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That’s been exactly my experience with amateur radio. I’ve given my friends the spiel about how cool it is that I can use the EM spectrum to send my voice thro
by KMnO4 6y ago
That’s been exactly my experience with amateur radio.
I’ve given my friends the spiel about how cool it is that I can use the EM spectrum to send my voice through the air to the other side of town. And how other people have put up repeaters which mean my voice can actually go a lot further than that —- maybe across the country!
And their response? “Sure, but I can already do that on my phone”
- bergstromm466 6y agoWow I wish I had a friend interested in stuff like that. That sounds so cool! After losing a lot of my curiosity the past few years, it’s coming back and my confidence is growing and I want to explore various fields and technologies deeper [and for the first time]. Do you think people don’t know about this beautiful stuff because inventions and products have become overly corporatized and use intellectual property and patents, which stifles curiosity? I can’t help but dream of a fully open source world where we don’t dominate each other by keeping information about the inner workings of things artificially scarce like we do today - as evidenced by Aaron Swartz, Library Genesis, corporate fight back against right to repair etc.