threeio

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by threeio 2mo ago
(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 that are going to be thrown away... and suddenly your home la
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by threeio 2mo ago
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 use case and love it
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by threeio 2mo ago
If this spiked your interest... take a look at https://satnogs.org
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by threeio 3mo ago
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 annoys me none the less.
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by threeio 3mo ago
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 said "Have fun ______" and called me
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by threeio 4mo ago
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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by threeio 4mo ago
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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by threeio 4mo ago
I have two of these up in my office.. absolutely love them
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by threeio 4mo ago
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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by threeio 6mo ago
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 project can put on you
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by threeio 6mo ago
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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by threeio 7mo ago
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 isolation allowed them to focus on their tasks better since the int
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by threeio 8mo ago
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 of support.
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by threeio 1y ago
Reminds of of working with ISDN lines to board eons ago ;)
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by threeio 1y ago
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 pretty open
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by threeio 1y ago
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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by threeio 1y ago
I bought two for my NeXT a bit ago.. crazy how expensive the real DB-19 cables are
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by threeio 1y ago
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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by threeio 1y ago
Graybeard Devops vet chuckles softly to himself ;)
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by threeio 2y ago
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$ to the kids account... stopped for fast food as op
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by threeio 2y ago
I spent so much time hacking on scripts from here in the those early internet days... ahh memories.
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by threeio 2y ago
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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by threeio 2y ago
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 :)
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by threeio 2y ago
This was a huge win for my family, we all have travel chargers that cover our needs and run off of common USBC. I grabbed a Anker charging station/extention cable ( https://www.anker.com/products/a9129-charging-sta
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by threeio 2y ago
I've sworn by Plantronics headphones for years for work but started getting ear infections and my open air/bone conducting headphones are a huge improvement... I've got a pair of Aftershockz but these look great as well. Audi
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by threeio 2y ago
Say you a member of the time-nuts mailing list without saying your a member of the time-nuts mailing list ;)
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by threeio 2y ago
Literally got my Next Slab working over the weekend, seen presentation before and its put a good smile on my face today.
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by threeio 2y ago
Very much this... and the Long Island CW Club ( https://longislandcwclub.org ) which has similar classes
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by threeio 2y ago
This -- Stop is required action, but its passed to the vendor for management -- non-compliance is punishable by loss of shortcode/carrier acceptance. Things may have changed since, but used to work sending 8m sms messages before breakf
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by threeio 2y ago
I had a similar mid 90's tour at a major provider in Washington DC (Ashburn) that had this exact problem, mantraps everywhere, great facility for the generation and then they took me out the back door to show me the basketball court in

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