JackbyDev
@JackbyDev@programming.dev
Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.
- Comment on Two-shay 1 day ago:
I’m not trying to “gay you” but you could easily be biromantic but heterosexual, ya know? As in romantically attracted to people of all genders but only sexually attracted to the opposite gender.
- Comment on Tips 1 day ago:
Somewhat same, but for me I’m just trying to cook more at home. Not necessarily save money. (Though it’s still nice.) Have you compared the costs? It could be that even if you throw out half it’s still cheaper, ya know? Or maybe closer to breaking even than you realize.
- Comment on Tips 1 day ago:
The point is that both are the same as “save money” when they should be giving more specific advice. Two pieces of good actionable advice have been given. “Just save money” is not a useful tip for “how to save money”
- Comment on Tips 1 day ago:
Choosing to stop eating out is a way to reduce your standard of living.
- Comment on Tips 2 days ago:
Also this is pretty stupid to say because it basically just means spend less money. Yeah, no shit.
- Comment on Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too 3 days ago:
Oh you KNOW I had to be the robot.
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 3 days ago:
My consciousness is on the cloud now, please speak for yourself!
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 3 days ago:
POP ALREADY!
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 4 days ago:
RFC 9557
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 4 days ago:
The only problem I’ve had so far on Linux was due to my RAM breaking. Same shit could’ve happened on Windows. As much as everyone talks about needing “manual intervention” in Arch, I had to do the same shit on Windows after a bad update pushed unsigned USB drivers (which I was unaware of, I only saw the blue screen) then once I did a system restore it just failed after wiping my hard drive despite only using tools from Windows itself. I ended up having to get a third party tool to fix it all, because the vhdx files Windows made assumed my computer was UEFI despite only supporting BIOS. It was a mess.
The moral of the story is: Windows still has these problems, people are just more used to solving them so it doesn’t feel like they’re solving a problem.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Post includes weird gadget/shirt/toy
Someone asks where it is from
Different person says they found the link
Congratulations on achieving advertising!
- Comment on dating 5 days ago:
I’m probably being too generous with what I’m calling community center, I should edit it. As an example, in my head I was picturing a local park which my city has folks come and perform at and such. It’s just a stage in a park but there are events there.
- Comment on High value 5 days ago:
That’s a perfectly fine thing to do at 15. Cuddling while watching a movie. I think you’re just looking through it through a different lens now that you’re (presumably) no longer a teenager.
- Comment on Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever 5 days ago:
Lemmit already existed and was annoying as hell. It was the first account I remember blocking.
- Comment on dating 5 days ago:
Unitarian Universalist churches exist, but things like community centers are probably more what you’re looking for.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 6 days ago:
For an extra 0 on the price I hope so lol. I’ve been happy with it!
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 week ago:
Oh nice. I see it for ~$80 on their site, but still, that’s cool. Never heard of it. I ended up getting a Xiegu G90 for HF. I’m curious how well the RT-880 works for HF. Gonna see if there are any reviews of it. I would’ve loved to know about it last year lol.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 week ago:
There’s no restriction to purchase this stuff, so licensing will only stop accidents, not intentional bad actors. Even Baofengs can be put into a “ham mode” so they don’t transmit out of band. I don’t think we’d see it happen, but a license class under technician targeted at getting people legally able to use lower power handhelds super quickly would be nice. Even the technician question bank has questions about things that ultimately don’t really matter for making sure people operate in band as they should. The metaphor I give folks is like if your driver’s license test asked you questions about how to build engines. (And part of the reason we won’t ever see that is because amateur radio licenses allow you to construct and use your own equipment, as opposed to things like FRS where the part itself has to be certified.)
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 week ago:
I get you, it’s pretty easy, but I’m just saying trying to get somebody into a hobby, and then saying “actually you can’t talk to people until you schedule a test” is a huge barrier.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 week ago:
Ham radio played a massive role while the Internet was out following hurricane Helene. youtu.be/w8hSHq8dGsA
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 week ago:
If you don’t know how to use a radio or set it up before the emergency then it’s useless. You need to be ready before. And part of getting ready and learning is being licensed.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 week ago:
2m doesn’t bounce off the atmosphere. You really need 10m for that. 6m in the mist perfect ideal scenarios but it’s still very rare (and in this scenario you aren’t gonna know when). EME (the moon stuff) is also pretty tricky and requires a lot of power because of how messed up the signals get in the process.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 week ago:
That’s not an emergency scenario, that’s an apocalyptic scenario.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 week ago:
Like what? Can you name one?
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 week ago:
Get a TIDRADIO TD-H3 instead of a Baofeng. Essentially the same price but a nicer feature set.
Also, be sure to get the GMRS one. They’re all the same and can be reset to any mode, but the way the law with FRS/GMRS works is technically the part itself (the radio) needs to be certified.
It’s very important that you do not reset it and use it improperly. I would never do such a thing and I suggest you don’t either.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 week ago:
FT8 is fun and doesn’t require talking. CW too but you need to learn Morse code.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 week ago:
I bring FRS radios (normal ol’ walkie talkies) to the local Renaissance festival which has awful to no cell reception. It works great.
But yeah the barrier to even getting a technician license is too high. You get people that get excited and wanna do stuff and then they’re told they can’t. So things like meshtastic where they actually can do radio related things without a license are great.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 week ago:
They list the elevation.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 week ago:
Now, they made boards with more power that operated and crossed at several different frequency bands, specially shortwave, then meshtastic would be an incredibility powerful too. However illegal.
Sounds like you should look into getting an amateur radio license!
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 1 week ago:
When I think of pagers I think of receiving only not sending. Meshtastic devices can typically do both.