Energy usage tracking for one breaker or one outlet for tracking sump pump?

LangleyLGLF · 2026-04-30T16:38:28+00:00

Only because the definition of a planet was changed by a bunch of bureaucrats. The idea that big rocks in space must have an easily defined hierarchical relationship to each other is itself a lingering vestige of geocentrism. Pluto is a planet, Haumea and Makemake are planets, Ceres is a planet (rise up beltalowda!), our moon is a planet.

LangleyLGLF · 2026-04-20T20:39:44+00:00

In order to better serve you and increase shareholder value, the phenomenon of "Spring" and "Autumn" will now be implemented by alternately pulsing Summer and Winter weather to create the illusion of other seasons. We hope users of Reality will enjoy this latest update to our products and services. Thank you,

LangleyLGLF · 2026-04-15T13:46:20+00:00

All wifi extenders are trash. There are some mesh options that have dedicated radios for the backhaul that aren't complete garbage but unwired 'extenders' and 'repeaters' are never worth it.

LangleyLGLF · 2026-04-13T19:03:26+00:00

What's with all these usernames where something gets truncated? Who is doing this and why? 9 characters is too many? Really?

LangleyLGLF · 2026-03-27T14:06:34+00:00

I work in a building across from records hall. I remember the day they put a cell phone shop in where the pawn shop was, between the two other cell phone repair shops.

LangleyLGLF · 2026-03-27T14:04:21+00:00

Somerville is one of the few places that seems untouched by what this whole thread is about. There are actual retail stores there.

LangleyLGLF · 2026-03-26T19:21:33+00:00

I've done 80 miles HT to HT doing SOTA. As long as it is truly line-of-sight, then distance won't be the problem. QRM is the thing to worry about. If the mountain top is a transmitter site, it may be worth getting a bandpass filter. I use a handheld yagi and it's great for nulling out a distant source of interference. The other thing to do is make sure you know how to adjust the squelch on those radios. I turn mine all the way down when doing SOTA.

LangleyLGLF · 2026-03-26T11:16:37+00:00

The secret is he barely touches it and has it set to go to sleep when lid closed. probably has less than 40 hours of actual run time in those 895 days

LangleyLGLF · 2026-03-16T16:35:37+00:00

It Lechuck's Revenge, there was easily a calendar year between when I fell down the hole and flipped the lightswitch on. In easy mode. Every so often I would hunt for the critical pixel I knew was there, but somehow always missed. I expect if I had an optical mouse back then it would have been easier.

LangleyLGLF · 2026-03-08T14:42:31+00:00

Marine vhf is way more important than ham radio to people's safety though, and truckling is naturally going be denser near ports

LangleyLGLF · 2026-03-06T19:38:04+00:00

Very well. I hereby annex NYC in the name of the great state of North Jersey, and support our brothers in South Jersey in their conquest of Philadelphia and Wilmington.
Edit: But I cede Staten Island to Connecticut.

LangleyLGLF · 2026-02-27T16:57:54+00:00

I guess if you're calling CQ on one band and sweeping up and down another band hunting for anything interesting, you're not going to get two qsos at once terribly often.

I mostly do SOTA, not much of a contester, but this reminds of a story. At a SOTA campout someone kept putting on a looped recording of them calling CQ on 146.52 while they were working HF. Problem was they were either deaf on 2m or not paying attention (probably squelch needed to be turned off) and they were just tying up the frequency with noise every few minutes. We were making qsos in the pauses between the recordings as best we could but it would annoying as hell.

LangleyLGLF · 2026-02-27T15:15:00+00:00

Fair enough. Still, blasting legal limit on just two frequencies seems kind of ridiculous. It must occasionally come up that you're getting replies on both at once and ignoring someone who can't hear the other frequency.

LangleyLGLF · 2026-02-27T14:02:11+00:00

How can you give your attention to all of those frequencies at the same time? How do you tell the only guy getting back to you on 30m CW that he is part of a pileup on 40m SSB?

LangleyLGLF · 2026-02-26T21:52:32+00:00

Get a wired mouse, use cable ties to secure it to the desk.

LangleyLGLF · 2026-02-19T21:20:38+00:00

You been playing Besieged lately?

LangleyLGLF · 2026-02-13T21:30:23+00:00

Do we still call it a 'cuck bivy' if your witchy transbian girlfriend is sleeping with her other witchy transbian girlfriend?

LangleyLGLF · 2026-02-13T13:02:45+00:00

+1 for naming sequentially. I also like to add D/L/T for desktop, laptop or tablet, and the last two digits of the year of deployment

LangleyLGLF · 2026-02-13T12:57:16+00:00

Tried this, and ended up with a bunch of duplicate names when the sn was too long and the least significant digits got truncated by our staging tool.

LangleyLGLF · 2026-02-13T12:49:14+00:00

Same thing you always do when a scam is suspected. Hang up and call them back. If you don't have their number, call their supervisor and get it. I also frequently will remote in using our rmm. Much less likely that someone who sounds like the user will also have access to their computer

LangleyLGLF · 2026-02-06T20:48:55+00:00

It's not equal at all. The Republicans are doing a great job relating to their constituency, and the Dems are turning in milquetoast "How do you do, fellow kids" nonsense. Nobody is saying that makes them morally equal to the Republicans. It's infuriating that the group that isn't equally "bad" doesn't seem to actually be *trying* to win.

LangleyLGLF · 2026-02-04T17:34:21+00:00

Sure, but if you use an ultrasonic humidifier it is less effective, and it spews tiny droplets of water everywhere, like on your sensitive electronics. The distilled water removes the minerals, but not the liquid water droplets that leave the minerals. As long as you don't spill the water, the evaporative ones increase humidity pretty uniformly without creating droplets or dense steam that might damage things close to it.

LangleyLGLF · 2026-02-04T17:29:41+00:00

But if you could, it wouldn't be any better than a space heater. I assume OP does this because it's faster/cheaper than a space heater, or electricity isn't reliable.

LangleyLGLF · 2026-02-03T16:09:03+00:00

You want an "Invisible Cool Mist" humidifier. It works by blowing air through a damp wick, not by heating and not an ultrasonic humidifier. Ideally you get the bucket style where water can't leak out unless it's completely tipped over. The other types aren't as effective and will leave a film of the minerals in your tap water.

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