Didn’t know that, but I rarely buy name brand these days.

Nice. Hope you’re enjoying it. So jealous. I wish I could watch DS9 (more or less) for the first time again.

The actual seasoning crumbs are still sealed in a bag (for now? lol). It just doesn’t come with the “shake” bags you pour that into in order to coat the food.

Honestly not sure. I’d have to splurge on the name brand to compare.

First watch?

Started a re-watch of SNW so finally able to relate to people who aren’t as invested in TrekLit as I am 😆

Also finished the second book of the “Cold Equations” trilogy and started on the third the other day.

The VDI images don’t have to be immutable, but they often are. In our case, we’re not exposing virtual desktops, just apps. But if they did have a mutable VDI, they still wouldn’t be allowed to install software.

C.W. McCall - Convoy (the song the movie was based on).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJKQUm13Bqo

i should clarify a generic radio repeater that inst meshtastic but is able to repeat LORA signal

Well, the numbers I gave would be the same since those Meshtastic “modes” are just profiles for different LoRa settings, and the same LoRa Settings + frequency slot still applies (Meshtastic just runs on top of that).

I think what you’re looking for is a dumb signal repeater, but I’m not super knowledgeable of the pros/cons/legality of those for the entire 915 MHz band. You’d be repeating anything in that frequency range, not just LoRa. And those also repeat noise the same as signal. Basically, it could end up making things worse in the long run by introducing noise.

Probably best to just coordinate with or start a community mesh group and settle on a specific frequency and LoRa settings.

AFAIK, the only way to truly turn them off is to remove the battery or cut the positive lead and splice in a switch. Only drawback is the switch has to be on for it to be able to charge, so that’s a bit awkward. The “soft off” when you hold the power button is just deep sleep.

Mine frequently wake up from deep sleep but not after 5 minutes. More like 3-4 days. Which makes keeping a few always charged difficult.

Edit: I just checked the Power settings in the app (they’ve changed it a bit since I set mine up). The longest it can deep sleep is 72 hours it seems. Maybe yours is set to 5 minutes?

I don’t think what you’re trying to do is very practical.

For US 915, there are between 52 (SHORT_TURBO) and 208 (LONG_SLOW) frequency slots. Each node has to use the same LoRA parameters (called mode presets in Meshtastic) as well as the same frequency slot in order to communicate (or relay).

LoRa signals are low bandwidth (125, 250, or 500 kHz) so there are a lot of frequency slots. In addition to having one radio for each frequency slot, you would also have to have one for each LoRA parameter preset in that frequency slot. Nodes can only operate in one mode and frequency at a time.

So to cover all cases, you’d need:

• 52 nodes operating in SHORT_TURBO mode
• 104 nodes operating in SHORT_FAST
• 104 nodes operating in SHORT_SLOW
• 104 nodes in MEDIUM_FAST
• 104 in MEDIUM_SLOW
• 104 in LONG_FAST mode
• 208 in LONG_MODERATE mode
• Plus another 208 in LONG_SLOW mode

Source for those counts

That’s a total of 988 nodes to cover all, and that’s not even getting into the fact that they’d be talking over each other.

Basically, if you want to be a generic repeater (note the docs clearly state to not run repeater mode willy-nilly), it’s best to stick with LONG_FAST, set your custom channels as primary (if you even want to have custom channels, that is), and create a LongFast secondary channel with the default dummy encryption key. Then manually set your radio frequency to the one used by the default LONG_FAST setting (908.875 MHz).

That’s basically what I do and lets me have my own private channels while also relaying for and being able to make contact with anyone else using the default config.

Edit: Coordination of local frequencies, etc is usually done by forming a Meshtastic community group. Then you could just join (or start) that group and use a standardized frequency and LoRa parameters.

My personal record is ~17 sneezes in a row. Hashtag “allergy life”.

Oh, boy, that brings back memories of being a teenager in the early 90s. Grandpa gifted me his old CB, got it setup and tuned in, and immediately turned it off.

It’s just that back then, those people weren’t glamorized with fancy titles like “podcaster” or “influencer”. They were just garden variety cranks everyone knew to just ignore.

Truth.

And given all that’s happened between the original run of KoTH and the present, I found Dale a lot less charming in the reboot.

I’m not saying the concept didn’t exist then. There was just a higher barrier to entry than buying a microphone.

I’m currently on the second book of the “Cold Equations” trilogy.

Almost gave up on the first book 1/3 of the way through but glad I stuck with it. There was an entire chapter basically just describing the meal the character was enjoying lol. I mean, in context, it makes sense but it definitely seemed like it dragged on for a bit too long.

Nedry was literally a computer scientist and systems designer / programmer from Cambridge. Arnold was a theme park engineer (designing rides and control systems; some programming involved but a whole different paradigm than developing large systems).

Source: Have read the novel 50+ times.

Arnold was an engineer, though. He was competent in using the system and not totally lost when poking around the code, but he’s no computer scientist. Basically, he was a power user / sysadmin rather than a developer.