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[–] 16 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Hi, I'm Tetris but my friends call me Tee.

I like microcontrollers, 1970s progressive rock, and SciFi not written by Andy Weir. I am a snob, but I am friendly. Would you like some tea?

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Hey Tee! Nice to meet ya.

    What's the beef with Andy Weir? I am a sci-fi fan, but I must admitI don't know anything beyond he wrote the Martian. I got lots of tea for Christmas, it smells so fragrant. What sort do you like the most?

    I wonder if there's a comm for meeting and chatting like this, it's nice.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Hi Deceptichum, greetings likewise!

    He reminds me of a geography teaching tucking his kids into bed; good for film exposition and spoken dialog, but lacking in subtlety or prose. What kind of Sci-fi do you like?

    As for teas, I'm an Oolong in the morning and Roobois in the evening. I do like Christmas teas though, and my ex loved to get an Tea advent calendar to try out new varieties. What's your favourite so far?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    hi, Tetris nice to meet you, I'm recently started playing with esp32 boards, trying out meshtastic/meshcore. I like sci fi and wrote a novel I want to get published.

    when you mean tea, you mean nice famcy tea, or British black tea with milk? Used to love the former, but living a few years in England changed me.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (5 children)

    Hey Albert, nice to meet you too - I hear a lot of buzz about MT/MC but I have to admit I haven't quite found a usecase for it in my projects. What are you using yours for?

    What kind of sci-fi are you into, and what's your novel about?

    I have to admit that british black tea is the only black tea that I truly drink with milk. Something about the tanins makes it mix better, compared to the black teas you get in Germany which do not mix well with milk at all

    What do you miss most food/drink-wise about your homeland?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (4 children)

    I'm trying to set up a local network for my "friend group", we work in local politics and mutual aids, and I want a back up communication channel in case we lose our signal groups (because being against capitalism is legally terrorism).

    my book is about a generation ship in a 400 year old journey. I follow a family line with chapters being short stories about them. as I track an ever changing societies, histories, and cultures... it's deeply personal and full of generational tales.

    i lived in many places, Barcelona, Palestine, England, Scotland, now midwest USA, i do miss Mediterranean food culture, that are so diverse and all superior to whatever I have in Michigan

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    How does it work over long distances though? I thought mesh was more for local communications between devices, and then relays into internet for anything wider. If internet goes down, aren't you limited to your neighbours?

    Your book sounds really interesting -- I've read one or two generation ship themed books, but they always end violently (religious priest overthrows corrupt leader, or population kept naive to the ship and all questions are stifled out, etc)

    By Mediterranean food, you mean like decent salad (lemon, vinegar, olive oil) and bulgur pilaf?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    how does meshtastic work over distance? in theory really good, as all nodes act as a repeater. in practice? not so well, might have to install some nodes around the city. they aren't expensive, but they aren't cheap either.

    by Mediterranean food I mean the food culture of basically every Mediterranean nation. they are all so good. and it's also less focus on a big piece of meat and more on the whole assemble, and generally varied and healthy meals.

    what do you do?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Hmm! I will have to do some tests then. I wonder if it's possible to share dial-up level internet over the radios

    I'm a nobody, I just hack and tinker with whatever interests me. Currently playing with some Kindle/MobileRead stuff, and mainlining some old devices. What about you?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    meshtastic internet!!!

    been thinking about it, it's open source, the "sending messages" is already there it just need to be automated in a browser...

    in theory tcp/ip over lora is possible. and probably not that hard to program.

    only question is if doing something like that would clog up the network.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Deceptichum has you covered on the sci-fi and tea, so I’ll ask about the prog. That sub is one of the few things I still miss from the old site.

    I’m all about ELP, Utopia, Gentle Giant, and Rush. Somehow Yes and Genesis never really hit the spot for me.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I learned so much from that sub, it genuinely was amazing. I'm definitely in the Genesis and Yes camp, along with Harmonium, Camel, Alan Parsons, and however one classifies Blue Oyster's scifi stuff

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Interesting. I think I’ve listened to Camel once it twice before, but never got around to Harmonium or Alan Parsons. It’s been so long since I did any musical exploration though, I’m probably due to branch out a bit. I always go on such a deep dive when I find something I like that I’ll find myself knowing everything about a few bands while still having huge blind spots in the broader picture.

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