Yes, today’s forecast was largely a bust. No bones about it. The model forecasts were predicted on there being breaks in the clouds and enough sunlight to heat up and destabilize the atmosphere, which obviously didn’t happen. But, forecasters thought (as did I) that wind shear at peak levels would compensate for that, and again, that didn’t happen either.

There have been a lot of swings and misses in the last two years from the forecast models, and I lay a lot of blame on this regime gutting NOAA’s budget, laying off hundreds of NOAA employees, defunding weather research, and ordering the military not to share satellite data with NOAA. You can’t have that happen and expect forecast quality not to suffer.

Video indicates #DeltaAirlines is providing service to #ICE , removing kids from families in #MSP and transporting them to be held in #Texas

https://gillianbrockell.com/video-proves-delta-flew-liam-ramos-and-his-dad-to-ice-detention-center/

(if you have a Sky Miles account, they should hear from you. the direct line is +1-800-323-2323 and webform here: https://www.delta.com/us/en/need-help/overview?commentComplaintsForm)

"Healthy people cost less.
Educated people contribute more.
Housed people are more stable.

...in a healthy society there are no "undeserving".
There are just people."

Hi Folks! I'm Erica and although I'm not new to mastodon in general, I am new to mastodon.radio. I wanted to establish a home to post stuff specific to Ham Radio and occasionally retro electronics. I'm most active on CW and the Digital modes with most of my focus on VHF and Satellite at the moment. Great to meet you all!

#introductions

#Permacomputing is about the future. Old CPUs suck (but can be fun). Permacomputing has little to do with #retrocomputing, except insofar as we can examine our past solutions for synergies and such. And pre-enshittification versions of current software. The rest is nostalgia.

Used gear is the future too. There are so many "adequate" systems made in the last 10 years, alone, that meet most peoples needs.

The only non-enshittified OSes today are *nix OSes; freebsd, netbsd, derivatives, and the various linux.

I run Debian 13, as vanilla as I can get for the least effort involved. But linux/etc today are essentially server-class installs used on the desktop/laptop. OK lots of folk on the fedi lurv to wield complexity for it's own sake and that's fine. And eg. Debian is shockingly, wonderfully reliable and given the underlying complexity, surprisingly easy to install and maintain -- if you have the skills.

But I keep wondering about how much could a linux distro be pared back to cut size and complexity? A brutally stripped distro that runs Libreoffice and not much else; and a fancier one with networking (browser memory hogs).

Is there/are there super low end linux distributions I'm not aware of?

I'm not seeing a lot of traffic about permacomputing that aren't entangled with retrocomputing. I'm hoping that's just a feature of my feeds and follows!