<umaxtu_mobile>
Cause i had my VPN enabled on my desktop earlier. Which is banned by espernet, so I signed in on my phone
* Scolar_Visari
seems to recall VPNs being finicky with IRC.
<umaxtu_mobile>
Espernet seems to have PIA's ip addresses banned
<Scolar_Visari>
Honestly, I'm still surprised IRC is in use.
<umaxtu>
its hanging in there
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<Scolar_Visari>
It's like that one elderly couple's old desktop that's still running on Windows 95 and Netscape Navigator. It's full of security risks and probably ought to be donated to a museum, but it's still going.
<umaxtu>
speaking of old tech, I recently got my hands on a dumb terminal.
<kmath>
YouTube - NASA Live: Official Stream of NASA TV
<Althego>
seems there is some problem
<Althego>
couldnt dock automatically
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<Eddi|zuHause>
now someone has to climb in and do it manually?
<Althego>
i think there is a remote
<Althego>
but they were talking about replacing a signal amplifier
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<SDS200>
Is there some kind of technique I can use to align engines to the center of mass without torque in stock KSP?
<Althego>
keep the vessel symmetric
<Althego>
failing that, just turn off gravity, turn off sas, and start engines
<SDS200>
I don't see how turning off gravity and sas would help against torque?
<Althego>
you see if there is torque or not
<Althego>
if there is minimal, the ship is just going up
<SDS200>
well yeah
<SDS200>
I did quite a bit of trial and error
<SDS200>
but after 10 tries of unsuccessfully moving my engines around I was wondering if there's a better way
<Althego>
ker displays the torque of the engines
<Althego>
move them until the number is zero
<Althego>
altough in complicated cases the fuel level matters so you cant have a forever zero torque
<SDS200>
hmm I guess I won't be able to play this game without a whole bunch of mods after all
<Althego>
i do
<SDS200>
yeah that's part of what makes it tricky
<Althego>
i build eve ascent vehicles in the soup era without ker
<SDS200>
I don't need a lot of fuel in my case but it's enough to make it annoying to do in a trial and error manner
<Althego>
built
<SDS200>
It wouldn't be as difficult if the center of thrust and center of mass indicators where more helpful
<Althego>
and since delta v is stock now, and there is radar altimeter too, ker has very little use aside from the edge cases like asymmetric vehicle torque
<SDS200>
yeah
<SDS200>
The thing with delta V is it's something you can calculate by hand
<SDS200>
but the torque thing is mostly a UI issue
<Althego>
i used to calculete them
<SDS200>
It's significantly more fun than eyeballing engine placement that's for sure lol
<Althego>
but then ker did the same thing, and i knew what they do and could do it just slower, i thought it was ok to use ker too
<SDS200>
I guess the thing about these calculations is it's fun to do them a couple times
<SDS200>
but at some point it gets a bit repetitive
<SDS200>
Still necessary to do it sometimes in stock since stock delta V to my knowledge doesn't calculate RCS delta V (?)
<Althego>
rcs delta v is about pointless
<Althego>
i always use less than 1 unit of fuel for docking
<Althego>
if at all
<SDS200>
I mostly use it to figure out if it's enough to de orbit some of my heavier tugs
<SDS200>
but yeah just for docking it's not really necessary
<Althego>
if you want to use rcs to deorbit, you could have used the main engine with less mass involved
<SDS200>
some of them only have rcs
<SDS200>
and if they don't iirc burning monoprop first is always more efficient
<SDS200>
so I can calculate how much fuel I need for the main engines afterwards
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<SDS200>
Given my terrible design and piloting skills I'm glad I got this into space at all lol - I guess it was a good thing I added some extra fuel after all
* SDS200
sighs
<SDS200>
I just noticed one of the wheels broke - somehow?
<Althego>
probably the fairing
<SDS200>
hmm could be
<SDS200>
well time to try this again..
<Mat2ch>
SDS200: do you have an engineer on board? They can fix wheels
<SDS200>
I don't think I have any level 3 engineers
<Mat2ch>
:(
<SDS200>
I'll just have to fly this again
<Althego>
you need to go outside kerbin soi for 3 stars
<Mat2ch>
which should be easy.
