#tallship — Public Fediverse posts

@tubetime @FunkyBob

That was a great video. Thanks @Tube🍂Time! I found myself continually unforgivably, dismissively muttering, "So what? So what? So what?" (Recalling that I still have 3 tube testing machines) until you got to the ESD and especially EMP - one might wonder why much of our defense industries settled entirely on LSI, then VLSI, etc., etc., instead of backup primary systems incorporating this "In between" manufacturing technology that you pointed out, which would certainly have benefited from advances in microminiaturization just the same - mostly, anyway.

But then there's that dialog that for some reason just came to me from "White Squall" where the Captain of the Cuban warship smashes the binnacle compass with his rifle butt and Jeff Bridges exclaims in Spanish, "Real sailors need only the stars overhead to navigate".

That was a really kewl project you built. How do you source the parts nowadays for things like nuvistors? There's very few Electronics surplus/liquidator type stores out there anymore.

I'm still trying to suss out whether Chister the Molister in the pic below is a villainous deer in the headlights of having his superspy cover blown, or if he's the inspiration for that other cartoon character of scandalous nature.

#tallship #nuvistor

@tubetime @FunkyBob

That was a great video. Thanks @Tube🍂Time! I found myself continually unforgivably, dismissively muttering, "So what? So what? So what?" (Recalling that I still have 3 tube testing machines) until you got to the ESD and especially EMP - one might wonder why much of our defense industries settled entirely on LSI, then VLSI, etc., etc., instead of backup primary systems incorporating this "In between" manufacturing technology that you pointed out, which would certainly have benefited from advances in microminiaturization just the same - mostly, anyway.

But then there's that dialog that for some reason just came to me from "White Squall" where the Captain of the Cuban warship smashes the binnacle compass with his rifle butt and Jeff Bridges exclaims in Spanish, "Real sailors need only the stars overhead to navigate".

That was a really kewl project you built. How do you source the parts nowadays for things like nuvistors? There's very few Electronics surplus/liquidator type stores out there anymore.

I'm still trying to suss out whether Chister the Molister in the pic below is a villainous deer in the headlights of having his superspy cover blown, or if he's the inspiration for that other cartoon character of scandalous nature.

#tallship #nuvistor

@tubetime @FunkyBob

That was a great video. Thanks @Tube🍂Time! I found myself continually unforgivably, dismissively muttering, "So what? So what? So what?" (Recalling that I still have 3 tube testing machines) until you got to the ESD and especially EMP - one might wonder why much of our defense industries settled entirely on LSI, then VLSI, etc., etc., instead of backup primary systems incorporating this "In between" manufacturing technology that you pointed out, which would certainly have benefited from advances in microminiaturization just the same - mostly, anyway.

But then there's that dialog that for some reason just came to me from "White Squall" where the Captain of the Cuban warship smashes the binnacle compass with his rifle butt and Jeff Bridges exclaims in Spanish, "Real sailors need only the stars overhead to navigate".

That was a really kewl project you built. How do you source the parts nowadays for things like nuvistors? There's very few Electronics surplus/liquidator type stores out there anymore.

I'm still trying to suss out whether Chister the Molister in the pic below is a villainous deer in the headlights of having his superspy cover blown, or if he's the inspiration for that other cartoon character of scandalous nature.

#tallship #nuvistor

16.0 Alpha 1 has arrived...

People ask me how come I often don't know these things... It's simple really. I'm on kernel-generic-7.2.4-x86_64-1 running #Slackware -current and don't actually bother to look up from the work I'm doing cause 16 is just a distro's version number, but 7.2.4 is a kernel. Officially, Slackware 16.0 Alpha is available w/the Linux huge 6.18.x kernel while 7.2.4 is in /testing.

Me, I'm just rolling along in production as I have been for close to 30 years now w/ Slackware - current looking back on the next upcoming release like it's something from yesterday lolz.

I do the same thing on #Debian (14/Testing/Forky) I just upgraded my kernel to 7.1.12+deb14-amd64 - so I'm not running that far behind the ultra-bleeding edge of Slackware, or what Arch and Gentoo users are either.

Anyway, you're going to hear more about the upcoming Slackware 16 release as the weeks go on and if there's one thing I can advise you of it's don't get caught up in the guessing game bullshit - Patrick will release it matter-of-factly w/o any fanfare and pretty much all bets will be wrong. The most you can do is to ask, "Is it soup yet?".

So here's the thread, and Patrick's response to the OP (who's running 7.3-RC1)

#tallship #FOSS #Linux #distros
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16.0 Alpha 1 has arrived...

People ask me how come I often don't know these things... It's simple really. I'm on kernel-generic-7.2.4-x86_64-1 running #Slackware -current and don't actually bother to look up from the work I'm doing cause 16 is just a distro's version number, but 7.2.4 is a kernel. Officially, Slackware 16.0 Alpha is available w/the Linux huge 6.18.x kernel while 7.2.4 is in /testing.

