Helix 🧬

Yeah, I have a QL-570 and it works fine.

I paid $460 USD for mine, shortly before the import tariffs were implemented.

It’s 610€ for me. Isn’t this thing coming from China? Why is it so expensive in the EU? 🤔

I’m not a capitalist, I don’t care about outages. I can live with Facebook being down for a few days, or my bank not accepting transfers for a day or so. Then again, I grew up with the internet in the 90s and prioritise good software and tools over availability, I guess?

Obviously at my job I have to do what my employer thinks. But if nobody cared I’d definitely do our Gitlab upgrades once a week once they’re out and not in some weird “maintenance window” mandated by SLAs and stakeholders.

most trouble is probably caused in the first few days. Doesn’t matter if it’s 45 or 90 days, it would have to be a few hours to be meaningfully short. Given that automating things like this is annoying sometimes, you’ll be sure people will max out the 45 days…

I’m pretty sure it’s the SSL seller lobby just wanting more money, tbh. Selling snake oil security.

Could you please elaborate or link to further information?

So you think techaro paid them?

There are also ham-adjacent projects like Meshtastic that I’m not as familiar with.

Why don’t you buy a node and try it out?

Why don’t you simply build your own network aswell? https://dn42.net/

Packet radio has such a low bandwidth usually. You should get more out of directional Wi-Fi, as in 60GHz point to point connections. One downside: if it rains you’re out of luck. You’d better run cables ;)

This person fucks! 😅

If they like Windows 11 I’d distance myself and watch my back while I’m doing it. Windows 10 was OK, 7 was great, 8 was at least not completely shit but the vibe coded mess of 11 can only appeal to serial killers or Hellraisers.