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   by c0nsumer 3y ago

   15-25 hours a week? What the heck were you doing? The cumulative fatigue had to be insane, and if you were chasing a goal, it'd be easy for that to get in your head. For me I find ~3 hours a week are what I need to feel good. As things
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   by c0nsumer 3y ago

   This is what mountain biking does for me. It's not hard, and it's pretty safe, but maintaining decent speed while navigating trails... it's a flow state. Heck, a week ago I did a 100 mile MTB race, with the goal of finishing
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   by c0nsumer 3y ago

   I get this all the time at work... We have somewhat large subnets for clients (I think /22 and /23, and something much larger for our VPN pools) so I'll not-infrequently get "client has wrong IP address" things beca
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   by c0nsumer 3y ago

   In my day job I do a lot of troubleshooting. That's most of my job... helping other IT folks figure out what the heck is happening with something. I'd say that in 70% of things I work on, part of that time is figuring out what con
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   by c0nsumer 3y ago

   The article says this. It wraps up with: "If these problems can be overcome, you could use renewable electricity to produce iron, store it as long as necessary, transport it there and then burn it for power when needed, says Bergthorso
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   by c0nsumer 3y ago

   I use OsmAnd myself, and my main recommendation for folks is to use Gaia because it's... easier and less nerd knobby. But where OSM falls short is in tagging of mountain bike trails. Missing tags, no visualizers for contextual data lik
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   by c0nsumer 3y ago

   When it gets really fun is when Trailforks is wrong... I'm trying to get that fixed with a State Rec Area in northern Michigan. Trailforks was drawn, years ago, with the old/unofficial/local names of a bunch of bandit trails.
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   by c0nsumer 3y ago

   I make maps of natural surface, single track trails, basically mountain biking / hiking trails, for a local volunteer group. The workflow is typically mapping things electronically into OpenStreetMap, then exporting data from there and
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   by c0nsumer 3y ago

   Some smaller bands used this to record audio in 90s home studios because it was really cost effective. I believe Fektion Fekler [1] used this for their album From Here To Heaven. [1] https://www.discogs.com/artist/53935
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    by c0nsumer 3y ago

    Yep -- watching cycling stuff is insanely hard. And I can't help but believe this is one of the reasons competitive amateur cycling is dying as well. People like to do what they watch the pros do, but when it's so hard... I don&#x
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    by c0nsumer 3y ago

    Thanks! That's good to know.
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    by c0nsumer 3y ago

    How new? 'echo foo > COM1' returns 'The system cannot find the file specified.' on Windows 11. (Machine doesn't have a COM1; if this wasn't being redirected to the port, it'd have gone into a file of th
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    by c0nsumer 3y ago

    Lots of this stuff we just find out while working various deep MS cases, and then the info just leaks out.
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    by c0nsumer 3y ago

    This is a great article and really illustrates just how hard Windows works to be backwards compatible. Lots of these (eg: the COM/LPT stuff) could be dropped and wouldn't affect most people either way, but for those things dependi
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    by c0nsumer 3y ago

    Not to take away from this thread, but here's a fun project I did a few years ago to make a SD based external floppy emulator for Ataris like the 800XL: https://nuxx.net/wiki_archive/A/SDrive_NUXX I reused an
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    by c0nsumer 3y ago

    We've a bunch of these being built in the Detroit suburbs and while I love them, the lanes on them aren't as intuitive as on a straight road, and when the roads are snow covered they can be a bit weird. I hope the road authorities
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    by c0nsumer 3y ago

    Welcome to the age-old conversation which can well be analog'd as why would someone leave the front door of their house open if they didn't want you walking in? Or checking door knobs?
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    Custom Bluetooth Adapter Brings 1990s Car Phone Back Online(hackaday.com)

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    by c0nsumer 3y ago

    What if the person has two networks at home? Or ends up on the neighbor's that they sometime use? Or their saved guest network? The user could well think "I am..." whether they are or aren't. How would the phone know the
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    by c0nsumer 3y ago

    > What other networks do homes have? Every WiFi ISP router I have used provides a single network and DHCP server. Perhaps some routers provide both a public and private WiFi and the consumer doesn't understand which one they should
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    by c0nsumer 3y ago

    I've dealt with this a ton trying to help troubleshoot people's home network problems during the early days of COVID WFH. [1] Some of the absolute messes I'd see were astounding, and they thought everything worked fine becaus
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    by c0nsumer 4y ago

    Same here. While my blog is more an infrequent dumping ground for (mostly technical) thoughts, I try to write up new info, things that I can't quite find elsewhere, in hopes others find them useful as well. Years ago, when ads didn&#x2
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    by c0nsumer 4y ago

    Thanks! I'm talking something /much/ smaller. Probably... 25km^2 at most. It, thankfully, won't be nearly that complicated.
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    by c0nsumer 4y ago

    Thanks, I'll give it a look, but I need a different style as well. This is the sort of thing I'm looking to completely self-host: https://trailmaps.app/ramba/
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    by c0nsumer 4y ago

    Thanks! I'll give that a look. I agree it's very reasonable to have highly zoomed small area stuff, I just seem to be missing the gap between the OSM data and the tiles. I'll give that a read, thank you!
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    by c0nsumer 4y ago

    Thanks, but that's the problem, the data downloads they offer are not zoomed enough. So I want to know how to go closer. This presumes you already have tiles.
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    by c0nsumer 4y ago

    Can any of you suggest a nice tutorial or something for rendering maps for self-hosting at much higher zoom levels? Many of these examples are for larger areas where zoom level 10 is sufficient, but I make hobby maps of mountain bike /
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    by c0nsumer 4y ago

    Cornering and braking does wear the front tire, and it is more notable when mountain biking where cornering tends to be more forceful and the tire knobs concentrate forces on more noticeable parts of the tire.
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    by c0nsumer 4y ago

    After some more digging, I'm realizing the same. Fingers crossed soon.
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    by c0nsumer 4y ago

    Do any of you know if this has Dolby AC-4 support? Ticket 8349 [1] has been open for years to add this, but it's not there yet. This would be very nice so we can watch ATSC 3.0 OTA broadcasts via FFmpeg-based things like Plex. (Current