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VORTRIXE & OKMO 1110 Classic Model Vintage Japanese Yanmar Gasoline Engine with metal piston rings.

1950s Yanmar diesel engines are prized vintage Japanese machines, especially from their pioneering K-Series (like the K1/K2) launched in the early '50s for farming, known for being small, light ("karui," "klein"), and reliable, with many still running today due to Japanese manufacturing quality, often used in small boats, generators, and farm equipment, showcasing Yanmar's early innovation after developing the world's first practical small diesel in the 1930s.

This absolutely beautifully detailed and ready to run model petrol/ gasoline 4 stroke horizontal engine is made by OKMO.  Beautiful miniature engineering, and craftsmanship from Jin.

First run -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8g5ozwKet0

Quote from: vtsteam on December 30, 2025, 08:59:36 AM

Ade, we're drowning in bot new user requests -- I can't handle them any more.

I can't help you here - I don't have the permissions - but try putting a block on any IPs from Singapore: Most of the bots seem to be in data centres there these days. Other countries which are problematic - China obviously, also Brazil to a slightly lesser extent.  But Singapore is likely your culprit. I've blocked them from MEM & LEF using iptables rules & just blocking out giant ranges of IP addresses. Sadly, that does cut a few legitimate users off, but it also keeps the server afloat.

Thanks Ade but I don't have the permissions either. Just a mod.

Ade, we're drowning in bot new user requests -- I can't handle them any more.

I can't help you here - I don't have the permissions - but try putting a block on any IPs from Singapore: Most of the bots seem to be in data centres there these days. Other countries which are problematic - China obviously, also Brazil to a slightly lesser extent.  But Singapore is likely your culprit. I've blocked them from MEM & LEF using iptables rules & just blocking out giant ranges of IP addresses. Sadly, that does cut a few legitimate users off, but it also keeps the server afloat.

It really is a jungle of all kinds of possible and impossible options, no matter if it's Linux or Windows.

But yeah, enabling 32-bit repository is one of the first steps in the Wine installation instructions mentioned before: sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

General stories and gripes ahead:

Must have Win apps that I use with Wine are ancient Paint Shop Pro 8, and Goldwave.

I'd use Winamp too, but it's rather quirky to use with Wine. Sudden crashes and whatnot. I've always used it in its basic form (since Win 2000), without any fancy visualizations.

Winamp is probably the only music player that has a working plugin to re-connect to the network stream, when it cuts out. It's called 'silence detector'.

On to the alternatives. Although VLC has 'Auto re-connect' option in its preferences, it doesn't work the way one might expect, if at all. After trying some bash scripts found on the net, (and even ones produced by the infamous ChatGPT) to fix the problem, none of them worked. Got to love the dead air.

Qmmp, Audacious, and bunch of other players don't seem to have that function either.

Anyway, then I thought, that how about looking, what's happening when the stream cuts off. Wireshark is a free tool that I used back when testing Win10 to see where it sends telemetry data. If memory serves, there were tutorials of how to do that.

When using it in this case, I got some indications, when the net radio stream cuts or drops, but can't figure out what to do with that data.

So, I have a habit of jumping to the deep end of the pool, even though I can barely swim  [ You are not allowed to view this attachment ]  .

In that vein, another example: trying to make GPU (display card) passthrough, so that the VM has a real hardware resources (3D acceleration for apps like Rhinoceros that I've used quite a lot on Windows), instead of virtual ones. It may be possible using single GPU, but it's really not that convenient to use - shut down the primary host display service/device, so that VM can use it.

I insisted on testing that procedure anyway, and since such things can't, for obvious reasons, be tested inside VM, I ended up bricking the Linux installation on my pc.

More viable option would be to have two GPU's, perhaps just an integrated one for the host, and dedicated one for VM. However, my motherboard or CPU don't have integrated GPU's, so that's the end of the story about that, for now.

This black resin is really sticky stuff when cold, cleaing it off was a bit of a bugger.

The case clips together, so Im not at all sure if it'll come apart in one piece