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by womod 5mo ago
Yup, thanks big M for making things fun as usual. I deal with the same thing on the P25 side.
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by womod 7mo ago
There's quite a few clocks available that get their time over the air from the NIST WWVB radio station[0]. They usually have a little switch on the back if your area does/doesn't observe daylight savings. [0] - https:/&
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by womod 1y ago
Right, but more specifically they are most often used for scanning stuff like air-band and VHF/UHF two-way radio traffic. Nowadays with a lot of public safety being digital P25 (requiring more expensive scanners) and online streams bei
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by womod 1y ago
https://openinframap.org/
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by womod 3y ago
That's due to the DOCSIS standard for cable modems. They specced out more channels for downstream than upstream because of the limited bandwidth of copper and consumer priorities. With fiber there's an order of magnitude more band
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by womod 3y ago
You'd be suprised, the shear amount of black box vendor nonsense out there borders on astronomical. Weird telco stuff, old cisco hardware, BMCs in servers, it would mean gutting probably millions of dollars of equiment. It's stupi
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by womod 3y ago
You can unlock the bootloader of the 2018 Fire HD 8 if you force it into download mode by opening it up and shorting the CLK test point to ground. Older tablets don't need to be opened up, it's all just software. Everything after
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by womod 3y ago
No. The last "mainstream" console to use hall effect sticks in the first party controller was the Dreamcast, and that was in 1999.
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by womod 3y ago
Controllers that use hall effect sensor sticks last much longer than the conventional potentiometer sticks. The pot sticks are subject to physical wear while the hall effect sticks are not because there is no contact. There's some guid
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by womod 3y ago
Gasoline is absolutely not that dangerous, at least relative to the risk involved every time one drives a car. For igniting gasoline fumes, a spark is almost always necessary. Realistically speaking, a lit cigarette has a better chance of
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by womod 3y ago
MicroG is an option, it's an open source implementation of a good portion of play services, though not everything "just works". But for the bare minimum like functional push notifications, location services, etc it's not
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by womod 3y ago
That's funny, there exists a similar issue with the LG G7 that a friend of mine ran into several years ago. The fingerprint sensor on his phone just straight-up completely stopped working, and subsequent OS updates did nothing to fix i
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by womod 3y ago
In the two-way radio world, most protocols are open (P25, DMR, LMR, etc.) but almost every digital protocol uses the AMBE[1] voice codec, which is not. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Band_Excitation
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by womod 3y ago
Google Play Services implements a lot of increasingly vital features and interfaces on Android. Not having it kills a good number of things people consider important, like push notifications (some apps are designed to still send push notifi
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by womod 4y ago
Such multi-site, same frequency broadcasting setups are usually called Simulcast, and are still used for some public safety trunked radio systems in the U.S. The biggest issue with simulcasting is the need for extremely precise clock sync
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by womod 4y ago
Have a listen to USA CB Channel 6 (27.015 MHz / 27105 KHz) if you'd like a taste of what true freedom is like. Best way to listen in without an actual receiver is a WebSDR, here's one[1] that can tune to it. [1] - http:&#x2F
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by womod 4y ago
Antenna type and design can make all the difference in the world with regards to performance. Even plain-old 2.4GHz or 5GHz WiFi can work great over large distances provided that you use a parabolic reflector, yagi, log-periodic, etc. Micro
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by womod 4y ago
A good number of stage lighting controllers have the ability to interface with and handle MIDI, but the vast majority of stage lighting equipment is controlled using DMX[1]. The two have a lot in common, being pretty much ubiquitous and roc
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by womod 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waveguide_(optics)
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by womod 4y ago
I agree that the lack of a microSD slot is annoying, though not entirely unreasonable with the whole value proposition of a "ruggedized" phone. The FM radio is entirely baked-in to the MediaTek MT6789 SoC, and uses anything connec
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by womod 4y ago
WSL2 is for the most part totally usable for everyday development, but it does have a handful of issues that either need workarounds or are just infeasible. USB passthrough isn't yet supported, so it's necessary to make use of som
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by womod 4y ago
I recently managed to "hard-brick" my Motorola one 5g ace after updating magisk, getting stuck in a bootloop, and naively deciding to attempt to boot from the B slot instead. On qualcomm-based devices you can get into EDL (Emergen
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by womod 4y ago
OpenWebRX[1] is a similar open-source sdr frontend, KiwiSDR is based on a slightly older version before it was picked up by a new maintainer. It's really nice being able to use the digital protocol decoding baked-in to it. Usually in t
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by womod 4y ago
I think the radio engineers suffer at the hands of poorly-shielded switch-mode power supplies and inadvertent spark-gap transmitters caused by aging powerline infrastructure more than anything else.