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Dmitri Popov
Personal blog of an amateur airplane photographer, Linux user, and clues coder.
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check METAR and TAF instead of weather forecast
Promising not to do something ever again is a tall order, but at least I'm going to give it a try. So here's what I'll avoid buying in the future:
This is my 2025 report.
Guten Rutsch, NUE! Thank you for all good moments, nice surprises, iced coffee, and delicious Brezen!
Enabling an external USB Wi-Fi dongle on a Linux machine is a skill that is hardly in high demand these days -- until you have a Wi-Fi-deficient machine, and you want to add it to your wireless network. That was the exact problem I faced...
I don't know if bit rot can be a real problem, but I have zero desire to find out when it's too late. So I've tweaked and extended the Bash shell scripts I use to back up data to my data fridge. Now, instead of a single script, I have...
I woke up on Monday, and while still not completely awake, reached for my smartphone to check Flightradar24 to see if there is anything interesting happening at NUE. And, boy, I was in for a nice surprise! A Boeing 777-200 operated by...
Even with everything that's going on in our lives right now, I quietly managed to work on Sky scraper. Firstly, I renamed it to TERMINAL-1090. Why? Because while I liked the Sky scraper name, it felt a bit too generic. The new name is...
This time, it was 54+04. Surprisingly, the machine arrived on time, but it didn't land. Instead, it flew over the RWY 10 and disappeared into the foggy skies. That gave me an opportunity to capture the airplane from eye level, which...
Moving from Firefox to Orion has been a success in all respects, except one: I've lost the ability to send tabs from one device to another. I've tried several approaches, but most of them were too kludgy to be practical. Last night, I...
It's Hack Week at SUSE, and it's my last one. This time around, I decide to spend part of the week on fixing and cleaning a Technics Hi-Fi stack I bought for a pittance, without electrocuting myself. The SA-EX100 AV control stereo...
It has been a while since I visited the rooftop of the P2 parking garage, waiting for hours for a military airplane to capture. So when I saw that a Luftwaffe Airbus A400M was scheduled to make an appearance in NUE, I gladly seized the...
1. I finally decided it's time to give 3D printing a try, and I've bought myself a Bambu Lab A1 mini 3D printer. It's the cheapest and most user-friendly 3D printer I could find. And after a couple of nights of monkeying around with it,...
With our upcoming move, we have less time and less money with every passing day, so we promised ourselves that we would take advantage of as many opportunities to visit our favorite places as possible. So last weekend we went for an...