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I will never get a ham license, one day I will get a 100W out of band CB rig, but as a matter of principle I will never become a ham.

There are several reasons for it, reason number one is privacy, I would never say my legal name to strangers on the internet, for obvious safety reasons, why should I have to identify with a callsign when chatting over radio?

Reason number two is that you can lose your license just for “swearing”? Like what the fuckl? What censorship is this?

Reason number three, it’s illegal to use encryption on ham bands, so I can’t even have a private conversation over ham radio.

Reason number four, I understand that licensed hams don’t want unlicensed noobs jamming their frequencies, I understand the need to reserve some of the spectrum to people who actually understand that just because you can’t hear anything, doesn’t mean you’re not jamming, but there should be parts of the radio spectrum reserved for free personal use. Reduce ham bands by half for all that I care, but I should be able to just buy a radio and transmit how many watts I need on those free bands without needing authorization from the government.

Until the user tries the “reset your device” option in the control panel. Then he’s stuck in the “please signup to your Microsoft account” screen.

And without internet, he’s never going to figure out the obsomething/bypassnsomething command.

Also this isn’t windows specific, samsungs phones also doesn’t let me get pass the initial screen without connecting to the internet.

He always wants to watch the video that’s the lowest quality shit just based on the thumbnail, because they have thumbnails that stick out.

There’s an add-on by the same guy who makes sponsorbock that replaces thumbnails (and video tittles) for more more accurate ones, maybe you want to try that.

(Disclaimer: The add-on itself is free software (as in freedom) but the developer added the restriction that after one hour trial you can either pay or wait 24h and then you can use it without restriction. It’s an interesting model.)

Meshtastic sounds great in concept but IMO it’s useless in most parts of the world due to it’s extreme low power.

If all your neighbours have one or there aren’t many buidings around blocking line of sight then meshtastic has great potential. Otherwise I would stuck be sending messages to myself.

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.

Magnetic strip? Is that still a thing? All terminals I’ve seen in the last decade or two use the smart card or the NFC. Magnetic strip is insecure.

Exactly how I felt updating the BIOS today.

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

No offence taken.

My desision comes from two factors that play together.

First I am relatively poor and if I save to painfully save money and give up on other things that are also important so I can buy a GPU I want to make sure that I pay as least as possible for the most performance, if it takes a day to render a small animation on an nvidia GPU, it will take two days to do the same on AMD at the same price point. Besides I want to try to do this professionally one day, if that is to happen I can’t let my clients wait double, they will hire someone else.

Also I use Linux, so trust me I would love to get an AMD instead and get proper drivers.

The other factor is that I don’t believe my purchases as single individual make any dent in the market whatsoever. I can’t get it in my mind, I’m just one person, there are billions out there with way more money than me. The children get killed in Palestine and the data centres boil the earth no matter if I personality buy nvidia or buy from amazon or not. It’s kinda of a paradox because if everyone thinks like me then collective action doesn’t happen.

It’s kinda similar how I would be vegan if I had to kill the animals myself, but I don’t believe that if I stop buying chicken that less chickens get raised and killed, the retailer orders 1000 chickens independently if I buy one or not.

Edit: I know I sound like a terrible person, but I try to make conscious choices when the price is similar and most people just laugh when I mention it and say something in the mids of “lol who cares”.

I would buy AMD, I really would, but for what I use GPUs for, 3D rendering on Blender (cycles), nvidia is must much faster for a card of the same price point due to optix raytracing acceleration.

My mom once told me “if you work a lot, you can be rich” I actually believed that as a very young child.

Folk? Neofolk? Omnia? Faun?

Thinking Omnia’s I Don’t Speak Human.

The outerwards part of the record can hold louder signal without the needle jumping.

That’s why there’s actually a record that plays backward https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Afikv6k1-c because Bolero gets louder and louder as the song progresses,

What’s that thing on the last pic?

For once, internet is a subscription service which not everyone can afford, just because you and all your friends can afford internet doesn’t mean everyone can, computers can be gotten for free, internet there’s no way around it.

But for the biggest issue, windows is spyware, the only way to use it while warranting privacy is by airgapping it from the internet and running it standalone, it is also the only way to be sure to contain cracked programs to make sure they don’t distribute illegal content from your IP.

It’s the way I run windows (when I have to) and I don’t like the prospects of not being able to run proprietary software securely when there aren’t viable libre alternatives.

Also, software being dependent on internet and therefore some company’s server means that eventually when said server or company shutsdown the program or device becomes useless.

AFAIK there’s no free as in freedom implementation and only works with propriety apps and I read google messages refuses to use RCS on rooted/unofficial systems. So that’s a big no.

Another big problem is, people who don’t have mobile internet and unknowingly have it enabled (aka most people who still use SMS) won’t get the message until they connect to WiFi or some time passes.

Really good this one.

Sometime ago, I would have agreed with you…

Then I learned the hard way.

Amazing some people actually memorise that, I just abuse pipes and

find /path/ | grep file

Don’t get me started on that, stupid direct led brakes lights should be outright illegal. They literally blind every following car behind, specially if the windshield is dirty or foggy.

How those damn things got approved in the first place is beyond my understanding corruption.