Even in the concrete jungle that is LA, a 7mi jog to Elysian from DTLA was awesome. What a gem. Traffic is not the only thing that surprises me about the City of Angels.
“Going to the mountains is going home.”
Francis · Eighties child
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musings What’s paying for this war? Your healthcare subsidies they took away. Who pays for for the deaths, destruction, global chaos? The taxpayers. Who holds them accountable? We do. Vote. It matters.
22h ago →
code Meshtastic to increase location privacy on the primary channel also has the side effect that the “precise” is 15 where 32 is really really precise. It makes sense as most users sit in the public channel but be aware if your primary channel is not public, you have to go changing some settings on your own to get the fidelity you want. Also respectfully, they limit the public firmware to not broadcast beyond an hour to reduce mesh congestion. Even if you’re on your on primary channel, remember you share that frequency slot so don’t spam the air. Also it’s incredibly annoying to figure out if a node has a GPS fix. Writing a script to read that out was game changing.
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outdoors Yesterday spent the day rappelling. Rapping on a 7.5mm is spicey, mostly because my ogre hands can’t get a firm grip on the brake strand. Added friction and a third hand VT was nice. VT prusiks can bind on a twin 11mm rope. The rope needs to be tended and the number of wraps matter. The VT under heavy load will want to spiral the twins so you have to keep the strands parallel. Luckily unlike a normal prusik it can easily be redone but transferring the load needs to be puzzled out. Also setting the VT higher will help when passing the knot on descent. I had set it too close so the space between the VT and the knot once it’s passed wasn’t sufficient. Would I ever rap a twin 11? Probably not but the goal was to experiment and learn
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