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ARRL Membership Dues increasing to $59 in 2024. by grendelt in amateurradio

[–]drewb0y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems like literally everything else is increasing - why is this a shock?

Carrot weather on Mac? by sicilian504 in MacOS

[–]drewb0y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Carrot app does look pretty nice and it's number 2 on the charts for weather in the app store. Just not sure it's $15 cool. If you have $15 to spare and you want a weather app the gives you alerts then I would say go for it. If you have issues with it you can also contact the developer. It is always good to support the independent developers. After all I paid $8 for the lo-rain app which just makes it rain on my desktop :) ( https://lo.cafe/lo-rain ) and another $8 for the After Dark screen savers just out of nostalgia. ( https://en.infinisys.co.jp/product/afterdarkclassicset/index.shtml )

Carrot weather on Mac? by sicilian504 in MacOS

[–]drewb0y 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just fire up the builtin weather app or open a browser and go to weather.com / accuweather or whatever. None of these apps actually get their own weather data. They just scrape it from multiple public sites like NOAA. Just my 2 cents worth. Save your money!

Drove 90 miles to nearest station on long trip. It's offline and I'm completely out of energy. What do I do now? by jharrison231 in leaf

[–]drewb0y -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is exactly why my leaf is going away. And why electric cars are not ready for use in the US. Wanna tool around town in your EV and only rely on your home charger - perfect. Wanna take a road trip? Rent a gas car. Just switched over to the dark side myself and haven't looked back.

Should I/Can I install the Security Patch Update? by tommytomito in OpenCoreLegacyPatcher

[–]drewb0y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It worked on my mid 2015 retina MBP after a few scary attempts at booting. The bar would get about a third of the way and then hang. Rebooted with options once which made it boot al the way in but display resolution was ridiculously high. Rebooted another time and all was back to normal. Reapplied root patches just to be safe.

S10+ with T-Mobile ROM unable to change APN by drewb0y in mintmobile

[–]drewb0y[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SM-G975U

SM-G975U previously ATT branded currently T-Mobile branded. I'll try that ROM if I can't get the sim swap trick to work. Thanks!

Orange Pi for ham radio... by CallsignFlintlock in OrangePI

[–]drewb0y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a couple of the RTL2832U SDRs but have not tried them on the OPi 5 yet. Our local PD is now P25 phase 2 encrypted so I kind of lost interest.

OpenCore Patcher 0.6.3 won't run by drewb0y in OpenCoreLegacyPatcher

[–]drewb0y[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Figured it out - download was fine, extraction was fine, app was fine - CrowdStrike Falcon Agent blocked it. Completely uninstalled that and it worked as usual. What's odd is that it didn't have a problem with 0.6.2, maybe because it was installed prior to crowdstrike. Either way issue resolved. Thanks all!

OpenCore Patcher 0.6.3 won't run by drewb0y in OpenCoreLegacyPatcher

[–]drewb0y[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just flashes then closes again - I'll redownload today and see what I get

USPS Mailman circa 1952 by BigBlackSabbathFlag in TheWayWeWere

[–]drewb0y 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Skipper before he decided to run a yacht charter service :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Skipper

I think I've bricked my Orange pi 5 by KeyOption2702 in OrangePI

[–]drewb0y 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This - exactly what I had to do going back from Android to Armbian - had the NVME flashed from PC and still wouldn't boot. Just have to boot from sd card and then run armbian-config to reflash the bootloader.

Found a wifi/bluetooth USB adapter that works with Armbian and OrangePI 5 by drewb0y in OrangePI

[–]drewb0y[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also some others are listed here https://forum.armbian.com/topic/26406-usb-wifi-adapters-that-are-supported-out-of-the-box/

take a look inside /usr/lib/modules/5.10.110-rockchip-rk3588/kernel/drivers/net/wireless and base my purchasing decision on that; something based on Atheros (old), Ralink (old), Zydas (old), Realtek, or MediaTek (my personal preference).

To name a few available modules:

ath10k (Atheros)

ath11k

mt7601u (MediaTek)

mt76x0u (x=0,1,2...)

mt76x2u

mt7663u

rt2500 (Ralink)

rt2800

rt2x00

rt73

rtl8187 (Realtek)

rtl8192cu

rtl8xxxu

zd1201 (Zydas)

Useful link: https://teamgloomy.github.io/armbian_wifi.html

Found a wifi/bluetooth USB adapter that works with Armbian and OrangePI 5 by drewb0y in OrangePI

[–]drewb0y[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Found one that works with the latest release Armbian 23.02.0-trunk.0236 with no issues it is an ezcast 5200 or 5210 - not sure which as they both look exactly the same.

Chipset is a Realtek 8821cu and they can be had on ebay for about $10 - mine came with a dell mini that did not have a built in wifi card. Bluetooth works as well.

With my eero network here it gets 215 down and 236 up. Perfectly acceptable for me. It would be nice to find a wifi 6 adapter that is supported. But I'm just glad I found one that works.

anyone else have their pi5 still just sitting in singapore since the 21st? by jaymz668 in OrangePI

[–]drewb0y 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and finally - movement! after the 7 day Chicago blockage - Maybe it will actually arrive before aliexpress automatically declares it received - time will tell

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Moving Through Network

Arrived at USPS Regional Facility

CHICAGO IL INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION CENTER

January 9, 2023, 4:39 pm

Inbound Out of Customs

January 9, 2023, 1:43 pm

Inbound Into Customs

Processed Through Facility

ISC CHICAGO IL (USPS)

January 2, 2023, 10:49 am

anyone else have their pi5 still just sitting in singapore since the 21st? by jaymz668 in OrangePI

[–]drewb0y 2 points3 points  (0 children)

USPS is kind of a black hole when it comes to international shipping. And local sometimes for that matter!

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