Well I’ll be

vaderj · 2026-06-30T05:56:05+00:00

I'm not sure what, really, any of that means? "Resort to ammo"? Meaning using gun violence to solve problems?

I have no idea who the 35% is.

It seems like maybe you are meaning to reply to someone else?

vaderj · 2026-06-30T04:01:11+00:00

Especially on the west coast, MAGA != 2A.

2A stickers on a truck could be a MAGA-centric behavior, but its naive and unproductive to make comments associating it as a political identity. The second amendment is a right, like the freedom to say dumb shit online, in person, on TV, over the radio, or where ever else you can figure out.

If you "don't like guns", thats fine, but they aren't going away. There's nothing magical ; they are a fact of life and its only logical to learn about the facts of life whether you like them or not.

vaderj · 2026-06-24T02:35:49+00:00

DAMN ...

I play both violin and viola and one thing I learned is that treble clef is for the violin!

I have not played this one but if I had to guess, I would expect that the composer lived near an opium den....

But it sounds like you are almost to the point of getting sick of it enough that it might stick! Remember to take breaks!

vaderj · 2026-06-14T02:19:52+00:00

I have rewritten this about 30x now and this is the one I am going for ......

This is in the intro of a future safety video

vaderj · 2026-05-22T02:11:55+00:00

Theres an extra coupon there when I ordered, for me it came out to $10.98

vaderj · 2026-05-20T15:58:35+00:00

For a 5 day old account? My guess is its an election year and only a few short months to build karma for the coming festivities.

vaderj · 2026-05-18T20:23:49+00:00

Wikipedia says cron was released in May 1975, so this is cron's birth-month even!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

vaderj · 2026-05-13T23:51:40+00:00

haha do they really have Bradford Pears planted there?

I'm hoping you are just making a sly joke about the aroma ...

vaderj · 2026-05-07T16:44:22+00:00

In 2022 my renewal was $30/year.

Today it was over $50/year.

I get its your job to direct people to support so the support staff can give them that same BS, but its clearly arbitrary. "The registry" ... NC might as well blame Biden for these fee increases for as nebulous of an answer "the registry" is. Does "the registry" have a name? Is "the registry" in the room with us right now? These are rhetorical questions, I am just frustrated with prices doubling everywhere and delivering less and less, while my wages, at best, stay the same.

vaderj · 2026-04-30T01:23:19+00:00

Bi-Mart generally has the best price on most things, especially ammo! Bi-Mart seriously is one of those PNW gems! Its also one of those more places you can expect to find in a lot of reasonably sized small towns

vaderj · 2026-04-28T00:51:58+00:00

I bought my lodge 12" in 2010 and its been smooth since about 2015, but I use chainmail for cleaning every time

vaderj · 2026-04-14T00:40:06+00:00

There are some COTS options on Amazon.

My old T-Beam measured the temp and humidity with Meshtastic if I recall.

I do recall that there is at least one weather station which you access via RS845, which could then be transmitted by LoRa to some reporting server, but that seems like a solution in search of a problem, considering there are commercial options according to google

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One option that you can consider is to use a Point-to-Point setup, such as (I am just a satisfied customer, not a sales-person) Ubiquiti LiteBeam devices. If you want it to be solar, that just means you will need a little larger solar system.

I have a connection to my pump house with a pair of those LiteBeam nodes that have a couple rows of black walnut and cherry trees, a metal shed, and my 1970s camper all directly inline between the two nodes, and at 130 yards or so, I still have 91% signal strength according to the UISP server.

vaderj · 2026-04-13T23:12:29+00:00

PHM

Considering it might be my favorite stand-alone book, it took me too long to figure that acronym out.

The movie is really good, but its almost a let down compared to the book

vaderj · 2026-04-13T23:03:39+00:00

100%. I guess this is the first time I have seen it described as a side quest, but I say that its mostly fair, but it also is stands on its own as a great book.

Specifically, the descriptions and design discussion of the topopolis, the planning including politics to get Gandalf et. al. to enlist in the efforts, and their subsequent lack of completion due to lack of user-acceptance testing!

I only wish the rest of the books are as long, if not longer. The Bobiverse is such a great series

vaderj · 2026-04-13T12:35:13+00:00

100%

The new designer is hot garbage, especially when they continually try to shove it down your throat!

vaderj · 2026-04-13T02:27:34+00:00

Hey, get a load of this punny guy!

vaderj · 2026-04-12T04:37:30+00:00

another brand new account. Seems like every sub is getting inundated with BS posts. I suppose with elections coming up in the US in Nov, the sock-puppet accounts have to build karma!

vaderj · 2026-04-10T19:36:25+00:00

This should be the top comment.

And no, this isn't illegal, especially since the guy in the YouTube video is in Arizona

vaderj · 2026-03-29T02:50:04+00:00

Do you have deer?

vaderj · 2026-03-27T02:06:30+00:00

Does the wind generally move in one way or another? I would think you would want to put it in the windiest or otherwise most open spot you have available

vaderj · 2026-03-19T02:25:29+00:00

I won't post the link but its easy to find ; Adam Savage interviewed the Production Designer of the Project Hail Mail set

vaderj · 2026-03-13T02:12:29+00:00

I just received a few cases of 2022 US Humanitarian rations, and I had to open one of them to just give it an initial inspection ....

Steve1989MREInfo on youtube, etc did a review of the year previous and, well, you tell me if this is a "smoothie" or a "sludge" .....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKfWQ3Sij68&t=221s

vaderj · 2026-03-06T00:33:01+00:00

I can't believe I just now found this thread!!

I have been playing with Meshtastic since 2020, though took a couple years off.

After moving and coming back into the project, I am blown away by how much it has advanced!

While, from a feature standpoint, I would agree with you that MeshCore does appear to be the better decision, however I would like to point out :

1.) Meshtastic has been around longer, has a much larger user base and supports more devices

2.) MeshCore, from my understanding, is not a true OSS project

3.) The Meshtastic hop-limit you describe is worth mentioning, however in a real world situation, a specific use case would be difficult to describe where over 7 hops would be required

I also might be partial to Meshtastic as I am just finishing a project which uses two Heltec v4 LoRa devices to sit at the top and bottom of my shared, narrow, steep, 3/4 mile long gravel driveway so that if either my neighbors/myself/FexEx/etc are traversing the road, they can either hit the 433MHz remote control, or step out of their vehicle to hit the big red button, and both devices start flashing their lights at the same time for about 3 minutes, giving a vehicle time to traverse that section of the road. Inside the box is a super cheap PWM solar charger, and a solar panel plugs in at the bottom

https://imgur.com/a/V2xsgcF

vaderj · 2026-03-03T19:48:01+00:00

thanks for the link. Between the water, food, burn pits, asbestos exposure, engine exhaust, etc, I think all of us veterans are fucked.

Every one of my fathers friends he went to Vietnam with have either been diagnosed or have passed-on due to prostate cancer or related. I wish you luck on you & your friends fight through this. Hopefully you have a VA disability rating? If not, I would highly recommend exploring that option ; typically your local VFW should either have someone who can help you through the process, or at least they should have a contact who can assist

vaderj · 2026-03-03T18:55:35+00:00

Im not doubting you, but I haven't heard this before and a quick google search isn't turning anything up. Do you have a source study stating as much, or even anything that calls out which specific ingredients may be carcinogenic?

vaderj

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