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It's sadly not stupid from their perspective

Mostly because the "damn this is interesting" to "i don't care what you ate yesterday" ratio is not good enough to spend my time on it. These days I am much more enjoying exploring gopher holes, reading and writing blog posts. For realtime communications, I prefer IRC. For me, social media sits in between chatting and publishing content and is therefore neither fish nor fowl.

Very cool but I would like to be able to create an account with my mail address instead of using a Mastodon account because I am trying to avoid social media.

I vote for "Claude Pinkman" as a name

Anything can be taken from you at any time. Google can also just delete your account for no obvious reason. I guess that a domain can also be taken away but maybe not that easy. At least you can switch mail providers easily without having to change all your accounts that are based on your mail address.

I'm doing my part: https://rz01.org/handcrafted-html/

Now that I am out of the house I see that the code boxes need a fix. Will take care of this tonight.

I wrote a bit on the SDF if you are interested: https://rz01.org/sdf/

A review of the Casio ABL-100WE and the Ollee Watch one from someone looking for a classic watch with a built-in step counter

I might be missing the point as this only aims at the title but I still own a 5 1/4" floppy disk with the first software I ever wrote as a child. It was a disk label printer software written in BASIC on a C64 and has a label on it printed on a Star LC-10 C. The silly main feature was some sprites flying through the title screen.

This software has a soul - at least by my definition.

https://rz01.org - amateur radio, electronic tinkering, cybersecurity, retro computing, homelab building and other (mostly technical) topics

If you can pull this off, you are truly free!

Nice! I made my first LEO sat contact also in the garden with an arrow yagi and a cheap HT. It was fun but I prefer operating the easy way and building a nice station. Some neighbours watched me making this first contact and they now speak to me differently...

If you are interested in amateur radio in general, you might enjoy reading my "Declaration of Love to Amateur Radio": https://rz01.org/a-declaration-of-love-to-amateur-radio/

Last October, I had the honor of making such contact with the ISS. I posted about this on my website here: https://rz01.org/na1ss/

The ISS has radios on board that allow amateur radio operators to send and receive APRS messages, talk to other hams via their built-in FM repeater or to receive SSTV images. They also have amateur TV stuff on board but I have not explored this yet. Crew members with an amateur radio license can pick up the mic of the radio that acts as a FM repeater to make contacts with other hams on the earth.

You can contact the ISS via a handheld setup (FM radio and a yagi antenna in your hand) or with a stationary setup like mine: https://rz01.org/leo-sat-ground-station-v3/

The best free and mainstream option would be duckduckgo at the moment in my opinion.

I am also very happy with Kagi's search result and suspect that someone is just trolling.

Here's a similar approach for converting a trackball or mouse into a heated input device: https://rz01.org/heated-trackball/

I don't take long-term notes at all, only quick notes on paper of thing I need to do. I tried to collect all thoughts, notes etc. but I would never read them again. Most of it would be outdated anyways. So I understand that these kind of notes might feel like ballast and might be a reason to not be able to close with things.

Everything that is worth keeping is on my website as properliy written posts which I enjoy to re-read from time to time. You could also look at it this way: anything that doesn't make it onto the website - i.e. is published - isn't worth saving either.

Edit: Removed. I made a stupid joke about a serious topic

You might be interested in the QubeDX: https://rz01.org/when-two-become-one/

Thanks for mentioning that! I have no experience with this console but a friend already recommended me looking into the Switch. Need to confirm that what you say also applies to Minecraft on the Switch and then I would do the...well...switch.

You are welcome! I also called the help hotline when I was stuck at Simon the Sorcerer :) Good and innocent times.

You can find a selection of things you can do with ham radio in this blog post: https://dk1mi.radio/a-declaration-of-love-to-amateur-radio/

Thanks for mentioning Eviternity 2. Never heard of it before and it looks really nice!

I've documented here how to play classic Doom (not only) on Linux in 2024: https://dk1mi.radio/playing-doom-in-2024/

This site is updated whenever I've completed playing a new WAD to add it to the list at the bottom. I'm a casual player, want to see enough ammo in the levels and like to have a moderate difficulty. If you feel the same, the list might be also for you.

Good points! Here is why I blog: http://dk1mi.radio/why-i-write/

One reason is that every project is worth starting and finishing when you blog as it will result in something useful - no matter if it is a fail or not.

A remote control for a ham radio antenna rotator: https://dk1mi.radio/remote-control-hygain-antenna-rotator/

I myself did not know any amateur radio operator but read about it on the internet. I then did some research on what is needed to get on air - which is a license. Without a license, you can buy gear and listen to the airwaves (but are not allowed to press the PTT button) or listen to shortwave communications via WebSDR. Some people visit local amateur radio clubs, learn stuff there and get help. I went the following route:

* I decided that I want to get the beginner license first, then do a second exam for the big license

* bought some books for exam preparation

* bought a cheap 30€ handheld radio to listen to local repeater traffic while studying

* downloaded an exam preparation training tool

* worked through the material halfway through

* have registered for an exam

* stood up every morning at 5 and learned 2h before the family woke up for two months

* did the exam, got the beginner license

* studied another two months

* got the big license

* met other amateur radio operators a year after that ;)

Here are some links:

* this is the site of your country's club: https://rsgb.org/main/clubs/club-finder/

* the amateur radio subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/

There is so much more to write and I don't know where to start, but here are some fun facts:

* you don't have to learn morse code anymore for the license in most countries

* for local communicaiton, a budget of 30-100€ is sufficient

* for world wide shortwave communication, a budget of 400 to 700 can be sufficient when buying used

* you can do digi modes (computer to computer communication) instead of talking to people. This helped me the first year to get into it since i was mic shy.

* the community is awesome, people share their knowledge and help each other

* you can buy a digital handheld radio for around 200€ and work the world without any antennas over the internet. For some not the real thing, for others a blast.

I second this. Amateur radio is an amazing hobby where you learn lots about electronics, (virtually and - if you like- physically) meet lots on new people and gain lots of knowledge on our planet, its countries and their people. You can participate in contests and compete with others many times a year and all this from home - if you are lucky enough to be able to put up antennas.

I amazes me evertime over and over again to have a conversation with someone living 10000km away from me without having to rely on other peoples/companies infrastructure. Especially when you are able to power your station with solar energy.

I've picked up this hobby with 40 and the only thing I regret is not having it picked up earlier. Also a great hobby for parents since you can operate from home at night times when everybody else is asleep.