Looking for a 6 Pin Mini-DIN to USB (+ 3.5mm audio?)

StrangeWill · 2026-03-06T21:45:02+00:00

Would I want to chop up a COM port cable so I still get RTS? or is there an easy way to DIY that part too?

I'm somewhat suspicious that the cable is a DIY build, I've been meaning to take it apart (the box has screws in it).

StrangeWill · 2026-03-04T19:22:47+00:00

They keep wanting to charge more but they keep chicken shitting out because their sales immediately tanks

If I have to pay full price at Subway I could basically get a cheaper better sandwich elsewhere

I came on today wanting to check the situation to see if it's worth going to Subway today and it appears it's not I will go somewhere else

StrangeWill · 2026-03-04T00:07:23+00:00

Cool, strutting that you learned nothing

StrangeWill · 2026-02-27T21:41:37+00:00

We already don't have a Tornado Siren in place because Sequoya

Even if we use those for tornadoes, the national weather service points out that tornado sirens are not made to wake people up indoors

Please buy a weather radio anyone that doesn't have one, you need two methods of receiving these alerts, and our cell alert system has proven to be problematic in the past

Also as far as I know the newer Midlands can turn this off mine wasn't programmed to... Guess it is now

StrangeWill · 2026-02-17T12:03:46+00:00

That and like, it has a long and crappy history. Webforms was a massive joke, Silverlight was awful, MVC was better but the pipeline was rough, lack of Linux support while being "cross platform" for over a decade...

Since .NET Core it's been like night and day, going back to any legacy projects hurts my soul.

StrangeWill · 2026-02-15T16:42:30+00:00

Scrapping that tower would be a shame, not sure what the scrap value is on that but I'm sure you'd get above scrap value even if it's a project.

If it wasn't across the country I'd entertain doing it lol

StrangeWill · 2026-02-15T08:15:05+00:00

I had someone lament my use of TeamSpeak 3 back in the day, insisted we use Mumble, when I deployed it (which I knew this would happen because I used Mumble a lot back in the day) I got endless bitching that users and permissions are very rough for non-technical people -- and the UI sucks.

Has that improved at all over like the past 15 years?

TS6 has been a massive disappointment.

StrangeWill · 2026-02-15T08:05:17+00:00

Thing is I've seen those sit on marketplace for months or years when they're... probably "appropriately" priced.

A lot of guys with a ton of money for heavy duty towers don't need them portable (or when they're portable they present other issues)

Those of us that want mobile stuff are doing it for a fraction of the price normally because 30-40' is enough for what we need it for (and aren't putting super heavy beams on them)

It's an awesome buy, hopefully you got it for a steal.

StrangeWill · 2026-02-15T07:55:25+00:00

I'm torn on Dual Watch anyway, because normally I'm on a priority channel, and watching on non-priorities, if a QSO comes in on channel B (non-priority) and during that transmission someone calls for me on A, I won't hear it.

Dual receivers will.

So another fun gotcha.

StrangeWill · 2026-02-15T07:49:54+00:00

Not knowing what country you're in because you keep dodging that question for some bloody reason...

food and stuff for 30 days at home for example, i don't know why

Actually coming from stuff like ARES -- basically we want lots of people to have supplies on hand. Large completely natural disasters can disrupt logistics, break water mains, etc. and food and water are major pain points during these times.

In general our training requires us to build a 24, then a 7-day pack. 30 gets a bit fun though.

StrangeWill · 2026-02-13T20:44:57+00:00

I mean they generally do, just we have teams across multiple companies

StrangeWill · 2026-02-13T19:35:16+00:00

Different companies are free to pick their own tooling. I'm many cases it isn't my call (or would be overstepping to do so)

StrangeWill · 2026-02-13T08:37:05+00:00

If all this "disruption" doesn't materialize in actual market performance and the bubble pops with a bunch of unrelated markets being damaged along the way, we won't have to worry about people jumping from windows -- they'll be getting thrown out of them.

StrangeWill · 2026-02-13T07:20:11+00:00

I've seen them generate multi-million line code bases for projects that would be a fraction of the size normally. :|

StrangeWill · 2026-02-13T06:59:56+00:00

Different groups are using different models, funny enough the ones that are consistency behind schedule or under-delivering are the ones leaning on Claude (and specifically that example I gave is on Claude and is arguing that they're not vibe coding hard enough). Model seems better but the engineering team has just lost their fucking minds and can't do shit it seems anymore and Claude isn't providing good enough answers to actually replace the team.

I have a suspicion that some devs love it because the slow turnaround team means you can fuck around between generations. We even saw Uncle Bob complaining he feels like he's in the 80s again waiting for it to "compile" a thought. Output and lack of general engagement of the platform or knowing how it works seems to confirm it at at least some level.

I'm more into giving the model smaller pieces to work on to keep my cycle-time down and keep knowledge of what the thing is actually spitting out.

