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.
I am working on designing a mobile solar system for our RV conversion. I finally have most of the parts and pieces either here or on the way, so it's time to start thinking hard about what this is actually going to look like. The system is based around four 12V, 100Ah LiFePo4 batteries and a 3.6kW hybrid inverter/charger. This contains an inverter, charger, and solar controller, and also functions as a transfer switch. It's quite a bit smarter than just a transfer switch, and can control where power from the solar panels goes based on AC input and AC load.
Guess who's back, back again? I've been fiddling and fettling and I'm still not quite happy with my site, but here it is again for your consumption, hungry internet. Search still isn't working very well at all (I am having a hard time finding content I know is on the site with it, which I can easily locate with content administration) but otherwise things seem to be okay. You can now access The Hyperlogos with or without encryption, at the domain name or at www etc. I've been writing the odd article while it's been behind locked firewalls, mostly as an aid to my memory.
QGIS is an open source Geographic Information System (GIS) application which can handle most data formats, and is highly extensible with an included plugin installer. It is tolerably durable and extremely capable, and is able to produce basically any sort of map you would like. It runs on most everything and will cost you nothing. It also has a server which can be run in tandem or standalone, or in a container, and which can also serve a web client directly.
One of the coolest features of ZFS is that you can create snapshots of filesystems before making changes, and revert them later if those changes cause problems. This is great for major updates, especially involving experimental software. If you had your whole system on a single filesystem this would be very easy, but you probably don't, especially if you are using ZFS. Luckily, it is pretty simple to make and destroy these snapshots.
I run Devuan Linux, because I don't like systemd and I do like Debian. I have root on ZFS, which is a great way to protect your data but also comes with challenges. I wanted to install Linux 6.14 because I want NTSYNC support, but the latest release of OpenZFS for Linux does not support Kernel 6.14. However, the master branch of ZFS does support it, and has for a while now, so I decided to build ZFS myself so that I could upgrade my kernel.