The keybindings in Gnome never made sense to me. I’ve got decades worth of muscle memory moving windows around, minimizing them and such, and my experience with Gnome was it was made specifically to frustrate that workflow. The app drawer thing, first of all was always two clicks away not one, and wouldn’t automatically sort by category like most Linux app menus will.

I’m on KDE right now, I’d prefer to be on Mint Cinnamon, but it didn’t really play well with my monitor setup and Wayland wasn’t well implemented in Cinnamon yet, so I’m on Fedora KDE. KDE has a problem where, well…

The clock widget and the temperature widget. No matter what, I can’t get them to match each other. Something something different authors, they offer customization, but not in a way that can get them to match font sizes or spacings. The entire goddamn OS is like that. You can get it to do anything you want, but expect an 80 grit polish.

I remember seeing a very MacOS like demonstration of Gnome. Someone had themed a Gnome desktop with a kind of sunset in the forest kind of feel, and they were opening menus and launching Nautilus and such like that, and it looked absolutely amazing.

I don’t know how anyone lives with it. I’ve got Fedora Gnome on a tablet that I use basically to have FreeCAD and power tool manual PDFs in my wood shop, and at some point I’m going to try something else. “Opinionated” is the gentle way to put it.

I’ve got Gnome installed on a tablet PC. It’s not good there, either.

Encryption is not allowed on ham radio, with the exception of control commands for, like, satellites. Yes, there are amateur radio satellites in orbit. All 2-way communiques must be in the clear.

Ham radio gear can be very expensive, or, I think I could get you on the air for about what you’d spend on meshtastic gear, being realistic.

You look at Meshtastic and go “Oh boy, a node cost $15, let’s go” But, that’s for a basic board like a Heltec V3. That doesn’t include a battery, it includes a crap little wirewound antenna, it doesn’t count an enclosure. Those ready made nodes like a T-Echo cost more than that, and if you want to put up an outdoor solar powered weatherproofed node up somewhere, $100 is going to be the floor. For an extremely low bandwidth 0.1 watt UHF radio.

Meanwhile, you can get a Baofeng UV-5R for around $30 and you’ve got a 5 watt 2m/70cm FM handheld that’ll work with the majority of existing repeaters. There’s one 2m repeater 1,000 feet up an antenna tower a bit south of Raleigh that can be heard by half the state.

Buy at least two nodes, get bored talking to yourself, regret the $50 purchase and then get your ham license.

I just founded a new religion called Assholeology and six people joined. We grew 600% in the last 90 seconds, we’re the fastest growing religion on the planet. Statistics is the science of applied dishonesty.

Meshtastic I think got here first and has an install base, but it’s fuckawful software. There’s not a single feature that isn’t more than half-implemented.

Plus…where I live, I don’t get any kind of practical range out of 900Mhz. The fourth circle of hell is opaque to UHF so I can’t reach outside my own neighborhood. I can hear clean to Limbo on 2 meters though.

Finding gravestones with recipes on them must be the hard part. Most gravestones are like

Plutis McGillicutty

1892-1939

“I told you I was sick.”