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by vitaflo 2y ago
If you haven’t you should try growing celery. The flavor difference is simply incredible.
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by vitaflo 2y ago
Hams self-police because our spectrum allocation is a privilege from the government that can be taken away if people don't play by the rules. Also, a valid address for your license can be a PO Box if you care about your personal detail
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by vitaflo 2y ago
> It's mostly old guys erecting large antennas to connect their boat anchor tube radios to, from what I read online. It's somewhat unfortunate (but understandable) that the rep ham radio gets is based on a few old dudes talking
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by vitaflo 2y ago
Probably a self fulfilling prophecy. You see it a few times and if you don't know any better, you assume that's how it's supposed to be. The same as people talking about hams "broadcasting". It's very obvious
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by vitaflo 2y ago
I joined my local SKYWARN to get a license to do storm spotting which all happens on the VHF bands. We get a lot of severe weather where I live so this allows me to be on those bands more often than I otherwise would. But I do agree, the r
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by vitaflo 2y ago
While a lot of people will dismiss ham radio as just a bunch of old farts talking about their diabetes, a lot of the actual joy of being a ham op is from experimenting. Whether it's from building radios and antennas, to attempting to
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by vitaflo 2y ago
Can always spot a non-ham by use of the word "broadcast". It's a dead giveaway.
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by vitaflo 2y ago
> A majority of US history included open borders where it was legal for anyone to get off a boat, provide some basic info, and go on to try and make their way here. Unless you were coming off a boat from Africa. Lets not forget that sla
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by vitaflo 2y ago
> Who has to go out and visit each individual machine and update it each month so the MRI machine doesn't get bricked by some teen ransomware gang? The manufacturer does. As I mentioned in my OP I help build the software for our fi
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by vitaflo 2y ago
The OP for this very thread said as much.
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by vitaflo 2y ago
I work for a large medical device company and my team works on securing medical devices. At least at my company as a general rule, the more expensive the equipment (and thus the more critical the equipment, think surgical robots) the less
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by vitaflo 2y ago
Ham radio is about whatever you want it to be. It can be about designing and building your own radio then seeing if you can make a contact with it. Same can be said about designing and building your own antennas. It can be about designing
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by vitaflo 2y ago
Then you will enjoy the digital modes because there are so many different ones that all use different tech to accomplish different tasks. Some are extremely popular (like FT8, which is BY FAR the most popular thing on ham radio, even more
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by vitaflo 2y ago
With all due respect, if you can't think of anything to do with a ham radio license then that shows some lack of imagination. Just because most of the users on voice are boring ass old fucks doesn't mean there aren't interes
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by vitaflo 2y ago
This, been a ham for 20 years, have never been on the mic. Digital modes are where its at and where all the fun tinkering is. Plus there's so many small radio kits you can also build if you want to tinker that way, not to mention ant
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by vitaflo 2y ago
Yeah I had to stop reading when I got to that part. I get making a mistake and adding a zero accidentally but all of the daily compensation values were so far off from anything approaching reality I wasn't going to bother reading wh
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by vitaflo 2y ago
I used to be co-owner of an NFL fantasy prize league company (before Fanduel et al came along and put us and all of our competitors out of business). After a decade of seeing thousands of users create an manage teams for an entire season I
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by vitaflo 2y ago
Thank you for mentioning Tailwind. Every time some young dev talks about how Tailwind is "forward thinking" I just want to scream into a pillow. This is also the case now that SSR is becoming popular again.
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by vitaflo 2y ago
Of course it’s possible. Just buy SC Remastered and get online.
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by vitaflo 2y ago
Might want to check with a diff installer. Lots of solar installers in MN advertise battery backups. In fact a new law signed recently (and goes into effect in the next couple months) adds tax incentives for battery backups in homes.
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by vitaflo 2y ago
See Midler vs Ford, Glover vs Universal or Stefani vs Activision for prior cases in this area. Courts usually side with the person being imitated.
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by vitaflo 2y ago
This is the hilarious part about the comments. Nobody knows who GMUNK is and it shows. Dudes been knocking it out of the park for decades.
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by vitaflo 2y ago
If you own the land I don’t see any why it’s a bad thing to not want others trespassing on it. No diff than I don’t want people randomly deciding to sit in my car for whatever reason while I’m at work.
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by vitaflo 2y ago
Huh I never knew that. I just knew you couldn’t have two floors directly above each other while also having both floors visible to the player at the same time. All of my Mara 1 maps I built would crash when I tried this. I wonder if what yo
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by vitaflo 3y ago
My in-laws live in Becker and while yes this transition will reduce jobs for the community and surrounding area, Becker being a "rural" community is a bit of a misnomer. It is part of the Twin Cities metro as an ex-burb. The coa
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by vitaflo 3y ago
Pihole, block all the sites you're addicted to, have someone else set the password.
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by vitaflo 3y ago
This is silly, most people aren't going to pay for ChatGPT, just like they won't pay for Google or DDG. So using 3.5 in this case is perfectly acceptable when we're talking about free software.
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by vitaflo 3y ago
This is the risk you take when you choose options over cash.
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by vitaflo 3y ago
>In other ways, I’m upset and jealous the author got there first. If it makes you feel better (or worse?) I wrote something very similar to this 20 years ago and still use it every day. I wanted my own RSS reader back then, hated all th
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by vitaflo 3y ago
And yet here we are talking about Mountain Dew.

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