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is used PSVR2 preferable over used HTC Vive or HP Reverb?
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This was for sale with it's antennas and everything at the hamfest. But the dude wanted 540eur for this (400 - 470MHz), the 100 - 170MHz model and antennas in their carrying case for both.
Which was a bit too much for the toy. Especially when I only wanted the UHF one.
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@ln @sundogplanets
And then there is how the datacenters are talked about in terms of megawatts as the main measure.
So now people talk how the current planed datacenter buildout in Finland is about two Olkiluoto NPP's worth of pwoer consumption.
There are only now an inkling of a plan to build one more NPP to feed those.
But no talk about the grid and who's gona pay for the grid buildout.
And how everyone is gona pay with their electricity price going up 2x to 5x.
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@ryanc@infosec.exchange @s0@cathode.church @f4grx@chaos.social
I have looked inside a few modern modules of that style and they are hilariously boring. One or two chips and that's it.
Nothing like the old GBIC's that were crammed full of chips you could find datasheets for. Hell, often the lasers were HP/Agilent made as well with datasheets.
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@gorplop@pleroma.m68k.church
I know it's no laughing matter. But it does sound funny that you an just delete the keymap for the front panel.
I wonder if somebody mistook "PanelKey.xml" for some crypto keys or certs?
Zynq getting disrespected
Bought one of these out of curiosity.
And it's not very good. FM broadcast band cannot differentiate weaker stations from each other and only a few strong stations are listenable.
But the audio quality for those is actually pretty cool.
Did not hear anything on shortwave or medium wave in the day time.
So I guess I need to figure out how to hook up a proper antenna to it.
Outside of just wrapping a wire around that big inductor.
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@sauc3 @kaimac @stevelord @nonnullish @computersandblues
The original blog post has more info https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/
Wild to see more and more of these reasonably powerful 32bit ARM's in disposable stuff.
There is now one on it's way to me.
Along with the CF card ram expansion module with less exciting layout.
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social
Could very well be some optimized millimeter wave phased array antenna.
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@gsuberland @jonty @emf
Heh. For related reasons the many of the soviet military trucks go very cheaply here. Thanks to them being 15cm too wide, you cannot get them road legal.
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@datenwolf @mayintoronto @ln @sundogplanets
This has been a discussion I have had a few times elsewhere as well.
What is next for all the ML hardware being currently manufactured?
Can even the fiber optical stuff be reused, it is proprietary and sometimes watercooled. Not at all homelab compatible.
And full racks will not be usable to smaller players thanks to them being watercooled and the now current talk about the feed being 800V DC, not even normal mains or three phase.
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@oz1lqo@techhub.social
Good to know that those are usable at ultrasonic frequencies.
There is a non-zero chance that an upcoming hamfest will have some available.
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@cccpresser
I should check what symbol our parts department at work gave for these, after I put in the provision for these in a product.
My vague recollection is that it was a resistor with a Sigma symbol?
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@alice
Yeah. I wonder if they will just sic their lawyers on the real XChat or will they just not care?
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@M0CUV@mastodon.radio
They also sometimes get replaced when superficially damaged.
Or when there is a refresh. Which sometimes leads to large joblots popping up on eBay.
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@qualia@floofy.tech
For me this is in particular ironic, because the first distro I installed myself was openSuSE, when I was like 14yo.
They truly are pulling the ladder up with them.
If there had been shit like this everywhere I would have likely just continued on with windows only and maybe experimented with opensolaris or freebsd instead of various linux distros.
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@qualia@floofy.tech
That's far simpler than what I was thinking about.
And does not require any extra sensors.
Neat!
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@gsuberland @jonty @emf
There is a Loran made radar on sale right now. But it is in pieces and quite huge.
Old fixed install one for observing marine traffic.
That thing has like 70-95% of the parts.
The thing with most surplus like that is that somebody is gona buy it as a fancy camper and all the RF looking stuff will go to metal recycling.
Why tf does my connection still feel really sluggish?
Speedtest does show more ping on uplink, but it should not make things that much worse.
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@MLE_online @slyka
I wonder if the firmware would also run on STM32G431CBU6 instead of STM32G431KB?
As these STM32G431CBU6 boards seem to be decently common on aliexpress.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009686459434.html
Not that the ali board is more than half to 2/3 the price of the official NUCLEO-G431KB board.
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@datenwolf @mayintoronto @ln @sundogplanets
And that's assuming you can get support for them and any recent software supports them later in their life cycle.
Sad to see the mad dash to churn out ewaste fuck over everyone else on all levels of the hardware ecosystem.
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@vger@gts.necronomi.co @wetter@23.social @nblr@chaos.social
Here in Finland the only public thing is a list of call signs with the information if it is valid or withdrawn.
So you can check if the call you heard on air is legit and not some rando inventing theirs.
And that's all that is there.
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@ut3usw@mastodon.radio
I should repair channel 2 of the original Quake on oscilloscope Hitachi scope and wait for the release. :)
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@n_dimension @tilton
And them being a carpenter, it would very likely genuinely be so. Which sure does make it funnier.
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@gigabecquerel
Thankfully not a daily occurrence for me.
The best counter I have for that is "BeO is expensive, using it is not possible at the domestic microwave oven price point."
And then "Regulations require BeO containing devices to be marked as containing BeO, and no consumer electronics manufacturer wants to put a skull and crossbones on their device."
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@skylar @sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party
And yet, with all the scraping bots that's the only way your hosting costs don't explode even worse.
talk about rock and hard place.
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@bunnie
Baochip has a delightful web page.
It has all the required info, none the fluff.
There's now one more email in the crowdsupply mailinglist.
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@North@chaos.social
Lol
I just had a regulator on the bottle feed one of the cheapest compressed air spray handles from the local hardware store for leak detecting.
So yea.
Lmao.
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@mattblaze@federate.social @tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org @wollman@mastodon.social
Here (Finland) most of the labor of love stations have a license that allows to have sparse operating hours and thus they mostly operate on weekends.
It does help that a low power (50W max) FM permit is like 36eur if you only run a week or so.
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@old_angry_queer
Now that's convenient, thanks for pointing that trick out.
Much better than the piece of tape I have been using.
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@hennichodernich@radiosocial.de @oz1lqo@techhub.social
I have been meaning to change the UHF socket to N as well.
It currently only has a short pigtail to the LDG tuner fastened on top of the radio.
And the tuner already has F, BNC or or N adapter on it anyway.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
I wonder if one can run ngscopeclient on this beast?
https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/09/20/high-end-8-channel-oscilloscope-features-12-core-amd-epyc-cpu-96gb-ram-15-6-inch-display/
