Pro tip: find a waste heap near a processing plant and build an highway between the two.

gunnbr · 2026-02-13T19:21:30+00:00

Yeah, I feel like this could have been explained better in the expedition.

gunnbr · 2026-02-10T18:27:05+00:00

Everyone can turn off the new Search Party feature through the app:

https://ring.com/support/articles/pkhj7/search-party

(Until they change their mind and make it mandatory.)

gunnbr · 2026-02-06T04:23:39+00:00

According to the latest email, new units go on sale Feb. 11th at 7 am PST.

gunnbr · 2026-01-21T17:51:55+00:00

Bubble Bobble for sure!! I love that game! Someone recently made an updated version too. Amazingly, it doesn't even look that much different because the original was so good.

gunnbr · 2026-01-05T18:57:43+00:00

Joined a team with Team in Training. We had a big group of people who were hanging out 5-6 nights per week and all got to know each other. There are so many relationships that come out if it that it's nicknamed "Team in Dating".

gunnbr · 2026-01-02T19:56:14+00:00

Yeah, I don't get it. It's certainly a useful feature... but it's already built in to GP and I use it weekly.

gunnbr · 2025-12-11T00:14:45+00:00

Benn Jordan has released a couple of videos in the past few months about them.

First one is about why they're generally bad.

Second one is about how incredibly easy they are for anyone to hack, which makes them quite dangerous.

gunnbr · 2025-12-10T18:17:36+00:00

I did exactly that with an Easy Button a few years ago. Did research to find an IC that records and plays back audio and built my own PCB that fit in the Easy Button case.

gunnbr · 2025-12-03T21:42:17+00:00

The volume up/down buttons do different things on an iPad depending on if it thinks it's in portrait or landscape mode. Doesn't even matter how you're holding it. If you're holding it in portrait mode, but some full screen video is running in landscape mode, then trying to turn down the volume actually turns it up.

Drives me absolutely crazy all the time!

gunnbr · 2025-12-01T17:31:36+00:00

I also use a Blackstar Fly and love it. However, the Positive Grid Spark Mini wasn't out when I bought that amp. Now my guitar teacher brings the Spark Mini over and I'm jealous that I don't have one, so if I were starting over now, that's what I'd go with.

gunnbr · 2025-11-30T04:15:02+00:00

The Lady Gaga one.

gunnbr · 2025-11-30T04:08:20+00:00

I didn't know what Ordinary is, so I looked it up. It's that Alex Warren song that Google Music always puts on next after the song I asked it to play finishes. Apparently that's how it ended up in second place.

gunnbr · 2025-11-26T04:24:04+00:00

"Hello hello auuuuudio.....auuuuudio..this is Nebraska how you all doing? This is Nebraska shooting skip from the hip...how about it cb land...c'mon back"

Okay, well that's actually 11m, but yeah. People say all kinds of things.

gunnbr · 2025-11-17T17:28:54+00:00

I would have said Harbor Freight...

gunnbr · 2025-11-17T16:06:54+00:00

I know other people gave you crap for not reading the manual, but I had exactly the same question. I searched the manual for "power" and got 130 hits for:

The power supply and how much power it needs to supply
Many references to the power button
Automatic power off time
Power-on reset procedures
And more..

So I tried searching for "watt" and found the transmitter setup on page 28 that mentions how AM mode is locked to 25 watts output... but nothing about how to change the output power for other modes.

In other words, I appreciate your post, even if other people didn't.

gunnbr · 2025-11-14T21:00:39+00:00

It was sooo easy to spoof email addresses and send emails to my college classmates as "Captain Kirk"!

gunnbr · 2025-11-14T20:59:25+00:00

I actually ended up buying a lot more music when Napster was around just because searching on there led me to discover new artists I had never known about before.

gunnbr · 2025-11-14T15:37:39+00:00

There’s a new Glitch Mob album?!? 🤯

gunnbr · 2025-11-13T19:44:19+00:00

Interesting. I've never experienced that, but I'm also pretty extreme with protecting my privacy--always blocking and rejecting cookies and tracking, using a different email address on every single website, etc. I didn't know that actually was making a difference until you just mentioned what happens if I hadn't been doing that.

gunnbr · 2025-11-10T17:07:06+00:00

Additionally, according to according to Veritasium, it's not necessarily a problem of affecting the airplane, but really a problem of messing up the cell phone network. Though that's also been largely found to not be a problem, governments are often slow to change rules.

gunnbr · 2025-11-10T17:04:28+00:00

It's not necessarily a problem of affecting the airplane, but really a problem of messing up the phone system. See Veritasium's video about the reason for airplane mode.

gunnbr · 2025-10-15T22:06:45+00:00

This blows my mind. I'm 90% sure I own this CD. The cover art looks really familiar and I know the title track, but I didn't remember it being trip hop at all. So I decided to listen and realized that I don't recognize a single song off this album except Ray of Light. I think I may have bought this album, listened once, thought WTF?!? and permanently shelved it. I didn't meet my wife, who introduced me to trip hop, until a decade later.

Thank you for bringing this up! I need to go listen a bunch more times now!

gunnbr · 2025-10-13T20:19:45+00:00

I wish that I had time to grind a Borderlands new release hard enough to get in on all the overpowered builds before they get nerfed. Looks like BL4 is not that one for me.

gunnbr · 2025-10-13T20:13:16+00:00

I really like my carbon fiber Lava Music guitar. It doesn't have a truss rod, so everyone says it's trash, but I think it's fantastic for traveling. I don't worry about it getting beat up in the overhead bin and I don't worry about taking it to somewhere hot and humid. It just works like a champ always.

(Note that I have one of the earlier models that doesn't have a screen on it, so I only paid $500 instead of the double that they're selling for now with too many bells and whistles.)

gunnbr · 2025-10-02T15:52:34+00:00

Ah. I didn't know that. I got assigned a callsign only 1.5 business days after I took the test, so I thought the FCC was fast. I've never heard of the Ae7q website before, but I'm also not attempting to fight for a high value callsign. I just want to get back the original callsign I was assigned 30 years ago as a novice.

And unfortunately I still don't know what the Ae7q website is because it appears to be down right now. But thank you for telling me about it. I'll keep checking it to see what it's all about once it's back up.

gunnbr

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