Assuming you're just receiving, why not get an RTL-SDR? :-D

Is the UV-5G mini ok? Or should I cancel my order and get the UV-5R?

A lot of the old ICOM and Yaesu radios were easy to open up for full range function. My multiband ICOM HT only required desoldering one resistor. After that could broadcast on 2M and 440, GRMS, police/fire/emergency bands, and even the comm system radios my employer used. Haven't kept up, but today's radios are probably just as easy to unlock.

My dad got 2 of those and i tried to do cool things with it but in the end, all i was able to do was load in a list of specific frequencies around us and scan around until it connects to something. It wasn't particularly interesting stuff either XD

now you are making me angry at my little brother. he moved, voluntarily, from a good QoL area to a moderate QoL area. Easiest measure to judge by, the average life expectancy for the towns he lived in, he went from 89 to 85. He did that over politics, not money. Little dipshit.

Back when I spent the night at a Swedish airport I spent most of the morning shooting the shit with a lady coming back home from some tropical place. She'd previously worked in a government position, and after clearing up some gender confusion, she told me that before 1990 the final digits in our personal identity numbers used to correspond to where you were born as well as your gender. Nowadays it's just your gender.

Our "person numbers" are essentially your date of birth combined with 4 digits, YYYYMMDD-XXXX.

Thus if you've a PID looking like 19890221-0271, you can infer that the person is a man born in Stockholm on the 21st of February 1989. This isn't a valid PID however, as it doesn't pass the Luhn algorithm.

Minor segue; trans people can and do get their PID changed to reflect them being man/woman rather than the gender assigned at birth. Non-binary people are unfortunately not represented.

Back in 1990 they changed the "place of birth" bits of the PID and is now assigned randomly. Up until then there were also a range of digits assigned if you were born outside of Sweden and had emigrated. Perhaps in the future they'll do away with the gendering and just have the numbers assigned randomly.

Or they might not.

Elaborate on the life expectancy thing, please?

Or lockpicks. Legality is... varying, from fully legal to possession is a crime.

"boring answer" = "interesting answer" under a cisvergent lense.

They're not illegal in themselves. They're perfectly legal to own but they can be used for illegal things.

McGuyver found.

Maybe autistic people should be leaders then.

Yes. But Im more interested in daily use rather than fixing it. Im obsessed with vacuum cleaners since 2020 or smth (or the peak year of my vacuum cleaner autism), I used to be scared of em before for sensory reasons.

Agreed. I can't wait for the super line theyre supposed to be building where I live!

Whaaaat are you serious? :O

The only things the image is wrong about is being a railway buff and operating a radio station, although I've been looking into setting up a meshtastic network for my group of friends.

So maybe I'm not autistic as I do not fit the exact description? I do collect loads of stuff I don't use, can't get rid of anything, go crazy on perfect cable management, am more interested in collecting tools and make a perfect work station than actually use it, failed school even though I'm not lacking intelligence, I got diagnosed 10 years ago, I struggle with social situations, I don't get people their sarcasm and people don't get mine, I'm a perfectionist, I remember useless facts about everything but I forget anything useful, I dislike the taste of mushrooms because of it's structure, I edited this text 4 6 times already because I came up with more stuff after I was finished and can't stand it being incomplete, I'm going to think about what else I missed for the rest of the day so I can't do anything else anymore but I will be too tired to come back and change the text even more, ....

So I don't know. Can't say for certain.

This is very cool, are know of any sublemmings for this?