I've been looking for a good source on 3d printer calibration, one better than the Orcaslicer page on the subject anyway, and I finally found a great video in straightforward English explaining a useful, working, proven process. Naturally, it was made by a German. Once again, if you'd rather have a video, go watch the video.
I have been 3d printing for a very short time, but I've already learned some stuff I wish I'd known earlier, and I'm going to write about it here now - both to benefit someone else who's just starting, and because I think it will be interesting to look back later and see how much I was or wasn't on the mark.
I printed mostly successfully with a goofy Z-offset for too long (not that long) but finally found the resource which would tell me how to go about fixing it. I prefer a simple written instruction, but ironically the answer was a video by Ricky Impey. If you would rather watch a video, just stop now and go watch it. If you would like the entire process explained to you in text from start to stop [by a human] instead, read on.
Subject tells the short story. Longer story, I wanted to start pipewire, pipewire-pulse, and wireplumber at KDE login. In troubleshooting I found that KDE is overwrought here. Instead of just starting the scripts named here with run-parts or similar, it creates .desktop files for them in .config/autostart. I didn't put a shebang (e.g. #!/bin/bash) at the top of the script. As it turns out, this breaks this whole facility because the .desktop files will just try to run the script as an executable and fail with an execve format error.
I've just installed Devuan Excalibur using mostly the OpenZFS instructions for Debian Trixie, as I did before except with Chimaera (which I then upgraded to Daedalus.) I had a grand old time getting it to boot and started over a couple of times, which is not a big deal because it does not take very long to get to the point where it doesn't boot. I had been using legacy booting and chose to try UEFI, which is working okay now.
I've wanted a 3D printer for a long, long time, but recently they have come down so much in price that I couldn't resist any more and picked up a FlashForge Adventurer AD5M. Out of the box it can really only handle PLA and PETG, but I've upgraded it with an enclosure kit and additional nozzle that make it capable of printing most filaments.
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.