Opt out telemetry is annoying. There’s no guarantee it doesn’t send before I’ve had a chance to disable.

This one is probably out of date now with smart TVs and few people using cable, but one of those jumbo TV remotes for people with poor eyesight/motor difficulties.

Spoken like someone who hasn’t had to use both!

I miss that ringtone though.

Is setting up a permanent 2m/70cm antenna even really worth it?

I was thinking like 10m or something maybe. I’m more asking in general, but I know it changes based on wavelength lol.

It’s like email! You know email?

Especially when sites like Reddit/StackExchange use admin to mean employee and moderator to mean volunteer community leader.

I feel you, but Mastodon has about 9 million users and BlueSky has 15 million (if the first results from a search index are to be trusted), but I could not find anywhere even close to 60% of the people in this hobby on Mastodon as I have on BlueSky.

There was a very concentrated push recently of artists (I think it was artists originally) to go to BlueSky and it’s sort of echoed into similarish hobbies. So that’s probably why the user makeup is a little different.

I’m on Lemmy essentially 99% of the time. When I’m on Reddit it’s because of niche hobbies that have more presence there. It’s very rare. (Or search index results.)

I never use Mastodon. I was only on Twitter for very niche and interactive hobbies that do not have enough people to engage with on Mastodon. I mostly use BlueSky now but still use Twitter on occasion. It’s like 50/50 at the moment, but that’s a lot considering my BlueSky account is only like two weeks old.

Lemmy has enough content to keep me entertained for general browsing and most of my hobbies.

Don’t even get me started on planking.

Not enough people on Mastodon are into the things I was using Twitter/use BlueSky for.

For me there weren’t enough people on Mastodon in my hobby to make it worthwhile.

I use(d) Twitter for niche interactive hobbies that didn’t have enough people on Mastodon to engage with.

I might have a foil layer, now that you mention it. I didn’t consider that.

I’ve seen J pole enough now to guess it’s not some weird esoteric thing. Do you know if where I can read a good comparison between J pole, mono pole, vertical di pole, and horizontal di pole? I think I have a mostly good grasp of the others.

Wood and shingles. Typical single family American home.

Some professors are just so wack… Like, if I copy your notes verbatim I’m also “stealing” your intellectual property just as much as taking a photo.

Compare this to one of my college professors who would come in, Google the topic, find another universities notes to use, and then complain about them. Worst teacher ever. (He literally fell asleep during students’ presentations and then berated them about weird minute details.)

Wasn’t it like Napster in that originally it was for pirating text books?

Slowroll is new and still experimental, but it’s a third option.

https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Slowroll