Notices by Kilroy_Was_Here (kilroy_was_here@dobbs.town), page 2

Are you #SWR crazy? Ever spend hours, days, even months adjusting an antenna trying to get the "perfect" SWR?

You might have wasted your time.

Read the science, not the myths... https://www.k3emd.com/downloads/Reflect.pdf

@roadriverrail

I did, a couple years ago. Most of the members were from Australia at the time, at least the active ones, and I couldn't break through the time difference. I'd be asleep when there would be action and when I tried to reply or get a discussion going, everybody else was asleep. Not a good fit for somebody on the other side of the world!

@roadriverrail

That's the same reason I'll never go back to my local club. Trying to assert myself in a space full of gun-toting religious conservatives probably wouldn't go well. Trying to get them to understand what "nonbinary" and "asexual" mean would probably go over just as well.

@Snowshadow

Meanwhile here in Pennsylvania you can change it with a simple form at the DMV. No court paperwork required.

I wanted to go visit Hemingway's house in Key West, guess that'll never happen.

I WAS originally considering RG-8X for my #AmateurRadio portable activities, but I feel it may be too big and bulky for #QRP.

Regular QRP operators, what is your favourite small coaxial cable type?

If it helps, I don't plan on any cable being longer than 30 feet.

#HamRadio

@bonifartius @louis @offset___cyan

Never heard of this dude. Pulled him up.

What a horse's ass.

Do I like everything Rick Stallman has said? No. I am not a member of the cult of Stallman. But do I think he deserves cancer or to be kicked while he's down? Also no!

@freemo @KarunaX @TheEuropeanNetwork

Gotta love these smug, smarmy comments from the guy who just got the boot. Jaysus.

@freemo

I'd imagine it's one of those things where it's useful in math and simulations even if it's an edge case in reality.

@freemo

See, I think a UBI would help more people. Look at what happened during Covid where there was kind of a semi-UBI. Many people broke off and started their own businesses, started doing their own thing.

I want to see an explosion of local business rather than having all our eggs in one big corporate basket. We'd see some actual capitalism happening! Making it so people can try new ideas without going destitute would support this goal and we'd all be on a more solid economic footing.

@freemo

I have a flipped view of welfare and UBI, I think there should be a UBI and that welfare programs should be eliminated and their funding directed towards a UBI. Primarily because the administrative bloat of many disparate programs could be greatly reduced with a single program.

I'm not hard-set on any particular conception of a UBI, however I do like the concept of a negative income tax.

@freemo

I disagree with you on some of these points but I'll say that the way you presented them is interesting.

@freemo

Dude, you missed a golden opportunity to say they're the packing peanuts of potatoes.

@freemo @VoxDei

Not to mention there have been huge advances in industrial safety over the past 50 years. Hell, even in the past 5 years.

Teaching is basically the same as it was in 1975 - get up and yell at those damn rugrats about their grades.

@freemo @VoxDei

You underestimate how much I love butter. lol

@VoxDei @freemo

The average price for a pound of butter in 1975 was $1.025.

The average gross hourly wage for a factory worker in 1975 was $4.81.

4.81/1.025=4.692 lb/hr

60/4.692=12.78 minutes to buy one pound of butter.

Sources:

Avg Wage (see chart 606): https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015021301612&seq=406

Avg Prices:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008856711&seq=527

@freemo

Is this the one with the magnets that'll move the pieces automatically?

@freemo @bonifartius

It is, when I was originally looking into them I found this video. He writes on the document around the 3 min mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5HE01amvdc

@freemo @bonifartius

I was looking at them for the ability to draw on the ebook too. Just a basic highlight function isn't enough in many cases, especially when it comes to reference material. Or sometimes I want to call something out temporarily with a circle or an arrow, that kind of thing.

@freemo @bonifartius

I've been looking at Onyx Boox for when this Kindle finally gives out, thanks for the endorsement.

And no, I didn't buy the Kindle, somebody I know dropped theirs and messed up the finish and got a free replacement from Amazon. Amazon had them keep the old one and they gave me the old one. Still works fine many years later. I just use it with USB and Calibre, no wifi.

I've really gotta organise my ebooks in Calibre. With 429 of em might be a while though, lol.

@freemo

Probably is, I've been looking at 1 TB microsd cards for my phone and they go for at least 5 times that.