I believe I can sum it up:

Don’t

(This message brought to you in conjunction with my most recent experience of 200ish lines of useless generated code a coworker excitedly sent to me to review, and the letters L & M.)

Well… Shit. Time to check out meshcore!

Edit: Nah, company driven.

I’ll keep the fully open GPL 3 meshtastic my preferred

Must not be a good friend if you installed windows on his PC.

A decent prank though.

Python is phenomenal for prototyping IMO.

Once you need performance, its best to use another language (even partially).

But quickly banging out a concept, to me, is the big win for python.

Ive got 16gb in the work-provided machine… And I can safely say that more than half is just autostart crap.

Since I only use it for messaging/email, I don’t much care tbh. Just kind of a fun to note for the laughs though.

Thats because of office I believe, since its using edge underneath.

Ah, the edgewebview2 crash. So consistent, so destructive.

This is why I’m glad I mostly just use it for teams, everything else is pretty much ssh from my main workstation (debian).

Oh definitely. Its shut down every day, has a dedicated dock in the home office, and I open it at 9am.

Thats when I get my coffee and snack. Its just surprising how much longer I can sit and sip before starting now.

Its horrendous, my work windows laptop the amount of crap just loading at startup is getting stupid.

Thats about $500 I think? Seems pretty low for the typical ransom approach.

Maybe they charge $150/row for their storage services :)

What we had that couldn’t: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PS/2_Model_30

Work was getting rid of them so my dad bought it. Great machine, learned a ton.

Are you sure about that?

Lol yes. Its a relay with a secondary control via mqtt with intermittent status reporting.

it also probably means your lights all turn on after a power outage since the light can’t tell the difference between power outage and light switch flipped off.

Not how that works.

I’m perfectly fine with enabling a connection, just not requiring one.

For example - my lights are automated. They have a switch though. If they went offline (or my server does), I can press the entirely local switch and have light.

As a reminder though, 418 is supposed to be the response for requests of the teapot to brew coffee.

On my desktop, I need that num pad.

On the go, I loathe my laptop keyboard and mouse, and bring a 60% and a mouse. Easy to fit in the bag for travel if I’m setting up shop somewhere for a few days or more. Also a dock so I can hook it up to the hotel TV or conf room display easily if they are behind the times.

Ohh, thats a nice find.

I have a work iPad, going to try it out.

Global population? Iirc it was around 70k years ago that something (or some combination of things) nearly wiped out all of our ancestors, down to a few thousand. I believe that was initially thought to be an event started by volcanic eruption, but other data contradicts that (or at least points to it not being the only problem).

Smaller scale? The great plague was only a few hundred years ago, that was 100k people pretty localized. Same with Marseilles a few decades later. A few decades after that was a plague in Moscow, twice the toll. Late 1800s was another Russian flu, with a million casualties.

Covid we were able to have enough people not be morons about to not completely (or near totally) wipe us out, but there was also competent leadership after it began (but not early on).

Then now we’ve got bird flu, mpox, not to mention the ridiculously stupid returns of polio and measles.

I’m not a historian or expert in infectious diseases, FWIW, just noting that there have been some bad times for the general population both small and large scale over time.

Same with Barr and Schneider.

Oof, that sucks.

Yeah big brands can screw up too, I had several spools of coax fail once, and it turned out the whole batch had a problem. I’m just glad no one pulled first, tested later.

If we are taking a gentle loop, sure. But if you mean (and I’ve seen this BTW) tying like a pair of shoes and pulling it tight, I’d kick you out of my IDF.

Not saying thats what you were thinking, just had to share my memory of that pain.

I still prefer a bit of waxed thread though. Great for any cable, be it utp, f/utp, armored, fiber, coax, whatever. But that’s also how I started, so it probably plays a role in why I like it.

Edit: plus a string makes a nice and neat way to hang it on a hook.

I think that has to do more with the heads being used and the quality of the cable than anything. I’ve seen tons of cheap heads on good cable, and it goes poorly after a while.

I generally recommend cable thats been third party tested for both performance and physical resilience. Haven’t seen any decent riser that wasn’t, but I have seen some patch from major brands that definitely wasn’t.

Please dont bend and pinch your cables. Make a loop as shown in the bottom middle.

Add a piece of string to tie it.

And no zip ties. Zip ties are for attaching cables to other things, and should never be tightened fully.