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   bash (bash@p.mr64.net)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jul-2026 23:33:26 JST bash
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   <jcarle> IRCing without music is like a car without a radio.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jul-2026 23:33:25 JST 翠星石

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     @bash It didn't occur to me to listen to music while idling on irc.
     
     Why would you even want a radio in a car? There's only slop played 99% of the time on the radio.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jul-2026 23:45:31 JST 翠星石

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     @anokasion @bash Yes, I'm aware - but it seems the quote was at least younger than 26 years old.
     
     Some old music is horrendous, but most of it is fine, unlike modern music, where most of it is horrendous.
     
     In case the power goes off, my focus isn't music - it's how much battery the UPS has and whether the power loss is temporary or eternal (I should really fix that problem with 90% off-grid power ですぅ).
     
     Unfortunately if the power losses hard enough, the FM radio's go down too - generally only an AC emergency broadcast channel and maybe a FM channel too stays up.
     
     Most cellphones seem to lack radio reception - although most of those with headphone jacks can use a headphone wire as an antenna.
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     okasion (anokasion@cawfee.club)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jul-2026 23:45:32 JST okasion

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     @Suiseiseki @bash radios were the first common communication device to listen for the common man; they talk about NPC things that NPC finds interesting I guess, which are super obvious. And the music it's old and horrendous. But I still love radio, in the occasions that power goes away, there's ALWAYS the radio to listen to (including a cellphone without any kind of connection).
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     okasion (anokasion@cawfee.club)'s status on Monday, 13-Jul-2026 00:01:15 JST okasion

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     @Suiseiseki @bash I understand you, but it's different in a cage-like one room (with kitchen and bathroom appart) no matter if it's large the room itself.
     
     But my point it's that because you are so within the city, and the capital of it to be even worse, you are not even allowed to have those mini electricity generators due to the smoke or sound they make.
     
     So if the power goes down, there's always the radio, or in cellphones, maybe newer ones don't? but they use any regular 3.5mm audio jack to catch the radio waves and play it.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 13-Jul-2026 00:01:15 JST 翠星石

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     @anokasion @bash I recommend a LiFePO₄ battery and a DC-DC convertor to whatever load you have.
     
     Someone dropped my a hot tip that the GNUbootable ThinkPad's are happily powered by the 12V LFP battery voltage range (10.8V-14.6V) directly connected primary or secondary battery + and - terminals.
     
     Similar in cost to a generator now, even adding the needed MRBF and terminal, charger and DC-DC converter.
     
     Any working DC power supply that can be set to 14.6V will also charge LFP batteries correctly, although most variable DC power supplies can deliver not many amps and are quite inefficient at power conversion.