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Solid choice. Powerful, portable, and beautiful.

During the pandemic, I stood up a Jitsi server on Linode and we ditched Zoom for our weekly family get-together calls. Sometimes the audio was not quite as good as Zoom.

If you set up SSL with LetsEncrypt, your call is encrypted “in flight”, but is apparently unencrypted for some portion of its travel through your server.

If it’s a one-on-one call, the two parties are connected directly and skips the server.

I haven’t used it in a while, but end to end encryption was still experimental a couple years ago. It didn’t work on all devices. Something to look at.

Jitsi Server works pretty well on a $5/mo Linode Nanode, so it’s worth trying. Especially if you get their $100 credit on sign up, you can try hosting it for free for a couple months. It’s available as one of their Marketplace apps, so it’s easy to set up.

That sounds like a commercial. I’m not affiliated with Linode, except for being a satisfied customer.

I hope so!

Some of those panels and indicators seem to be lit. Is there power? Is some of that still working? I would have thought that whole thing would be powered down, including all its support mechanisms.

Microblogging doesn’t seem to me to be a good model for community engagement. Like you say, it’s a big room with people yelling, so it’s hard to understand more than a snippet of what one person is saying.

Mastodon is better than Twitter/X, but I think that is mostly because more people on Mastodon are there with the intent to find more meaningful engagement. That advantage is decreasing as more of the Lowest Common Denominator signs on.

This. If the printer supports IPP Everywhere, you should be good to go.

You also might check Brother’s web site to see if they have Linux drivers for the printer you’re looking at. Installing the drivers is a bit of a hassle, but once installed, they work great. But IPP Everywhere is easy and also works well.

Forgot to mention ham radio guys and firefighters.

I never try to help others coil their cords/rope/hose. Everyone has their own way to do it, and you can never convince them otherwise.

Yes Yes Yes! I loved Hail Mary! I also enjoyed The Martian, both the book and the movie. I liked Artemis, but not as much as the other two. Weir does a good job telling a story from the first-person point of view. The sarcastic tone of the main character in each story may not work for everyone, but I enjoyed it.

Thank you for sharing that! That is cool!

True, the space factor is a cool part of Pickett's history.

I have had a pretty close look at that picture at https://tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/gallery/Gemini/12/Hasselblad%20Super-Wide%20Camera%2070%20mm#S66-62984_G12-S

I think that one is a 1006 rather than a 600. I have attached a comparison picture, with an N600, an N1006, and Aldrin's slide rule with its contrast turned up a bit.

It looks like we are looking at the side without the logo, and it looks like the near end of the slide has "Pickett All Metal Slide Rules", which the 600 does not have. And the slide looks like it has CF, CIF, CI, and C scales, and the bottom rail has D and L.

I'm not saying Aldrin didn't take a 600 to the moon. I just don't think that's a 600 in the Gemini XII picture. What do you think?

Image Credits: NASA and International Slide Rule Museum. I used the ISRM pictures because they are clearer than my pictures of my own 600 and 1006.

#sliderules

Would you please post a picture? I'd like to see what a Braille slide rule looks like. Thanks!

Whoa, that's cool! Thanks for sharing that!