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@tk If society collapses, all of the terrible computerized shit is gonna need hackers that can operate an oscilloscope and find the UART pins.
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@p Yep. Hardware will be the forefront again. blobfoxthumbsup
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Some guy peddling a bicycle generator in the background...

"I can give you... 5 MINS!"

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@thendrix @tk Plenty of zinc and copper for producing voltaic piles.
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@p @thendrix Don't think they'll be able to power an RTX 5090, though. blobfoxgooglytrash
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@tk @thendrix An RTX 5090 will be useless, sure. But a pile of ARM/RISC-V SBCs will do fine.
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Not for more than 5 mins clearly...

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Instead of bottle caps you trade raspberry pi boards.

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At some point we need to stop enabling the dead ends.
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@dsm @tk This house I am in is full of that terrible "smart" shit and when the net goes out, the television starts weeping.
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We use mesh more than Signal now. I doubt we'd even notice nukes at the DC.
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@p @tk @dsm
>terrible "smart" shit
If you can, flash open sores firmware on everything and use Home assistant soyware to manage it. That makes it somewhat bearable to use. Or so I've heard.
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@dsm @tk That is awesome.

Tried bouncing JS8 off the ionosphere yet?
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@p @dsm Slowly working on getting my amateur radio license. blobfoxthumbsup
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@phnt @dsm @tk

> If you can, flash open sores firmware on everything and use Home assistant soyware to manage it.

If I fuck with a thing, I accept responsibility for that thing.
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I monitor GhostNet, but I think that's a honeypot.

(Radios were more her thing, but I'm learning.)
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@dsm @tk I am pleased if RF->text occurs, it is a really nice feeling. Only radio gear I have at present is RTLSDR and terrible antenna, plus the Baofeng gift.
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@p @tk @dsm They're delightful.

Oh.

I used the flipper the other night to read my cats lost and found chip lol. Kinda cool.
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@ins0mniak @dsm @tk

> I used the flipper the other night to read my cats lost and found chip lol. Kinda cool.

Ha, nice! It's regular RFID or what?
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@p @dsm @phnt Feels adjacent to this. blobfoxthumbsup

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@p @tk @dsm Yeah bro, its just a 134.2 kHz rfid. Nothing crazy.
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@phnt @dsm @p Also, no creepy shadowbanning. blobfoxdisgust
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@ins0mniak @dsm @tk I don't know what's on those; I imagine that the chips just have, like, a service and an ID number, because they want you to pay a monthly bill, and if you could just put your name/info on the RFID chip then there'd be no reason to pay the bill.
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@tk @dsm @phnt It is more a matter of who gets the tech support calls in this case; I don't want the thing to exist and won't touch it. Given that it exists, if I do touch it, I get the phone call when it doesn't work.
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@phnt @tk @dsm

> Mostly because I'm already family tech support and I don't want more of it.

Two things insulate me from this:

1. I genuinely don't know how to fix your printer. I have not used Windows on a regular basis since Windows 98 and my knowledge of Windows stops at XP.

2. All of my terrible feddy verse posts are things I say out loud and nobody wants to hear my "SAN FRANCISCO DATA CARTEL MARK OF THE BEAST I TOLD YOU NOT TO PURCHASE ONE OF THESE AND MY SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM IS TO SET IT ON FIRE AND GET SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T FEED THE BEAST DO YOU REALLY WANT ME TO FIX YOUR SMART TV FOR YOU BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT I WILL DO I WILL SET IT ON FIRE YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHO THESE PEOPLE ARE" speech again.
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@p @tk @dsm I don't pay a monthly bill at all. Just registered it.

Mine has an identification number that the vet or the pound can look up if she gets lost and they need to contact me.

She ain't going outside regardless tho.
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Everyone rips me off.
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When someone says "Can you fix my computer?" and you whip it out like a homeless dude in SF
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@p @tk @dsm I'm almost the same in this regard, except that I lack the ability to say no to a family member whose computer is mysteriously broken, because somehow I enjoy the mystery solving (mild case of masochism) and that I posses knowledge about Windows some might call arcane and/or dangerous.
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Pete's emergency disk is Slackware, bet.
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@dsm @cjd @tk @phnt Accurate. Also as of some time last week, a family member is involuntarily running Slackware, because I don't know how to fix Windows.
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@phnt @dsm @tk

"Lookit this shit in regedit."
'Why? What's weird about it?'
"I don't know. All of it's weird, I don't know which of these things is out of the ordinary."
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@phnt @p @dsm @tk upgrade their os to xp in the process huh
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@hakui @tk @dsm @p I have an older relative that used XP well into 2019 on a Pentium 4 box. Now they are running Mint on a new box, because the time it would take for them to learn how to use Win10 would be the same as learning Mint. So far it only broke twice for the typical Ubuntu reasons (kernel updates).
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@phnt @tk @dsm @p @hakui As always, a simple fix: never update.
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Mate/Cinnamon are the biggest compliments one can give to Gnome.
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