Same! I love the pregnant pause after "What do you do..." as they start to mentally draw up their usual work spiel before adding the "...for fun" to flip the conversation around and actually get their brain thinking and exploring beyond the standard conversation flows.
To use GMRS you need a license to be compliant with fcc. It’s not expensive I think $60 for 10 years and it covers your family.
You can then use GMRS. GMRS is all the same FRS channels plus several more. GMRS can also transmit at up to 50mw on some of the non-FRS channels.
To be using GMRS in compliance you have to use an FCC Part 95E certified device. These Baofeng / Btech devices are usually not GMRS certified. So you need a HAM license to use them. . . But HAM licenses doesn’t cover GMRS frequencies. So there is no technically compliant way to use these devices and check all the boxes. Even if you have both HAM and GMRS you are using a non Part 95E certified device. You’re likely fine as long as you’re not harassing people or causing interference. Generally the FCC is pretty reasonable. They send a letter saying knock it off before they knock on your door. But if you continue to harass people or use high power that causes interference then you will get a hefty fine.
At the very least get your GMRS license. But I encourage you to get your HAM license. I have found that often HAM nerds are into a lot of other stuff I like and my local club has been a welcome place to make friends and build fun stuff.
Btech markets devices that are GMRS type accepted, it's actually one of their main businesses these days to take Chinese developed radios and modify them slightly and get them GMRS approved in the US.
Ya and if they add apple wallet they have to do android wallet and then that’s more code to maintain. But they could make the in house app always show the QR code on launch.
I’m hopeful that toga will be good for python dev cross platform including iOS and android. I haven’t tried it yet though. https://beeware.org/project/toga/
There are options missing from the admin panel or the dashboards that intuitively seem basic. Some examples:
- excluding certain data from your report (such as localhost visits)
- setting a default time range
- on the 'overview' of all your domains, setting a time range that applies to all and not just one domain individually (this particularly felt really counterintuitive)
There is more I'd come up with if I actually pulled it up, but the overall throughline is that it just feels 'too basic' at this moment. Especially for something that goes beyond tracking visits on your personal blog and/or hobby website.
One benefit for me was that a vps with 2vcors and 2-4gig of ram is about the same price as one of these app engine services. So I can run 3 or 4 dokku apps including Postgres, redis, memcache connected to them on my own vps and still have margin when inspiration strikes. I moved a production app from heroku to dokku and saved hundreds a month and still got tons and tons more compute.
There’s a lot of great answers here. See a doctor. But here’s a tip for memory.
Accept you can’t remember stuff and stop trying.
Externalize your memory and put it on other people. Here’s what I mean.
My wife calls and asks me to stop at the store and starts telling me a list of a few things she needs me to pickup. I say “Sure I’m happy to help. Can you txt me the list so I don’t forget? I’ll leave it unread to remember to look at it.”
I then read it and mark it unread. Over the next hours before I go to the store the little notification icon will bug me and I’ll go to read it only to realize it’s the grocery list. And then mark it unread. When I leave I’ll go to the store and look at the list while I get things. Then I double check the list and my cart before I checkout. Same with people I work with. “Sure I can send you that report and you shoot me an email so I don’t forget?” I’ll leave that unread or pinned till I do it.
When someone asks me to remind them of something I say “I’d love to but there’s no way I’ll remember to do that.”
I use kanban / trello to organize my work tasks and make notes immediately because I just accept I won’t remember tomorrow.
Once I started doing these things I have way less anxiety about forgetting. I think people rely on remembering stuff way too much. It’s like keeping your money in a pocket with holes in the bottom.
Bonus: remember names by making a big deal about it. “What’s your name?” I then use it several times. And when I forget then I just ask them “What was your name again?” I say the name that comes to mind when I see them “Your name was John right?” If they say “No it’s Steve” then I say “Ah Steve. I was so close!” And we laugh. Honestly they probably don’t remember my name so this whole schtick helps them too.
Seeing a doctor for a referral to see a psych should be step one here.
But man… time blindness? I’ve recently started using an Apple Watch to set reminders, timers, calendar events, and alarms. Game changer!
Some days I can make over 30 reminders for that day alone, and the cool thing about this is that I can’t forget any items because it’s all externalised.
In contrast, keeping your TODO list internalised is like walking to a room for a specific purpose, not remembering what you needed to do when you got there, or worse do something ELSE in that room but because you’ve achieved something you go back to what you were doing before and only a few hours later when you’re in bed you realise you forgot to do something critical
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