Me, I'm just rolling along in production as I have been for close to 30 years now w/ Slackware - current looking back on the next upcoming release like it's something from yesterday lolz.

I do the same thing on #Debian (14/Testing/Forky) I just upgraded my kernel to 7.1.12+deb14-amd64 - so I'm not running that far behind the ultra-bleeding edge of Slackware, or what Arch and Gentoo users are either.

Anyway, you're going to hear more about the upcoming Slackware 16 release as the weeks go on and if there's one thing I can advise you of it's don't get caught up in the guessing game bullshit - Patrick will release it matter-of-factly w/o any fanfare and pretty much all bets will be wrong. The most you can do is to ask, "Is it soup yet?".

So here's the thread, and Patrick's response to the OP (who's running 7.3-RC1)

#tallship #FOSS #Linux #distros
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16.0 Alpha 1 has arrived...

People ask me how come I often don't know these things... It's simple really. I'm on kernel-generic-7.2.4-x86_64-1 running #Slackware -current and don't actually bother to look up from the work I'm doing cause 16 is just a distro's version number, but 7.2.4 is a kernel. Officially, Slackware 16.0 Alpha is available w/the Linux huge 6.18.x kernel while 7.2.4 is in /testing.

Me, I'm just rolling along in production as I have been for close to 30 years now w/ Slackware - current looking back on the next upcoming release like it's something from yesterday lolz.

I do the same thing on #Debian (14/Testing/Forky) I just upgraded my kernel to 7.1.12+deb14-amd64 - so I'm not running that far behind the ultra-bleeding edge of Slackware, or what Arch and Gentoo users are either.

Anyway, you're going to hear more about the upcoming Slackware 16 release as the weeks go on and if there's one thing I can advise you of it's don't get caught up in the guessing game bullshit - Patrick will release it matter-of-factly w/o any fanfare and pretty much all bets will be wrong. The most you can do is to ask, "Is it soup yet?".

So here's the thread, and Patrick's response to the OP (who's running 7.3-RC1)

#tallship #FOSS #Linux #distros
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People get the wrong idea when I relate my experience of living off-grid, miles away from other humans, deep in the wilderness of the mountains in Humboldt, California.

Somehow, it just doesn't click that no, there's no roads Trails, and things resembling road like passages cut by people with properties using their own tractors and excavators, sure. You dare not go anywhere farther than you wish to hike unless you bring a chainsaw with you; failure to do so means you might not be driving back after a couple of trees decide to fell themselves across the path.

Food, the mornings were fun and interesting. I would start by filling the firebox in my Stanley cooker with Doug fir, oak, and madrone. It takes a good 20 minutes or so before the kettle begins to billow steam, a few minutes after that it's boiling - during that time you've been grinding the coffee beans by hand with the big circular crank on the wall-mounted grinder. Then you pour the boiling water into the coffee press and turn your attention to breakfast sizzling away in the video below.

You'll probably need to add more wood to the firebox, it's not a very efficient stove the furnace in the main room, but it does burn hot enough to turn all that iron into a giant griddle - if you're really adventurous you can try to bake a cake in the oven. It's an art to keep the oven consistently at the desired temperature, and... that's part of the fun too.

So what else were you really going to do in the hour and a half it took to make breakfast? Next? We tend to the garden, then later we travel about bucking up logs and felling trees for the coming winter.

#tallship #off_grid #homesteading #Humboldt #wildnerness

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People get the wrong idea when I relate my experience of living off-grid, miles away from other humans, deep in the wilderness of the mountains in Humboldt, California.

Somehow, it just doesn't click that no, there's no roads Trails, and things resembling road like passages cut by people with properties using their own tractors and excavators, sure. You dare not go anywhere farther than you wish to hike unless you bring a chainsaw with you; failure to do so means you might not be driving back after a couple of trees decide to fell themselves across the path.

Food, the mornings were fun and interesting. I would start by filling the firebox in my Stanley cooker with Doug fir, oak, and madrone. It takes a good 20 minutes or so before the kettle begins to billow steam, a few minutes after that it's boiling - during that time you've been grinding the coffee beans by hand with the big circular crank on the wall-mounted grinder. Then you pour the boiling water into the coffee press and turn your attention to breakfast sizzling away in the video below.

You'll probably need to add more wood to the firebox, it's not a very efficient stove the furnace in the main room, but it does burn hot enough to turn all that iron into a giant griddle - if you're really adventurous you can try to bake a cake in the oven. It's an art to keep the oven consistently at the desired temperature, and... that's part of the fun too.

So what else were you really going to do in the hour and a half it took to make breakfast? Next? We tend to the garden, then later we travel about bucking up logs and felling trees for the coming winter.

