Ed in Atlanta

@exQUIZitely It made a huge difference! I was addicted to defragging for years.

If you recognize what's happening here, you're part of a generation that also spent endless hours fine-tuning autoexec.bat and config.sys files. And if you're not sure what's going on in the video, I honestly envy your youth.

I feel like with AI anything is possible. As in, I could probably go back to school and actually succeed at it. I feel like I need to do something to try and be ready for when my job is eventually eliminated by it, lol.

@alphafox I was a 14.4k kid, it was an amazing time!

How fast was your first modem? Mine was a 2400 baud Hayes:

Massive shoutout to Lawson callsign W4EMF in Charlotte, NC who is my first ham radio contact using voice mode on the HF bands. He probably won’t see this, but I wanted to give him my respects and mark the occasion.

Is there a movement to end daylight saving time that I can join? It's really catching up to me today. I know I'm not alone.

I asked grok when SSD prices will recover and I think I agree that mid to late 2027 is the soonest we can hope for. I think I can make it unless something breaks, I hope everyone else can do the same and save money. Just don’t buy computers or storage if you can.

Discovered the joys of talking with Chinese people with Google Translate lol. Pretty soon it looks like there will be no language barriers.

Got this new internet/shortwave/am/fm radio and I’m hearing a station from Sao Paolo playing “We are an American Band” which I was not expecting. Loving the radio lately and this Choyong WT2 is my new favorite.

The Meshtastic network in my area is strong, I see around 500 nodes on MediumFast and 100 currently online. I’m also slowly ramping up my one-man node factory here. I’ve made a few already and hope to have one in everyone’s hands soon.

I know outages suck and all that, but shoutout to the IT people at Amazon who undoubtedly had to lose sleep to fix the issues. Mistakes like that could happen to anyone, so I extend my sympathies to them.

I think it's a little weird that so many giant companies that could afford their own hosting still rely on AWS despite the risks of widespread outages like we saw today. I would like to see more IT operations moved back on premise, but maybe that's just me.

I didn’t really notice the AWS outage until seeing that Duolingo is in a “maintenance break” just now

bigging up DJ Marky in Brazil x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

I listened and have been calling on the national calling frequency 146.52Mhz for like two weeks and thought I'd never get a contact or hear anyone, but that changed today, finally, I'm happy to say. Maybe I can consider myself a real ham now, but let's not get carried away!

I know there are more important reasons, but personally I really want the gov't to reopen so that I can apply for the GMRS license and start using radios more. GMRS is like ham radio but you don't have to study for an exam, and one callsign works for your whole family. Seems cool

@DonaldJTrumpJr @worldlibertyfi How is that better than Bitcoin though?

Big day - @WorldLibertyFi just launched the $WLFI token. This isn’t some meme coin, it’s the governance backbone of a real ecosystem changing how money moves. Freedom + finance + America FIRST. Home Team. 🦅

I’ve had my ham radio license for a couple years but decided today would be the day to make my first contact on there. Fun times!

@NicoGoBlue They must be having a problem because I’m seeing the same thing with my epson scanner. Hope they fix it soon but yeah, these cloud connected services are so fragile it seems. Worked fine for years until now.

My next printer won’t be EPSON Great concept, but the connectivity issues are ridiculous & make zero sense. Printed just fine before the ink issue & suddenly I can’t connect to it. Can’t access their site bc the password that my phone automatically saved is now wrong😑

I thought that optical drives would always be a thing but I'm starting to worry I will see the day they become super expensive and niche. I guess I need a plan to migrate everything, crazy to think about.