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(CW: misogyny, mention of murder) I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the culture of this hobby
  • You don’t have to have conversations with those people - start your own net on a repeater about gardening or robotics or astronomy, find other local people you’d like to work simplex with, ask POTA or SOTA contacts if you can come along next time.

    You can change the hobby for the better, if you actively participate.

  • Mast ideas and recommendations
  • Have you tried a 1/4 wave vertical with 4 radials sloping towards the ground? (all wire)? or even a vertical dipole fed halfway up? J-poles show significant coupling to their feedline and mounting arrangements and, as you discovered, are taller than they need to be for their gain.

  • Homelab Switches
  • Cisco 2960S that I got for $100 a few years ago. Works great powering my Ubiquiti APs. Somewhat dated, but it’s always fun to feel like a real “IT Pro” and configure with the Cisco CLI.

  • Dalton Hamfest

    Attended the Dalton, Georgia hamfest today! Anyone else? Snag any great deals?

    I came home with a well-used Astron RS-35A, which I realize now is emitting a strong cigarette tar odor :(

    Overall, lots of vendors. Some pretty good deals and giveaways, and only a few “random cable drawer junk” / “army clothing” type sellers.

    Would recommend.

    Next up: Atlanta Hamfest on June 1 at Jim Miller park in Marietta.

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    Htop too
  • I think a lot of modern kernels are “tickless” - they don’t use a timeslice timer, and only context switch on IO interrupt, process yield, or when timeouts are specifically requested (including capping cpu-bound processes). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickless_kernel

  • Instances or networks that focus on forums and conversations instead of link aggregation?
  • Maybe the instance I’m on is wonky, because I can’t even find those communities - I just get the “top”/”default” type communities ala reddit: technology, news, etc, which are all linked mass media articles.

  • Instances or networks that focus on forums and conversations instead of link aggregation?
  • I dont mean a chat/conversation-specific community, I mean a collection of communities that are more people interacting than links being posted.

    Especially for hobby, parenting, philosophy, politics, technical discussions, etc.

  • Instances or networks that focus on forums and conversations instead of link aggregation?

    It seems like any platform that features link aggregation is soon overrun by bots and self-promoters trying to drive traffic, and pages and pages of link posts versus pages and pages of people talking.

    Are there any lemmy instances or other defederated networks that focus on Q&A, niche communities, and people conversing, instead?

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