RomeoTBravo @RomeoTBravo@qoto.org

@freemo
Now that's a true RF designer! None of this simulation nonsense.

@freemo
Do you model your stuff at all or just go straight to prototype? If you model it, what do you use?

Woohoo! I was sad because I didn't make the cut for my own instance's profile directory. You have to have 10 followers. I had 7.

I scoured the list of people @SecondJon follows, followed a bunch of them and got a few follows back. Now I'm on the directory!

Thanks to @SecondJon for the list of fascinating folks to follow. Thanks to those who followed back.

And pardon the laziness that has me doing anything to get followers except ... well ... you know ... actually posting something interesting. ;)

Who knew measuring grip strength could be so depressing?

Short version: grip strength is a reliable, if somewhat quirky, measurement of well-being. In one generation it has decreased measurably.

End of civilization? Or civilization destroying humanity?

Surely not that bad, but fun article: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/raising-the-american-weakling

(Ignore the click-bait title. It's unworthy of the article.)

@hasmis I think it means somebody clicked the star on the bottom of a toot. The toot is the "status."

Best I can tell, you learn someone liked what you said when they click favorite. And you can go back and look up what you've clicked favorite on?

Still new to all this myself.

@psi If CLI is your thing, you might consider Taskwarrior, https://taskwarrior.org/.

"The absence of limitations is the enemy of art." That's how I justify refurbishing my little netbook running Xubuntu when I have at least three other faster systems with more resources.

Replaced the HDD with SSD. Upgraded from 1 GB to the maximum 2 GB RAM. (Woohoo!) New battery on the way.

I should be so much more creative now. Who needs a Core i7 and NVIDIA graphics when you've got a screaming Atom processor from 5 years ago?

@freemo I didn't understand your attachment to fountain pens. Then I encountered "how the ballpoint pen killed cursive" -- along with comparisons to fountain pens.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-the-ballpoint-pen-killed-cursive-1025018394

"A lifetime writing with the ballpoint and minor variations on the concept (gel pens, rollerballs) left me unprepared for how completely different a fountain pen would feel."

@lucidiot@tiny.tilde.website Don't rule out the command line browser lynx (or one of its cousins) as a way to view Python docs; they are quite readable that way.

Old joke that @peterdrake reminded me of with his riff on "That's Amore":

Linguistics Prof: "In some languages a double negative is a positive. In others it only indicates emphasis. But in no language is a double positive a negative."

Smart aleck in the back row: "Yeah, right."