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AG7GM Dan
@AG7GM@mastodon.radio
mastodon 4.7.3Amateur Extra AG7GM OG from FN03. Now CN82. US legal resident 30+ yrs. Former concert audio & TV production pro. Age-fluid. INFP-A
Fancy myself a hardware hacker, but I'm really just a hack. Love starting new electronics projects but always procrastinating their finish. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yaesu FT450, HyGain 18AVT, Chameleon EMCOMM II, Heil Pro7, Icom 2100, Retevis DMR ht. MMDVM X 2. Yaesu FT8900, Diamond CR8900, Creality Ender 3 S1 Pro
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Joined October 29, 2022
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org That little bit of foam had two jobs: keep the tape pressing gently but fully on the tapehead, and removing bit of loose tape oxide.
These must be a *very special* ferrite blend.
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@cwebber That's hilarious. Who's going to *make them* purchase instead of pirate it? The folks that taught them to not lie, er, I mean hallucinate?
Yeah. Give your head a shake.
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Ben, I think anything that will apply gentle pressure and have a kind of wiping property, such as felt, for example, will work just fine
Gee, can you imagine?
When departing China, "...the U.S. delegation trashed all Chinese gifts and souvenirs on the tarmac before boarding Air Force One to avoid spying risks."
I get that security is one thing, but how would this reflect diplomacy?
I may be way off base here, but didn't APOLLO see the far side of the moon "with human eyes"?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116971604414844374
PAHahaha!
Are you a content creator that holds your microphone, whether it's a Shure SM7 or a DJI bluetooth mic? Do you think that's cool?
You look like a doofus, as if you have *no idea* what you're doing and IMHO, it's not worth watching your content - ever.
With the tech that we have, we shouldn't even be able to *see* your mic. Clip it on or put it out of sight and use both your hands to gesture.
I surely wish that all the peeps that code *all* the online media players would do a thing - put the audio level control (or the volume fader) in the same place *on each player*.
It's annoying to discover that the vid I clicked on is gonna blow up my speakers before I can find the control to turn it down. And as I continue doomscrolling I can't turn the next one up before it ends because the volume is in a different place!
Please. Give yer head a shake.
If you're a real estate agent, and you're taking the photos of the house that your client's just listed with you, you're an idiot. Get a photographer. You are NOT doing a service for your client.
And if you're using your cellphone to take those snaps, you're a *heckin'* idiot.
"... you should hone in ..."
HOME, people. The word is "home." Heat-seeking missiles home in. Homing pigeons head for home. Not hone.
To "hone" is to sharpen. You hone a knife, or your vocabulary. See what I did there?
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@W6KME I thank you, sir. I remember all those Apollo missions, and I was pretty sure that at least *they* had seen the dark side. Unless they were told to *not* look. 🤣 🤣 🤣
When the algorithm can't find anything newsworthy on a day the US attacks another country.
For all my friends and family back home in Canada: I hope you're all having a fun and safe Victoria Day weekend.
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@ajh@indieweb.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I have an apostrophe in my last name. Canadian systems (my home country) handle it just fine. US systems give a *very* non-uniform result across all the DMVs and banks and whatnot.
Feeling frustrated. Shopping for a home. Why is it that whatever price you wanna buy at, every home you can find at that price is crap?
Ok, so active receive antennas can sometimes work better than a "conventional" antenna. Got it.
But could you therefore use a pair of active receive antennas to null out noise?
It's ironic. The web was supposed to make shopping easier, wasn't it?
I'm trying to replace an item. Everyone says they have them if you look on their website, but when you walk into the store, no one has them in-store. ALL the websites allow 3rd-party sellers to list stuff even tho you select 'only show in-stock at my location.' So, they may 'have' them, but really, it's the 3rd-party sellers that will sell them, and only from the big-box store's website!
I'm annoyed.
Show of hands: who here really gives a rip about the Met Gala?
Me neither.
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@mastodonmigration Simple is best, and altho I have not been a part of these discussions I'd like to suggest the red "NO" circle with the stoke over the "AI" as you've shown.
We all recognize the symbol. Other than getting all fancy, what more should there be to it?
Just my 2¢
Dang!
The USPS is running *so* much more efficiently, isn't it?
Purchased some motors from a seller in Union City, CA, a 8-9 hour drive from where I live, Grants Pass.
After the entered the system, it was "estimated' they'd be delivered Thurs or Fri, They *sat* for 24 hours in San Jose. Then they were sent to Portland (they passed with a 1/4 mile of my home!) in the interstate. They are still not here.
Hamtubers: There is a new DJI OSMO Pocket. Pocket 4, with a *1 inch* sensor (!) and 14 stops of dynamic range.
The cameras we shoot with (Blackmagic Ursa, Pocket Cinema, and Micro Studio) have 14 stops!
Wow.
I just watched Blackmagic Design's NAB 2026 'new product' video. If you're a #Ham that uses social for video, you need to see what the new DaVinci Resolve can do. I work in tv and it's amazing, especially for only $295!
Here's the whole vid but it's just over 2 hours. The bit about Resolve is from 1:39:00 to 2:02:00.
It's mindblowing.
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/#:~:text=NAB%202026%20Update,Watch%20Video!
I used to work in a master's program for physician assistants. This is some scary stuff right here. I'm only glad that I'll die before a med student that rode an AI thru the program is a caregiver to me.
For all of us that fix our own stuff, this is HUGE: https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/04/09/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement/
It's SO odd: health insurance in the USA is upside down.
Instead of their primary and *only* goal being to facilitate our good health, health insurance companies' goal is to harvest profits.
What's wrong with this picture?
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@ai6yr @michael_w_busch @AstroHawk HAHA! I guess the laff is on me. :D
I'll just sit down over here. thanks.
pour one out for Country Joe.
An' it's one, two, three. What're we fightin' for?
SitRep: currently in Idaho looking for a house or piece of property. Saturday we begin driving back to Grants Pass making a stop in Portland.
@UPS: if it's not 'day-definite,' why are you giving me a day?
@carmenlisandrette@mastodon.social It could be because of bell's palsy.
Aw man!
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@jwz@mastodon.social I agree with the sentiments on these and would hand them out *if* they didn't have the word mother****er" on them.
I do not use speech like that. I believe that using a cuss shows a lack of vocabulary. By saying that I am not passing any judgement over anyone else. It is my personal feelings for myself and nobody else.
If you change them, I'd be happy to print some out.
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@VE3RWJ@mastodon.radio I wonder if he's clever enough to know that it's not from the Bible.
Gee, it kinda looks to me that we're rapidly approaching that Tom Cruise movie, "Minority Report."
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I'm a boomer. Was out of work 10 years ago, and I'll tell ya, the rules I learned to find work didn't work then. It's gotta be even weirder now.!
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@stellarsarah@mastodon.world @ajh@indieweb.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I know an American with a hyphenated first name. That person has never shared with me if they have had any mangling of their name in the US.
I finally had time to do tire rotate and lube-oil-filter. I feel like when I was a kid and got a new pair of high-tops. I can go *fast* now! 😁😁