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@rock
Joined Dec 2025

We have choices. Some people like to stand in the rain without an umbrella. That's what it means to live free.

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May 19, 20261873 words 1 saves 2 comments

WARNING EXPLICIT LANGUAGE

Good evening tooters, computers and especially Rolly! (if you know know)

It is once again that time once again where I ramble about ham radio yes, yes I know.

Just like a dodgy fire alarm at 3am I will not stop.

So enough of the whimsical volley of pretexts for this entry!

Since my last post I have tunneled deep into the foxhole that is the war of technology (insert C joke here about blowing your leg off). The following week after the previous post, I hunted some more...

May 8, 20261086 words 3 saves 5 comments

CQ COTA CQ COTA, calling cyberspace on air This is STEAMY calling cyberspace!

Thank you reader for receiving my call you are a 5-9 here from my desktop computer :P.

So i have once again logged into cyberspace to talk about my newest addiction hobby Ham radio.

And since my previous post which may or may not have been pretty close to a month ago, ALOT has happened! First and most importantly last month I talked with a fine gentle man, he urged me to go for my generals license. After the meeting I...

Mar 16, 2026842 words 9 comments

I have just voided my warranty for my ham radio HAZZA!
So for about a month me and a close bud were looking at what HAM radio to buy.
We were mostly looking at handhelds as later this year we plan to explore some local national parks and the HAM radio would come in handy!
So after many hours on the ball busting machine (the internet)
a big thing is baofang, well heres my hot take.
Everybody i see talk about it is paid or says the words "best starter radio"
And heres the thing it is a good...

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CyberOS v2.5 (tty1) 
Copyright (c) 1987-2026 Unremarkable Garden.  All rights reserved.

probing machine ...
hostname    : localhost
kernel      : CyberOS 2.5
os          : unix
arch        : ?
locale      : en-US.UTF-8
timezone    : ?

BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Memory test : unknown OK
Memory size : ? GB reported by userland
CPU0        : ? cpu (?)
smpboot     : ? threads online
GPU0        : ?
display0    : ? @?x ?-bit
storage     : unknown quota
network     : unknown

[ OK ] probe cpufreq driver
[ OK ] init pcie root complex
[ OK ] detect input: hid0 keyboard, hid1 mouse
[ OK ] rtc wake 
[ OK ] seed csprng from crypto.getRandomValues()

fsck: opfs clean, indexeddb clean, localstorage clean
Mounting opfs on /          ................. ok
Mounting idb  on /var/cache ................. ok
Mounting tmpfs on /var/run  ................. ok

Loading kernel modules:
  firestore.ko    
  tty_vt320.ko    
  pinia.ko        
  vuefire.ko      
  heic2any.ko      (deferred)
  three.ko         (deferred)
  mespeak.ko       (deferred)

[ OK ] spawn init (pid 1)
[ OK ] starting systemd --user
[ OK ] starting udev
[ OK ] starting syslog-ng
[ OK ] reached target local-fs.target
[ OK ] resolved cyberspace.online
[ OK ] tls handshake TLSv1.3 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM
[ OK ] bind realtime socket
[ OK ] firebase auth channel ready
[ OK ] reached target network-online.target
[ OK ] reached target multi-user.target
[ OK ] reached target graphical.target

[ .. ] starting userland 
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