FTFY:

Anybody have any experience using mesh radios for communication while hiking?

The closest node for either one is 60 miles away, so I’m not really tied to either, but am interested in picking some up for communication out in the field while out of cell range.

I have some tech/electronics experience, and plan on making some solar powered relay nodes eventually so I can slap them on a tree or tall pole, but for now I have nothing.

Recent politically motivated events in my country, as well as weather, have made my decision to have a secondary form of communicating with my wife pretty easy, and I’d like it to be something relatively small I can pack into a bag or pocket, that’s easy for my non-techy partner to use.

I always deadpan people who say that, make my index/middle fingers to form a V shape, then force the corners of my mouth up.

You want a smile? Go find someone who’s happy. You want service? Don’t tell me what to do and I’m willing to try and help.

It usually got a chuckle, but sometimes the person would get uncomfortable and leave like they think I’m about to stab them or something.

Or I tell them my grandmother died.

Hey now we can both be uncomfortable and wishing you hadn’t said anything!

I wonder how difficult it would be to make a heating system directly powered by solar panels. It doesn’t have to be enough heat to make a person comfortable in a t-shirt, but just enough to allow normal battery operation.

I’m sure that depends on a lot of factors like shed insulation/wall facing direction, etc, and burying the battery bank would probably be more effective.

to find an expanded & bloated lithium ion battery pack

Intrusive thoughts: “go on, poke it with a knife. See what happens firsthand”

As usual, the opponent of recycling things is simply “it’s too expensive”

The ultimate failing of the future, as always, is current reliance on capitalism.

Why recycle when you make more money by blowing up the planet and ripping out the good stuff?

It’s actually very hard to launch dome thing near the sun, let alone into the sun.

Far better for the planet to just bury them in soft peat for 3 months and recycle them as firelighters.

Well here in the US we’ve been speedrunning Germany in the 1930s, so it tracks that the places we fuck up and try to control would also be speedrunning their own thing.

Relevant

Feathered dinos are cool as shit.

Me, living next to a corn field: “ah goddamn it, not again…” reaches for mouse trap bucket

Not one jetbike flying around strafing people…

From Ohio, and to me sleet is several things

Wet snow/rain mix

Tiny frozen spheres that aren’t big enough to be called hail

Snow/tiny hail mix

Any combination of the three, really.

Mostly it boils down to “not snow or rain or hail”, and “wintry mix” is something I never heard until adulthood.

His handlers planned for that, the second he tries to pull the trigger, explosives detonate the whole room. Doesn’t even need to take the safety off, since he’d likely fuck that up. He just has to hold it right and… Oh… Oh no…

Honestly given how long it’s been standing (lmao thanks Canada, come over for another BBQ some time pls) and given some of the administrations, I’m certain there are secret things that nobody alive remembers.

This will certainly be the dumbest one where the most child rapists seek shelter.

It’s a scene from Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones.

Here we see the characters Anakin Skywalker (left) and Padme Amidala (right) sitting in a field while on the planet of Naboo, Amidala’s home planet. Anakin is poorly hitting on her like the awkward teenager he is.

However, instead of referencing sexual fluids, he is speaking in reference to the overall system of governance that the Republic has become.

I am not trying to be condescending so please don’t take my extended explanation as such, I just assume you have no idea what any of it is since you asked a question that would be answered if you had seen and remembered the movie at some point.

No, it’s literally “these are OURS and you CAN’T HAVE THEM”

Never let “perfect” stand in the way of “good”

It’s a start, not a magical transporter to the finish line.

When my wife and I were living in a basement, I made a fake window out of an old TV I had. High CRI led strips, a lace curtain, and some leveling later and we had a nice light source that made it feel less depressing in our room.

We aren’t in a basement anymore, but in winter I put the fake window in the real window around 430ish. It helps with seasonal depression a bit, but I miss actual sunlight every year. Especially now that I have a job that has me inside, away from windows, from before sunrise to after sunset.

As I like to say, “you can always put more clothes on. You can only take so much off before the cops show up.”