Mastodawn

My son bought a second-hand Windows 11 PC for games, and has been having BSOD issues with the graphics card since he got it. Out of desperation he tried installing Bazzite on it, which I encouraged, but was also trying not to get his hopes up, telling him that the some things might not work. But he reports that "absolutely everything works better than Windows".
I suggested he use KDE for the desktop, and he is blown away about how good everything looks, and how easy the user experience is. He has used Linux for a bit probably 7 or 8 years ago when he used a salvaged laptop at uni that had Ubuntu on it, and he remembers that being a bit janky and frustrating, but now he's decided that he'll wipe the Windows partition and stay with Linux.
So keep it up, clever people that are making Linux distros and software, you're winning.
#Linux #Bazzite #KDE #Steam

Zilvis (LY2SS)Feb 23

DARC e.V. - Notfunkreferat Feb 23

JS8Call im Notfunk – wir suchen 3–4 Funkamateure, die diese digitale Betriebsart für die überregionale Notfunkkommunikation (Distrikt/Bund/international) testen und bewerten. Auch auf IARU-R1-Ebene wird JS8Call für EMCOMM diskutiert – wir wollen anschlussfähig sein. Interesse? → [email protected]

#DARC #Notfunk #JS8Call #Amateurfunk #HamRadio #EMCOMM

Zilvis (LY2SS)Feb 23

Marcus Müller Feb 23

As someone on whom considerable amounts of energy have been spent to make him somewhat intelligent, I can now claim I can offer AGI at 1 ‰ of the financial effort that OpenAI and Microsoft need:

The moment someone gives me 100 mio. dollar, I'm fulfilling my definition of having reached general intelligence.

Considering this is a 99.9 % more efficient approach than Altman offers, I'm expecting VC offerings to absolutely annihilate my inbox the moment this post goes live.

#VC #AGI #investment

Zilvis (LY2SS)Feb 23

Peter DL6PL Feb 23

So far, I've only really been involved in SSB, FM, and CW, but from now on, I'm going to make it a rule to boycott proprietary modes. Amateur radio should be open.

And I also consider modes whose developers disregard the GPL and do not publish the source code to be proprietary, just saying. #hamradio #foss

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Zilvis (LY2SS)Feb 19

@oz1lqo sri, nsec pulses... Cheap is not option here.

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Zilvis (LY2SS)Feb 19

@oz1lqo Pulseview (sigrok) using cheap adapter?

Zilvis (LY2SS)Dec 29

Dwingeloo Radiotelescoop Nov 18

A few weeks ago, Michelle @abraxas3d visited us. She wrote a very nice report on "A day at Dwingeloo", detailing some of our recent experiments. The full story is at https://www.openresearch.institute/2025/11/12/a-day-at-dwingeloo/

(How it's going...)

@matt303 Aluminium version antenna here. I like it. Had before on4aa 6bands but it has very deep nulls in few directions.

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Zilvis (LY2SS)Oct 4

@M0KHR I bought replacement pin diodes for my 991a which was also was "forgot to unplug"ed from hf dipole and it got a little damage from very near hit.