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just pulled off a classic ADHD power move:
- put the kettle on
- do something else
- forget that the kettle is on
- freak out about the sound

also this park is great, only place in the netherlands that doesn't have a ditch full of quad killing water every 5 meters

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Aand now quadcopter flying in video form. Felt great to fly again, especially with a semi-working recording setup

youtu.be/jore4sFqtTo

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might filter out people calling things 'webshit' tbh, ugh

min-maxing the grade i need to get for the exam is *not* good for studying

got some really good flying clips but im not editing till i've studied a bit for my exam on friday...

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oof 1 hr of sunlight left time to slam an icecoffee, shower and get some quad flying in

noise 

nothing like waking up to vacuum cleaner noises ughhhhh

ugh that blender gpu rendering is such a pain/just doesn't work on my linux

oh lmao of course it didn't transmit because the usb 5v doesn't power the vtx, need to plug in a battery for that

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ok it's a quad-side problem because my older (non-flying) quad receives just fine

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not sure wtf is up with my 5.8ghz receivers the spectrum is just empty??

tech grumble 

im all for teaching more people to use linux but "you should throw yourself into the deepend, just install it no dual-booting" is uhh a pretty privileged take

somehow not considering that the majority of people relies on that computing device being usable

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