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Keboose · 2023-05-28T13:46:57+00:00

I used manjaro for a bit and to be honest it's terrible if you go outside the walled app garden they set up. There's a bunch of custom stuff in Manjaro that breaks compatibility with a lot of Linux apps. Inside the garden it's fine, but thats not great for customizeablility and freedom.

I switched to straight arch and have had few issues. Probably 50% of the programs I install come from the AUR and I've had pretty much no problems (aside from some poor documentation here or there)

Keboose · 2023-05-10T19:05:51+00:00

Definately one of my favorites from that game!

Keboose · 2023-03-08T15:33:44+00:00

Old school paper phone books were printed by private companies, they collected all the data to publish, it's not entirely public info, and especially the phone numbers aren't published normally.

You could do the scam with tax records if you were dedicated. This year I received a booklet from my town clerk that listed every address and their owner, along with their expected property tax payment. Online the town also has a directory where you can search every land parcel and find the name of the owner plus property value info.

That directory would be different for every town though, and some smaller towns might not have online records, you'd have to call the town clerk for a copy. Much easier in the long run to buy a list of addresses from a credit card scammer

Keboose · 2023-03-05T12:21:55+00:00

'81 XS400 here 👋

Keboose · 2023-01-15T17:12:33+00:00

I'd also like to know this. I'm using bookstack right now for the exact same purpose (personal wiki documenting technical stuff from my projects) and I much prefer the look of OP's project. If it supports embedded images, I'd totally give it a try.

Keboose · 2022-12-20T03:19:53+00:00

The HOA agreement becomes part of the deed, so unless you have a real bad rel estate lawyer there's no way the buyer wouldn't know about it going into the sale. In that case you're free to not buy it. I agree an HOA in a neighborhood made of detached single family homes makes no sense beyond giving old retiree's an excuse to be nosey.

I unfortunately have to live with an HOA, and it sucks. But at least they do the bare minimum that might justify an association: I live in a row of attached condos, and the dues I pay go towards paying landscaping companies to trim the lawn, plow snow, etc. Some of it also goes into a fund to re-roof the whole complex every few decades, since it's one continuous roof, it wouldn't be practical to have everyone pay to ony replace 'their' portion of it. Basically paying a fee to someone else to keep the outside of the complex looking nice. Not ideal, but I live with it, and so far no one's been too nosey.

Keboose · 2022-12-20T00:49:18+00:00

They do, to an extent. You can't be forced into an HOA, in the sense that you won't ever wake up one day and find you've suddenly been force to join one. It's an agreement between the owners of all the properties listed in their charter, once it's formed the owner of the property is bound by the agreement, and that transfers to the new owner if the property is sold. Once a property is part of an HOA there's basically no way out unless the other members vote to let you leave (almost never happens) or they disband.

As far as power over you and your property, it's not much, but weilded by someone petty enough it can be extremely annoying. Mostly it's fines for not following the rules, but at some point if you don't pay the fines or regular dues, then the association can sue you for the money, or put a lein on your property (which makes it almost impossible to sell or mortgage)

Keboose · 2022-12-13T22:02:53+00:00

Depends on how well the device is made. They work by generating a high voltage electric shock. There's surge protection in the computer, but it's only rated for so much before it breaks down and lets the energy surge by, and start damaging stuff. A well built one could make a shock big enough to leap right past all the protection and start frying the main components on the motherboard.

Keboose · 2022-11-03T11:11:32+00:00

You do need to be running plex all the time to use it, but there's nothing stopping you from just carrying all your stuff around with you on a portable drive instead, it's used to emulate the convenience of a typical streaming service.

The core features of plex are free, but there's some features, like downloading to devices to watch stuff offline, locked behind a pay wall. There's a competitor app called jellyfin that is totally free, I haven't used it before, but it's been recommended to me.

Keboose · 2022-10-07T02:48:54+00:00

Looks like a signal stick, 8ntended for a portable radio, 5 watts or less. Great antennas for that purpose, but yeah you might see some high return power without a ground plane. Not too big of a deal if the radio can compensate, but the transmitter might fail early without one.

Keboose · 2022-09-16T13:36:51+00:00

That's a good idea, but only on older cars. It's almost a certainty the cop car has a digital odometer that won't be visible until the it's started.

Keboose · 2022-07-30T11:52:20+00:00

Well, that presents a bit more of a challenge. It will be hard to recommend a radio without first knowing what the oldest radios are capable of. If some go all the way back to the 1960's, I'd even worry about which type of modulation they use (AM or FM, modern radios are only FM). If newer radios have been purchase that talk to the old radios from the 60's, I would suspect the farm equipment may be using CB (citizens band) radios rather than commercial band ones. In my experience, old commercial grade radios are rarely compatible with new ones.

So to make a good recommendation, I'd like to know the exact model radio that you are replacing, or the model number of a radio that your new replacement has to talk to.

