fratermus

There is no claim or language that indicates it’s anything else.

Agreed, the SSA itself is not making claims that mislead the public.

Police however are prompted up by things like “protect and serve”

I agree that’s a problem.

a lot of other language/guidance/media to be portrayed as protectors, when that’s not necessarily the case.

I don’t want to beat the dead horse, but IMO the public language/guidance/media discourse regarding the SSA is as misleading as “to protect and to serve”.

If I were pushed I might say that the security part of social security is an implied guarantee that it will provide security of some kind. It does bolster financial security for many at the moment, but there is no guarantee it will do in the future.

Yet they demand our obedience and cooperation.

And people willingly bootlick these brave heroes who “f34r for muh life!!!” and start blasting when an acorn falls. Or when they step in front of a moving vehicle.

Police are not required to help you under any circumstances.

When I want to see heads explode I mention

• Warren v District of Columbia (the basis for the situation you mention); and
• that Social Security doesn’t work the way people think
  • there is no personal account that holds your contributions
  • you have no right to get any of your contributions back in your old age – the benefit is defined by Congress and they could make it whatever they want (including nothing)

In both cases one are required by law to pay but the recipient is not required to perform. As they say, “it’s good to the the king”.

No matter what plugin you find that supposedly will do the job, in my experience it is always a PITA that ends up involving a lot of programming.

I had a good experience with jekyll’s wordpress->jekyll import tool. But see below.

I would go for a database-less static site generator like Hugo

Graybeard here, so it’s probably just braindamage specific to me, but I’ve found ruby dependency setup and troubleshooting to be extremely frustrating. Hard for me to wrap my head around.

When jekyll is actually dead (right now it is “only mostly dead”) I’ll change to something that does not require ruby (eleventy?) or just go back to the nineties and do something barebones with gtml or whatever. Already playing with the latter.

said friend didn’t know you could just pull his location from a map by name

a couple thoughts

• The FCC ham license database is publicly available already, including name and location of the “station”.
• one can munge, obscure, or simply not share location with mesh nodes.

I’m curious if they’re then required to use their meshtastics in HAM mode

No, but they can if they want to use the freqs and power.

I run normal nodes but might set up a MT ham node under my callsign just to see if anything pops up.

without kegels there’d be no squeezing

this might be a route to secure communication after they ban VPNs

might also be an excellent time to familiarize oneself with ssh tunneling

I’d say Lawrence Of Arabia, if one has several hours to spare.

Want to set up a powerful

The solar node won’t be more powerful in the “radiated transmission” sense, but will have greater reach because it’s outside. And height is might as meshfolk say.

solar rooftop node/repeater/router

As others have correctly advised, nrf52-based nodes are power-sippers. This makes them a good fit for solar nodes.

I see some folks on eBay selling $200 home built solar stations. Could anyone recommend any good options for this kind of thing?

I bought one of these from PeakMesh, an etsy/ebay seller. <$100 . Very happy with design, build, performance, and the entire buying experience. I usually prefer to DIY everything but this node checked all my boxes at a sane price.

I’ve run it as a Meshtastic client base and now as Meshcore repeater after bigger dogs on my local mesh went that direction.

trigger warning - the remainder of the post contains references to reddit which may cause apoplexy in some viewers. :-)

The seller is active on reddit as M-growingdesign. He made a post about this particular design in /r/meshtastic. It was basically marketing but there’s a good bit of discussion in the thread, including how he made design decisions.

I just want to buy something and screw it up

I see we are brothers from different mothers :-P

If the ads for a feed are in a predictable position (like first two minutes, last minute, whatever) one can use sox or similar to trim the file at that point to effectively remove the ads.

But like some of the other commenters here, when the podcast is available by patreon I use that feed and avoid the whole problem.

I own and use a Microsoft Zune HD

Seems like a good enough reason to me!

I updated both my desktop and a headless server without issue.