• MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    funny enough, i’ve got a guy on speed dial who does (my BIL used to be an F35 wrench)

    those helmets are really cool. you can see through the plane when you press the right button.

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    Once it’s in safe mode, just remove the en-US pack and install one of the European cultures instead. Gets rid of ads, but you might lose copilot too and I don’t know if that’s a good thing in this situation.

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    8 hours ago

    Just install linux bro, it’s not that difficult. You’ll have to compile the F-35 drivers from source, but that’s just the cost of having a reliable system.

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      I’d recommend using an atomic distro. Then if you get shot to pieces you can roll back to a good state.

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      It seems like they’d already be running Linux. I thought the joke of the post is that no aircraft engineers would ever trust those systems with a Microsoft trash OS

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        They are probably running a custom embedded operating system for small size and real time scheduling. While linux is capable of that now its support and implementation is still iffy.

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      It would be nice to have a distro with some basic flight control drivers preconfigured so we didn’t have to build from scratch for every airframe. Maybe wouldn’t get the same performance profile as proprietary drivers but something that could get off the ground. It could even be called AvioNix.

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    8 hours ago

    Simultaneously press the “launch sidewinder” button and F9 after turning the plane off and on mid-flight. Try not to aim at a place where people live. Then run “sfcscan /now” and kindly report back to me about the same.

    post marked as solved

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    I’d be so mad if the last thing I saw before plummeting to my fiery death was that stupid smug little sad face and a BSOD

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    8 hours ago

    Just call customer support. They even supplied you a QR code. What’s your problem?

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      Looks like the ejector switch. Imagine trying to scratch your balls mid-mission and immediately shooting out of the plane pulling break-your-fucking-spine Gs.

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        Better than ripping your arms off cause they’re sticking out, it’s put there to make you tuck your shoulders in but pilots who’ve ejected do have measurable spinal compression.