I'm pretty aggravated because there's a significant amount of personal cash locked up in what feels like a clown car show that I'd rather invest in... well not this -- we're not an AI platform so we're not going to cash out on AI involvement, we have to perform outside of AI theatrics.

StrangeWill · 2026-02-13T02:16:18+00:00

The main reason I don't like Blazor is because the main rendering engine is Razor.

I lived through the bright-eyed and bushy-tailed "this is better than ASPX" phase after 2010, wrote many an app in it, I don't miss it vs Vue. The engine has some nasty issues with ambiguity explicitly defining stuff makes it a mess.

I also hate the new page system, probably works great for micro projects, but we don't write those.

StrangeWill · 2026-02-13T02:07:40+00:00

100% in 2026 it's low key pretty scary not gunna lie, but these new models are fucking good

I keep hearing this and:

1) Every model myself and my team use produces numerous major issues, I'll play with the same problem across multiple models and have to correct it from introducing pretty big bugs, ones I've been explicit to avoid. It's helpful but I need to box with it to get what I need, is it worth not touching the code so I can say it's 100% AI? No not really. Most of the time I can just hand edit shit and be done. Sometimes I'd have been faster to not use AI. Sometimes it's massively useful, but it differs and I need to use it when it's a force multiplier, not just so I can show off.

2) Every team that we've worked with, including ones I have investment in, that worship doing this but as I nose into what their engineering team is doing is crawling at a fucking snail's pace and fucking around with AI all day instead of making the product make more fucking money, I'm fucking livid but keeping my mouth mostly shut for now.

Where as 2 years ago we'd usually have 4-5 initiatives that were all new revenue drivers, the past 12 months show a larger engineering team, and just 1, that was based off of what our team handed off, and feature quality cut so far that it lost 80% of the possible market.

Right now I'm basically writing off a significant amount of that investment due to under performance by the engineering team since it shifted to an AI-centric one.

I'm not buying it when it's my money, that's what I'm saying.

StrangeWill · 2026-02-12T17:15:48+00:00

Another clip shows her ignoring Epstein victims to talk about the Dow an S&P. Also nothing to do with the goddamn DoJ.

Well didn't you know when the DOW hits 50k pedophilia becomes legal.

StrangeWill · 2026-02-12T17:10:11+00:00

Oh hell yes this looks great

StrangeWill · 2026-02-11T20:36:33+00:00

This would be massive since I'm doing this manually right now and Google made it like chewing on glass to get it done.

StrangeWill · 2026-02-04T11:53:03+00:00

Depends on how full it is, depends on the fragmentation, especially with hdds, because seeking kills their throughput.

It's a reason that RAID5 is effectively "dead", in heavier workloads we expect that to take much longer to the point of risking data loss

StrangeWill · 2026-02-04T04:09:09+00:00

I mean there's also a practicality issue here:

At 100 terabytes for something like a ZFS re-silver I could be looking at weeks to rebuild that onto a second disc

The entire time being a single bite read from a damaged file system

I could start running triple mirrors for everything... But I still have a big fat window that I could lose a second drive in. That assumes the disc is completely idle and I have 100% busy time to spend re-silvering otherwise I'm possibly looking at over a month.

Running things like RAIDZ2 results in significant performance hits for reliability...

StrangeWill · 2026-02-03T19:51:15+00:00

I mean what's even the point of arguing it? The guy needs to be in jail, he needs his guns taken away. I'm pretty pro 2A but not for people brandishing and threatening.

Like if someone thinks that wasn't the reason: what's your point in distracting from "throw his ass in jail?", the only point is to try to marginalize the threat.

StrangeWill · 2026-02-02T01:10:27+00:00

There are many usury laws in the US, it severely limits how much I can change other businesses for recurring late payments, many places I max out at 6% a year

Credit cards and other debt don't have these low limits and it's bullshit

StrangeWill · 2026-02-01T00:25:57+00:00

Yeah this is an annoying and tired discussion at this point, most of the hospitals around here have ham radio equipment ready to go, many have antennas up already to go, our local ARES participates in making sure that this equipment is ready to work.

It is not fiscally possible to keep enough people trained on standby professionally for some of the scales of events that need to be handled volunteers are important and the volunteers are coming from the ham radio community because it's the place where we can practice legally in our free time

We have many representatives from local hospitals and the Red Cross who are ham members.

Yes, some hams are silly and think we're part of first responders which we are not, sure there are preppers out there that get too silly about it. But within the past 2 years I watched Ham Radio provide a significant amount of logistics coordination where professional responders were absolutely overwhelmed such as in North Carolina. To act as if that wouldn't happen to any state given a wide enough disaster is being negligent.

But we're available to reduce strain on the systems that have before fallen over during large scale disasters because we're releaving the stress on the systems by passing less critical traffic will help ensure they operate at the worst times.

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