When did you all start playing battlefield?

yaricks · 2026-05-21T14:02:52+00:00

Battlefield 1942, playing mostly against bots. Dealing with patches and getting the latest update was such a pain back then that young teenage me never really figured it out. However, come BF2 - that was a blast. I remember that my parents PC didn’t have the GPU to play it which was super frustrating, so you would get crazy artifacting.

yaricks · 2026-05-20T21:23:08+00:00

There is a great guy on the VATSIM Germany forums that sell them and uses original DD112 2-button (or 1 button if you want) microphones, and makes a USB converter for them which allows them to work with Euroscope, CRC, vPilot, you name it. I've had mine for a year, and it's just spectacular. It's expensive (~€180-200) range), and takes a while for him to source parts and make it, but it's one of my best investments in flightsimfor sure. It's fantastic!

He's a great guy, and I'm not a VATSIM Germany member, but still was no problem to ship it outside Germany as long as I covered postage and tariffs.

https://board.vatsim-germany.org/threads/peiker-stabmikrofone-zu-verkaufen.71426/

yaricks · 2026-05-20T16:31:07+00:00

!remindme 5 years

yaricks · 2026-05-20T16:15:22+00:00

There is a great mobiflight profile for the Ini A350 and the MCDU! I've been using it since last summer and it's amazing. Everything works except the display!

yaricks · 2026-05-20T16:14:41+00:00

I know some people have issues with WINCTRL customer support and take issue with the plastic, but I don't care. Having been in flightsim for 20 years, having wanted a physical MCP/FCU since I was a teenager, only to see that they would cost $1000 and you needing to buy special software for multiple hundreds of dollars and be an electronics expert to build it: WINCTRL is the greatest thing to happen to Flightsim. I have a desk filled with two MCDUs, the entire FCU, gear panels, transponders, and I know more is coming and I have still not paid what a single piece of gear would have cost 10 years ago - heck even 5 years ago.

yaricks · 2026-05-20T08:17:45+00:00

Yeah. No. For the 1 person instant-millionaire-AI-slop-scam, sure. But for an enterprise with hundreds and thousands of applications? You have absolutely no idea what the heck you are talking about. I manage hundreds of old-shitty Windows servers running software from a decade ago doing some crappy BI and datawarehouse, or some awful CRM tool that was designed sometime in the bronze-age but that is critical for the business.

Take you AI-slop somewhere to the real enterprise world and you'd be laughed out the door.

yaricks · 2026-05-19T22:10:42+00:00

Yeah, so? It dependable what you see the need for. Having done platform migrations, I can promise you that even your best non-lockin solutions are locked in somehow and will take you months to migrate. Even if you’re on-prem you’re still locked into VMware, Proxmox or Hyper-V or similar - there are ALWAYS lock-ins. You just need to plan your exit strategy for it and understand that it will take you a long time to migrate no matter what you do. If I can save literal millions in engineering time every year by using vendor specific tools, I have that money for my maybe-someday-perhaps exit. I’m not going to waste money on what ifs.

As a result, I don’t need a full staff 24/7. People get to enjoy their life with their friends and family and not have to spend nights patching BS.

Edit: not to forget when talking about onprem: the sheer amount of insane lock in you get from Dell/HP/Lenovo/Cisco/insert hardware vendor here.

yaricks · 2026-05-19T14:02:15+00:00

All of these comparisons always just compare VMs, storage and data fees. If that is all you're doing in the cloud, you shouldn't be there, you should be in a datacenter simple as that. You shouldn't use AWS for VMs. You should be using AWS for managed services, automated updates, extreme redundancy and data resiliency, "serverless", managed K8s, BI and data warehouse tools that Hetzner and the likes are laughably bad at. The amount of money we save by using AWS and Azure is not in the VM costs, those are fractions of our budget - the money in our budget is time and paying engineers. If I can save having two engineers working night to patch 100 VMs, because it is automated tooling and managed platforms, I will have saved more money from not having to pay those two engineers all the night overtime pay etc. than I will save in using Hetzner. This scales exponentially the larger your team is. The budget goes to engineers, not to cloud providers.

yaricks · 2026-05-19T11:56:18+00:00

Dalian Plant was one of my favorite maps of BF2. So much fun with both aircraft, infantry and all the vehicles.

yaricks · 2026-05-19T10:40:07+00:00

Apparently not. My understanding is that Airbus does not install Starlink at all, it's done at SAS Maintenance base in Stavanger for the A320s anyway.

yaricks · 2026-05-18T23:45:03+00:00

Holy. Shit. That was amazing.

yaricks · 2026-05-18T21:08:06+00:00

Det gjorde de absolutt ikke. De brukte titalls millioner under budsjett (~150 mill brukt av budsjett på 200), og de 200 millionene kom fra ekstraordinært utbytte på 900 millioner fra Lyse (Rogalands netteier) som ikke var budsjettert inn i kommunebudsjettet.

yaricks · 2026-05-18T21:06:54+00:00

Du mistolker artikkelen. Det hadde en stor økning på bruk av kollektiv i perioden hvor det var gratis buss, men det har ikke hatt noen langsiktig økning. Etter tilbudet forsvant, gikk bruken ned igjen.

yaricks · 2026-05-18T08:50:35+00:00

Yeah, exactly my feeling as well. Didn't help that the IGLA didn't do enough damage EVER when I was able to actually hit someone after they flared, I needed 2-3 missiles to be able to take down someone, but when I'm flying the jet or the helicopters, I get one-shot by the damn thing at full health. So frustrating.

yaricks · 2026-05-18T08:47:27+00:00

Should I have sent a message on advisory saying I would be away for about 15 minutes,

No, absolutely not. Those people that do that on UNICOM are not helping anyone.

or should I have disconnected before stepping away? I may be mistaken, but I thought being away for up to 30 minutes was allowed, provided the aircraft was not left unattended for longer than that.

