“Trump bad”

“But but but what about Biden???”

It runs just fine for me, huh. Certainly not because of lack of google services.

Maybe graphene is doing some firewall things? KDE Connect needs some ports open (to the local lan) to talk

If you have a phone with custom ROM support, pretty easy. I’ve been running LineageOS without GAPPS for like 5 years now. Most stuff just works, but to be fair, I am not using any of the cool kids apps like google pay or android auto.

Oh, definitively not. I’m not even 30, and I remember that NY dad’s car from when I was a kid needed a special additive to replace the lead, because that had been banned since he bought it

The thing I hear occasionally and that I actually agree with is that from an outsiders’ perspective, the US has a right wing party and a far-right party.

European Socialism? Come on, we are supposed to be better than “socialism is when health care”.

I know what you want to say, but last time I checked, every EU country had millionaires and beggars, a market economy, most companies were in the hand of private citizens or shareholders, and guaranteed private property (with the usual legal exceptions).

Don’t be like the populists. Words have meanings and meanings matter. It is social market economy at most.

Mostly MJK, thank you very much

I am agreeing with you here, for fuck’s sake.

This administration likes to call all things it does not like illegal. Like not buying a Tesla.

I agree i could have worded more clearly. But chill out, man.

Did you buy a Tesla? No? Congrats, you are part of the illegal boycott now. President said so.

Late reply, and forgive me if I am over-explaining. I found some random datasheets that say RG-316 has 26-29 dB per 100 ft at 1 GHz. So in the worst case, 3 ft would be 0.87 dB. Doesn’t sound like much, but 30 dBm - 0.87 dB = 29.13 dBm = 818 mW, so he is losing 182 mW to the cable. Not great, not terrible.

It definitely should not make that much of an impact. Maybe look into antenna tuning / SWR? Or broken connectors / pinched cables? If my past IT jobs have taught me anything that that it’s always the cable, unless it’s the plug :)

I had a similar experience with RG58 and UHF. I guess the good old tech support wisdom is true: when in doubt, check the cable…

Have you considered the Fresnel zone? You know, the ellipse between sender and receiver where most of the signal power is located? If you are 200+30 feet up, at 17.5 miles, my back of the napkin map says you are barely having a line of sight, so much of the Fresnel zone is probably obscured by the earth.

Some random online calculator says that at 433 MHz, you have a Fresnel zone radius of 230 ft, (145 MHz has 395 ft, 866 MHz has 161 ft). So half of the signal path is blocked at 433 MHz, and apparently the rule of thumb is it should be at least 60% free. I am too lazy to do actual math right now, but that might be a reason.

They could get a really long yagi, and connect to your omni. That sounds like the most reasonable solution. Do you know what power and sensitivity is used?

Honestly? Cool that you are asking, but I just want a coffee, not a conversation.

Yes, I’m German, how could you tell?

It is more about being able to constantly spy on everyone. Funny how this exact sentence would have labeled one as a conspiracy nut not too long ago.

Constantly online means constant (more or less) analytics, means constant data to throw in the big computer to make you buy more shit or vote for the shit party.

I am outside of the US, and I do care. Biggest army and economy and so on. Even if not, I would not want to be associated with, idk, Australian wannabe tyrants either.

Mine told me to take a shower and put on a clean t-shirt. I cannot say he wasn’t right :)

But I get what you mean.

I would say that that is a legitimate concern of a parent who wants their child to have a “normal” life. Badly worded, of course.

I’d like to point out that it is only one single proposal. If this does not get shut down, then it is time to be worried. But for now, it might just be one glue-sniffing Congressperson sniffing the wrong kind of glue one morning.

It is much worse. I hope I am reading it wrong, but:

The term ‘‘technology’’ […] includes […] any semiconductor, circuit board, operating system, graphics processing unit, central processing unit, tenor processing unit, field-programmable gate array, random access memory, hard drive, solid-state drive, dataflow architecture, or cloud-computing service, that is manufactured, designed, developed, supplied, deployed, completed, […] [etc.] to function artificial intelligence […] and any other hardware, software, equipment, device, component, robotic computer, processor, network […] that is manufactured, designed, developed, supplied, deployed, […] [etc.] to function artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence.

This would mean that importing and exporting literally any piece of IT equipment, from a Ubuntu installer to a RAM chip, is illegal. Good luck & have fun.