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Continuing from Update 3, still heading west from Albuquerque the landscape started to gain some interesting features, the first hills I’ve seen for few hours!
Following I-40 where it parallels Route 66:
Approaching Kingman, AZ:
Vehicle Proving Grounds, and Yucca, AZ:
Landing at Edwards AFB to refuel:
Following I-215 into San Bernadino:
Over LA:
A while back I stumbled across basic zsh prompt customisation to show the current git branch I’m working on. Some point later I also added oh-my-zsh but kept the default theme as it worked fine for my needs and was unobtrusive.
At some point recently I had a couple of terminal customisation videos come up in my recommended feed, and watching one out of curiousity I was amazed at just how far you can go, especially with displaying all sorts of info as badges in your prompt.
Just so I don’t forget how I got here, I installed powerlevel10k using brew:
brew install powerlevel10k
echo "source $(brew --prefix)/share/powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k.zsh-theme" >>~/.zshrc
and then used the interactive customisation menus which run if you restart zsh with:
exec zsh
20 years back I was excited by the prospect of a version of Windows that replaced the DOS based file system with a database based system called WinFS, although disappointed that it was forever delayed. I continued to be excited by the prospect that it may ship as an add-on for XP and Vista. Another year passed and that idea was also canned.
This post on The Register caught my eye this week, discussing some history behind Longhorn, and an overview by Dave Plummer over on his YouTube channel. Fascinating to hear some of the behind the scenes story, but sad it never saw light of day.
I haven’t posted any updates since my last post in December when I arrived in on the East coast of Canada since there was a few hours of not too much to report, at least in the way of interesting screen shots, so this post is a catch up.
I had terrible scenery streaming experience across most of East coast of Canada, so unfortunately most of the scenery was not particularly interesting and was rendered with low detail:
I’m flying with live weather though, so there was lots of snow:
I did take a detour to fly over the Niagara Falls, but I’m not sure where my screenshots at that time saved to, so I might have to do a followup post from my flight over that area.
Flying towards Cleveland around the edge of Lake Erie was a highlight, with some spectacular weather:
Of course I had to stop and get some pics of the Rock and Roll Museum:
On reaching Chicago I had to take slight detour to see Meigs Field, which in MSFS 2024 is apparently under some water right now:
From Chicago I decided if I was heading West, I might as well follow the path of Route 66. Unfortunately from the air, I had a few hours of very flat scenery:
It wasn’t until getting close to Albuquerque that I started to see anything other than completely flat landscape for miles:
At least from this point continuing West the scenery should start to get more interesting. The current plan is to continue to LA, then I’ll fly North up the West coast, and will head across to Russia from Alaska.