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Mastodon is the kind of place where if I made a shitpost like:

You can tell the difference between leaded and lead-free solder by tasting it

So many of you would get mad as hell and probably report me and even consider making a fediblock post, but you wouldn’t do the sensible thing and quote tweet it because you’re too cowardly to have that kind of callout culture

(Feel free to quote tweet this!)

RE: @stefan@stefanbohacek.online

Sagan's writing about this always brings me to tears https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot#Reflections

Because it's distinct from a lot of the domineering "you are small" messages in this (and some other societies) –rather, it's that the entirety of human existence is small, but it matters, cooperation is the greatest thing you could do.

Talking with folks at the local hackerspace about my ham radio experience has me thinking about 10.368 GHz equipment again. There's a lot more commercially available now, but there's also a lot less random telco surplus

Because building, testing, and adjusting stuff would be half of my enjoyment, I wonder about doing this from scratch. How bad is it to get prototype quantity PCBs made in the suitable substrates (i.e. not FR4, stuff like the Rogers products) these days?

Also not sure what's currently available in interesting semiconductors after all the weird shortages we've had and increasing tendency to only have very purpose-built RF stuff outside of expensive military parts

(I do have ... a good portion of the hard to obtain test equipment, though I do not have access to wire-bonders)

Retoot welcome