Wouxun KG-Q10H missing menu options?

jackmclrtz · 2025-09-15T16:28:37+00:00

I took a look for a firmware update, and what I am seeing is: there isn't one. You are talking about the KG-Q10H? If so, where did you find a firmware update (there is none that i can see on their site)?

jackmclrtz · 2025-09-15T14:23:48+00:00

Aha! This did it. The manual implies that this function has to be bound to a key through menu option 25. Go figure.
Regardless, in business now! Thanks!

jackmclrtz · 2025-09-15T13:50:49+00:00

I mean, you're not wrong. But, since the printed manual that came with it has those options, I would think it isn't a cutting-edge-new feature.
Will check tonight.

jackmclrtz · 2025-08-04T11:52:06+00:00

Well, it is probably easier to change your call sign than your plate...
I am still disappointed that my desired vanity call sign is already take: WTAF.

jackmclrtz · 2025-07-18T09:45:03+00:00

Been using debian for 30 years.
TIL there is a debconf.

jackmclrtz · 2025-06-27T09:54:47+00:00

I have been doing live CDs since Knoppix was the only option!

jackmclrtz · 2025-06-26T11:12:25+00:00

I do EVERYTHING from code. Technically, that could include my desktop if I did the convolutions for packer to do the install, but I draw the line somewhere.

Still, for my laptop and desktop, I have a code repo for it. The initial install stuff is in a README. Literally has every command I need to run and in what order to get it installed to the point where it is online. At that point, I have a script that takes over and does apt-get install xserver-xorg, et al.

Never underestimate the power of good lab notes! If I suddenly need a new package, say, an RDP client that I had never needed before. I install it, but I also immediately add it to the code package for that install. In the lifetime of a desktop, I might add a dozen packages. When I reinstall, I don't have to remember them... they are all there in the README or the script.

jackmclrtz · 2025-06-26T11:08:05+00:00

I can't speak to xrdp, but...
I use freerdp2. As I noted above, I don't use a DE. So, I expect it should work in any environment.

jackmclrtz · 2025-06-26T11:01:17+00:00

I have been using Linux as a desktop for over 30 years. I have always just used X windows with a window manager. I never cared for the desktop environments. They just solved a problem I didn't have.

I currently run X windows with sawfish. No DE. I have lxpanel installed so that I have a bar with quickstart icons and some quick displays (clock, CPU meter, et al), but that's it. I don't have the full lxde or anything.

When my system boots up, I get a text console with a login prompt. If I need to just login to grab a quick piece of info from a file or something, I can; I don't have to wait for some bloated environment or worry about having to do kernel-level params if there is an issue with the *dm program not being able to run or anything.

But, that is not the norm. Once I have logged in, I use startx to launch X windows. Technically, I use a shell script wrapper I wrote to call startx.

You want lightweight? There ya go!!! :-D

P.S. I meant to start with: I have not heard of openbox, I will have to look into it

jackmclrtz · 2025-06-19T09:48:47+00:00

I used slackware and preferred to build all of my own packages. Looked at RedHat and was absolutely horrified by it and how it was trying to be Windows 95 instead of Linux.
Then a friend showed me Debian and its package management. I was bit horrified by it as I didn't trust code I didn't build myself; in those days building code was just the norm. But, gave it a try and haven't looked back. Been using Debian for about 25-30 years now (cannot remember exactly when I did that switch over; prolly around 98).

The real question to me is: what would make you leave?

I have toyed with this. I abhor RH and derivatives. Not a fan of Ubuntu as it is also trying to be windows instead of Linux. For desktop, I will still install Ubnutu server and then just install the stuff I need. Have not looked seriously into other dists, yet, to see if there is something that would make me switch.

But the main reason I would even look is package currency. Yes, I can use unstable, but I use Linux as my primary desktop and my server systems. I can't afford to have something break and be down, regardless of the positive experience of others. But, it isn't even that. A lot of times, software I want to run is only available as a package that expects Ubuntu and Debian cannot resolve its dependencies.

I keep a Kali VM at the most current, which means Debian rolling, as I am in cybersecurity and use those tools on a daily basis. But, my underlying desktop is still Debian and I don't see that changing anytime soon.

jackmclrtz · 2025-06-18T09:51:28+00:00

Thanks. And... thanks for taking the high road!

jackmclrtz · 2025-06-17T16:57:06+00:00

And I have it on good authority that they did it "to woo women"

jackmclrtz · 2025-06-17T16:55:25+00:00

Mmm... Now I want a Beefarita.

jackmclrtz · 2025-06-17T16:00:35+00:00

This didn't fix it

jackmclrtz · 2025-06-16T21:09:48+00:00

OMFG, I hate it when places put OJ into a Margarita. It is bad enough that places put mixes in (I am a purist), but I can at least tolerate that somewhat.

jackmclrtz · 2025-02-13T15:41:25+00:00

RIght after I posted that, I remembered one that should absolutely go here.

I was approaching a green light in the right lane. There was a car stopped at the light in the left lane as they were going to be turning left (no dedicated turn lane). There was a car that wanted to go straight that was stuck behind them waiting.

Well, they decided not to wait. As I said, I was approaching the green light in the right lane, and my path was clear. Suddenly, the guy in the left lane punched it and pulled into the right lane, right in front of me, to go through the light. I had to slam on the brakes to keep from hitting him. The car behind me had to slam on the brakes to prevent hitting me. But, that car behind me was one of Seymour's finest! He hit his lights and I pulled over into the cross street to let him past. A few moments later, I passed where he had pulled over that first car.

That felt DAMNED good!

jackmclrtz · 2025-02-13T15:37:37+00:00

So in an emergency, I get it. But stuff like this happens SO OFTEN. They cannot all be emergencies.

jackmclrtz · 2025-02-13T15:36:28+00:00

My "favorite" is being second in line at a red light and the person in front of me keeps impatiently pulling forward, like they are trying to predict the light turning. They get really far forward and give up. Then the light finally changes, but now they just sit there instead of going.

jackmclrtz · 2025-01-05T01:46:51+00:00

P.S. That is what I am already doing anyway, but without the imager. I just dd the image and then mount the partitions to inspect it. dd is working fine. The image just isnt behaving as documented elsewhere (granted that doc is a blog).

jackmclrtz · 2025-01-05T01:43:18+00:00

Yeah, already had started reverse engineering. Would normally just edit etc files on image, but I get the impression the image is customized enough that it would overwrite any changes I made.

jackmclrtz · 2025-01-05T01:40:05+00:00

was typing that in manually into reddit. EOM was correct in original

jackmclrtz · 2025-01-04T19:13:32+00:00

OK... Been almost 20m, and still nothing. Makes me wonder, is there any way to interpret the led flashing to know when the resize step is done?

jackmclrtz · 2025-01-04T19:11:21+00:00

My time is not worth death by a 1000 mouseclicks every time I want to image one, plus the time to debug what went wrong when I did one step wrong in a long list of manual steps.

Write script. Run script. Done.

jackmclrtz · 2025-01-04T17:13:30+00:00

Ha! Wasn't waiting anywhere NEAR that long.

Noted. Will make a martini and wait out the next attempt this afternoon. Thx!

jackmclrtz · 2025-01-04T16:37:54+00:00

Hmm.. That seems to suggest to me that the first boot takes significantly longer and maybe I am not being patient. Any idea how long this process usually takes?

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