Michael Hengst
@michaelhengst.com
Old Fart since 1962 and Gamer since 1972.
Alles, was in der Spieleindustrie schief läuft, in einem Satz: "EA boss awarded $38.6M after year of franchise success, studio layoffs, and GenAI adoption." (www.gamedeveloper.com)
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Schon mal Testparken auf heimischer Scholle -- 8 Wochen noch, aber er ist schon da...schneller als erwartet.
Ich gebe es ja zu: Dank Batocera hatte ich nie den echten Drang, mal etwas Neues auszuprobieren. Aber, boah, ist das gut...
Seriously, HP? Three years ago, the same pack was around 57 EUR. A new printer (certainly not HP again) is cheaper than that.
2, The last few years, GamesCom has been a mixed bag, to be honest. And the famous Exhibitors’ party 2024 was basically the last straw for me. So, I am excited to see old and new friends in Cologne again, and I am still going to work in the business, but so far as the show goes, that is a wrap.
1. The hotel was booked months ago; the ticket for the GamesCom 2026 was acquired when the shop finally opened. This will be a bittersweet moment for me. Because this year it will be my last trip to the show. It has been a full 25 years since the predecessor in Leipzig opened its doors.
I admit. I am late to the party. But this is impressive! And yes, it is software. A dockerized mail server.
Note to myself: You should not tinker with your production server :-).
Kleines Solarupdate. Unsere gesamten Energiekosten im Mai: 25,88 EUR. Inklusive Tanken, Klimaanlage und Warmwasser.
We finished our energy transition by the end of last year. Just in the nick of time. Every time I see recent gas prices or the current rate for LNG, I laugh all the way to the bank. If all goes well, we save an average of around 450 EUR a month (!) on energy bills alone!
It’s been two months now without a single U.S. IT provider for our critical infrastructure (except for LinkedIn, YouTube, and Blue Sky). The cloud, Office, chat, email, OS, mobile, browser, search, and so on are all hosted locally. Am I missing anything? Not at all. And it’s cheaper, too.
We completed our personal energy transition in 2025. Thanks to solar, an electric vehicle, and a heat pump, our total costs in April came to just 77 EUR. That is heating, air conditioning, fuel, hot water, lighting, and household electricity! With the old fossil fuel mix we’d be looking at 650 EUR
Holy cow. Just saw the speech PM Mark Carney gave at the Montreal 2026 convention. Now, this is a leader! In comparison, our politicians either insult the population, want to go back in time, are as inspiring as a lamppost, or make „politics“ by eating bratwurst, döner, or burgers in public. I
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Month 3 without FB. I admit, I miss my friends, but not the platform.
Sorry to gloat. We had to fill up the car again for a trip tomorrow. 1.20 EUR.
Little energy update. Total energy costs in March: 214 EUR (for everything). With our old fossil system, the power, diesel, and gas mix would have been 676 EUR. I would say, PV, EV, and WP for the win...
Well, we had to fill our tank (battery) again to 100% because we had a longer round trip ahead of us. With the old Diesel, it would have been around 100 EUR at the moment. Charging the EV (from 5% to 100%) was roughly 10 EUR. Just saying...
Not even spring just yet. Yesterday, the PV was almost enough to power the house. Including heating. We also started putting power back into the grid (shown in purple).
