I CAST: SUCKING CHEST WOUND!

I will say it like this: That is a frame from the show. At some point, Michael and Eleanor stand next to each other and laugh. When you get to this moment, you will not think this meme is a spoiler.

Now go watch it.

Doesn’t look like a sperm to me, it looks like broken headphones.

The magenta is also…it’s like, if the Firefox logo was suddenly green. That’s not Audacity’s color.

Basically everyone.

In the video, Tantacrul shows how it matches with the aesthetic of the rest of Muse’s icons…but it kind of doesn’t.

He (correctly) insisted on keeping the headphone iconography, but the rest of Muse’s icons are letters. UltimateGuitar’s imp ears plus arrow makes a G one, then the others are abstract geometric T for Tonebridge, a weird S for MuseScore, a really bad circle/diagonal line for an A for audio.com and two verticle lines and a circle for an H for MuseHub, whatever the hell that is. And then Audacity’s headphones. Going for stylistic resemblance…for the logos of websites, phone apps and desktop apps that probably won’t be seen together. Plus in a lot of places MuseScore’s Mu with fermata mark is still in use.

Encryption is not allowed on ham radio, with the exception of control commands for, like, satellites. Yes, there are amateur radio satellites in orbit. All 2-way communiques must be in the clear.

Ham radio gear can be very expensive, or, I think I could get you on the air for about what you’d spend on meshtastic gear, being realistic.

You look at Meshtastic and go “Oh boy, a node cost $15, let’s go” But, that’s for a basic board like a Heltec V3. That doesn’t include a battery, it includes a crap little wirewound antenna, it doesn’t count an enclosure. Those ready made nodes like a T-Echo cost more than that, and if you want to put up an outdoor solar powered weatherproofed node up somewhere, $100 is going to be the floor. For an extremely low bandwidth 0.1 watt UHF radio.

Meanwhile, you can get a Baofeng UV-5R for around $30 and you’ve got a 5 watt 2m/70cm FM handheld that’ll work with the majority of existing repeaters. There’s one 2m repeater 1,000 feet up an antenna tower a bit south of Raleigh that can be heard by half the state.

Buy at least two nodes, get bored talking to yourself, regret the $50 purchase and then get your ham license.

I just founded a new religion called Assholeology and six people joined. We grew 600% in the last 90 seconds, we’re the fastest growing religion on the planet. Statistics is the science of applied dishonesty.

Meshtastic I think got here first and has an install base, but it’s fuckawful software. There’s not a single feature that isn’t more than half-implemented.

Plus…where I live, I don’t get any kind of practical range out of 900Mhz. The fourth circle of hell is opaque to UHF so I can’t reach outside my own neighborhood. I can hear clean to Limbo on 2 meters though.

Are the British allowed to have knives and forks?

I would go with the patent term of 20 years. That’s enough time to monetize your creation, and then it’s in the public domain. Copyright being over a hundred years is essentially an end-run around the contract.

I would like to see a commonly used “Not Free For Corporations” license. Something a bit like the GPL; this is my copyrighted code, I’m offering the source code for others to examine, use, modify, redistribute, if you redistribute it it must have these same license terms. I would add it is free of charge for personal, educational, and small business commercial use, it is available on a per instance subscription basis for corporations. My work may not be used for the profit of shareholders unless I get a hefty piece of that pie.

Or is it a “mode” of KDE? Like can you use a distro of KDE and then put it into Bigscreen mode?

Ah, the Leisure Suit Larry tactic of age verification.

A gas chainsaw has a centrifugal clutch, so if it was “stuck engaged” the chain would move with the starter cord. You’d know it before you gave it a real yank.

If you’re starting with the choke engaged, it’s possible the engine will idle at a speed high enough to engage the clutch and move the chain. 2-stroke engines aren’t real anyway, they’re bullshit wrapped in metal that works because the fossil fuel industry demands them to, so their behavior is entirely unpredictable and contrary to the operator’s needs.

It doesn’t sound like a medication’s marketing name, it sounds like the name of an open source project: a complete garbage fire.

I do not know what those are.

I do want to use that machine for gaming, though more demanding games will be played on my main desktop machine. One thing about that GTX-1080 is it’s a blower-style card, and the Node 202 case …kind of needs it. Not a lot of ways for hot air to escape that case especially in the GPU bay, and I haven’t seen a retail blower-style GPU since the GTX-10 series.

Docker also isn’t available in the package manager for this thing, probably for similar arbitrary reasons; unless it would need to be side loaded.

I’m not buying another commercially made NAS after this one dies/is remotely bricked by Synology.

It’s a Model DS218. I don’t see Container Manager in the software center for it. Apparently there’s some hack workaround for this but…meh.

Managing your own AV equipment has always been a pain in the ass.