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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You can use mine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Do you mean ARRL?

I agree their bandplan is pretty restricty, but it's also not law. It's more for playing nice with each other. Keep high power up here so it doesn't wipe out the people playing with low power, digital here so they don't get overrun by voice, etc. You wouldn't have any idea you're stepping on someone sending Morse if you're on FM. So there's reason for it.

And yeah, with line of sight radios, nobody gives two shits 20 miles from civilization in the woods.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

It's illegal to push that button until you're licensed.

(No one will search you out if you're not being annoying)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (10 children)

It's illegal to transmit music

True, for obvious reasons

it's illegal to transmit anything encrypted unless you're controlling a satellite

True, it helps to ensure nothing illegal is going on and enforce keeping commercial interests out. It's a self regulating space, one of the only cases I know of that tends to work due to there being no monetary interests allowed. The point is to communicate information, not hide it.

it's illegal to transmit anything for commercial purposes.

True, the whole point is to keep commercial interests out. That's what "amateur" means.

illegal to transmit anything on a regular basis that could reasonably be communicated some other way.

False. This is for something like a non-profit wanting to use radios for their operations, they should be steered toward another service like gmrs, FRS, murs, etc. instead of amateur radio.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Its incredibly useful. Kind of interesting to recognize an unhinged jackass from one thread being normal a week later.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Researchers often pay to have their work considered for publication.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Threatening to withhold money from a place that gives you the most money doesn't seem like a smart idea.

If New York and California don't give them their money, the Federal Government isn't going to have money to withhold.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

Creation of a Department of Community Safety to tackle mental health challenges rather than NYPD

This type of program has been working out well for Albuquerque. It removes a lot of police intervention for calls they aren't trained for (anything not involving a weapon, pretty much).

https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/acs-reports-94-success-rate-in-violence-intervention-program/

https://csgjusticecenter.org/publications/expanding-first-response/program-highlights/albuquerque-nm/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

I'm pretty sure new Yorkers hate trump more than the Eagles, Red Sox, Patriots, and Mets combined.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

modern Subaru Outback is about the same size as a mid-90s Suburban.

No it isn't

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I don't think the 3 was a huge breakthrough, although it sure appeared to be, the S/roadster was really where it happened. The leaf had been out for several years, granted it had limited range in its first production models. The 3 was only remarkable because it had higher range at the price point, but that was more of a battery technology thing than a Tesla thing, as the bolt and leaf both had comparable range at the same price point around the same time, they just had the baggage of their manufacturers reputations and/or previous model specs holding back their PR.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I learned this relatively quickly running my own server with the intention of my family also using it. Data on a separate drive, backed up regularly and automatically. System on it's own drive, dd'd when it's in it's final state and backed up before I screw around any deeper than trying out a new container. I can bring my server back up in however long it takes to transfer data.

 
 

Hi sysadmins, I am thinking of doing a pretty drastic career change. I have 10+ years of experience in chemistry doing bioanalysis and a few years repairing breath alcohol analyzers. I have always considered messing around with electronics, networking, and computers/servers as a hobby and have been using various Linux distros as my main os for almost 20 years.

I have come to see my specialty in my line of work as a dead end. I'm pretty damn good at my job but I feel like automation is going to be taking over very soon, and I'm not that good that I think I'll be in the top 10% that get to stick around and run the automations when the robots finally take over. So I'm considering doing a career change to IT/sysadmin.

What I'd like to know is what should I learn how to do to see if I'll even like moving down this path? What can I set up at home, break, then fix that would give me an idea as to what the sysadmin life is really like?

I'm pretty sure I haven't ever really done any sysadmin type work with my home setups, seeing as I build and set up services I want for myself and at the level I'm willing to put up with. For the most part I can be handed something already implemented and work within that space to keep it going and adjust it to what I want it to do or fit my set up. I can usually find my way through log files and error codes to figure out what the problem is and duckduckgo my way to a fix.

 

Alright meshers, I've been playing around with meshtastic for some time now and I've ended up with a good number of devices. I'm mostly in the rakwireless boat, with a pair of heltecs.

I have two RP2040 (rak11310) units that I just can't come up with a good use for. They use less power than a heltec on full blast, but don't have Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. If you disable Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on the heltec and turn on power saving, the heltec ends up using less power for what I can see as the same capabilities as the RP2040.

So, what can I put these units to use for? The processor is definitely more powerful than the NRF52 boards, but meshtastic doesn't seem to need any more than the NRF52 has to offer. With power saving, the heltecs can perform equally well with less power, while also having a more powerful processor in case it's needed.

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