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Sarah
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 32m
It can’t really do electronic schematics either. Though it can kind of understand them, which is interesting, but its accuracy isn’t very high, which is unsurprising.
Terrible ChatGPT generated schematic diagram of a transistor amplifier.
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 12h
OMG KITTY!
Great, now I have to build my Fallout 76 camp just to house my cat. (Picture is a cat you can buy for 800 atoms).
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 15h
Yep, I had a IIci that disappeared into that same valley.
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 16h
I can't remember if I ever used that one. I currently have THREE 660av's, though. One of which definitely works. I never used the 660av in its heyday, though, because we had an 840av at the office. Good times.
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 17h
Did I miss some posts? I don't remember any back story to this. Why would they do this? I mean... you're awesome! 🥳 How could they possibly not want you as a member?

I understand if you can't really say, though. 🤫
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 22h
Yeah, the "personal computer" revolution is dead. You get a desktop/laptop/handheld mainframe, but you don't generally get to make decisions about it.

Linux: cabal of nerds.

Apple: oligarchs who sort of care about privacy.

Windows: oligarchs who hate privacy AND end users.
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 1d
Yep! 😀

She's only gone in there once. 😐
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 1d
Copper tape applied to the big pieces.

Shorter end pieces need to have their tape trimmed to just the right length. Center piece will need a lot of trimming. So we’ll save that for a day when I feel better and have more energy.
Antenna sections from earlier photo but now covered with 5cm wide copper tape.
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 1d
Wow, what a place of honor! Highly esteemed deeds must be commemorated here! And there are probably valuables...
Federal Disposal Field HZ-21 from the videogame Fallout 76
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 1d
Possibly because supplying the power is now a bigger problem than supplying the compute?
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 3d
Hub piece on the printer now.
Slicing preview for the feedpoint/center hub of my cross dipole antenna.
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 3d
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 3d
Next antenna project in progress. Cat approved. I think she feels it will be a big plus.

Needs to be finished by Friday for next attempt at receiving the pictures from the ISS.
Cat standing next to a 12-piece 3D printed frame for a cross dipole antenna for the 2 meter band.
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 3d
The tank wasn’t that color until I installed that particular flush handle, which I suspect was supposed to be galvanized or something.

Flush handle snapped off in the first days of Covid. We weren’t getting maintenance so I had to replace it myself. Didn’t look in there again until this problem!
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 3d
It’s kind of amazing to me how I let a teeny tiny little ball chain spiral into some kind of existential crisis for me. Once I was driven to tears by the whole muddled mess, I was finally able to act… and fixed the thing in about 20 minutes.
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 3d
The toilet flushes again. 🥳

That was a long N months.

No I will not tell you the approximate value of N.

Yes the management company would have fixed it for free if I had called them. After N months I concluded it was easier to fix it myself than to call them.

Long story. 🫠
Parts to fix the toilet: new toilet tank handle, ball chain with connectors to fix/splice the broken bit of chain that keeps the toilet from flushing properly. Inside of toilet that won’t flush, because the tiny little ball chain that controls the green voodoo in the upper left broke. Green voodoo requires an extra little tug from that chain to reset the safety mechanism that allows the tank to refill without allowing it to overflow. (This was a third party dealie added by the management which is why it’s green voodoo and not some quasi normal tank valve). Also the flush arm is super corroded because I had to replace it on an emergency basis during early Covid and failed to consider the long term metallurgical consequences of the poor quality of the replacement. New plastic flush arm installed. Ball chain spliced. Now flushes like a normal toilet again! Special guest appearance by book light with clip that fits the side of the tank just perfectly. Aftermath. Pliers for the handle, tweezers for fishing the ball chain out of its little groove. This job required two different strengths of reading glasses! 😆👵
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 4d
Actual artwork created by actual human!

Ok, more of a sketch.

… ok, ok, I sketched it so I could show ChatGPT my idea. Got 👍 from the bot. I’ll let you know if it REALLY works out or not.

Might take two days to print all the pieces though. Don’t wait up! 😆
It uh, looks like the beginnings of a giant plus sign, sketched in pencil.
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 4d
Navy brat, same. Duty stations all around the pacific rim, plus watching Sesame Street until I was like 13 years old because that was the first show on tv when AFRTS came on the air in the afternoon.
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 4d
🫂🫂🫂
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 5d
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 5d
This is our pre bedtime “sit down for a bit” time.
Cat.
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 5d
🫂🫂🫂
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 5d
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 5d
Chinese phone spam says I need to eat.

Well, it is almost dinner time. 🤷‍♀️
“Zero for Chinese service please press three You need to eat told you told you sent You got a call. I took a message for you. You missed important information three times...”
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Sarah @sarahftduration.bsky.social · 5d
"Sometimes correct" is correct often enough to be useful, but not often enough to leave me in an exhausted and frustrated rage some evenings. 😆

Most of this was 1. brainstorming, 2. setting up for SSTV (success-ish), 3. Python script for decoding radioids (success because I wrote it myself... 😘)
If you can't read the text in the image, I promise, you're really not missing much. Just me arguing with ChatGPT about various ham radio topics.
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