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The radio for my RC project got here today. It's a Hot RC CT-10B, which seems like a bit of a gamble because this company is brand new and not really doing a great job of establishing themselves. The same radios seem to also be sold branded as Meus Racing, although Meus' transmitters are orange. 

I've had a variety of RC cars since I was about 14 years old, which lately includes mostly rock crawlers. Playing Snowrunner has made me want to build a big fancy 10x10 1:10 RC with three steer axles and a two-speed gearbox. But my wallet said no and I am just me and not sponsored, so instead I'm building a less big and less fancy 8x8 1:24 with two steer axles and a bottom-dollar brushless motor.

What is there to say about a game which has been out for years that hasn't been said before? Probably not much, but I'm here to try anyway. I started playing this game pretty recently, but I've played through the majority of the content so I think I might have some ideas worth sharing. Warning, I will give zero f-bombs about spoilers, this game does not have a storyline worth mentioning. It's a drivin' trucks game.

GloriousEggroll has released GE-Proton 10.10, a heavily breathed-upon version of Valve's version of Wine used with Steam, and the big news is that it supports NTSYNC by default on supported platforms. That means amd64 systems whose kernel is built with the CONFIG_NTSYNC option, available in the 6.14 series or later or for 6.12 or 6.13 as a patch.

In need of a low-power and small PC which could run conveniently from a small solar power system with a 24V battery bank, I browsed Aliexpress for days and finally settled on the GMKTec NucBox M5. This particular system has two specifically relevant characteristics. First, the SOC has a 15 Watt TDP, and second, it's a Zen 3 and therefore a good match for my big PC.