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threeio

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    Comment #49073967

    (for me) Sometimes your job might make you run reference time for a large service provider... and then you need multiple reference signals... and then you realize you have spares t…

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    Comment #48925434

    I'd debate that the custom LCD buttons made the difference... I've got a few macro keypads for some specific use cases, I ended up with a elgato for a -very- niche radio related us…

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    Comment #48810221

    If this spiked your interest... take a look at https://satnogs.org

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    Comment #48562645

    I have a 3 character .com as my primary email... it gets rejected more often than I'd like... including at my bank :) I've got a longer more normal domain that I alias, but it anno…

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    Comment #48545196

    Raised with my grandmother with Alzheimer for all of my childhood she called me by her long dead brother's name. Walked out the door one day said "See you later grandma" and she sa…

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    Comment #48386528

    https://conormclaughlin.net/2024/04/published-how-i-finished... I have used this on my tidbyt (now a Tronbyt) for years for this purpose... simple solution tied into my adsb system…

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    Comment #48372207

    Ham radio as a whole is a great hobby to sink your random RF projects into already.. its a hobby within a hobby, no matter what path you may take ;)

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    Comment #48298951

    I have two of these up in my office.. absolutely love them

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    Comment #48102196

    I remember the early gnutella releases and we'd use the search history as a chatroom for the first like 24 hours before it got too saturated ;)

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    Comment #47520386

    Its one of the books I include in my 'desk library' at the office.. I'm an old graybeard, but it's an amazing book for folks to understand the joy and shortcommings and pressures a…

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    Comment #47326220

    God I remember overpaying for my boardwatch magazine subscription just to be aware of new trends so I could write better BBS Software... ahh memories :)

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    Comment #47227552

    I remember someone posting about being a passenger on container ships so they could get isolation for defined periods of time and travel to different places. They found the isolati…

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    Comment #46798993

    I used to host at a facility in DC that hosted Pat Robertson's presidential campaign's server.. they had surrounded his server with all of their adult hosting clients as a... show …

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    Comment #44758898

    Reminds of of working with ISDN lines to board eons ago ;)

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    Comment #44664908

    https://community.home-assistant.io/t/weatherflow-tempest-wh... Looks like it can be done with home assistant and then pushed up to collection locations, so I suspect things are pr…

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    Comment #44496640

    The se/30 is a beautiful machine, but it’s got some of the worst battery and cap issues, so clean it up quick :)

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    Comment #44430099

    I bought two for my NeXT a bit ago.. crazy how expensive the real DB-19 cables are

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    Comment #44427183

    I loved my Dat decks... TCD-D7 and a D8... graduated to an Alesis ADAT and then lost interest in the recording/mixing hobby

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    Comment #44203115

    Graybeard Devops vet chuckles softly to himself ;)

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    Comment #43286349

    I did this for a year or two when my first kid was born... I assigned penalty dollars with actions that I knew weren't good for me... didn't run for a week (outside of travel) 10$ …

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    Comment #43235533

    I spent so much time hacking on scripts from here in the those early internet days... ahh memories.

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    Comment #42965168

    I realize its insane, but I used that Hipster PDA workflow for about 3 years before moving back to a digital workflow.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_PDA for more details

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    Ham radio has gotten me into more devious activities than I'd like to admit... but that's half the fun of experimentation :) Well done :)