Not to rain on the celebration but I don't think Maduro was the reason my car has to have a front license plate.

Listening to first responder radio traffic while driving is a lot safer than trying to squint at colored lines in Google Maps. Depending on the frequencies used in your area, a $16 Baofeng and radioreference.com may be all you need.

"Not all heroes wear capes" 🫡 View quoted note →

The Hidden Tax on Self-Sufficiency: Why Modern Homesteading Is So Hard

Old dozer starts and warms up on gasoline then runs on diesel. In our modern age of flex fuel and gas-electric hybrids, it's easy to forget (or have never known) that stuff like this existed long before most of us were born.

It's 2026 and X expects me to create an account to watch a video one of its users swiped and uploaded from someone else's TikTok account 🤡

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Calmly and intelligently explaining the reasons private gun ownership is beneficial and necessary has done precious little to preserve the right. It will be no different for the defense of personal privacy. The solution to government attempts to erode personal privacy is two-pronged: 1) build tools to protect privacy, and 2) poison the hearts of the people against government secrecy If no privacy for us, then no secrecy for you. Full stop. God bless the leakers and whistleblowers, especially the ones who've been persecuted for it.

No shortage of Meshtastic how-to videos on YT but few that go into this much detail honestly covering both the good and bad. Mesh-anything by its nature needs mass adoption to be useful and speaking as my inner circle's designated 'interpreter' of "nerd stuff", in its current form this has almost zero chance of mass adoption by normies, even those who are into disaster prep. Based on my initial experience, MeshCore seems to have a better chance of achieving that goal and even that may be optimistic. Just one example: maybe I was overlooking something but never was able to figure out how to share channel settings by QR code from Android to iPhone, and it's awfully coincidental that all of the how-to videos I've seen always demo the reverse - sharing from iPhone to Android. I agree that Meshtastic is amazing when it works but not sure if that's due more to the fact it uses affordable low power hardware or because the setup process is enough to make you want to toss it all in the trash and buy a CB radio. Don't know the guy personally but wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Jack Dorsey's motivation to create his bitchat app came from test-driving Meshtastic.

Why, did YT put the 0.5X button behind a paywall? 🤣 No matter how bad things get, Ben will always be able to find work as an auctioneer or the side-effects reader in a pharma ad 🤣 View quoted note →

I don't follow her socials to know but has Senator Warren been as vocal about the energy consumption of AI as she has been about bitcoin mining?

Avalon mini 3 has a mining mode that uses full power and fan speed, and a heat mode that uses less power but because it runs at a slower fan speed, the unit itself gets significantly hotter and doesn't circulate air well in the room. Not sure if I should run it in mining mode (ignoring the 80% rule) or heater mode with a desk fan blowing on it to help move heat. Also tried to update the firmware and it just kept throwing E-01 error.

There's a lot I still don't understand about Meshtastic and MeshCore but I assume there's a good reason that mesh-related discussion needs to take place on a centralized social media platform as opposed to just using the mesh?

Old Fart Pro Tip: always keep your toenails trimmed because you never know when you're gonna throw out your back 🤣

Word around the ham shack is that the reason King Solomon had so many concubines is because he was gifted with the ability to see into the future and thus developed a crazy dream of having one woman for every type of radio antenna connector that would ever exist. Records suggest he finally gave up at around 700. 🤡 Seriously though, why so many connector types?

What the heck is DLR talking about? I've looked all over this Christmas stocking and don't see a line running up the back. Is he talking about the stitching? 🤣