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The best way to deal with the extortion that comes with inkjet printers is by getting a laser printer instead. :P




Letting sociopaths run societies seems counterproductive. Am I missing something? 🤔


Saw a new Nissan Leaf for the first time today. 👀


The only correct stance on X versus Wayland is framebuffer console. :P







Weird (corrupted) night on #6m #FT8 . :P

011100 -12  0.1 1728 ~  B88BCQ 3W2LWY/P AC57
020600  -7  1.3 1534 ~  CQ Y3CSK02NKN6
032745  -6  0.2 1454 ~  CQ 8473Q /BO9W

#AmateurRadio #HamRadio




They've been destroying their search engines to force us to use AI instead, but all it's done is make me ask people for help instead. They're shooting themselves in the foot here because if I think to ask people first, I won't even use their search engines! :P


I really want to set up a #Meshtastic / #Meshcore router with a wired Ethernet backhaul. The idea is to have the router and its antenna outdoors, but run the cable indoors to our home network. Any suggestions?

#AmateurRadio #HamRadio #LoRa

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in reply to Neil E. Hodges

Meshtastic there are hardware options with wired ethernet instead of wifi (there is a rak esp32 option), the pakets can transferred over to an local mqtt server and from there over your lan to the mobile app,

Or to an local running linux native meshtasticD service on a computer.

In the newer firmware there is the UDP option where no mqtt is involved too. Then you need a second node (hardware or meshtasticD service) for your client side needs.

For meshcore there is no such option beside getting a raspi in the outside enclosure too and tunnel the usb serial interface through your network, or play with experimental wifi firmware and app, but no native ethernet.

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in reply to Doppelmembran-Würgenippel

Do you have any more info on what your described in your last paragraph? I have no qualms with adding in a Raspberry Pi.
in reply to Neil E. Hodges

You could try socat or ser2net to get serial data over ip network, with a linux based endpoint on the other end, like a second raspberry.

The esp-based serial to wifi firmwares (running on a second esp8266 board) was not 8-bit binary transparent, as i searched for this last time for 3d printer use. So this doesnt work.

The ethernet rak node you can get on ali https://aliexpress.com/item/1005001656862435.html or look into this to see the rak partnumbers.

I have had the UDP connection by accident working, but not the other things.
It look like the meshtastic firmware had a lot of troubles on esp32 platform with wifi, but worked stable on version 2.5.23
I dont tried ethernet over cables but others said it run on their hardware

in reply to Neil E. Hodges

Huh, I've never seen anyone do this: it's always been more or less standalone.




"Oso Landslide Memorial Mailboxes"


It is my understanding that these were the mailboxes for the houses that were destroyed by the landslide.

#memorial #mywork #park #photog #photography #rural




Pocket doors are all fun and good until you get stuck in a pocket dimension. :P


Oh wow, 6m is open today. Just got a strong QSO from Texas. 👀 #AmateurRadio #HamRadio


Need to order an SD card for my Bambu P1S because our home WiFi has a hidden SSID, and Bluetooth is basically useless. :(



Listening to The Cranberries because it's the only thing that feels right with the recent US news. :/





From here:

Writing for The Telegraph, Ed Power formulated his own hypothesis, saying that the word Zombie was "a commentary on how blindly cleaving to centuries old prejudices can reduce [one's] capacity for independent thought".

As relevant now as ever. :/



The system is too broken to "reform". 🙃

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Lenin: The tsar's troops were victorious over the workers in Moscow. This victory has not enfeebled the vanquished, but has only welded them more closely together, deepened their hatred, and brought them closer to the practical tasks of a serious struggle. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5947







Kind of weird. While the capacitor tester I got matches the merchant's photo, the box doesn't match the tester. #AmateurRadio #HamRadio