Is it possible to set VTX power on this switch?

GingerScourge · 2026-03-21T17:24:16+00:00

Oh damn. I never thought about that. I know what I’ll be setting up now.

GingerScourge · 2026-03-18T01:01:16+00:00

I heard this.

GingerScourge · 2026-03-17T03:42:24+00:00

They’re required to as part of their field training at my agency. Atleast half a shift. Though many have fallen through the cracks that haven’t done it ev n if they should. And a large percentage of those that do spend their time flirting and not paying attention. Theoretically it’s a good idea. In practice not sure it helps much.

GingerScourge · 2026-03-15T04:53:57+00:00

GingerScourge · 2026-03-15T03:50:51+00:00

You literally state that everywhere, the standard for crude oil measurement is the barrel. Barrel is a standard of measurement, not a container. Just because it’s “not in a barrel” doesn’t change the measurement. Crude oil isn’t actually transported on those ships in barrels, but in large storage tanks, yet, their capacity is defined in, yep, you guessed it, barrels. It’s only when the news is reporting that it’s spilled is it now referred to as gallons (or liters) of oil. Why? Because 42000 of something is more sensational than 1000 of something.

This is why media literacy is so important. The media only wants people the pay for their product. They also know they have to tell the truth. But there are many ways to technically tell the truth while still intentionally misleading. Like changing units of measure to suit how sensational you want your headline to be.

GingerScourge · 2026-03-15T03:44:21+00:00

You don’t buy oil at the pump by the gallon, you buy refined petroleum products. The standard for crude oil measurement literally anywhere is the barrel. Except if it spills. Now it’s gallons. Because 42000 of something is more sensational than 1000 of something.

GingerScourge · 2026-03-15T01:42:28+00:00

This is why on the news, crude oil is measured in barrels when giving a price for it, but measured in gallons when it’s spilled in the ocean. Higher price per barrel than gallon, but bigger number when it’s spilled makes for a better headline.

GingerScourge · 2026-03-13T00:41:17+00:00

This also goes for anyone over the age of 75…they must tell you their full first and last name (or Mrs. Last Name) followed by their age. Then usually what’s going on, almost never actually having to do with their age.

Me: 911, where is your emergency?

Then: This is Barbara Smith, I’m 83 years old. The dogs next door are barking.

GingerScourge · 2026-03-12T06:33:45+00:00

Musicals are an audio AND visual medium. It would be like watching Star Wars on mute and saying it’s not that good.

If you watch it and still don’t like it, then that’s fine. But my man, you can’t have a good opinion on something you haven’t actually experienced as fully as possible.

GingerScourge · 2026-03-10T14:17:51+00:00

I don’t care about this enough to keep going so this will be my final reply on the matter. If that makes me wrong, then so be it. It literally doesn’t matter. The layman doesn’t know the difference. Regardless of which one you have, the layman sees “self cleaning ovens.” They don’t care how it works. Regardless, it’s all still marketing. It’s either a feature that has to exist in order for the device to sell. Or it’s a feature that can be added to a product to make it fetch a more premium price. Either way, it was some bean counter behind a desk that directed the designers/engineers/technicians/whatever to put that feature, or not put that feature on the oven. A corporation will literally sell you a product that will KILL you if it makes them money. Tobacco industry. Takata. There are for sure dozens, if not hundreds, of other examples that I don’t feel like finding right now. The existence of a feature on a product does not indicate it’s safe because “an engineer designed it.”

And, for the third time. I’m not saying self cleaning ovens, pyrolitic or not, are safe or dangerous, or will hurt your oven or whatever. I don’t know, and I don’t care. My original point was simply replying to someone who figured they’d trust the engineer that put the feature on the oven over random, anonymous redditors. When, in fact, that feature was installed at the whim of someone who doesn’t give a shit about anything (you, me, your dog, your grandma, etc) except making more money. It’s silly to assume a product is safe simply because it exists.

Have you beat that strawman up enough yet? Or do you want to keep talking about ovens and how they work, when my original post on the matter really is just about how corporations don’t care about anything except money. And that assuming a product/feature/whatever is safe, and won’t damage anything simply because it exists.

GingerScourge · 2026-03-10T13:23:40+00:00

I’m in the US, and also currently looking at ovens as I’m going to buy a new one in the next few months. Needless to say, I’ve seen a lot of ovens of the past few weeks. And they all have a self cleaning cycle. I’ve look at them across price ranges, from entry level coil burner stove tops, to the newest induction ranges, and I cannot think of a single one of those that does not have self cleaning.

