Imma have to do some research into how to build a viable mountain solar node, then. It’ll only be physically accessible during summer and in nice weather. Maybe I can hack together something that updates the firmware via USB once a month or something - sounds like an interesting challenge doable with digikey supplies I already have.

Dumping live serial is fine. In fact, I think that might be easiest since I’ll be dumping NMEA strings for positioning at the same time. Should make it easier to parse and map later on.

There are a couple of mapped ones “nearby”. Two hours drive, and a couple of mountain ranges in between. I should be able to reach them with a mountaintop repeater or two. I’ll see what else is nearby (if anything) and plan from there, once my pocket unit arrives.

How easy is it to wire in a pocket node to a laptop for datalogging? While the form factor isn’t much of an issue (I intend to print my own case), I was wondering what sort of I/O protocol (if any) these devices usually support.

I do a lot of hobby electronics, so building a repeater more or less from scratch is the plan, yes.

I still think the car setup is needed, at least temporarily until I’ve found some potential neighbors that I can reach with a repeater. I very much doubt I’ll be able to reach anyone without them, as I live here:

…gotta get over those mountains. And that picture was taken from one of the few locations reachable by car, and I’m willing to bet better positions can be reached by foot. But NFW I’m hiking all the way up there just to test - I wanna map out other nodes in the region first.

EDIT: Unless needed later, the car setup might be repurposed as a rooftop repeater so I can reach a summit repeater from my pocket node.

I never understood the pearl clutching around bathrooms. I mean, there are no armed guards, cisgendered people could just walk into the wrong one now if they so pleased?

Same name in Norwegian. No idea who voiced it.

In this day and age, shouldn’t Huntarr be replaced by Gatherarr? You know, sustainability and all…

Got back from the movies about an hour ago. I liked it (and my kids loved it).

7/10. Not among the Pixar greats, but it’s worth a watch.

Yup. As a state certified bygdetulling I live in the middle of bumfuck, and I could in theory get by with an EV, but it’d be pretty impractical when I need to wheel down to Oslo on short notice (which happens pretty frequently). So I went for a PHEV instead. 7h drive, and I prefer that over a 50min flight. I drive on electric power only when local, and I can run fueled for whenever I need to go longer.

“Subparest” when you wanna sound fancy

Small yes, but the population density is in fact quite low.

Source: #222 according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_density

We simply don’t have a lot of flat terrain to build on. The Danes call us mountainmonkeys for a reason.

Most high end lounges have somewhere you can nap, at least. I have this one airport I usually have a few hours before my final 50min flight to get home, and I always spend those hours in a lounge so I can get a nice shower and somewhere quiet.

Norwegian here: EV tax rebates and subsidies. In effect, EVs were a lot cheaper than fossil cars, and the public charging infrastructure has expanded to the point where it’s practical for most people to rely on an EV.

Those tax rebates and subsidies expired this new year, so I’m curious to see if the EV sales dominance will remain.

Worser*

Yeah, whoever is posting this pro violence content should get punched in the face

It’s real. They don’t look as NSFW as one would expect, so it’s a reasonable safe image search

Nfi about horses, as I was talking about cows. And in the case of cows: you see, when a daddy cow and a mommy cow loves each other very much are in heat and are let into the same field, they kiss each other in a very special way that involves the opposite end to where the mouth is.

Source: I grew up on a cattle/dairy farm.

And yes they do, but the vet only assists with complicated births, whereas a routine one doesn’t require an arm up the ass.

Farmers don’t. Vets do.

Source: grew up on a dairy/cattle farm