Recent content by elvisimprsntr

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    Emergency Power/Storms/Prepping etc

    I've been tinkering with Meshtastic (MT) and Meshcore (MC). So far it's been a bust for me. So far MT has been a huge dissapointment for me. Everyone is using medium-fast in SoFla (which is not the recommended default and deviates from the rest of Florida), which doesn't work for me becase i...
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    Tailscale - Now up to 6 Users

    Positive changes overall https://tailscale.com/blog/pricing-v4 + Unlimited devices, up to 6 users - 3 ACL groups, 50 tagged resources ? 1000 (Temporary) ephemeral resources
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    Air Tags--- but not APPLE.

    Things to consider: 1. Are you willing to pay a subscription or cellular fees? 2. Do you need real time GPS location? 3. Will the dirt bikes be ridden off road and subjected to elements and vibration?
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    TVs require walmart accounts to work now : Louis Rossmann

    Welcome to the dystopian future depicted in the 2006 movie Idiocracy
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    Gasoline-- how much where YOU are??

    I got bad news for you. 91 octane has ethanol in it unless you buy an E0 formulation. Higher ethanol fuels are a scam perpetrated on the consumer to indirectly subsidize the corn “farmer”, which in the US are owned mostly by large corporations. Ethanol based fuels have a lower heating value...
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    EXACTLY 30 Years Later! Jet slams into fire truck at LaGuardia Airport

    March 22, 2026: Landing CRJ900 collides with a firetruck crossing the active runway to tend to another aircraft declaring an emergency after FA's reported oder in the cabin after 2 rejected take-offs. January 29, 2025: UH-60L collides with a CRJ700 near DCA Both incidents occurred while...
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    WTF? FCC orders a ban on the import of all new foreign-made consumer Internet routers

    Foreign hardware manufactured or software developed? Making my decision to switch to pfSense in 2017 looking like a smart move.
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    VPN and Blue Iris

    +1 Self hosted TailScale MESH VPN You only need a single instance running behind your firewall, if you advertise subnet routes. Will traverse any level of NAT, including CGNAT. Price of free tier is exactly right. Clients for every OS on planet earth.
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    The Birth, Life, and Death.... of Radio Shack.

    The good old days where you could buy discrete electronic parts, projects, and caustic chemicals to etch your own circuit board. They used to sell a two pack of contact cleaner spray cans and a rag in a blister pack. Perfect Xmas gift to make dreams come true. Good times.
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    Who still uses Facebook?

    FB is an open cesspool and Zuckerberg lives at the bottom.
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    Access your local RTSP cameras from anywhere - no port forwarding, no VPN

    Likely a drug dealer business model. Kananga’s business plan from Live and Let Die, 1973 Give the product away for free until there is a sufficient number of “users”, then start charging “users” who have become addicted to the product.
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    Ring Cameras Simply Suck - Its catered to a specific population / demographic and its really not funny | New Ring Outdoor Cam Pro

    Ring is designed to extract as much coin as possible out of consumers bank accounts.
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    VPN and multiple cameras at multiple sites

    All of them, apparently.