SaraMG @saramg@mastodon.technology

TFW you've been swearing at an antenna that won't tune for two days, and just when you think it's halfway decent, you try to ping the local repeater with no response.

You pack everything up and vow to look later. Just as you're done, you realize you manually keyed in the freq instead of using the memory channel, and of course there was no CTCSS tone set.

Sigh...

Wow. Mobilinkd + aprsfi works /really/ smoothly.
I'm not sure amateur radio kit deserves to be this slick.

I did LOVE ❤️ Captain America's big scene. Where he's on the ground, Thanos just pounding his ass hard, his shield broken, alone. He gets back up. He's that skinny kid facing down a bigger, stronger enemy, who can't win; because that's what you do with bullies. You don't run away, because you'll be running for the rest of your life. Really well realized character arc.

@saramg Also, the infinity gauntlet. It took 300 dwarves using space magic to build the infinity gauntlet, but Tony Stark built it into a one-size-fits-all powerglove in his workshed during off-camera time.

And by the way. Time travel. Sorry, you don't need to recover all six stones at once with a limited supply of pim particle. You put all your effort into the time gem, then you use it to get the rest. Same for returning the gems. So much nerd rage at that gaping plot hole.

@saramg Conversely, I had no trouble believing past-Gamora could join with future Nebula, but I don't think they tried to sell it in a way that stood alone in this movie at all. You had to have seen GotG 2 and Infinity War to understand Gamora's past in that way.

The mirror of Peter watching Tony die was... well intentioned, but something felt missing. We're meant to believe Peter sees Tony as a father figure, but I never bought that. Tony certainly saw Peter as a son, but... it didn't let me hold on to the emotion from the fight.

@saramg I do think they botched both Thor and Banner/Hulk (Bulk?), however. Thor never processes his grief at all and completely fails to grow as a character. Bulk is funny for a minute, but he doesn't actually represent the balance they seemed to have been going for. He's just a big green version of Banner. He should have retained more of Hulk's rage, softened, but still rage. Instead we get a greener, less hairy Beast.

No idea where to start, but the big conflict went exactly the way it needed to go. Such perfect climax, many wow.

And the line-up of heroines... my heart skipped several beats.

Bringing back Gamora (but not entirely) while at the same time losing the other two, and not getting vision back. It's an impactful ending that's not a meaningless perfect happy story, it's a messy organic costly victory. What a great way to close off phase 3.

Just discovered the Mobilinkd TNC3. Basically an open source (hardware and software) portable universal TNC with BLE.
Shut up and take my money.

TFW you realize that "OH SHIT" has a very clean CW shape.

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TFW the solder just won't take and you question your life choices.

Always amazes me what a difference a real antenna makes.

Old rubber duck (disconnected on left) on my SharkRF OpenSpot got me basically just within the house.

New DIY dipole (connected) gets me to the end of the block, and I haven't even moved it to a better location yet. #hamRadio

It's that kind of morning...

RT myself from the birdsite cause I'm actually kinda pleased with the simple elegance of this.
https://twitter.com/saramg/status/1097602303517958144

Dude. Everything about this.
If they're assaulting external researchers in public, then God only knows what's happened to the engineers who built the platform.
https://www.secjuice.com/security-researcher-assaulted-ice-atrient/

FCC is gonna open back up (temporarily at least) on Monday. Good news for the new hams waiting on their calls!

Sorry Firefox on OSX, I tried really hard to like you, but I can't get my work done if you're going to constantly be stalling my entire system with your CPU hogging nonsense. Love always, but I gotta go back to Chrome.

More unfocused outrage on the bird site...
Hiding here awhile. Please don't let them find us.