RE: https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/116545025239731727
German fact: the German word for "mobile" or "cell phone" is "Handy" (yes, I know), pronounced in English. It is a fake loanword, if you will.
It's pretty possible that the Motorola Handie-Talkie SCRxxx family was the one that introduced the word "Handie" to Germans, who consequently adopted it for CB and early mobile phones, where it stuck as "Handy".
I seriously needed to edit a JSON file just to make Thunderbird stop opening HTTP(S) links in an internal browser tab instead of in firefox, my default browser, which actually has all the sessions and profiles needed to make most of these links useful at all.
Thunderbird didn't do that up to 20 min ago; this was definitely a sudden change in behaviour that broke my workflows without asking me. I'm so tired of there not being a sensible graphical mail client for Linux.
It's still #MusicWomenWednesday in some parts! So, here's Lucifer – Louise:
https://luciferofficial.bandcamp.com/track/louise
Lucifer are a band from … err, Europe! They feature an extremely #Doom #Metal bass and, smokey bluesy fantastic vocals (Johanna Platow) that plays in the same leagues as say Graveyard.
from the album IV (24-bit HD audio)
Hey @hennichodernich , I just thought about your patchloop antenna circuitry. Assuming I wanted to adaptively tune that by putting a capacitance in series with the loop, do you have a clever idea on how to do digital-to-capacity conversion?
It's not a field I'm versed in, but eyeballing impedance, the usual varicap approaches would look to be too low in value, and also invitations to harmonics. Plus, would still need to add a voltage DAC.
Other approach would be analog switch ICs + C-2C ladder.
A new Jenny's Bench article for you all to read. Please support me if you can, it means a lot.
https://ko-fi.com/post/The-Curious-Case-Of-The-Little-Chinese-Cameras-F1F01YVR6E
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