@peterdrake

Now try sending messages to . That's fun/illegal ;) But if you know Linux and have a high-powered ham station, it's relatively easy if you know what you're doing!

@lucifargundam @peterdrake

The ISS is perfectly legal with a license, which I have used to contact them.

You also do not need high power at all, you can do it with fairly low power.

@freemo @peterdrake

Could have sworn it was illegal to interfere with their comms because of safety reasons pertaining to the timeliness of vital systems information.

@lucifargundam

Their personal comms would be illegal to interfere with, and take place on private channels yes.

But they have public comms on the station that operate 24/7 that are legal to communicate with and are on HAM radio bands.. Talking to the ISS is something quite a few hams do every time it is overhead.

@peterdrake

@peterdrake I've had less trouble printing from Linux than Windows in recent years... Now if you manage to figure out where I can set the printer's default paper size to A4 instead of US letter on a windows 10 machine set to English, that will be impressive! 😜

Of course we are taking about paper printing yes? My 3d printers run Linux onboard, so I'd be worried if they have trouble communicating with other Linux systems 😅

@peterdrake@qoto.org It's amazing how plug and play Linux has become. So far my dad's not complaining about the OS at all when I force-installed Linux Mint on his computer.

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