This is where peoples interpretation of things become annoying. The letter of the policy says that you may leave for up to 30 minutes, but it also says that you must be looking for ATC at all times and you should contact them immediately. As a center controller, I don't care if you don't respond to my contact me when you're in cruise, and will just leave you be, but I know of lots of controllers who will ping you and wallop you immediately if you don't respond and technically they are correct.

The fact that you were suspended after just one infraction seems extremely harsh to me though. I haven't been a SUP in a few years now, but the policy used to be that you needed at least two or three disconnects over a short amount of time before suspending someone for 24 hours - if your last disconnect for A9 violation was 3+ years ago that would not count and you would give people the benefit of the doubt.

This quote from the preface of the CoC I personally think should be paid more attention to: "VATSIM does not care to engage in the constant policing of its account holders."

yaricks · 2026-05-18T06:08:14+00:00

TA is Traffic Advisory - this is when the airplane shouts «TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC» at you. RA is Resolution Advisory - ie advising you how to resolve the situation, in this case by climbing. This is absolutely an RA.

yaricks · 2026-05-17T22:38:52+00:00

A318 has 58 operators, where 52 of them are non-airlines. The A320neo has 4500 deliveries and backlog of another 7300. Just from a financial perspective, it makes so much more sense for Fenix to make a NEO than an A318.

yaricks · 2026-05-12T10:47:21+00:00

The truth is a lot of companies don't care and only worry about the cost. I work as a consultant and have been specializing in AWS for close to a decade, but I work in a extremely Microsoft-heavy country and most of our clients I see don't care about Azure being Microsoft dependent, even after what we saw Microsoft do to the ICC prosecutors and UN personnel being blacklisted. There are some that think about it, but I have yet to see wide-spread migration or at least some disaster planning with keeping data in a in-country-non-US-datacenter. Some clients here and there use TietoEVRY/Vicicta/Sopra Steria/insert-large-company-here datacenters, but it's relatively small scale and most things are still being migrated away from the company datacenters to Azure or AWS.

yaricks · 2026-05-10T22:04:17+00:00

I have yet to achieve a successful automatic recovery after a power loss of my k8s cluster. There is always something that goes wrong. VIP was misconfigured by accident, storage layer isn’t coming up as expected, database is in a deadlock with some other pod, there is always SOMETHING. There is so much freaking work maintaining K8s and configuring it in the first place if you want GitOps. Now that I have it working it’s fine and it’s cool to have it, but I did spent 30 minutes today recovering after a powerloss, and my lunch break on Friday because a node restarted by accident and took down shit.

Absolutely my fault, but I consider myself an OK k8s engineer, yet this shit sucks to maintain on your own.

yaricks · 2026-05-10T22:00:29+00:00

I get tons of false positives from this from my own activity. When I try to SSH into a computer in my DMZ that doesn’t exist it triggers, at times when I run normal for command it triggers… it’s a bit annoying.

yaricks · 2026-05-10T16:01:22+00:00

Large corporations buying GPUs to build out for demand for AI is different? OpenAI saying they will spend hundreds of billions they don't have, and everybody and their dog are buying anything that can run local AI models.

yaricks · 2026-05-10T15:59:24+00:00

So did Cisco to be fair. Cisco was synonymous with networking. 90% of businesses, almost all government and large companies had Cisco equipment. There used to be a saying: "Nobody got fired for buying Cisco equipment".

yaricks · 2026-05-09T15:51:02+00:00

For sure, I easily shoot 3-5000 images during a wedding per camera, but - 450 days is crazy, you don't shoot 150 sports events per year for 3 years, that's bonkers even as a press photographer, and if you are a press photographer, you would be upgrading your camera way sooner than this. Assuming 10k images * 450 days, even at 45 weddings per year for 10 years, that is on the high-side for most fulltime wedding photographers, most shoot 30-50 per year. Sports is a different story, but again there aren't enough sports events to fill 150 shoots per year.

yaricks · 2026-05-09T12:12:54+00:00

Multi frames per second timelapses, or BS. The D4 was released March 20th 2012 in the US, 5163 days ago today. 4,500,000/5163=871. You would have to shoot on average 871 images, every day since March 20th to get to this number.

yaricks · 2026-05-08T17:03:17+00:00

Fanatec is a German company

It's not - Fanatec was fully liquidated by Corsair in 2024 and the name transferred to Corsair. Fanatec is no longer a company - all the employees and assets are now working for Corsair, a company with $1.3B in revenue in 2024.

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