qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I recently started using voice (SSB) on the HF ham bands, and have made contacts on 15, 17, 20, and 40m. No real DX, but made one foreign contact ~1000mi away and another domestic ~2000mi away.

I live in a city and it's challenging to get a good antenna setup, so it's always a compromise where I am.

Nothing very impressive by ham standards, but it's fun.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

Momentum could still be conserved if the velocity is unchanged, but it would mean there's now a lot of kickback once it gets big...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, the only thing I could imagine would be that image loading/processing uses an optimized library, but a single color is (unlikely but possibly) implemented poorly as a loop over every pixel, with some egregious overhead.

~~Most likely shit post though...~~ See reply, apparently real!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One of the coolest parts of The Expanse IMHO was that The Mormons commissioned a giant space ship, and it didn't feel forced or far-fetched.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ugh, Lemmy is full of stale content.

(Edit: it's a joke. Stalemate/stale content...I chuckled at, and upvoted, the post.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've been super happy with it. Knock on wood it's been super reliable. I have a single ZFS drive, take snapshots with various retention policies, nothing fancy.

Another fun thing is to set up a reverse proxy on it as an endpoint for services on your local (home) network which can only be accessed by VPN. For example, my Jellyfin service isn't public facing, but I didn't want e.g. my parents to need to set up WireGuard. So instead they can point their TV to a raspberry pi on their network to access the service


even a first gen RPI can handle Jellyfin reverse proxy over WireGuard for moderate bitrates!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago

In my experience, the blue (405nm) lasers pointers can far, far exceed the nominal (5mW?) power.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

"Necessary, but not sufficient" sums up the role of a degree for a lot of jobs.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Remind me again, what color was Obama's scandalous suit?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

Ah, right, that's why it looked familiar


pretty sure I've seen articles from there posted in one of The Onion communities in lemmy.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not mad at the huge amount I pay in taxes. I'm mad about what I get in return.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Only disagreement from me (in California, USA) is that I wouldn't diminish the actions of our neighbors to the north by calling them "petty" in this instance. Nothing petty about standing up to a bully in whatever capacity you can. 🫡

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