<Althego>
one damaged wheel should be ok
<Althego>
the mars rovers worked fine like that :)
<SDS200>
It won't be because it has to dock
<SDS200>
if it's not aligned with the claw it will just wobble everything it attached to around and things will flip over
<SDS200>
already needs quite a bit of tweaking with the landing gear as is to avoid that
<SDS200>
:/
<Althego>
strange that all the serious spece channels on youtube report on ksp2 :)
<SDS200>
ok I managed to do it - almost more efficiently before I mentioned to flip it over and lose some fuel margin over my previous attempt
<SDS200>
anyhow I added some ejection force to the fairing so the wheel is saved!
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<kmath>
YouTube - 8K Video: Dawn Rises on Spacex Dragon In Orbit
<Althego>
now i have to watch this tomorrow on the tv. and even that is only 4k
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<SDS200>
My best screen is my 1080p laptop screen
* UmbralRaptor
has, uh, let's see…
<Althego>
my worst screen is the 1080p laptop
<UmbralRaptor>
1920x1080 and 1280x1024 external monitors…
<UmbralRaptor>
also a s/1080/1200/
<UmbralRaptor>
1920x1080, 1440x900, and 1280x800 displays on various raptops
<SDS200>
I do wonder if I should get 4k screens as part of my next upgrade
<Althego>
i was watching the video full screen, what i rarely do with youtube. and that annoying green little alien mascot for alza jumped onto the screen at the end. i wanted to hit somebody
<SDS200>
lol
<UmbralRaptor>
Admittedly I could have gotten a 4k screen, but it seems silly on a 13" laptop
<SDS200>
you mean on the 13" laptop itself or as a secondary one?
<UmbralRaptor>
On the laptop itself (Dell XPS 13)
<SDS200>
ah I didn't know the 13" version had a 4k option as well
<Tank2333>
why does a 13" screens needs a 4k is beyond me
<Tank2333>
i guess marketing
<Althego>
look, even our phones are in around resolution
<Althego>
and nobody knows why :)
<umaxtu>
is the 1080p panel >60hz?
<UmbralRaptor>
SDS200: depends on the processor choices, etc
<Tank2333>
my one has 1080p and that is pletny
<SDS200>
I was thinking of one of the XPS series laptops as my next one for traveling UmbralRaptor
<UmbralRaptor>
Pros: very smol, and you can get ones with Ubuntu installed, so no driver [REDACTED]. cons: smol, you might prefer Debian, Arch, etc
<UmbralRaptor>
Also, 3 USB-C ports ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
<SDS200>
well what it comes preinstalled with doesn't matter right?
<SDS200>
I can just wipe the Ubuntu install
<UmbralRaptor>
Yeah
<SDS200>
just means I don't have to pay for a windows license I assume?
<SDS200>
also does it use optimus aka will I need bumblebee?
<UmbralRaptor>
I think that's correct? This ended up being a maxed out business one
<UmbralRaptor>
And unsure about that
<SDS200>
that's usually a bit of a tricky one with laptops
<SDS200>
bumblebee is a bit of a hack
<SDS200>
and I think it still doesn't have vulkan support (?)
<umaxtu>
UmbralRaptor, thunderbolt ports right?
<UmbralRaptor>
Uh, the Ubuntu ones have Intel video chips, not nvidea
<UmbralRaptor>
umaxtu: some yes, others no
<UmbralRaptor>
USB-C is not compatible with USB-C
<umaxtu>
somebody needs to make a utility that can detect and display exactly what each type-c port supports
<Althego>
"universal"
<Althego>
i got the solution, we need usb-d (see competing standards xkcd)
<umaxtu>
and the versioning is nuts.
<umaxtu>
USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 for pete's sake
<UmbralRaptor>
Unique Serial Bus
<Althego>
and gets worse with every iteration
<Althego>
i wouldnt be so sure it is completely serial, there are additional lines since usb 3
<UmbralRaptor>
hm
<SDS200>
<UmbralRaptor> Uh, the Ubuntu ones have Intel video chips, not nvidea < ah that's annoying
<SDS200>
Having a dedicated nivida GPU would be useful since I work a lot with linear algebra things