LordCrom

joined 2 years ago
 
[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

In s Florida, my tomatoes are barely holding on with 2 to 3 waterings per day under a screen shade. The heat and sun are just roasting my plants. The tomato leaves look like this before they get watered.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

In Florida, power companies love solar, so long as it's them using it and selling it to you. If I put solar on my house, FPL successfully lobbied for a law stating I need a million dollar insurance policy payable to FPL for any accidents AND home insurance can deny hurricane coverage if there are roof panels on my house.

Fuck everybody and everything in this greedy ass state

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought In New Zealand you are allowed to walk into an airport with a spear for ceremonial welcomes.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those pictures are amazing.

Do you run into trouble with permits and Inspections because that type of skilled work can't be very common. Or is it?

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Did they leave the beacon on again, which just happens to be cross shaped?

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Complaints from those held there include lack of air conditioning...it was 96 in the shade today in south Florida, huge mosquitos...people from the North don't understand how big mosquitoes can get in the swamp, plus it's been raining so add in 100% humidity on top of everything else.

It's a terrible place to be held

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Hey oooooooooo

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Why not just trade the fancy vessel for a less fancy but functional vessel. I'm sure the queen could afford it.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

I'm from here.....and noting that everything is covered in lizards is honestly something I never noticed or paid attention to ...it's just normal for me. What an interesting little piece of anthropology for me to absorb from a random Lemmy quote.

And yes, there are 3 house lizards on my window right now as I type this.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

That area in big cypress preserve is a Dark Sky location, the last in Florida. Now it's lit up like Las Vegas.

The people there will suffer heat, humidity, overcrowding in those bunk bed lined cages...it's terrible.

At least we know the 1st hurricane through here will blow it away.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Mosquitos.

Fuck them. But without them most ecosystems would fail

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Back in the early 90s I would walk into a store, buy a game that came in a box with a manual, take it home and it was mine.

I bought the 1st Civilization like this. I still have it. No Internet needed.

That's the way it should be. All the online, dlc, mini boxes, group play, create online accounts.....fuck all that shit.

 

Was able to pick enough for my dinner tonight.

 

The 1st flower wilted away....see it there in the left. The 2nd flower appeared and is much bigger and healthier. Waiting to see if I get any fruit here.

 

I have multiple eggplants in pots inside my screens. They are all flowering, but none are producing actual eggplants. Am I missing something?

 

It's been about 2 weeks since I took the 1st image I posted. This is today. The flower is looking kind of sad. Does this look normal? Does anyone know how to tell if it will fruit up by looking ?

 
 
 

So I got my proof of concept completed.
I took a simple USB RTL sdr with a ham it up all working through sdrsharp. I had a wideband directional antenna in my closet and hooked it up with a makeshift dovetail mount to the body of our 14" Meade lx200.

I went for Jupiter. Centered it on the Meade... Quickly discovered that I would need some sort of adjustment screws for the antenna.... But alignment aside, if I searched the general area I found a weak signal in 24 to 25 mhz. Move away and the strength would fall off, back on the planet and the signal would increase slightly.

Tells me my test works.

Now the trick. I will need a better antenna and I want opinions.

It has to be directional

It has to be lightweight, 2 pounds or less

Somehow I need to make fine adjustments to its direction at the base where it can mount to the scope. More of a mounting question than an antenna question.

Satellite dishes won't work because of space on and around the scope.

We are a non profit, so can't break the bank.

I'm open to any opinions.

 

Yep, as the director of a small observatory, I'm adding an antenna and a display of sdrsharp to hopefully show off radio emissions from our popular targets for public outreach. I'm sure most visitors won't care, but I hope to snag that 1 kid and feed his/her curiosity.

 

I was considering creating an open source project for an application that could send emails to your senators or reps on a schedule without having to manually enter info on those we forms everyone is using.

Web scraping and auto fill info kind of app.

Is this something that folks might want?

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