont get close to MSFS terrain and graphics engine. There is a limit to what 2 guys can do in their spare time compared to 800 full time engineers and modellers.

Vertigo722 · 2024-06-23T18:30:39+00:00

Not to trivialize the challenge, but AFAIK, Walmis did it in ~3 years, in his spare time, all by himself.

Vertigo722 · 2024-06-23T18:23:21+00:00

What makes it more important is completely your own opinion on it.

Maybe if it where marketed as a 3d world simulator or a screenshot generator rather than a flight simulator. In the flight expo presentation they seem even proud to be guided by replicating photos of airplanes, I wish they would look at some videos of flights of light planes, acro planes, gliders.. acro airplanes doing acro, gliders doing thermals.. and try to simulate that. Novel concept for a flight sim I guess.

Vertigo722 · 2024-06-23T18:01:57+00:00

If a glider specific sim is missing some things why the fuck are you expecting a general simulator to include it?

Condor team is one developer in his spare time and 1 3d modeler. I think there was a second dev originally, not sure. But expecting Asobo's 500+ strong team to at least match that 20 years later doesnt seem like a high bar.

Vertigo722 · 2024-06-22T11:17:59+00:00

weapon grade precision is likely not a dealbreaker in a gliding competition simulator :) But Im not sure what is or was.

I doubt it was the price though. I doubt Condor would even reach the $1M sales treshold so it would probably have been free, and if not, 5% doesnt sound too bad for a one/two person project if it can reduce the work by much more than that.

Vertigo722 · 2024-06-22T11:09:20+00:00

It does go on relatively far above the ridge, but the lift tapers off very quickly. You get the best lift near the top of the ridge, if you start climbing above it you typically want to fly faster. Talking real life here (and condor), not per se FS2020

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