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The effectiveness of the scrapey bit doesn't change in my experience, it's just as shitty when hard as it is soft. I'm sure there's a low hanging pun in there somewhere, but I hate these sponges so much I don't care to find it. Plus the sponge part is trash.

It was a dark day when the three-fingered salute was nerfed.

Man, I miss radio shack when they actually had electronic components.

Also, here's meshmap of my extended area

And here's the node map, btw, I'm in Albuquerque so there's a lot more there because of that

Get on top of a nearby hill and hang out there for an hour or so. The t1000e has a pretty damn impressive antenna for what it is, but it can't beat height. If you can see it with your eyes, you should be able to hit it with your node. The trouble is if there's stuff in the way.

There's three things that can happen with any radio signal, it goes through something, bounces off something, or is absorbed by something. The more obstructions, the lower your signal. So if you think about a node three blocks away, how many walls does your signal need to go through? In my area that could be 20 houses with 3-4 plaster and cinder block walls it needs to penetrate. If you are on a hill and can see the roof of the house with the other node, that reduces it to maybe 5 walls mine and their signal needs to go through.

There's someone on the other side of town that has direct line of sight of the entire city and has a great antenna that can hit my node wherever I am, but I can't reach there's from inside anywhere. So I have a node I can stick on my car and another in my roof that can relay my messages to them and hit everyone in town by that route. My roof node in turn acts as a relay for anyone in my surrounding neighborhoods who don't have that height.

As an avid apple disliker, they really got a lot of things right with 10.x, with snow leopard hitting it out of the park. Everything from them around that era was slick. If I wasn't a poor college kid running a 5 year old eBay Thinkpad I would have been sucked into their oppressive ecosystem in a heartbeat.

It looks too high up to me, maybe a little to large. It's definitely too close to it's bill.

A family size meal should have enough to at least be the entree for four people. With enchiladas that means two per person, not one. It's a corn tortilla with stuff rolled in it, barely larger than a taquito, you need two for it to not look like a depression meal (we're already cooking frozen enchiladas, we're there already, it doesn't need to be rubbed in).

I've noticed that sizes are shifting. Party size is now what used to be family size and can actually feed four, sometimes it's called mega family size or some bullshit. Family size now means two adults and maybe a child <10 yrs. I remember a family size lasagna had leftovers when I was a kid.

Didn't upstart show up in jaunty jackalope? I don't recall systemd being all that big back then. Also, jaunty booted in 30s to desktop on a 4200rpm spinning rust IDE drive, Intel m processor. In my book they succeeded there but yeah, the attitude they have about contributing to current projects is bullshit.

The joke in my friend group was that Waterworld was Dances with Wolves on water. The Postman was Waterworld on land. Dances with Wolves was the Postman with Native Americans. Toss in whichever parallel you feel works best to not actually say the movie you're putting on.

He was great playing himself on Newsradio. But that's about it.

If you don't need a laptop, I've been having a blast with using mini/micro/tiny business PCs off of eBay. I've had zero issues installing Debian on them, and they're designed to be easy to maintain by IT departments, so Wi-Fi, storage, RAM, and even CPUs are all replaceable. They are mobile CPUs, so if you need the heavy lifting of desktop CPUs, you'd probably need to go with a larger form factor.