Interests: Puredata vanilla, Neovim, Manjaro/Arch Linux, Hardware modular synths and old analog semi-modulars. All sorts of electronic music including techno, acid techno, psytrance, ambient, psychill etc. Rust, Typescript/JS, Lua. Maybe I will read one interesting book about DSP and write good reverberator one day.
All generalizations are wrong. Including this one.
All representatives of "chosen", "special", "better" nations — go fuck yourself.
After my recent podcast appearance at
@stayforever
where I talked about the optimization of RollerCoaster Tycoon, I finally found some time to also write an article about the same topic:
https://larstofus.com/2026/03/22/the-gold-standard-of-optimization-a-look-under-the-hood-of-rollercoaster-tycoon/
If you know German I'd still recommend the podcast, which also dives deep into the development history of the game 🎢
Project N.O.M.A.D. is an open-source offline survival computer. Everything runs locally on your hardware.
* Full Wikipedia archives via Kiwix
* Offline maps via OpenStreetMap
* Calculators, reference tools, resource libraries
* Local AI models via Ollama
* A management UI
Runs headless as a server so any device on your local network can access it.
Minimum specs to run the base system: dual-core processor, 4GB RAM, 5GB storage.
Project N.O.M.A.D, is a self-contained, offline survival computer packed with critical tools, knowledge, and AI to keep you informed and empowered—anytime, anywhere. - Crosstalk-Solutions/project-n...
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