qjkxbmwvz

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

My usual:

  • Peanut butter and jam sandwich on multi grain.
  • Beans (garbanzo or a melange

start with dried and cook in instant pot or other pressure cooker)

  • Fruit (banana, strawberries, maybe other berries)
  • Veggies (carrot sticks, broccoli, cucumber)

Sometimes throw in some rice, a mandarin orange, or just leftovers from dinner. I'm vegetarian so the kiddo doesn't get meat in their packed lunch (they can eat whatever they want though, and do at restaurants).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They were thinking of making a Minority Report adaptation (with Arnold, not Cruise) as the sequel to Total Recall, with the mutant Martians as the precogs. Could have been a fun one!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Recall_(1990_film)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I prefer the phrase "testicular manifold."

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago

We had kids


we wanted to make friends in our 30s, so we just made the friends. Problem solved.

(In all seriousness, your friend


or at least, acquaintance


group explodes when you have daycare/kid activities.)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One or two Linux distros were (are?) UNIX certified, though.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's a bulk food store near me and it allows BYO containers (or you can use one of their compostable bags). It's great! A little bit more work (you need to tare your/container write down the empty weight), but you get your goods in the container of your choice.

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

The subhead is

The ads promoted extremist hate speech

It wasn't clear to me from the title if "referencing Nazi war crimes" was a good or bad thing (as in, "don't let history repeat itself" seems a good message, but that's apparently not the perspective the ad was pushing...).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 1 week ago

Living things are "entropy eaters"


they take in energy, reduce their own entropy, and poop out entropy to the environment. This is fine, and it doesn't violate any thermodynamics if you look at the whole picture.

So I think the point is that creationists take a myopic view and only look at the creature itself, where indeed it reduces its own entropy...but that's because the creationists are stupid and ignore, you know...everything else.

This is true not only for individual animals, but for evolution itself


more complexity in animals can be viewed as a decrease in entropy (again, this is only a problem if you ignore the rest of the universe).

Their argument is the same as saying that you can open your fridge door to cool off your room.

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

Haha yeah that was the counter example I was thinking of. I agree completely


you could make a Gentoo from source beginner distro, and I think you could make it reasonably "idiot proof," but it would still be a bad user experience most likely (too much time spent compiling).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

If your distro can't be forked into a "beginner distro" then it's fundamentally flawed IMHO.

To be clear, I've used Arch as my daily drivers for a while, and while it's not the best fit for my needs (I use Debian mostly), there's nothing that I experienced that was incompatible with a "beginner" distro.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 2 weeks ago

No love for us Dvorak users :(

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You can also drop cache for debugging by running something like echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop-caches

But remember that the kernel knows best


this RAM will automatically be freed up when needed and you should never run this except for debugging (or maybe benchmarking).

 

People often complain about San Francisco's public transit


and to be sure, it's not perfect by any means (multiple separate agencies doesn't help). But the historic streetcars are pretty neat!

They're painted with the livery of various historic streetcars from all over the country (and a few international, I think). Best of all, they run alongside the modern fleet


same route, same fare.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website to c/amateur_radio@lemmy.radio
 

Howdy!

I got my Technician in early 2000s, and last year finally upgraded to Extra. Looking to set up a very basic shack.

I'm looking for an HF setup, with most of my use probably using digital modes, but would like the ability to use voice.

Current transceiver is on loan from girlfriend's dad, a Ten-Tec Scout 555


50W HF unit with separate modules for each band. One limitation of this is that the modules set the mode, so it's LSB on 40m, making e.g. FT8 not possible (without some hacking of code or perhaps hacking the module).

Antenna is end-fed with an off-the-shelf 49:1. Currently only have 20m half-wave, but have just enough room for a 40m half-wave in the attic, which is the ultimate goal.

For digital modes, it looks like there are sort of 3 classes of radio:

  • "full digital" where the radio has e.g. a USB port and handles audio, transmit, and frequency set.
  • Some computer-control with RS232, but uses computer audio+adapter to transmit.
  • No digital, use adapter to transmit. This is what the current setup uses (and it works great!)

I'm leaning towards a conventional transceiver, e.g., something from ICOM, Kenwood, Yaesu, (or others) rather than an SDR unit. I'd like the ability to go up to 50-100W if possible.

I don't have a hard-and-fast budget; would like to keep it <$1000 if possible; mostly just looking at used transceivers. Something like a Kenwood TS-590 looks pretty amazing and very "plug-and-play" (but pushing up against price). Something like a Yaesu FT-920 looks pretty feature-rich too; and even something more affordable like an ICOM 706 or even a 725 is probably more radio than I need. Or just grab a new 7300 and call it a day!

Anyway...clearly, I don't know exactly what I want, but figured I'd ask folks with more experience if they have any wisdom. Thanks!

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