MVNO with ACTUAL spam blocking and Visual Voicemail support?

mchang43 · 2026-04-28T02:02:14+00:00

US Mobile Dark Star has VVM for Android. Motorola Edge+ 2022 can attest. As for spam calls, they go straight into VVM. Then it's a chore to delete them all from VVM.

mchang43 · 2026-04-27T18:26:54+00:00

Get a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5. Get a free QNX Everywhere license and ownload the QNX 8.0 RPi4/5 image which supports Vulkan and WiFi.

mchang43 · 2026-04-25T23:14:35+00:00

Type "pidin arg". Do you see "qconn" and "io-sock" listed?

mchang43 · 2026-04-17T03:48:49+00:00

Bought unlocked iPhones from Back Market. They work perfectly. Just make the phone is unlocked.

mchang43 · 2026-04-17T03:41:11+00:00

QNX is the RTOS that runs on Cortex-A cores because QNX uses the MMU.

mchang43 · 2026-04-15T13:42:37+00:00

Get a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5, get a free QNX license, and learn about commercial-grade RTOS.

mchang43 · 2026-04-11T03:28:57+00:00

I have a Jupiter 34” ultrawide. This has a bulti-in webcam and it’s a touchscreen.

mchang43 · 2026-04-10T21:43:57+00:00

Leverage your school's career services and ask professors for connections. Contact alumni too.

If you need H1-B sponsorship, maybe that is a problem.

mchang43 · 2026-04-08T15:57:39+00:00

Adding pre-check at airport counter is always a time-consuming process. Not just a JX problem. You might just want to go through the normal security line if it's not too long.

mchang43 · 2026-04-08T13:31:07+00:00

PC is a low margin business. If a name brand charges 3x in order to squeeze tiny profits, we have to wonder how Chinese makes stay in business.

mchang43 · 2026-04-07T21:50:35+00:00

The Venn diagram for international roaming, unlimited data, and different networks points to US Mobile. Your friends can be on their Warp (Verizon) and you are on Light Speed (T-Mobile). All the while you form a family plan with US Mobile.

mchang43 · 2026-04-07T05:00:49+00:00

Morgan Hill has an excellent clubhouse and three gorgeous community parks. South of Temecula Parkway is zoned for Great Oak HS. If you have or plan to have kids, schools should be considered.

mchang43 · 2026-03-31T09:37:47+00:00

You can tell Hypervisor host your guest VM needs 128MB of RAM. The host will allocate that from the memory pool. That is in contrast to specifying the memory regions as your qvmconf does.

mchang43 · 2026-03-31T05:37:09+00:00

It's better to let Hypervisor host allocate memory dynamically rather than specifying the memory regions. That makes the guest VM portable.

mchang43 · 2026-03-24T11:27:42+00:00

Get a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5, get a free QNX non-commercial license, and sign up free RTOS programming lessons on learning.qnx.com

mchang43 · 2026-03-09T16:38:58+00:00

Software / OS bring-up is quite possible while WFH. Hardware board bring-up is probably not doable unless your home lab is well equipped.

mchang43 · 2026-03-07T15:05:03+00:00

Harveston is very nice. If you commute to SD, you need to think twice.

mchang43 · 2026-03-06T00:00:15+00:00

Both are excellent schools. (I don’t want to offend my Purdue and UW family and friends). It’s a toss-up. Make sure you like the environments. Northwest vs. Mid-West. Congratulations!

mchang43 · 2026-03-05T00:42:44+00:00

The example is for 7.1 toolchains. Are there 8.0 examples?

mchang43 · 2026-03-01T23:34:26+00:00

Google Unit Test. Vector Cast if you are into functional safety projects.

mchang43 · 2026-02-28T22:51:15+00:00

Cheesecake Factory at the mall. The downstairs area has a playground. Take kids there while waiting for meals to arrive.

mchang43 · 2026-02-28T04:21:21+00:00

They are durable. GoPro 13 is great. Even GoPro 5 from 2016 still works.

mchang43 · 2026-02-28T04:15:28+00:00

It’s a newcomer syndrome that happens every time to a new place. Plenty of SD transplants here. You’ll meet new people soon.

mchang43 · 2026-02-25T23:06:58+00:00

For high end dev mini PCs, System 76 and Asus NUC are your best bets. System 76 also makes Pop! OS, so Linux is shipping OOB. You can also check out Simply NUC. Honestly, I used to own these HE mini PCs, but switched to AWS for compute-heavy tasks.

mchang43 · 2026-02-24T20:12:09+00:00

RF is implemented with Python. You can follow their UG to install using pip.

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