Why not both? 😉

Great typo, I’m leaving it.

If they can’t charge an admittance fee or a per message fee, they won’t implement it. It goes against their business model.

But we can dream.

If I recall correctly, you can, but it removes your node from the public networks everyone else is using because hams cannot use encryption for coms as part of the rules for ham operation, as the non ham network is encrypted by default. You would have to build a secondary network independent of the public node list.

Correct me if I’m wrong. But that was my understanding of the difference.

Oh it’s a hundred percent just the novelty communication technology that is in vogue right now. I don’t really know if it’s a true zeitgeist technology or if someone with a lot of product to sell who is playing with the social media algorithm. But I guess I don’t really care much.

The trick is to find a way to seize on that opportunity. Now that our mesh network is structurally sound and sufficient, I’m working on using a raspberry pi to automate our ham club meeting dates, testing dates, and field days, and then blast those messages once a week or so over the mesh network. That way, an impulse buy turns into the discovery of a fuctional network and afterwards, a random person can discover a whole local community of people with all sorts of new things to learn.

You can lead a horse to water. But you can’t make him drink.

first you need a trough. That’s the mesh network. After, the horse needs to be thirsty. That’s the curiosity people have. information, the when and how and where, you can automate and passively tell them about. that’s the water.

I’ve come to the realization that mesh nodes are little more than a gateway drug into the world of ham radio. And for that I’m grateful.

It’s not as good, and does everything worse than radio. The only real world use I have found is for when cellphone networks get overwhelmed at things like music festivals and large sports games. No one else’s texts go through, but I can toss by buds a node to put in their back pocket and we can stay in touch.

our local mature club is building our local mesh network out now as an introduction to the ham world. And it’s working. It’s getting the younger kids and adults through the door. And from there, it’s an easy thing to get them interested in more useful and fun forms of communication.

Meesa no starta da fire

Yeah my house plants are also victims in this situation. They literally destroy everything I love.

I tried putting chili oil on the cables and now I’m convinced that my cats could eat the most potent of Indian food and remain unscathed.

I think they crave it now…

I just want to know how to make them stop with the cable chewing. I’ve repaired or replaced so many electronic cords. I’m losing my mind.

I’m learning that I am not a cat person.

You can still have it! Check out the square home launcher for android.

Check out @airplanefactswithmax on the social medias. He’s an airplane mechanic that always starts talking about airplanes, and it always devolves into a way too in depth lesson in lotr. Seems right up your alley!

Now tell me about a very specific part on a commercial airliner.

Bugs bunny is so fuckin screwed

Allegedly

After I set up my server and paid for the hardware, after my vpn, and after I paid for my Usenet subscription, and yeah, after I paid for lifetime Plex. I’m money ahead. Easily.

I have no Netflix, Hulu, apple, Amazon. All of it. ,that’s a monthly sub for each. That’s satellite tv money each month!

It’s not a rug pull. I got my money’s worth. And I’m late to the game. God forbid you are an early bird and have been living the high life for years and years! It’s not a rug pull at all.

If the whole thing folded tomorrow, I’m still money ahead and a few steps away from adopting jellyfin. How the fuck is that a rug pull? It did what I wanted and has done it well. And when or if it fails, I move on. That’s more resiliency than 99 percent of the other services I have used. And a better service and platform to boot!

Rug pull? seriously?

That’s the resiliency part of it all. Resistance to change is the security.

Just to clarify and add to what you said, equity shares are not stocks. The gov gets dividends and such, but it isn’t stock that is bought and sold on wall street. It’s all about profitability and not about speculation. If the company makes money, so does the gov. If it loses money, the gov loses money.

I haven’t used it willingly ever. Especially after the one time copilot told me an acre is 4.5 football fields in area. I didn’t ask it, the response was just presented at the top of my results. I’m a fucking farmer for God sake. I know that’s very very wrong without thinking. I just wanted the square footage and was too lazy to use my calculator. Never again.

That being said, I do on occasion solicit my friend who has a subscription, just to request and have him send me a very specific image request and have him text it to me, so I can repost it.

Anything for the memes. Literally anything.

I frequently fly at 10 to 12 thousand feet msl and have no issues. Supplemental O2 is only required from 12500 to 14000 for durations longer than 30 minutes. It is required above 14k for the crew according to the regs. At 15k, everyone on board needs oxygen or a pressurized cabin.

A real life hydro homie

English as a language was seen as too easy. So we decided to mix it up.

Why would you ever be the global language of trade and commerce and the go between for multiple nations, whose entire structure is a hodgepodge of latin, Germanic, and mistranslated root structures and made up rules, if you didn’t decide to mix it up from time to time and region to region?

Embrace the bastard language standard. This is the way.