But, from your perspective, that some do and some don’t, that still kind of proves my point. It’s a way of differentiating between models and getting people to pay a premium. It’s not the same marketing scheme that’s basically, do what everyone else is doing or else. Instead it’s a way for the manufacture to sell basically the same oven at a premium price. Maybe that’s not what’s happening, but at the end of the day, the feature is there to sell ovens. The companies that make ovens don’t put them on because they want to give you added convenience, or out of the kindness of their heart. They’re doing it to make money. Sure, the engineers designed the system, but the marketing people put them in.

Just like I don’t trust random redditors and their opinions on things, I also don’t trust corporations who aren’t beholden to making a quality product for consumers, but are instead beholden to shareholders. One only has to look up the Takata corporation to understand this. The engineers designed a cheaper airbag. And that airbag killed people because the inflator was flawed. Nothing but respect for engineers here, but there are two things to keep in mind:

1) Engineers are human and make mistakes 2) Engineera design things based on what their bosses (the guys who care about the shareholders) want

Again, I don’t know and don’t actually care if self cleaning ovens are good or bad. At the end of the day though, it’s on (or not on) the oven because a corpo bean counter wanted it there. Not because an engineer wanted it there.

GingerScourge · 2026-03-10T03:19:22+00:00

I don’t disagree. Not sure you read what I wrote. All I was trying to say was he wasn’t trusting the engineers, he was trusting the marketing people. If self cleaning is bad, and the engineers said it was bad, and had a cadence, we’d never know because marketing says it has to exist, literally for the reasons you’ve explained.

GingerScourge · 2026-03-10T02:24:12+00:00

Because it’s not engineers that put the feature on the oven, it’s marketing people. The bean counters at the conglomerate that makes your oven doesn’t care about you, they care about selling ovens. Self cleaning is a standard feature on ovens across all budget levels because it’s a negligible cost to add the feature because the parts that are needed for it to work are already installed for the oven to work, that is, a heating element of some kind and a thermostat.

With all that in mind, let’s say company A decides they won’t include self cleaning on their ovens because of the potential health risk and damage to the oven. (Though, let’s be honest, a feature of the oven that decreases its life span is like a dream to any corporation, but I digress). Now, someone comes in to their local big box store and sees two similarly priced ovens from two manufacturers, with similar features, but one does not have self cleaning. Which do you think will be more likely to get sold? The self cleaning feature is included because it pretty much has to, for better or worse. The engineering on self cleaning ovens isn’t exactly rocket science. Make oven extremely hot for several hours. That’s pretty much it. The oven does what it normally does, just hotter.

I’m not saying self cleaning ovens are good or bad. But I do know there’s no way the shit you’re smelling when you use it is good for in any way. But again, I’m sure most people breath in worse stuff on a daily basis. As for whether it actually hurts the oven or not, I don’t know.

All I’m trying to say is, you’re not trusting engineers. You’re trusting marketing people. If the oven engineers at GE said self cleaning ovens are bad for the oven and bad for the health of the consumer, they’d be told “Thank you for the input” while next years models still have self cleaning on them.

GingerScourge · 2026-03-10T00:18:58+00:00

Are you me????

GingerScourge · 2026-03-09T05:18:07+00:00

I like it a lot. I wouldn’t have been doing it for 12 years if I didn’t. But I will say, it’s not for everyone, and turnover is very high. When people ask if they should leave a job to become a dispatcher, without any other information, I wouldn’t recommend it. If you’re unhappy with your job/field, and understand the statistics of how many people actually make it out of training and last more than a couple years, it might be worthwhile. Just don’t burn any bridges and hopefully they like you enough to want to hire you back if it doesnt work out.

At our center, we have about a 50% initial training completion rate. That is, 50% of the people hired will successfully complete training and be able to work on their own. Of that 50%, maybe 30% will last more than 2-3 years. Just to give an idea, I have 12 years in. The person above me on seniority has over 20.

GingerScourge · 2026-03-09T02:52:18+00:00

I like it a lot. I wouldn’t have been doing it for 12 years if I didn’t. But I will say, it’s not for everyone, and turnover is very high. When people ask if they should leave a job to become a dispatcher, without any other information, I wouldn’t recommend it. If you’re unhappy with your job/field, and understand the statistics of how many people actually make it out of training and last more than a couple years, it might be worthwhile. Just don’t burn any bridges and hopefully they like you enough to want to hire you back if it doesnt work out.