#tallship #off_grid #homesteading #Humboldt #wildnerness

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People get the wrong idea when I relate my experience of living off-grid, miles away from other humans, deep in the wilderness of the mountains in Humboldt, California.

Somehow, it just doesn't click that no, there's no roads Trails, and things resembling road like passages cut by people with properties using their own tractors and excavators, sure. You dare not go anywhere farther than you wish to hike unless you bring a chainsaw with you; failure to do so means you might not be driving back after a couple of trees decide to fell themselves across the path.

Food, the mornings were fun and interesting. I would start by filling the firebox in my Stanley cooker with Doug fir, oak, and madrone. It takes a good 20 minutes or so before the kettle begins to billow steam, a few minutes after that it's boiling - during that time you've been grinding the coffee beans by hand with the big circular crank on the wall-mounted grinder. Then you pour the boiling water into the coffee press and turn your attention to breakfast sizzling away in the video below.

You'll probably need to add more wood to the firebox, it's not a very efficient stove the furnace in the main room, but it does burn hot enough to turn all that iron into a giant griddle - if you're really adventurous you can try to bake a cake in the oven. It's an art to keep the oven consistently at the desired temperature, and... that's part of the fun too.

So what else were you really going to do in the hour and a half it took to make breakfast? Next? We tend to the garden, then later we travel about bucking up logs and felling trees for the coming winter.

#tallship #off_grid #homesteading #Humboldt #wildnerness

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@murena/116754482845945975

# Easy onboarding to the De-googled world

#tallship #FOSS #Privacy #Office_Suite

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Backports

This time for #Hams...

Yup, #Radio_Amateurs, I thought I'd share a little treasure trove with you all, as I figure many may not be aware of just how vast this resource is.

The Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications #DLARC

Their description:

The Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications is a library of materials and collections related to amateur radio and early communications. The DLARC is funded by a significant grant from Amateur Radio Digital Communications, a private foundation, to create a digital library that documents, preserves, and provides open access to the history of this community..

As an added bonus, I've included a huge archive link for thousands upon thousands of manuals for just about any electronic device you can think of, from the Manuals Plus Collection that was rescued when that company went out of business a couple of years back.

- Feel free to boost for the benefit of your fellow Hams and electronics hobbyists 🔩 ⚡ 📻

Enjoy!

#tallship #Ham_Radio #Manuals_Plus_Collection

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Backports

“BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT EXPECTED MR. HERMAN TYPEE OMOO MELVILLE has recently been united in lawful wedlock to a young lady of Boston. The fair forsaken FAYAWAY will doubtless console herself by suing him."
~The Daily Tribune, 07 August 1847

Perhaps not the most complimentary wedding congratulation a newspaper could have bestowed Elizabeth Shaw.

#tallship #literature #adventurers

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@robinhood

Lies, lies, lies - You lie!!!

There's no freaking way that it could be as much fun as the Whiskey a GoGo on the #Sunset_Strip in 1980! Or where you could go for the aftermath gatherings at Danny's Dog's AKA "Oki-Dog's on Pico Blvd, where vomit, and loogie, encrusted punkers gathered about, sharing slightly edible food with other homeless runaways and comparing bragging rights as to whom should win the evening award for the punker that got beat up the worst that night.

I'm sorry, but there's just no way in hades that Threads can compare to the nightly melee of West Hollywood life in the late 70's through the mid-80's.

But nice try. We get the picture. It's a Faceplant (Meta) property that isn't worth allowing into one's #Fediverse streams. Thanks for taking that bullet for the team :) Darby Crash would be proud of you.

#tallship #punk_rock #Whiskey_a_GoGo #Hollywood #Oki_Dogs

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Everybody loves #Bob_Ross 🤘 💀 🤘

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=y3s82WKTIfw&si=ZeCh44FhvKfZXGhe

#tallship #Jack_Black #painting #parody

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Don't trust those "little buddy heaters" and their cousins of having CO2 sensors and low #Oxygen cutoffs that their marketing indicates you can bank your life on.

You can fucking die.

I used a few of these for several years, when I lived completely off-grid, in the mountain wilderness far from the nearest humans.

They're really convenient and quick to heat a small area, or anything close to them, in just a few minutes, and you can pick them up at any Target, Walmart, Big 5, Tractor Supply, Etc., for $40 - $50.

Basically, you warm your environment, sitting on your cot and warming up your feet and toes before turning it off and burrowing into your subarctic bedding. You can leave the pilot going all night so all you need to do is twist and click it on on the morning, but seriously, why bother?

Sharp (and more importantly, observant) girl in the video - although there's no way to be sure, she just may have saved the lives of everyone in that fricken' tent.

https://invidious.fdn.fr/shorts/kaSwF2jru3A?si=u8a0HRKlqPxb_A8T&local=true

#tallship #asphyxiation #camping_safety #CO #Carbon_dioxide

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