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Pick an RTL that does the ranges you are interested in and I doubt you can go wrong. The rtlblog v4 is recommended but hard to get ahold of now. They receive only but actually work quite well when paired with correct antenna.

HackRF is not as good at listening -- a bit deaf -- but does provide much larger bandwidth and obviously the low powered half duplex tx ability.

If you just want to grab random signals around and explore, get a cheap RTL.

If you really want to go back and fourth with a device, to modify data packets etc get a hackRF.

If you want to push beyond those limitations, you'll probably already know what you're shopping for next at that point.

Beware, you'll end up acquiring many different radio devices and then likely start building antennas out of scrap, buying a nanovna, and falling deeper and deeper into the magical rabbit hole!

I phrase this to my kids in a different way, but same exact sentiment: The only limit these days is a modest amount of resources and the ideas in your head.

ie. Feature film? Sure. Music album, sure. Your own electronics project designed at the kitchen table, ordered from china, housings printed on the 3d printer -- all from the table.

It is an absolutely astoundingly low bar of entry these days to almost anything you'd like to create or build.

Reduced to a bar code; It makes sense now.

I grew up "doing computers" and skateboarding. Looking back, the similarities are endless in all the ways you mention above.

Both formed ones ways of thinking when viewing the world.

I have these both installed as 'extensions' on my homeassistant.vm and it works wonderfully. Any device that is on my local network, ads blocked. If I want to access my home network and/or block ads when mobile, tailscale gets connected, ads blocked. highest of recommendation, I agree.

I'm just working on my first app (thanks to AI...) and if you have a new dev account created sometime after 2023 they are making you do a 12 person, 14 day beta run before anything else occurs, apparently.

It's RTSP, just the audio. My 1/2 acre has wifi coverage everywhere (Uni-fi is really nice, honestly) so it just streams across the wi-fi.

I built an esp32 with 48khz mic soldered on, feeding rtsp stream to server in living room. Works amazing. Need to build more mics.

Just seconding this so other framework owners may give it a try. The speakers on my 13" are pretty bad, but using easy effects made them plenty "fine". Without, it sounded like absolute trash.

I don't know. I'm sitting here with a framework laptop consciously NOT updating it because I'm in no mood to have my computer SOL because a company can't seem to get their shit together?

Of note, I really like my framework, and I have installed BIOS updates on the past without issue. However, there have been a lot of firmware problems and fixes that are not fixes (battery related) and then bios updates that apparently cut the sound volume down to far lower levels than before the update, etc.

A user shouldn't have to worry about installing a BIOS update from the manufacturer causing the machine to die without circumstances like power loss, etc.

I feel personally that if such a BIOS update bricks someone's device, it should unquestionably be "we are sorry, let us send you out a new board asap". They can then reflash using pogo pins and send them out to other customers.

Accountability these days doesn't exist anywhere. It's making the world shit.

It's all relative. On the opposite coast, Maine it is ~ $0.28 cents kwh including getting it there. (~ 50% energy, 50% delivery). It's too darn expensive here.

Where do these new top notch programmers come from and what proof of top notchness will be required for job proof? (Honest questions)

Interesting you bring up (artistic) painting and bridge building.

I'm a house painter, and while the work is... It's just relentless work and staring all day.

It's the end results of making something just, better, with the simple acts of reputation and giving a shit about it.

Just wondering where house painter falls in your scale, I'd hunch.