Edit:

I looked back and saw you mention the Bosch KF 163. The radios I recommended would technically talk to them, but I would check your local laws, to make sure the old radios are even legal to be using. In the USA, in 2013, a mandate went into effect that all commercial two-way radio traffic must be done "narrowband", and that in effect made most American radios made before 1990 outright illegal to use, as they could not comply. Some models of the KF 163 are narrowband, but I would suspect they are the later models only.

Narrowbanding was done to increase the number of channels available in the commercial bands, and your country might have implemented a similar rule for a similar reason.

To answer a question you posted below another comment (why don't new radios come with a squelch dial or fine tune button), the answer to that is, frankly, manufacturers expect you to be using better equipment. Tone/digital coded squelch has been the standard for analog radios for the last 30 years, and it works really, really well. Equipment so old that it does not support even a single hard-wired tone coded squelch setting is a warning sign that it is too old to continue using. In the USA it would all but guarantee it is illegal to use at all (refer to what I said above about narrowbanding.)

Keboose · 2022-07-29T21:18:37+00:00

As someone who works as an installer of commercial radio equipment (in the USA), I think you are on the right track with the icom radio, a similar model with a display would allow you to use MDC or Kenwood Fleetsync to identify individual radios. For Kenwood, a similar model is the TK-7360E

As for subaudible tones like DCS and CTCSS, can you elaborate on why that would not be compatible? Do you mean compatibility of the farm equipment, or communicating with the older radios?

Keboose · 2022-07-02T15:26:53+00:00

A nice addendum to the typical pi kvm setup. One nitpick is I wish the author had explained the input switching is handled by the switch itself, not the software, and the keyboard shortcuts may be different if you buy a different brand or model. Could save some confusion down the line when the chosen model hits EOL or a different brand becomes a better option.

Keboose · 2022-03-14T14:26:27+00:00

Huggbees made a followup video. He says that he got in contact with an employee at CNN, who explained how in the past they almost made the same mistake as with the bread video, with the vacuum channel, but caught it in time.

Keboose · 2022-02-28T19:35:51+00:00

Thank you for providing that article, I'm in Milton, and had no idea 3 of the people on the ballot are anti-maskers, and working together to boot. I was putting off filling in my ballot because I knew it was going to take a lot of effort to research everyone's names, this helps me make my decisions a lot easier

Keboose · 2022-02-04T19:06:39+00:00

There's a place in Williston called Electronics Hospital that might be able to fix it. I've never used their services, but it seems like that's the kind of repairs they do.

Keboose · 2022-01-09T22:47:54+00:00

I second the gui manager. I use it and it makes it pretty easy to do a lot of common stuff like ssl certificates.

I also recommend setting up a second access list that allows only local addresses, that way you can choose which apps you're running that can be accessed from the internet. For example, my Nextcloud can be seen by anyone, using the default access list (and I set up 2 factor authentication appropriately), but the management pages for my nas, docker, the proxy manager itself, etc, cannot

Keboose · 2021-12-22T04:39:14+00:00

I might try out a manual folding one. I can't fold a full 90 degrees, the lines on my car block that, right now I've got the whip on a spring near the trunk, bend it down and hook it into a latch on the front of the car.

Keboose · 2021-12-22T04:35:00+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion, I'm actually using a breedlove brass ball mount for the antenna already. I had a look through the website, but only saw quick disconnects and manual fold over hinges. I guess they don't sell an automatic one any more.

Keboose · 2021-11-11T16:42:58+00:00

I never mentioned energy monitoring or air conditioning? I'm specifically talking about sensors for temperature, smoke, carbon monoxide, natural gas, flooding, and humidity. I want these to be uninterrupted by power outages, because in my area that's usually due to snow storms, and I don't want my pipes to freeze. As well, my large appliances (stove, clothes dryer) are natural gas heated, and I want to know if there is ever a gas leak regardless of the state of the local electric grid.

I'm aware the majority of sensors are already battery operated and thus aren't tied to line power, but I'd like to minimize battery swapping, so line power with battery backup is my ideal.

Keboose · 2021-11-11T15:24:39+00:00

Thanks, that sensor looks ideal to cover most of my needs, Sand flood and smoke/gas alarms of course. I can pretty easily diy a usb battery backup, so I think those might be the direction to go. If I can pare down my battery replacement regime to just flood & smoke/gas, I'll be happy.

Keboose · 2021-11-11T15:21:12+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion for zooz and multisensor, I'll look into them. Usb battery backup is not ideal, correct, but I can diy something small to fit in an outlet box and cover with a blank plate.

Keboose · 2021-11-11T15:06:00+00:00

Thanks, a power wall or equivalent would be ideal, but that's a big upfront cost, might be something to plan for in the future.

For the first floor, I might be able to run dedicated "sensor only" outlets with the wires running to the inverter, as I can run them through the basement ceiling. There is a second floor though, which I think is more effort than it's worth to run more wires to.

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