shortwavesurfer

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

There was no question. There was a statement.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 11 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Anybody who keeps their money on an exchange any longer than necessary is just asking for trouble. An exchange is like a public toilet. You get in, you shit, and you get the fuck out. You don't hang around in a public toilet.

Self custody or GTFO.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

With pleasure beautiful

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

Glad I can help.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

To be completely honest, I had no idea that bug even existed until you just mentioned it. So I guess I've been missing out on a few devices and didn't even know about it.

I'd say go ahead and get it and then when the bug is fixed you'll just get more devices than you otherwise would have.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Okay, in that case you should be fine. I've just noticed that with the 5V 1A chargers that it takes about 3 hours to fully charge from completely dead to completely full. Which is why I said that it would depend on how far you drive per day.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Depending on just how long you drive for on a daily basis, you might occasionally need to charge it from a wall outlet at home. But the cigarette lighter should definitely keep it mostly charged.

I've been doing a battery test on it and between its internal battery and a backup battery that you use to charge a cell phone. I've kept it running for 20 days now without plugging it into the wall.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (9 children)

About three or four days with the GPS turned off, although I'm not certain what it would be with the GPS turned on.

I also just turned down my transmit power from 1 watt to 0.5 watts by changing the value to 27 dBm, since I can connect to the router just fine with lower power, which should save me some battery, but I just did that so I don't know what the results will be yet.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh, sorry. I didn't realize you were on Windows. That's a Linux command. I haven't used Windows very much since about 2018, so I don't even consider Windows anymore unless it's brought up.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

Weird. I can't even tell you how many times I've used that command. But it's probably been several thousand. And I've never screwed up a flash drive that way.

There has been once or twice where I've pulled the flash drive out too quickly after it finished writing and it actually hadn't finished writing and had to redo it, but other than that, I've not actually screwed up any drives beyond repair or anything.

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The beta is now open for absolutely everyone — yes, even Verizon and AT&T customers — to register for free access until July

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asymmetric SNRs (lemmy.zip)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz
 

So there is a router 3.7 miles from my house that i can hear between 2 and 5 SNR but its hearing my transmissions between -4 and -18 SNR with a -10 average (5 traceroute tests). Shouldn't it be able to hear me just as well as I can hear it? I can only think of two possible causes for this.

  1. The router has a much higher noise floor than I do
  2. The router antenna is more than 33cm tall and has directional lobes and null zones.

However, that second explanation seems off simply because if it wasn't transmitting my direction, I shouldn't be able to hear it as well as I can.

Thoughts?

Edit:

  1. My antenna is not a full 33cm So does not radiate the signal efficiently.
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ponderings (lemmy.zip)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz
 

So I just saw a video where somebody made a bulletin board system over the mesh like it's fucking 1999 or something and it got me thinking Would it be possible to send web pages over the mesh as long as they were small?

I went to the DuckDuckGo homepage and copied its HTML source code into a text editor and found out it was something like 46,000 characters and with a 288 character limit it would take 145 messages to send that across. Each message would be something like 0.69% of that page.

It doesn't seem impossible, but you would have to make your pages very lightweight like they were in the 1990s in order to do it efficiently.

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