Got a fun one today!

Wife gets a piece of snail mail from the school. Little post card saying you should try pickupusafitness, it’s a service on the other side of the city that organizes pickup games for elementary-aged kids. Place is 20 miles away through Baltimore suburbs.

She talked to me about it, mentiones the name, picks up her phone, goes to search them out, types “pick” and they autocomplete in her search. She’s never searched for it before.

My phone and PC autocomplete pickles pub, pickleball, pick 3 md, pickup lines, pickled cucumber…

We would, but as it stands now it’s an authoritarian dictatorship, right wing hellscape, and a marginally awful moderate right wing dystopia in a trench coat and they’re not about to cede any distance to allowing us new liberties.

If we don’t get at least a 60% margin there’s a really good chance the guy that said this will be the last time you ever have to vote, I’m going to be a dictator on day one and I’m going to imprison all of the opponents, legislators and donors that went against me.

Outside of an actual moderate or left-wing coup which is pretty much impossible I don’t see there’s any way that this country is getting out of this.

It’s like the other side of the diagram has disappeared from the mateeeeeriiiiiaal plaaaaannneeeeee!

Somewhere good somewhere okay I’m just saying I think we have enough.

It would be nice but you’d have to go back to 1850 because we eradicated them and made sure it couldn’t happen again.

It doesn’t help that they basically refused to flesh out her character like there was some sort of overarching secret that was going to make it totally worth it. They kind of screwed up the algorithm, like in lost you can have mystery building mystery but you need to give away decent hints on the way through and through no fault of her own her character was just kind of bland.

Thank God, can they also not include any new characters?

I think there are enough Terminator movies now.

Figuring out your bandwidth requirements is easy but not totally stupid easy.

If you’re going to pull down 4K video on demand figure you’re going to need at least 25mpbs

Now if it’s just you on the network and you never try to do two things at once that would be more than enough.

But now let’s say you were trying to pull down one of those ISOs while you’re trying to watch 4K Netflix. If you know what you’re doing and you can such same limits in your apps you could probably get away with 50 megabit per second. Now if you have a family and multiple people trying to watch different 4K streams, that 25 multiplies.

Now if somebody is trying to be on a zoom call while somebody else is streaming and somebody else’s downloading and ISO, things start to compound and you don’t want the zoom call to suffer. The thing is you’ve got as much of a chance of overburdening your routers capabilities as you do burning through your bandwidth.

Then consider your Wi-Fi, unless you spend a whole lot of money on your equipment you’re not getting any more than around 350 MB per second per device on Wi-Fi. If you’re wired, of course you can eat the whole gig.

A reasonably fast starting point for a small family is probably around 100 mbps.

Steam can give you hundreds of megabits per second but it doesn’t always it depends on where the data is hosted. Torrents can easily saturate as much as you want to give them If you are going after a popular piece of media.

Looking at my internet history for the past 24 hours with four people in the house and one of them almost constantly watching YouTube I had a couple of peaks around 70 mbps My peak utilization over the past 24 hours is about 8% with an average utilization of 2%.

More than likely you are 350 is more than enough to handle whatever you need unless you really need to have very very very large files very very quickly or have more than five people streaming at your house.

At my old house I picked up pager traffic on a software defined radio and decoded it. Everything I’ve ever seen has been unencrypted.

Basically the pulses come from the towers the first X number of pulses are the address kind of like the phone number for the pager. All pagers listen to all pulses and just ignore the ones that aren’t addressed to them.

Here’s some details on one of the more popular protocols

https://www.raveon.com/pdfiles/AN142(POCSAG).pdf

The Green party is doing exactly what it was designed to do. It’s siphoning off eco-conscious Democratic voters just significantly enough to affect voting margins but not enough to win. To be clear I’m not saying that Even a significant number of people in the green party have that as a goal, but top down, that’s all it’s about.

We are a two-party system and they are allowing the green party to exist to use it as a wedge.

It’s an upside down shower thought.

They have no trouble making up this story because they make up all their stories.

I’m not certain but there’s a high probability that that Venn diagram is just a circle

Oh they’re ready to cover the procedure. They just decided in April that they weren’t covering anesthesia anymore. I spoke with three separate GI doctors that all recommended only having the procedure done under anesthesia and cited that It was better for The doctors involved. Anthem won’t even cover the sedative to chill they’re just grabbing for money wherever they can. Miserable f****** company.

For a state that’s completely bordered on one side by ocean, and has a decent amount of desert for solar you think we would be desalinating the s*** out of that ocean.

Or if you want anesthesia with your colonoscopy. Because anthem says f*** you you don’t get that.

We’re organizing Halloween in the neighborhood and my neighbor was talking about doing the scene from the ring. I hadn’t seen it so I watched it. A bit slow but not bad.

I then started looking up good scenes for projection from nightmare on elm Street and pet sematary. Kind of skimmed them I had already seen them there not as Good or as bad as I remembered them.

Wait a couple more years you’ll be able to feed the descriptions through AI and make really trippy videos

Most likely, I just dedicate an old laptop, a 4k HDMI capture device, store off MP4 and feed it through comskip then take it h265 and store it off.

If I don’t do anything tricky with the browser they can’t detect that I’m doing anything tricky at all.

The only thing I’m a little concerned about is that they’re going to start doing advertising like broadcast TV did and put quarter screen commercials up for other shows in the middle of running shows.

And I use YTDLP now. At some point they will make it inoperable. I’m honestly surprised they haven’t sorted it out yet.

Wait, what frequency sets off the…

BOOM

BAOFENG transmits on all frequencies, it’s just louder on the ones they intend