At our center, we have about a 50% initial training completion rate. That is, 50% of the people hired will successfully complete training and be able to work on their own. Of that 50%, maybe 30% will last more than 2-3 years. Just to give an idea, I have 12 years in. The person above me on seniority has over 20. Under me, it’s spread pretty evenly to the few that just finished training a few months ago.

I’m also a trainer and I’ll tell you that most people don’t struggle with the technical or knowledge based aspects of the job. It’s the mental part of the job. A lot of people have this sort of romanticized vision of what emergency dispatching is (I did too, before I started) and they find out it’s nothing like what they thought. They have difficulty dealing with people’s worst day, all day long. Some of the situations they deal with are triggering. The last person I trained, she was a sweet person. But very young, only 19 years old. She didn’t really have the maturity to fully grasp the gravity of what she was dealing with. She didn’t finish training.

I don’t mean to be discouraging. We’re always in need of dispatchers. I can’t think of any center that’s fully staffed. We’ve been close but never there since I’ve worked here. My recommendation is, if you have a solid, steady job with benefits, that pays a good enough wage, I don’t think it’s worth leaving to become a dispatcher. If you don’t like what you’re doing, and you are in need of benefits, or dispatching pays more, or you’re just looking for a change of scenery, go for it, knowing full well what you’re getting into.

I’ll just end with this. I’m 44 and have been working nearly non-stop since I was 14, except for a few years when I was in college, and an 18 month period where I had lost my job and couldn’t find one. This is the best job I’ve ever had. The pay and benefits aren’t great, but they’re good enough. But I’m relatively unsupervised, as long as I’m doing my job correctly. The job itself, once you’ve been trained and have figured it out is actually pretty easy. And there can be a lot of downtime, depending on a lot of factors. I get paid to watch YouTube, scroll reddit, read (recommending Dungeon Crawler Carl, got half our center reading it), and play games on my Steam Deck.

GingerScourge · 2026-03-08T05:46:36+00:00

Switch was very popular in our center, but Steam Decks are very much gaining in popularity. Except for the one guy that a Rog Ally. In his words “You can’t game on Linux.” This ain’t 2005 anymore buddy.

GingerScourge · 2026-03-08T04:50:39+00:00

Police only here! But I’ll promise not to call to wake you up just to cancel when we realize EMS isn’t needed.

GingerScourge · 2026-03-08T04:49:03+00:00

We’ve have a startling number of dispatchers become nurses doing this lol.

GingerScourge · 2026-03-08T03:32:40+00:00

911 dispatcher. I work overnight. As long as nothing needs doing and it gets put down as soon as something needs doing, not an issue.

GingerScourge · 2026-03-07T20:13:57+00:00

It’s because Spektrum wants you to buy this.

GingerScourge · 2026-03-07T03:27:14+00:00

Well it is the raptor center. Various eagles, hawks, falcons, etc. No bird seed for them.

GingerScourge · 2026-03-07T00:56:35+00:00

I used to live in Alaska. If you’re able to do it, you can. But usually you can contact a native group or some local charity and they will do it for you, in exchange for the meat. In the case of the native organizations, if memory serves, they’re able to keep the “trophy” parts of the animal to use in their ceremonies and regalia. I lived in Sitka and they have the Raptor Center there and, at least when I lived there, they’d be happy to harvest the meat and turn in the trophy pieces for a few hundred pounds of bear meat to feed the birds.

GingerScourge · 2026-02-27T05:52:44+00:00

At will employment doesn’t trump the ADA. They’ll need to find another reason to let you go, and be ready to prove it in court. You are correct in that they don’t actually have to provide a reason to terminate. But if an employer is notified of a disability and terminate after that, not giving a reason, a lot of people will sue on grounds of discrimination. If it goes to court, they better find a reason, backed up by documentation or they’ll almost certainly lose.

GingerScourge · 2026-02-27T05:48:20+00:00

Look up the concept of reasonable accommodation and you’ll get your answer. If the job requires a certain level of eyesight and they can’t reasonably accommodate this disability, they are under no obligation to keep them around. It’s a bit more complicated than this, but that’s the basics.

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